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Karlos

Are there any active projects to create a new game using the Exult engine? I started one a while back, but it turned into way too much work for one person. Also, like most people, I have talents in some areas, but not others. I'm pretty good at coding, and decent at story-telling, but I'm horrid at ...

Karlos

Hey, I don't speak French, but I still think this project is pretty cool. Congrats on finishing such a monumental undertaking!

-Karl

Karlos

Looks like you managed to find both a computer and spare time while in Germany, however, so that excuse just doesn't hold water.

-Karl

Karlos

One wouldn't really need to redesign the interface to allow the game area to take more space; just allow for higher resolutions, and the game area will be the part that expands to fill the bigger screen.

-Karl

Karlos

Okay, thanks for the explaination and the font. That's one less thing on my to-do list for my new game. Now, be sure to let me know when you've redone all the graphics in shapes.vga. Hehe.

-Karl

Karlos

Could you explain that overriding bit one more time, Dominus? :-) If I put 0.shp in my blackgate patch directory and name it fonts.vga, it uses the new font for all fonts, not just dialog. I also tried "fonts.vga 0.shp" (with the space) and fonts.vga.0.shp, but neither worked. The font doe...

Karlos

I can't wait to try this out for myself ... it looks much better to me than the originals. I assume you just haven't gotten around to redoing the capital letters yet, and weren't planning on keeping those the same, right? Are you also redoing the other fonts in fonts.vga, or just the main one? I ask...

Karlos

Looks great! Did you use the Gimp or something else to edit the letters?

-Karl

Karlos

I thought of writing a conversation editor that genertates the appropriate usecode funtions, but I decided that it wouldn't save me enough time to be worth the trouble. I may yet change my mind down the road, though.

-Karl

Karlos

Okay; I had looked at the code and saw that it was a simple exec to execute ucc, and I thought this call would work on Windows, especially if one was using gcc. If not, I suppose the exec would just get changed to a CreateProcess or some such. I'll go back to asking questions; I seem to have more lu...

Karlos

Maybe one of you should add a report to the bug tracker.

http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=2335

-Karl

Karlos

Is ucc.exe in your PATH? I think that's the only way Studio will be able to find it. On Linux, ucc and all those other utilities are installed at /usr/local/bin, which is often in the PATH.

-Karl

Karlos

Cool! I wish I had noticed this earlier.

-Karl

Karlos

Oh, and I'm curious as to why you are interested. Are you planning to make a new game, or just trying to decide how big to make your new font?

-Karl

Karlos

It depends on the graphics. If it used the U7 BG orSI graphics, I would run at 320x240 scaled to x2, since I think everything looks too small at higher resolutions (Especially the text font). If the graphics were bigger, I'd happily run at higher resolutions, however. I would personally LOVE to see ...

Karlos

A new font would be great; can't wait to see it. I don't think too many people like the standard ugly yellow font uncluded with BG and SI. It's also hard to read at high resolutions. What color are you making yours? Maybe white with a black border would look nice? Btw, how close are you to finishing...

Karlos

You use ucc, the Usecode compiler, e.g.:

ucc -o usecode usecode.uc

http://exult.info/ucc.txt

-Karl

Karlos

Was this implemented for any of the other viewers as well? My personal interest is the chunk viewer.

-Karl

Karlos

Okay, that worked. My problem was that the text.flx that I had copied from SI was in my static directory instead of my patch directory. Naming the object worked, as did copying the text.flx to the right place.

-Karl

Karlos

Well, my job is the easier one, since I'm not the one who has to fix them.

Seriously though, I've had a lot of fun working on this project despite the bugs, and everyone has been quite helpful answering any questions I had along the way.

-Karl

Karlos

I've summarized my findings in a bug report:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.p ... tid=102335

This isn't a show-stopper for me, since I'm just usinga different shape number for now to avoid the problem.

-Karl

Karlos

I don't know what is causing your problem, but the first think I would do is to check your exult.cfg file to see if the option really got saved. You should find something like this:

yes

If it says no instead, change it and save it and try again.

-Karl

Karlos

I did more testing, and discovered that this problem seems to depend on what shape I use. When I create an NPC with SI's shape #1015, I can duplicate this problem, but when I created one with shape #766 with the same name and properties, it worked fine. More details just to confuse matters: I did th...

Karlos

I created a new NPC via Studio in my new game world, but I am unable to click on her without crashing Exult. This occurs regardless of whether I click on her in game mode or editing mode. My debugging tells me that the actual crash occurs in libc, but is triggered from get_npc_name. I believe my NPC...

Karlos

Let me take a guess: New Ultima VI Engine?

-Karl

Karlos

1) Conversations: How can I break from a nested conversation? If I'm in a nested converse, and I want the NPC to break-off the conversation for whatever reason, how can I do this? Using a break just returns me to the next outmost converse as one would expect. 2) Usecode and Numbering: Are there any ...

Karlos

Thank goodness! I thought this one might be hard to nail down. Now I can get back to annoying all of you with various Usecode-related questions.

-Karl

Karlos

Actually, the last time this happened, Exult DID crash when I did a "save all", but I figured this was a symptom of the corruption, not the cause. Sorry I didn't mention that before.

-Karl

Karlos

Btw, where does this particular chunk come from, anyway? I quickly browsed through the original SI u7chunks file, and couldn't find it anywhere. The real null chunk is plain blue, not textured blue like this one. Here's a small shot of the chunk in case it gives a clue as to where this is coming fro...

Karlos

My chunks file got corrupted again, but fortunately this time I had a backup. For now, I'll just make a backup after every chunk I edit. All I did this time was edit a single chunk, and when I tried to do a "save all" from Studio, Exult crashed, and when I brought Exult and Studio back up,...

Karlos

Awesome! U6 was definately one of the better Ultimas. Now all we need is someone to write new engines for Ultimas 1, 2, 3 and 5!

-Karl

Karlos

No doubt now that I've posted this someone conversant in Perl will post a 1-line Perl script that does exactly the same thing, but contains nothing but punctuation characters. Seems to always happen when I do something in TCL.

-Karl

Karlos

I'll admit it ... my version of Exult was pirated.

-Karl

Karlos

In case anyone else would find this useful. here's a TCL script to extract a group of chunks from a chunk file: #! /bin/sh # -*- tcl -*- \ exec tclsh $0 $* >/dev/null proc get_chunk { chunk_file chunk_num } \ { set offset [ expr $chunk_num * 512 ] seek $chunk_file $offset start set outfile [ open ${...

Karlos

If one of the devs posts a new thread, it's automatically bold, I think.

-Karl

Karlos

I have no idea when/how it happened; wish I did. As I said in the bug report though, I haven't done any map-editing work for a week or two, and when I was about to do some yesterday, I noticed the problem. What probably happened is that whatever I did last with the chunks caused the problem, but it ...

Karlos

How do you end-up with more than one Exult process? Can you kill the defunct one with "kill -9"? Maybe you have two exult tasks because the first one never went away, which is why the second one crashes? If you can kill both of them off with "kill -9", do you still get a crash wh...

Karlos

Okay, I submitted a bug report with the zipped file attached: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=703607&group_id=2335&atid=102335 Assuming that the other chunks are really gone, is there any way to export my custom chunks (which were not corrupted) to a new file, o...

Karlos

I'll do that. The map is fine, but when I look at u7chunks in Studio, I see the same number of chunks that were there before, but all of them appear as the null chunk, except for the ones that I have already used on the map, which appear normal (and are in the correct positions). I just zipped-up u7...

Karlos

I went to do some map-editing on my game just now, and I noticed that almost every chunk is displayed as the textured-blue null chunk instead of the chunk it should be when browsing through u7chunks. The only ones that don't seem to be affected are the ones that I've used in my map thus far. If I dr...

Karlos

The island patch only checks for that flag (for Amy, at least), but doesn't set it. I'll set it manually for now.

-Karl

Karlos

What causes the "met" flag for NPCs to get set? It seems to happen automatically after I taled to anyone when I did some testing with the island patch, but it never gets set when I converse with the NPC created for my new game.

Any ideas what may be amiss here?

-Karl

Karlos

Oh, I forgot to mention that altering this file did indeed fix the problem. On Linux, it was named identity (lower case) and was under the .exult/(gamename) directory.

-Karl

Karlos

http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

-Karl

Karlos

It was the brackets around the coordinates that I was missing that fixed it. Thanks for your help!

-Karl

Karlos

I got the intro to U7:BG running in DosEMU before it crashed, and I got it working in VMWare, I believe, but without sound. Eventually Exult got good enough that I didn't have to worry about it anymore.

-Karl

Karlos

I've created a town with walls and a front gate, but now I want the gate to be lifted when certain conditions are met, as triggered by conversation options with the guard. Here's how I tried to do it. It compiles and runs fine, but nothing happens: var gate = UI_find_object( 1017, 681, 272, 0 ); UI_...

Karlos

Where's the identity file and what's it called?

-Karl

Karlos

How can I change the name of a new game I have created? I've changed my concept from an Ultima parody to a more serious Ultima-style game, so I wanted to change the name to reflect this. I tried renaming the game directory, and changing all of the references to the old game to the new game, and upda...

Karlos

That's great; that'll make my job easier, I think. I suppose if I were really desperate I could have used a bunch of global Booleans to represent a binary number, but that would have gotten annoying after a while.

-Karl

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