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Oops! ^^; I didn't mean to imply that 1979 was old. It's actually one of the newer ones I have- I have catalogues from 1908, 1918, 1928 (the first three are repros), 1961, 1971, 1979, 1989, and two from 1992... Though, the 1979 one officially qualifies as vintage this year. It's quite a scary though...

I'd have to say my favorite part is the fanfiction...I mean, quality work right there, I should publish. j/k I collect old catalogues- I have a Sears 1971 and a Wards 1979...they both have one thing in common though- avocado appliances. At my old house, the kitchen floor used to have this amazing av...

I just want to say that I'm glad Spar is still using that logo.

So near, so Spar! Ahh...

Hello, everyone! Salutations, and greetings. Time for the semi-annual Fashionable Avatar update! It's like Christmas in July... Today's Fashionable Avatar update is just a special exposé about Rankin and this wacky bug I found (not the "liqueur" bug). It's an amusing hodgepodge of screensh...

Hello Berty- Spark looks fabulous! He brings a tear to my eye. I can't wait to see him in the game, see how that all works out. Then I can make some children's clothing! BTW, kids at home- the next update is a quickie (it'll be posted as soon as I get one more screenshot- tonight, unless it screws u...

Maybe the next Ultima should have been a simulation/"communication" game. Like, you'd start out and pick your Avatar and arrive in a town full of colorful anthropomorphic animals, and you buy a house. The house is totally blank except for a stereo and a box, so you get to decorate it with ...

I think the biggest problem with Spark, really, is that he's too tall. Unfortunately, I don't know if that be fixed within the scope of what's available in terms of art editing...it's sort of the same reason why Cedric Diggory (<3) is four feet tall in Quidditch World Cup, or why you can't have tall...

Oh, graphics! If anyone is planning on making a remake such as "The Avatar Goes Disco", I'd be more than happy to make some flashy bellbottoms for paperdoll art. XD The Fashionable Avatar needs an update, admittedly- I've been working on a fanfiction as my Ultima project right now and a Ce...

Sorry, I don't think I'd really have much to contribute, unless you were putting in a section about the Fellowship. I looked into them heavily because I'm writing an AU-fanfiction- its like Ultima VII's basic story, but it takes place in the near future (not space-age, but still the future, and ther...

Ahh, thanks for that bit of code.

I'll have to try it for the next update! ^______^ This is going to be fun!

One thing I'm trying to do is relieve some of the tedium that goes into making art, especially in placing the items. With the new things I've created, I designed them carefully so all similar items (all heads, all arms, all shirts, etc.) would have the same origin points. That way, if I want to make...

I'd like to apologize in advance for raising the dead topic. ^^; Oops, my finger slipped? You won't believe it, but the site has been updated! It's been like, 6 months, but it's updated! The new stuff is experimental, all new art that I'm currently working on, and hopefully will finish fully now tha...

Precisely, which is why it's so weird- I noticed that right away- perhaps it's not Alagner, but it's definitely not Nelson! :) Check out the UW2 manual sometime if you can. If you can't, I'll try and get a picture so you can see the wackiness. I changed the Avatar's face by altering faces.vga direct...

I know! I always thought she was very pretty.

If you notice in one of the guidebook PDFs that came with Underworld II, for Miranda's profile, it looks exactly like Mariah's U7 picture. Whoopsie. I think they also swapped Nelson and Alagner perhaps.

Just wanted to let you know that the page has been updated!

I made a new gump-type thing for Mariah from scratch and it was an enjoyable experience. I missed Mariah so I felt it was necessary...^^;

I did the Serpent Isle anti-walkthrough and it was the most fun I've had with SI in a long time. I couldn't dig up enough bread to do the stairs (which I ended up putting in the wrong place anyway, but it was great fun anyway- the staircase/shortcut thing really works!) and I think I ended up using ...

Video games are great for learning how to speak, or at least read a different language. I think I learned more Japanese from playing an import of Chrono Cross than from any book. I'm dying to find a copy of Ultima VII in German, or at least some sort of translation patch- it would do wonders for my ...

I'm now wondering if anyone knows how to assign shapes from shapes.vga to paperdoll cels... I'm also wondering how the paperdoll heads get assigned by NPC#. It would be nice to make more heads for more NPCs. I'm now working on some casual clothes for a day of shopping, picnicking or generally whoopi...

I used U7Wizard for all editing, Paint Shop Pro for the other graphics and I laid out the documents in plain HTML. I have an XP now that won't run U7Wizard...though I do have another computer that runs it. I've been transferring my work to this computer so I can keep working on it. I started it with...

Which also reminds me, I once turned Columna and Melino's home into a disco, with the flashy floor and everything. I guess the next logical step would be to combine the two. I've been making a new furniture set that has modern metal chairs and an awesome glass-top table. It was originally part of th...

Haha! A fashion show in Ultima VII...perhaps Carlyn or Gaye would be responsible for that one? That would be funny. I think about doing mods all the time, but I don't really know how to get past the graphics and into seriously editing text and the like. I've edited USECODE before but mostly for fake...

Thanks, guys! I'm glad you enjoyed it. One of my goals is not just to make fun clothes but to make a lot more heads and different size bodies so one could switch up the face portraits and make whoever they want to be the "Avatar" and his/her companions. I'd like to set up some sort of &quo...

Hello again! I've finally gotten all of the big buggies worked out in the whole clothing/ipack deal so I've started making actual items of clothing. I made a very wee webpage documenting my work so far: The Fashionable Avatar I hope the code worked! If not, or if you just like to copy/paste, you can...

Perhaps you should try ipack? You can download it here with the Exult Tools pack. With ipack, you can make a .png of the shape you desire (in this case, you'd be ripping it from SI or BG, which you can also do with ipack) and patch it over shapes.vga in the desired spot. I'm working with this tool n...

I have the Gimp and find it rather useful! Just wasn't really aware there was a plug-in for Ultima shapes (and silly me, seems it was there the whole time). I've started preliminary work on a few things- I'm going to try and make a few clothing items such as whatever pants and shoes are left (someth...

.PNGs are just fine, but I am interested in the plug-in. :) I have just a few quick questions I'll ask here (I don't have IRC *le sigh*). First one about the palette- if you are using a specific palette that I need to use or if I could just use the one I ripped from a palette file in the game. I gue...

Hi! *wibbles* I posted this a while ago on Hacki's board and someone suggested I post it here. Well, I finally got around to doing it...and here it is! I really, really hope this hasn't been posted yet, and if it has, I apologize profusely! I don't aim to take credit for something someone else found...