Exult 3D Screenshots I

cyberfugue · Post by **cyberfugue** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:15 am

Someone definitely should tell Richard Garriot about this. It is truly amazing and I've no doubt he would be thrilled about it, judging from his past reactions to people's preservation & extension of his work.

Maybe he can be persuaded to post something here. I (and I'm sure many others) hold him in high esteem and would love to see any of his comments.

BH4 · Post by **BH4** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:40 pm

*lol* I would undoubtedly take a screenshot of his post and hang it on my wall forever.

^o^ ^O^ ^o^ ... :-Þ

Really, any idea when the Windows port it? Or system requirements? I'll bet an AMD 1700 512 MB Ram could handle it.

Questing Dragon · Post by **Questing Dragon** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 6:05 am

Oh my. Oh my oh my oh my. The best game in the world gets a facelift! This could be the start of a new Ultima VII! :O A work of high art! A fresh breath of life into the Reconstruction!

Samurai Dragon · Post by **Samurai Dragon** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:23 am

Excellent work, folks. I look forward to seeing the completed results!

One thing, though -- I'm not wholly convinced the cloud shadows work as is. They appear to be brown-tinged rather than black, which makes them look odd. In the fourth screen-shot from the first post, I initially thought the trees which Iolo and the Avatar are standing near were on fire... <:)

Jon Tseng · Post by **Jon Tseng** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:18 am

Blimey

That is truly amazing! Congratulations!

So when's the Zaurus port out

J

VSTM · Post by **VSTM** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:45 am

Neat, I wouldn't have expect the buildings to look so nice. I can see that there is still a lot of work to be done before it looks like it should.

I'm not much of a 3d modeller, but I'm learning. I'm currently teaching myself how to use Blender3d.

If any 3d modellers see this, what would you suggest for 3d modelling?
There is blender3d, which is a complete 3d suite. There is milkshape which seems very good for 3d models. I have also heard that some people like to model with wings3d.
I'm thinking more about free 3d modellers that anyone can download and use. I'm sure not everyone who wants to make models for ultima7 in 3d is going to want to pay for 3dsmax, maya, or softimage.

For textures, I guess that gimp is the next best thing to photoshop?

The only other 3d isometric project I can think of right now is metroid cubed(http://pages.infinit.net/voxel/home.htm) and it uses voxels. That's not an extension to an existing engine, though.

Will Exult3d be able to use directx or opengl for special effects and acceleration? I know that it's probably not necessary, but it's just a though.

Gradilla Dragon · Post by **Gradilla Dragon** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:14 pm

DirectX will certainly be a no-no, since it's Windows-only.

Post by **drcode** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:41 pm

The author has been using OpenGL, so his work should run on most platforms.

Skutarth · Post by **Skutarth** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:19 pm

Holy crap! Please finish and release this for Windows as soon as possible!

Bomb Bloke · Post by **Bomb Bloke** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:41 pm

I am confused, however... Um, I may have missed it, but how are the textures converted for the 3D engine? It would be... difficult... to get the software to do it dynamically... (O o)

Post by **Dominus** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:23 pm

DrCode: Thanks! and yes, I first get 3D bounding boxes from the data in tfa.dat, then I do some tricky texture mapping to get things to line up mostly-right. The original Ultima 7 artists did a pretty good job of setting correct bounding boxes for objects and then colouring inside the lines, so to speak.

Russian man NLN · Post by **Russian man NLN** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:17 am

Amerikosi vi vse glupie ludi. Vasha Ultima - otcoi. Idite pivka popeite esli est 21 god ))) Shenki...

Sevaton · Post by **Sevaton** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:44 am

Quote:
Amerikosi vi vse glupie ludi. Vasha Ultima - otcoi. Idite pivka popeite esli est 21 god ))) Shenki...

I'm russian but i love ultima! If you have another opinion then shut up!

Exult rules!
Sevaton

SB-X · Post by **SB-X** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:40 am

Do what? ... (is that a translation)

Samurai Dragon: He fixed the coloring right after the pictures were posted. A lot of things look a lot better than they did when the screenshots were made.

zzyss · Post by **zzyss** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:06 pm

Gees, this will make the game vastly superior to Ultima 8 (and probably even U9) in every way!!

(Well, until somebody "frees" the camera in U8 anyway).

zzyss · Post by **zzyss** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:23 pm

Oh yeah... and somebody should buzz Denis Loubet as well, to show him what's been done to his work (I think it was him... or did he only do the 3D stuff?)

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:18 pm

Could someone please post some recent screenshots?

borzwazie · Post by **borzwazie** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:18 am

holy crap! that looks crazy good. nice job, guys!

Me · Post by Me » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:05 am

Now release a version that works on the most popular OS on the planet.

I don't have the time to put into getting a Linux box running correctly with my hardware...

Post by **Dominus** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:19 am

Guys, patience, patience...
Sam is busy and got other things to do so please let him take breaths and don't rush him. When he deems his code fit for the general public he will say so and I'm sure there will be a binary for you to play with.
Until then: stay calm!

RazorBlade · Post by **RazorBlade** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:06 am

Heh you should have seen the uproar when that guy released the new models mod for System Shock 2, people were so happy about it, and wanted so much to help that some even attacked him verbaly! lol

The one side really has to stay calm and try to be reasonable and the other should try not to feel attacked by those crazy fans like us

We just like this stuff way too much!

Fabio · Post by **Fabio** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:35 am

oh my god I just had a nerdic orgasm

Nel · Post by **Nel** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:34 pm

I think there should be a first person view even if it looks bad, some people (like me) would like to see Britannia with the eyes of our chars.

Daemon · Post by **Daemon** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:21 am

It would be great if someone remade the old ultimas using exult3d :>
So we would have 7 ultimasVII to play :~

Zos/Xavius.23 · Post by **Zos/Xavius.23** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:22 am

A whole new Ultima game would be even better. A real sequel to Ultima VII would rock, we could just forget about the Pagan land and the horrible mess that Ultima IX became.

Wtcher · Post by **Wtcher** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:20 am

I really enjoyed Pagan. Plotwise, it made a lot sense to me, I loved the atmosphere and I loved the world and magic system.

J3RK · Post by **J3RK** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:17 am

Looks like we're in the minority here. I absolutely loved Pagan. It's what got me into the series in the first place. The music was nice, the atmosphere was incredible. It wasn't this jolly old medievalish romp through wonderland. It was dark, the people are opressed, and the Avatar had to do some questionable things for once in his life. That's life. The graphics are IMO the best of the whole series. I thought the plot was good too. Also, there are so many Ultima games set in Britania, that Pagan is a nice change of pace. It's actually one of the most atmospheric games I've ever played. I got sucked righ into it. I love the 7 series, and 6, and though it's nowhere near what all the other Ultima games, I even enjoyed 9. As flawed as it is, it is still an ok game. I can see why maybe the most hardcore virtuous Ultima fanatics might not like Pagan so much, but if you forgive it for being a little different, I don't see how anyone could think it was a bad game.

RazorBlade · Post by **RazorBlade** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:12 pm

Yup, U8 was a great game with awesome atmosphere. The only things bothering me were the somewhat small world and the strange connection between areas (how did the plain folks exactly get to that island?)

I even liked the magic system very much, only the UW magic was better IMO. Especially wind and fire were awesome (once you manage to complete a spell in those pentagrams anyway.)

Winter Storm · Post by **Winter Storm** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:30 pm

I loved Ultima 8, it was the first RPG I ever played and spawned my love for genre. I finished the game multiple times before I found out that there was a jumping system fix. That just made it even better! I now have Ultima 7 and its expansion, I hope to finish or at least fit in some quality time with it during the holiday breaks I have coming up.

Bringing my post back on topic the 3D system looks great, I usually don't like anything but a 2D RPG simply because they generally look better. Take Balders Gate II high quality bitmaps environments vs Never Winter Nights blocky people and repeated texture terrains, but that doesnft really count when they use the same textures like you are doing with this 3D version of exult.

Good luck with it!

SB-X · Post by **SB-X** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 6:26 am

U7 spoiled me. No RPG is free enough if I can't build a log cabin, or at least rearrange some noble's furniture.
I can't enjoy an Ultima without party members.
U8 does have great graphics. (I'd prefer if they weren't so dark, but that's the game's atmosphere)

Psychlonic · Post by **Psychlonic** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 4:27 pm

Wow, this is incredible. The game looks so different when there are these new angles! Reminds me of the old versions of "Runescape" in a way. Well, graphically at least.

Gileathane Dragon · Post by **Gileathane Dragon** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:37 pm

Holy fugucking shiiiettt.

Phenomenal.

*throws a bag of fat props at Sam*

Nice work.

Kestral · Post by **Kestral** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 1:28 pm

Good work, very good work, Glad to see that you done something nice with the original game, to make it enjoyable in every aspect there can be, for me, I try to put it in a fps game mode, going to be very difficult though, must find different engines i can work with. If any of you know any engines, maybe i can get you guys a good fps rpg on this game, and make it accurate as possibal.

lonewolf40kursk · Post by **lonewolf40kursk** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 10:00 am

What's with that Russian guy? Sevaton or something... sounds weird at first but I guess I could read what he's trying to say... well at least a bit. Can't find a lot of Russian people here.

Oh, congratulations on the recent breakthrough. It's very nice in any perspective I could use, but uh... this sounds kinda' funny. Erm, you guys wanted a script writer or story writer for a new Ultima? I guess I could try with any of those... just give me some work to do and the rest of the game designing (as I don't know anything about animations and game designing) goes to you guys.

Well? Any words?

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Those which didn't kill me makes me stronger, those which do makes them vice-versa.

Sevaton · Post by **Sevaton** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:54 am

Hello lonewolf40kursk!

First, if you want to find some russians people,then just go here:
http://www.uo.khakassia.ru

Second,don't forget to visit our forum.

Regard to exult team.
Sevaton.

Post by **drcode** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:46 pm

EDIT (by Dominus):
Highly unlikely for Jeff to post something like this.
Whoever that was, behave.

draadje · Post by **draadje** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 1:04 am

just for the record. U8 was awesome.

Post by **drcode** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 8:46 am

Yes, it was pretty obvious from the IP address. Thanks, Dominus.

mustardbadger · Post by **mustardbadger** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 6:12 am

Wow.

What's the news on progress and development? Do you reckon you'll have a finished or stable release of the 3d version soon? Any plans to put a site up?

Great stuff guys, I'm just struggling to get my head around how much fun a 3d world could be for U7... especially with a free camera angle...

Post by **Dominus** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 9:31 am

At the moment it seems that development has slowed down to a crawl. Sam has had other things to tend to.

Post by **drcode** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:41 pm

When things pick up (and I'm done playing Martian Dreams), I'm hoping we can integrate this into the main Exult source.

Paulon · Post by **Paulon** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 5:55 pm

It took me just a week to finish the main quest of Martian Dreams, without any hints or walkthroughs
Mind you, there's a lot of replay value and fun things to find and work out even after the game's complete. Heck, I was still finding out new stuff years after I 'finished' it, including the _easy_ way to solve some of the problems.

Post by **drcode** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:57 am

I spent 2-3 weeks playing it, eventually referring to a walk-through when I got stuck (which was 4-5 times). There are a few cases where you have a quest, but it's not possible to complete until another one is done first. For example, I was told to find the lab near the North Pole, and spent 1-2 (real) hours wandering around and around without finding it. From the walkthough, I learned that it wasn't accessible until I'd done something else first.

Great game overall, though, and probably one of my favorite Ultima plots. I also really liked the way the world changed as you progressed.

SB-X · Post by **SB-X** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:26 pm

I just... got tired of the barely changing landscape for miles and miles. From this it sounds like it the story/action picks up sometime later after you leave the area of the pod?

Natreg · Post by **Natreg** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 9:15 am

It was boring to me too at first, but once you repair the energy station and the bridges and all began working again it gets a lot better

Also the Dream world has great puzzles

Natreg · Post by **Natreg** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 9:18 am

Oh I forget, DrCode have you tried to ask Spector things about other Ultimas or about Savage Empire ??

Try Asking about Ultima or Lord British, and also try looking for the wisp (it must be at night).

Post by **drcode** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 10:18 am

Natreg: No, I didn't think of asking Spector, but I did try it with the Shadowlords.

Natreg · Post by **Natreg** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:07 pm

I didn´t want to mention the shadowlords cos didin´t knew if you get there and didn´t want to spoil it

Post by **Dominus** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:55 pm

Aehm, guys - don't sway too far from that topic. We already have a Martian Dreams topic, don't we?

korean · Post by **korean** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 4:57 pm

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