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Hey, I made a meat cleaver, and I'd love to send it to the Exult team if it works out right, but see, I can't incorporate it into the game to see, when I import it in Exult Studio and save it, it doesn't load it in the game.

Are you creating a new shape for it? The problem is that U7, and hence, Exult, only can deal with 1024 shapes. And all (0-1023) are used by the game.

So the only way to add your own shape is to find one of the existing shapes and replace it. But then, if you replace a wall shape with your cleaver, some building might look kind of funny:-)

I was replacing the shears w/ the cleaver.

Oh yeah, sorry I didn't explain completly, I put the cleaver in Serpent Isle, in place of the shears.

You can alternatively edit the SI data index file and use expack to replace the shape. Then you need to launch Exult with the --nocrc option to test it.

Oh wait... I was editing Exult's included flex file, not one of the ones from the games, so I guess the procedure might not be the same. Instead you would need to extract all of the shapes first and make your own index file, and then repack them. I guess I should figure out if this can be done easier in Exult Studio in case I want to edit the game graphics sometime.

What Ignitus did should work, and is a lot simpler than using expack. My guess is that he doesn't have his 'patch' directory set in 'exult.cfg', but it could also be a bug in EStudio or Exult.

instead of adding a new shape, why not adding a new frame to an existing shape?
that should work.

Artaxerxes

It was saved as "paperdoll.vga" in another directory, so I had to change it, the graphic is nice its just a little too big, I have to shrink it a bit.

Patch directory- saved the files in there.
I thought it would save them directly to the Static directory haha...

Maybe Exult isn't checking the patch directory for 'paperdoll.vga'; it's something I have to check.