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SepiaAndDust

Wow! Those are really nice!

SepiaAndDust

If I wanted to make a gigantic game world, what's the best way to go about it? As I understand things, the size of the map is set in stone. There's just no good way to make a bigger one without buggering the engine. The only other way I can think of is to break the map into pieces and somehow move t...

SepiaAndDust

What I usually do is to export a frame, then I open it with PSP7 (hey--that's what I use--stop laughing!) The exported graphic has the main 256-color U7 palette embedded, so I just save the palette as a .PAL file. Then, when I make a new shape or whatever, I just apply the .PAL file to it before I s...

SepiaAndDust

You Geocachers out there will like this:

http://blog.geocaching.com/2010/08/rich ... und-video/

SepiaAndDust

"And off-topic entirely, anyone else notice how much wasted space exists inside barrels graphically? Everything gets compressed down into a tiny square when there's so much more space available. Seems like something that could be changed to make full barrels a little less crowded." I wonde...

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************************************* Author: Anon (---.localdomain) Date: 10-06-09 22:20 Thanks for the info, guys. I found the author's email through the Internet Archive have been in contact with him. He directed me here: http://www.lulu.com/content/livre-reli%c3%a9-%c3%a0-couverture-rigide/ultim...

SepiaAndDust

I doubt it. IIRC, we can't even legally use graphics from SI in BG unless a specific check is done ensure that both games are installed. I don't know of any way we could ensure that a legitimate SNES cartridge is owned.

SepiaAndDust

Double-click on something edible. The cursor will turn into a crosshair. Put the crosshair on whomever you wish to feed, then single-click the mouse. Keep doing that until you run out of food or until everyone in the party says, "No thank you." You can also use the "F" hotkey to ...

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Not nearly as large as I'd like it. I've always wanted to eventually attempt a series of maps remaking the BG world, enlarging each chunk by a factor of 9. In other words, each 3x3 group of chunks would represent one chunk from the current map. That would be a detailed and immersive land! (And you c...

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You're seriously gonna hate my post-U1 Lands of Lord British map... I shrunk the continent by about 10% just so there'd be enough ocean to justify having ships. I flippantly brush aside all such inconsistencies as "cartographical errors" on the parts of the original mapmakers, even for the...

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Sorry, Dom. He's a pal from work and I didn't think to get his email address, so I didn't know what else to do.

As to "since it failed for some it's no good anyway", don't forget that the patch worked wonderfully well for me. Thanks again!

SepiaAndDust

I think they said that the TFL mod already has the Keyring mod fully included, so yes, it should work in normal BG as well.

If you just want the Keyring and Serpent Isle Fixes mods (or the Avatar Pack), you can find them at http://www.seventowers.org/

SepiaAndDust

Currently, as I understand it, The Feudal Lands is in a pre-alpha state with no in-game way from one map to the next, so you'll have to CTRL-ALT-T to map teleport to TFL. I don't think any of the quests are set up yet (at least I haven't found any), but there's lots of neat stuff to look at and expl...

SepiaAndDust

Hope it's ok if I bump this thread for a pal who's new to Exult and who probably needs the information.

SepiaAndDust

Usually that happens to me when I've got a video mode selected that's unsupported. I just change it manually in the .cfg. Hasn't happened since I used Dom's fullscreen patch, though.

SepiaAndDust

Rumor (Wiki, I think) has it that Shamino doesn't seem to age at all, so he could be from some as-yet-unknown world.

SepiaAndDust

Ok, so simply swiping the graphics from SI for use in BG is a copyright infringement (and vice versa, I assume). I can understand the reasoning, but the point had never crossed my mind before. Thanks!

SepiaAndDust

Ah! I hadn't considered that they might be the same age as their Earthside counterparts. Excellent point! Is each of the QotA Companions based on an identifiable person?

SepiaAndDust

Do we have any information on the ages of the Avatar's Companions? Not their chronological ages--they're all over 200!--but their biological ages. It seems that Iolo is the old man of the group... pushing 50, you think? Shamino seems to be reaching middle-age... 35-ish, maybe? The others I really ha...

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* As for importing SI items: that would be a big no; at least not with the same graphics. *

Chiming in with another "how come?" Is there a legal or technical issue in play here?

SepiaAndDust

Well, I certainly can't tell that English is a second language for you. Your posts read like a native speaker's would.

Things are good--now you have the understanding, The Black Gate to re-explore, Exult to run it on, and (hopefully) whole new adventures awaiting!

SepiaAndDust · Re: Studio release 02-23-2009 Thanks, Marzo.

Thanks, Marzo.

SepiaAndDust

"Reed" and "rood" come from the same Proto-Indo-European root, "reed" through the Latin branch and "rood" through the Proto-Germanic branch. The words were cognates in those two now-dead languages. That's their only connection, but I just thought it was cool t...

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Ah, that's good to know. Okie dokie... I reinstalled the newest Exult, Studio, and Tools. Opened Exult with no mod and used CTRL-ALT-M to open Studio. Selected Shapes. All works fine so far. Clicked on Frames. Three and a half minutes later, the frames finally came up. Normally, that takes maybe a s...

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Actually, I don't know what the results are with no mod... forgot to clear the error log before testing it. Studio does lock up with no mod selected, though.

FTR: Win98se, newest Exult, newest Tools, newest Studio.

SepiaAndDust

Having a little trouble with the new release. Seems not to be recognizing shapes > 1024. _____ studio_err.txt __________________ Warning, trailing slash in path: "\" Warning, trailing slash in path: "\" Warning, trailing slash in path: "C:\Ultima\Ultima7\static\map01\" ...

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Marzo's certainly correct, but I prefer to believe that it's an inside joke for linguists. Reed == Rood (cross/crucifixion image). Related to Latin "retae" ("tree growing near water"), from whence we get our word "rod". All linguists play Ultima, y'know.

SepiaAndDust

Used the modified DLL on Win98se.

SepiaAndDust

Whoa! I've got full-screen now! Thanks Dominus!

SepiaAndDust

Try manually changing your video settings in exult.cfg. Especially, make sure it's not in full-screen mode. Your symptoms are exactly what happens to Exult whenever I try to run full-screen in some unsupported graphics mode.

SepiaAndDust

He seems too proud to accept such a gift. Maybe a snippet of dialogue indicating such would be good. Of course, suspecting what we suspect now, we could be saving the fellow from an awful blunder by *not* helping him out....

SepiaAndDust

Of course I'll take your word for it. The lesson to be learned here is, after working a 14-hour shift, to sleep *first* and install later. No idea what I did, but my Mod was gone (it's all backed up, of course) and so were all of the regular out-of-the-box Ultima files. Haven't had much time to play...

SepiaAndDust

Can't reproduce it, but something freakin' happened. *poof*

Ah well.

SepiaAndDust

That's really cool!

Sooo... ummmm... did that installer actually just overwrite the mod I've been working on for these many months?

Cuz, y'know, if it did....

SepiaAndDust

These folk have done some amazing work!

Once you've re-played the original, there are some mods available (both completed and not) that can add yet another level of fun to your adventures.

SepiaAndDust

---------------------------- As for the Lock Lake cleanup: maybe after Miranda's bill is signed, there could be a town gathering in Cove where Natassia spearheads the effort to clear the lake? Then, do what I always planned but kept postponing and have the Cove NPCs do the cleanup at certain parts o...

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Maybe they'll put it back up for the next update?

SepiaAndDust

Thanks for the heads-up. Twenty-four hours? I guess I have time to go break UCC now, too.

SepiaAndDust

HA! I picked 1200 so that the Keyring Mod's shapes could later be mixed in with as little difficulty as possible. Odd that it would turn out to be the start of the broken area.

Thanks, Marzo!

SepiaAndDust

OK, it doesn't seem to be affecting the entire Patch/shapes.vga file, only the shapes listed in the ipack config. Also, I'm still able to use ipack if I remark out all but one line at a time, like this: archive C:/Ultima/Ultima7/mods/Newmod/patch/shapes.vga 1202/15: C:/Ultima/Ultima7/mods/Newmod/pat...

SepiaAndDust

New mod. I was only creating a new shapes.vga to try to get the crashed mod running. OK, here's what I did tonight. I installed U7 from disk into a new directory. Reinstalled the newest Exult, ES, and Tools. Started the game, brought up ES and made a new Mod. I let everything go to its default desti...

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OK, I simply deleted the whole mod (but not my backups... I may be slow, but I ain't dumb) and made a new one. Then I added a new blank map and a new shapes.vga. Using ES to directly add shapes works fine, as far as I can tell. Tried ipack again, only without the "flat" designation, and I ...

SepiaAndDust

Extra flats aren't supported? That could be the problem. Lemme get the mod running again, and I'll try some non-flats. Thanks for cluing me in!

SepiaAndDust

Yeah, I made a new shapes.vga file from ES in Newmod/data. I've also made a newmod.vga file, and it has the same problems. If it matters, I deleted it after the test. I have ipack and the config file for it both in Newmod/data, and it doesn't seem to matter whether I use absolute or relative paths o...

SepiaAndDust

Having a bit of trouble lately when adding new shapes. If I make a new shapes.vga file for my mod, then ipack -u newshapes.txt, everything works fine... the *first* time. The next time I try it, however, I get an error message: Reading \" Warning, trailing slash in path: "\" Digital S...

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1. AFAIK, in-game, you cannot see your exact hunger score. You and your companions will begin bellyaching if they get too hungry: "I could use a little food.", "I must eat now!" Each type of food also has a Nutrition value--mutton, for instance, does more to quell hunger than do ...

SepiaAndDust

Oh wow, everything's been updated. Groovy! Got a new changelog, by any chance?

SepiaAndDust

Thanks for all your hard work, everyone. Everything's working SO much better now. One beneficial side-effect is that Exult no longer crashes to desktop after adding or modifying shapes/frames in ES.

Thanks again!

SepiaAndDust

I'm using Win98. I don't know what OS Malignant's using, but it's probably something more modern. The crashes happen for me using BG w/FOV out-of-the-box, the Keyring Mod, and my own Mod. Just tried it on SI and SI Fixes... same thing. ES crashes whenever selecting a monster/NPC from the Shapes menu.

SepiaAndDust

ES crashes when I'm in the Shapes display and I try to get the properties of any living being. A random sampling shows that: Mage (#445), Guard (#394), Flying Gargoyle (#226), Wolf (#537), Lord British (#466), and Insects (#517) all crash ES with the error message: ----------------------------------...

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