New patch - Ultima 6 conversion

Jets Connor · Post by **Jets Connor** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:46 pm

Nevermind, I got it. Good work, Mike!

Also, I agree with your readme note regarding adding more music. Ultima 6's music had a completely different atmosphere to that of ultima 7, which I think was really rather core to the feel of the game. (It never felt quite the same.)

What would you think of redoing the u6 tunes, or perhaps putting in new ones with the same feel to them?

Vasculio294 · Post by **Vasculio294** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:33 am

Are you talking about, like a remix of the original midis?

Jets Connor · Post by **Jets Connor** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:58 am

No. I think that a remix would probably be worse, because then you lose Ultimosity. I think I mean more remastering them with composition software. Possibly making them longer, too, in some cases.

Vasculio294 · Post by **Vasculio294** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:15 pm

Stronger instrumental, Digitaly remastered. I agree!

Jets Connor · Post by **Jets Connor** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:44 pm

Ahoihoi!

Withstand the Fury Dragon · Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:28 pm

Whoa!

Sorry I've been lax in keeping on top of things, but this looks pretty awesome!

mikefictiti0us, please send me an email. I'd like to put an entry for this on Aiera!

Cheers

WtFD

Jets Connor · Post by **Jets Connor** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:54 pm

Incidentally, does anyone know what it would take to make the U7 engine to, for example, make areas outside the building you are in dark? After playing U6 (Before U7 came out) it felt so very wrong that I could see what was going on outside when I wasn't even near a window.

mikefictiti0us · Post by **mikefictiti0us** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:49 am

Hey, sorry for not updating the patch. A friend of mine passed away in August and work has been hell, so I've had little time to work on this.
Things are getting better now, so I have more time to work on the conversion. Britain is almost finished, and I have to add a few more NPC's, so I'll probably post an updated patch in a week or two.

mikefictiti0us · Post by **mikefictiti0us** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:30 am

Jets Conner, I'm using a sampling program and a high quality soundfont to remake the 11 tracks in U6. Pretty simple process, all I have to do is import midi files and change them into soundfont layers (with tweaks to reverb, EQ, etc...).
I'm not going to remix and change the actual composition of them though. At the most, I might add some of the better songs from the other Ultima games in locations that did not have music eggs in the original Ultima 6.

cyberfugue · Post by **cyberfugue** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:54 pm

I'm very sorry to hear about your friend, Mike.

amano · Post by **amano** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:35 pm

great that development goes on...

Just do not drop this project.

Dangus · Post by **Dangus** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:24 am

Is there any hope this will end up as an officially-supported Exult game with stand-alone capability, rather than existing over top of Black Gate?

Post by **Dominus** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:52 am

it would need all new graphics for that.

linderboy · Post by **linderboy** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 10:29 am

I can't get this to work. I have extracted the rar, overwrote the ogg files, I think I just don't have the config file setup right, Can you explain exactly where/what to edit in the config file. I don't see a entry as described in the readme.

I do get the U6 music at the BG startup screen.

Thanks.

Post by **Dominus** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:19 am

if you don't see the patch section then add it

linderboy · Post by **linderboy** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:56 am

I did that, but I get a runtime error when I start a new game.

Garrett · Post by **Garrett** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:47 pm

It doesn't seem to work in daily builds at the moment, or at least not with the one I tried in November. Hm...

linderboy · Post by **linderboy** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:16 pm

Turns out my runtime error had nothing to do with the config, even when I changed it back to the original I still got the error. Seemed to just be from installing this patch. I had uninstall/reinstall exult to get the original to work. Still can't get U6 conversion working.

Post by **marzo** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:23 pm

For the record, I just tested the patch and it works fine. For the record, my cfg file also does not have a 'patch' entry; this means that Exult will default to a 'patch' folder inside the game's directory (in my case, "Blackgate\patch"). Just unrar the contents to the patch dir (create it if you don't have one) and it should work fine.

Post by **Dominus** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:35 pm

there is one potential problem depending on your version of BG. I guess the patch was made with the UC version (BG+FoV). If you have only the floppy version of BG the patch will most likely not work.

Vasculio294 · Post by **Vasculio294** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 3:54 pm

Can you post more screenshots? I wanna see the progress!

mikefictiti0us · Post by **mikefictiti0us** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 4:30 am

Ok, so I've finished Britain. I should have done more after this amount of time, but I have not really been working on this constantly as I've been very busy, so I've only been able to squeeze in an hour or two a week of Exult Studio.
Almost ready to post the work thus far, but I just need to fix some of the problems I'm having with the usecode.

Also, what Dominus said was correct -- my patch probably won't work unless you have the FoV addon. I guess, in hindsight, I should have only installed BG without FoV and started this patch with a clean new map, but it's too late for that now.

Dangus · Post by **Dangus** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 7:43 pm

I'm sure if you want, you can probably recruit some skilled content developers off of this to help you. Doing all of Britannia by yourself is going to take a long time...... I'd help if I weren't already tied up with other projects at the moment

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 2:35 am

This is fantastic! You're a genius!

You people definately are inspiration to us all. I got Exult Studio last summer but I was too lazy to do much with it. I made a new year resolution to finally get off my lazy ass and actually DO something! I intend to write a novel and make some kind of game with SCI studio. I think I'll add making some kind of mod for Ultima 7 or even a mini-game in itself!

All I need is the same sense of getting things done as you already do!

Enderandrew · Post by **Enderandrew** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:34 am

Couldn't you recruit other people to do other areas of the map?

Beldavid · Post by **Beldavid** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:08 am

Have you set up a web site yet?

exolon · Post by **exolon** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:27 am

Has there been any progress on this? I never really got into Ultima 6 very much because I played Ultima 7 and 8 first and couldn't get used to the poxy graphics and steppy time-movement, and the story sounds nice, so it'd be fun to try it out with the nicer Ultima 7 engine I came to know and love.

The only worry I'd have is that the isometric angle could obscure some objects behind walls and such... this happened a few times with Ultima 7, and caused a bit of stress if any of your party members wimpied during combat, leaving you wondering if they dropped anything important behind a wall.

Wizardry Dragon · Post by **Wizardry Dragon** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:01 am

Mike, if you need webspace I can fix you up. This mod looks very promising.

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Peter M Dodge aka Wizardry Dragon
Lead Designer
Ultima VII: The Feudal Lands

storfy · Post by **storfy** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:57 am

rite so is this finn'd or wot?

Crowley · Post by **Crowley** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:05 pm

How about using the graphics for the black gate for the monolith in the museum? That always felt to me like it was supposed to be a 2001 reference.

Shigzeo · Post by **Shigzeo** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:47 pm

Hey, I'm from Vaughan Woodbridge, but work near Pearson Airport and love Ultima!haha

storfy · Post by **storfy** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:56 am

O RLY?

Wizardry Dragon · Post by **Wizardry Dragon** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:29 am

Guys, stop spamming this thread.

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Peter M Dodge aka Wizardry Dragon
Lead Designer
Ultima VII: The Feudal Lands

storfy · Post by **storfy** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:01 am

whens this out.
someone beta answer mine kves-chon.

storfy · Post by **storfy** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:26 am

[echo]hello[/echo]
is anybody IN there?

Post by **Dominus** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:48 am

storfy, does this silence not answer your question?
It reallyhelps when you use proper words when asking questions and not spamming afterwards.

storfy · Post by **storfy** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:42 am

Edit [by Dominus]:

Storfy - don't troll here.

(original message deleted)

storfy · Post by **storfy** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 6:29 am

wtf!!
i didnt say that!?!

Wizardry Dragon · Post by **Wizardry Dragon** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:58 am

He really doesn't get the point, does he?

Storfy- you're trolling and spamming things that have nothing that has to with this mod. Cease and desist.

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Peter M Dodge aka Wizardry Dragon
Lead Designer
Ultima VII: The Feudal Lands

storfy · Post by **storfy** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:06 am

CEASE AND DESIST!!
THIS IS THE COPS!!!

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:44 am

Storfy, can I kindly request that you tone down the meaningless posts? I know you probably enjoy it, but it's really a waste of time. Go download something and play with it, you'll probably enjoy it more.

Also, I'd like to ask if there is anything to report on this mod? As you know, I'm really interested in it (as are many other people) and I'd really appreciate it if some updates were given. Thank you.

DarkAvatar · Post by **DarkAvatar** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:11 pm

yeah storfy the spamming is getting old.... if your not here to talk about the topic posted then don't...

Post by **wjp** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:06 am

Freezing this thread because of its length and because it's a favourite target of spammers. Please open a new thread if you want to continue discussion on this topic.