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I was inspired to start an Ultima 6 total conversion patch for Exult after trying out the Quests & Interaction's patch by Alun Bestor. Thus far I have completed Lord British's castle, including the NPC's inside the castle walls. Any input on my work thus far is welcome!

You can get it here: http://users.tpg.com.au/fade2blk/ultima6patch.rar

Are you doing it from scratch? I think it would be better to use some conversion tool or something for the maps.

Yes, I'd prefer to do it from scratch, however long it may take. It should take me about a month to finish Britain, then I'll move on to the surrounding areas.

Heres some comparison shots:

Woops, try that again.

Oh well, you can just copy and paste the image links then.

tags are [ i m g ] [ / i m g ] minus the spaces

Ahh, thanks Crysta Elf.





(edit by Dominus: pointed the images at web.archive.org)

the only one that looks odd is the office, because the desk needs legs on the left side as well else itd fall

looks great so far!

Hello!

Your patch is very good(Book of Prophecies-rocks!!!).Can you,in future,separate arhive into several files,something like this:Music,Gumps,Shapes Usecode and etc,for easy downloading purposes.

Regards,
Sevaton

Mikefictiti0us,do you have site?

Sevaton.

That's looking great, keep up the good work!

And yes, do you have a website for this? I can't wait to see it complete.

Its so sad that origin didn't have keep the blue floor tile! I really like that better than the floor matching the walks.

Hi Mike,

I agree, it is looking great.

I would love to host your mod on ESGuides.com, new content is always welcome.

Take care,

Tawn

Thanks for the positive comments so far. I probably shouldn't have posted this here until I completed Britain, but I was curious to see what kind of a response it would get.

Mark, just give me another week so I can finish the underground sections of the castle and fix the usecode, then you can host it.

Sevaton, I don't have a site yet, but I'm working on it.

>Mark, just give me another week so I can finish the underground sections of the castle and fix the usecode, then you can host it.

Out of curiosity, how do you intend to do the underground areas? Using Serpent Isle-style stair teleporters there probably isn't enough empty space in the mountains. Does Exult support multiple maps?

Does Exult support multiple maps?

For quite some time now. Although it is likely that there are undiscovered bugs in it -- no one has throughly tested it thus far.

Looks great, I'd love to play U6 in a U7 style

Hey, I have never played U6! Only once for one hour or so. I will love playing U6 with Exult! *grin*

one word:

PHENOMENAL

I have a special fondness for u6. That's the game that taught me English!

Artaxerxes

Ultima 6 is almost good as Ultima7 except for the spotlight nite time.

But the game is good! I also enjoyed Savage Empire and Martian Dreams

Excellent, I was hoping that someone would do this.
I made an attempt about 2 to 3 years ago.
My first attempt was to modify the current U7 building to match U6.
I decided it might be faster if I converted the U6 map to work with U7.
I wrote a small program to do just that. I then had to re-organize the chunks file to match U6 (which has 1024 chunks), and create the rest of the chunks.
I think I finished over 800 of the 1024 chunks. Enough so that the world map looked complete. The dungeons where still a mess, and there was no multi-map support at the time. I stopped working on it about a year ago.
I think I finished the usecode for the first few NPCs (Dupre, Shamino, Iolo).
I even got Iolo’s gold gathering/splitting usecode to work, but not the spam-cheat.
I even went as far as to modify the exult source code, so that I could get the vortex cube to work. I had to modify the jawbone code, I made a nice gump of the cube and the stones fit into it nicely. I have some other art as well.
Anyways, mikefictiti0us if you are interested in any of the work I had previously done then you are welcome to it.

hey, a fellow Torontonian!

What part of the city you're in TMNM Dragon?


Artaxerxes

I live in the south-west end by Etobicoke creek and Lake Ontario.
But I work downtown (Where I'm posting from).
Which part are you from Artaxerxes?

about the same! I live in bloor west village (at Jane/Bloor) and work in the Ernst & Young Tower, TD centre, downtown Toronto.

Artaxerxes

Have you tried any of the tile floors? There are some rather nice ones in Fawn and Moonshade.

Do you have the main map of brittania already created? Just asking you don't get into space troubles, later on (or are you using the u7 map?).
Also best try to divert any underground to a new map (how to teleport/create teleport eggs between maps is in the Exult studio docs), to avoicd the SI ugliness.

If you ever finish this project! You can count me in for beta testing.

Dominus, I'm using the u7 map but I'm altering each chunk as I go, to fit with the u6 landscape (which means I have a huge amount of work to do).
You might think that I may not have the patience to take on such a task, but I do plan to stick with it, however slow my progress may be. I've wanted to do this for quite some time now.
TMNM Dragon, when I started this I was actually thinking about getting someone to write a map conversion program for me, but I decided against it since I'm actually having fun doing it piece by piece.

I do think I will need some help with the usecode for the more advanced features though, but I'm not planning on implementing those until I've progressed considerably with the landscape.

Timo and Dominus, yes, I'm using multiple maps with the intermap egg to telport between. So far its working perfectly.

I can help with the usecode needs.

What Dominus said about space reminds me of another space issue. The Britannia in U6 is clearly bigger than in U7. Even walking from Paws to Britain took several minutes real time and several hours game time.

>The Britannia in U6 is clearly bigger than in U7

I think that depends on how you define the size of the world. Clearly, U7 has alot more tiles than u6, so in a sense U7 is alot bigger than U6, but the tiles are alot smaller. I think its the very limited view and slow movement in U6 that makes the world seem larger.

I don't think you can compare the small (size of the avatar's foot) 8x8 tile in U7 to the 16x16 tiles in U6 which are used for entire objects and walls. The U6 tiles are comparible to U7 shapes.

But in terms of absolute movement speed, I see what you mean.

The U6 world (Dungeons and all) is actually smaller (in terms of chunks or pixels).
When I wrote my map coverter, I found that I could fit the whole world plus all the dungeons onto the U7 map and still have lots of black space.
Since the original U6 was a flat world with the etheral borders, I put the dungeons around the outside of the main world map (SI style).
But this was before multi-map support, so I think mikefictiti0us way would turn out better.

This looks great, and I have only one suggestion: Please make regular backups of your 'patch' directory. I'd hate to have you lose months of work because of a bug in ES.

One thing that would be nice would be if you either 1) made the Avatar wear a backpack from the start or 2) put a backpack within his supplies in the storeroom

Any news on this?

THIS IS AWESOME!!! Makes me want to play ultima 6 again!

Haven't heard anything for a while.

But isn't nuvie doing something like that? Isn't nuvie a remake of u6?

No. It's an engine to play U6 like Exult, with gameplay and visual enhancements. For now, just use DosBox. It plays U6 perfectly.

The screenshots look absolutely great =)

The game also looks great, except that it seems to crash for me as soon as the first gargoyle dies (looks for file called share/exult/bodies_bg.txt at exult directory, and can't find it).

(Eep, sorry, that appears to be some snag in Exult-CVS in general for me. Started playing BG again and it happens there too. Never mind. Hoping newer CVS checkout might help...)

I'm afraid I have a problem installing this. The readme instructs that I add "./ultima6patch" to the section for Black gate.

The problems are: there doesn't appear to be a section; when I add a section, exult hangs and takes all of windows with it (which I've never seen happen in WinXP before); and if the readme meant the section, adding ./ultima6patch or replacing the original path with ./ultima6path or ./ultima6path or .\ultima6path or even the full path results in Black Gate being removed from the main menu of Exult.

I am attempting this on v1.2, Windows binary.

Thankyou,
Jets

you have to use the snapshot. Doesn't the readme say so?

Ah. No, it doesn't. Thankyou.

Still no section. Should it be path or patch?