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Crowley

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about Kalen. My mistake there.

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When replaying Serpent Isle recently I noticed when you use one of the scrying things in the temples to watch Batlin prepare a reception for the Avatar, with Deadeye there is a mention of him having some unspecified extra reason for wanting to kill the Avatar. Any idea what that might be about? With...

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Using the latest Exult snapshot, it seems at least at the very start of Serpent Isle the weather effects are coming in way too rapidly. In the below picture you can see the raindrops being spawned at such a pace it almost forms continuous blue lines, and I think there are more clouds coming in than ...

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Looks like you have done largely the same as the High-Resolution Ultima Map Project. You do have a few maps not on there.

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I would also be interested in how to accomplish something like that via code. If you intend to have the curse work on other party members, an additional consideration is how to get it to stay through the inventory reshuffle from inventory to corpse container and back to inventory when the character ...

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Well, drop me an email, I suppose.

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If you are interested, I have some custom magically locked chest graphics lying around. I changed the glow to be around the chest's lock instead of covering it to match how the doors look.

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Yeah, he emailed me and that's all taken care of.

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Oh, hello! My, this makes me feel important. Life things distracted me from modding, but I am still trudging onwards there. I also approve of the idea of creating some kind of custom artwork repository.

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I just remembered a tiny graphics error I once noticed in Serpent Isle: One of the frames of the shape used for the Great Captains has a hook hand. Presumably they were based off Hook in Black Gate and this was accidentally left in. I think it is the south-facing kneeling frame.

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Should it be considered a bug how the pikemen holding Captain Hawk will take ALL of the Britannian gold bars in your inventory if you are carrying more than one?

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Hmm, maybe not inside, but having him make camp somewhere around the island might not be a bad idea. It feels like a running gag that when you meet Gorn in the games he's always caught up in something in almost the same spot.

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Hmm, maybe somewhere in Yew. I'll have to check around for abandoned huts Gorn might settle in.

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Oh yes, something I still haven't figured out is where to place Gorn if you dismiss him from the party and tell him to go home.

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My mistake. I thought I had seen that form somewhere, but can't find it now. Good to know.

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With Exult I believe you can write the condition in form if (IRIALE(dead)) I'm rewriting Gorn's entire conversation tree in Exult usecode format, which is straightforward given there are no external flags associated with him. I've mentioned elsewhere that this mod is to add Beh Lem, make Gorn joinab...

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Yeah, I already have those made. There's a thread around where I show them.

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In my mod I am planning to allow Gorn to join once that fighter lady guarding the Cube Generator is dead. I decided against the condition being the destruction of the generator since at that point you are close to completing the game.

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I did already work out adding Marzo's keyring to my own mod, so there's that.

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I am still working on my own mods. One of those is a bundle of things including recruitable Gorn, bringing back Beh Lem as an adult and Blackthorn's castle. The other mod is somewhat bigger in scope and I shall still remain tight-lipped about what it exactly is all about.

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I would certainly love having this feature. Combat is probably the single weakest aspect of Ultima VII.

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All right, I'll give a shot at explaining step by step adding equipment items. In this case, adding something from Serpent Isle. Of course, it is always a good idea to make backup copies of the files you are altering. First, export the graphics from Serpent Isle. This is simply done by opening up Ex...

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I am not quite finished with this. Also, I would welcome help with figuring out how to make a patch out of this that would use the new fonts without plain overwriting them in the game files.

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The h shadow would be due to me keeping the dimensions of the fonts the same. I think I'll extend it to the left a bit to make it stand out less.

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I tried to clean up the game's regular font some. I tried to make it more readable and still retain some of the flourish, and keep the fonts same size. Here's a comparison shot:

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And I was just making a cleaner version of the regular game font. What a coincidence.

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That's all right. This is just a cosmetic thing that occurred to me, nothing central to the things I am working on.

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Also, hello fellow Finnish person!

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More specifically, it is supposed to set which party member will be protected by others set to the specific combat behaviour. The icon for that shows a white dot intercepting an attack at another white dot.

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Thank thee kindly for the speedy and helpful response! Now that I think about it, I suppose the graphical behaviour of slimes using different frames depending on whether there are other slimes adjacent is also hardcoded.

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I had the idea that it would be nice if I was able to change what kind of blood a creature leaves behind when hit, such as having giant insects bleed yellow goop. After all, all sorts of different colored "blood" spatters already exist in the game's graphics files. I tried examining slimes...

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There are a number of those in Serpent Isle. One particular location I can remember off the top of my head is somewhere in the Moonshade Seminarium.

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I have noticed some oddities in the equipment. Such as that the "Amulet of Protection" apparently does not provide any protection.

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I think that is the better option with an extensive mod like yours. I'm just looking to add a couple of things on top of what is already there. I've succesfully done new sign texts and crystal ball views using similar code.

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So, if I use qualities 180 and up, that should work fine and not cause new problems in itself?

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I managed to sort this out with a slight addition to the steps you posted. I snagged the clean initgame file, and then started my own mod in map editing mode. Then, while Exult and Exult Studio are running, I copied my backups of the altered ireg files over the mod's files, and then saved the map in...

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That gets rid of that error message, but now I get another message for the line with "higherBookQualities();":

Warning: 'higherBookQualities' expects an itemref, but none was supplied; using current itemref

Also, books within the game still refuse to display the new text.

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I made those changes to shapes_info and my usecode, but I still can't get this to work. Compiling usecode gave the following error message:

Warning: Treating function 'higherBookQualities' as being an 'object#()' function.

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Working on a mod and saving the altered files has also the effect that when I select to start a new game, it dumps me to where I last saved things in Exult Studio. How do I get the normal game beginning back? I've tried deleting/renaming initgame.dat in the mod's data folder, which does make a new g...

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Okay, I've tried adding that shape_info.txt both to my mod's data folder and into the patch folder for the game, but the new text still does not show in the book.

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I think we are talking about completely different things here.

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I've been trying to add new texts for the books and scrolls in the game into the original shapes using the handy shape.original function. I know I could just make new shapes with identical book and scroll graphics, but I'd prefer to use this method if at all possible. Now, I've hit an impasse. Here'...

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Yes, I am working on this, and I think I am close to a releasable state. I do not use any special tool for the paperdoll graphics beyond GIMP.

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Also, food piling up on tavern tables seems certainly fixed to me. The worst I've seen is 2-3 plates on top of each other.

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Probably not exactly fill it with monsters, but I think I'll make this geared towards exploration and fighting. I guess I feel more comfortable making it self-contained.

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I noticed that one thing very prone to being placed outside the normal container bounds is magic shields into backpacks. You can see this right at the beginning of the game, just drag the Avatar's shield onto the backpack of party members without opening it.

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Excellent, thank you! Now to draw Blackthorne's castle onto the map sprite with this as my guide...

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I'm not sure what to actually call the map I am referring to. The teleport map? I remember seeing a topic about this a long time ago on these forums, but I can't find it (not much use searching with the keyword "map"). I also noticed that this map is different in Marzo's Keyring Mod than i...

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And now I am unable to use the Water of Discipline to bring Cantra, Gwenno or Dupre back to their senses. Ethicality and Logic worked fine on Iolo and Shamino. I am using Marzo's fixes mod, so I suspect this might be some wires getting crossed with how that adds curing Cantra.

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The project was successfully funded, with the 850k stretch goal achieved.

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