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Michele

When all else fails, hex edit a copy of the original to read.

Michele

I would recommend checking out paperdol_info.txt in Marzo's Keyring Mod since he did this very thing for Mariah to make he joinable.
The mod of course is for the Black Gate.

The mod is here: http://seventowers.u7feudallands.com/do ... ?section=0

Michele

Some mentioned characters obviously do not exist.
Octavius is not among the Black Gate NPCs.
This name also does not appear in UseCode.

Michele

He's actually summonable if one is standing on or near the Serpent gate there.

Body is to the east of this gate.

Michele

Item 760 (Gem) frame 12 in Exult Studio.

Michele

Which Windows is that running under?
I've never seen a File Manager/Explorer window quite like that.

Michele

What does the file stderr.txt have to say, if anything?

Michele

For the heck of it, open up the Exult.cfg and find out where it thinks the games are installed. Black Gate : not found (.\static\endgame.dat) Serpent Isle : not found (.\static\sispeech.spc) These 2 should be in the static folders of their respective games, being they are part of the original Ultima...

Michele

Maybe changing the graphic in shapes.vga by means of Import/Export for a purely cosmetic effect.

Michele

Is naming NPC's via script possible. I've seen fascinating things in the Silver Seed NPC creation script, just wondered if naming the NPC by code was also possible. Func0612 0x612 (var var0000) { var NewNPC; var NewNPCProps; //Isstanar the Automaton 0x3b1 945 NewNPC = UI_create_new_object2(0x3b1, [0...

Michele

Have had problem resurrecting Mariah and Laurianna in the Keyring mod, even when I added the shape 1099 into the resurrectable body list in the Resurrection UseCode which did not help so I reverted the codde to what it had been before. Lich took out Dupre and Mariah, Dupre was ressable, Mariah just ...

Michele

Exult works on Media Centre.
I've been running it on a Media Centre since 1.2 came out.

Michele

Keep in mind that any item set to 0 in weight will no be movable in a normal game other than things in containers.

Michele

Sounds like a good idea to me, especially since the complete install with both games can fit on one of those keyring "fob" sized USB "plug in drives.

As is it possible, I do not know.

Michele

Great work.

Michele

Thank ye for your patience

Michele

That explains the body probs in both games.
Is there a fix file available for both BG and SI?

Michele

Hmm. In SI, Iolo, Shamino, and Dupre are also dropping the wrong bodies in an unmodded game.

Invisible ones in Shamino, and Dupre's cases.

Michele

Base BG install lacks the Keyring customs, yet shows these "corpse" errors.
No Keyring files in there at all, no mods either. Yet corpses are still the wrong one.
Iolo just dropped an invisible corpse with a pink outline in a game with no mods at all.

Michele

On a side note, I have been seeing the wrong body shapes appear in corpses in the game and in modded games, in some cases this means no body visible to loot, which can be a real show stopper if you need something off a dead liche.

Tested this with Spark too in a normal game. Same corpse body error.

Michele

I do not know why this is, but the Laurianna and Mariah characters in the Keyring mod crash the current Exult when accessing their paperdolls.

I am stumped.

Michele

NPC with Shape 1024 (Black Gate in this particular case) seems to be crashing exult in this newest snap, no idea why.

Had her working nice before this current one.

On another note, any ideas why attempting to look at the NPCs in the Keyring mod in the Studio crashes the Studio?

Michele

Never mind, it seems tied to the default of having Audio turned on at install.

Game quits normally with the audio to off.
No idea why the audio would be an issue on a machine with SB Compatibility though.

Michele

Exult freezing on "Quit Game".
Is anyone else having this bug with the newest build of the Exult game engine?
Its occurring in both Black Gate and Serpent Isle.
No error text is generated. At least not in std_err.txt by this prob.

Michele

Barges fly now, but if one is using a ship, or a "carpet", the craft only seems able able to do a 180 degree rotation, not a 90 degree one when elevated. (z != 0).

At z = 0, the facings work correctly on the craft.

Michele

Thanks, Marzo.
Tis much appreciated.

Michele

In th original SI, a barge could move freely on the x and y as well as on the z. I have a ship I placed on a revamped Claw Island at elevation 6. I did the revamp back in about 1998 using a tool I had built back then for world editing. (Was DOS based though and no graphics) I used a smaller barge of...

Michele

Have the Barges been fixed yet so they can move at elevations other than 0 like they did in the original Serpent Isle?

Michele

I have also noticed it.
I have also watched it hapen when dropping an item onto the container in a pack while the container is opsn.

Michele

West is right.

Michele

PS: that deal was between a group called TeamBG and Black Isle Studios.

Michele

The way the deal worked between the Makers of Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment, and BG2 worked like this: Any part of the game could be modded, but the xxx.EXE were not to be altered. I believe Black Isle Studios was the maker there since the box has their branding on it. Rules seem s...

Michele

Entrance to the place where the Fellowship has built this Black Gate is east from where the the Codex Shrine is on south end of the Isle of the Avatar.

A blackrock key opens the locked doors to into the Codex area, and the door to the remaining dungeon.

Michele

This is definately easier to read. Thanks.

Michele

Thanks, Marzo.

Michele

Intermap UseCode Transport Array: Do such exist? Is the following possible? I had this idea of moving the dungeons off the main map and onto another. However many areas are accessed in normal game by an [x, y, z] UseCode Array which would need to be [x, y, z, m] (m for map) in order for this to work...

Michele

The Engine UseCode Function needs a rewrite to work in Exult, they made no allowance for other engines. A quality check for Quality 1 would point to the Mayor's Barge. Also, it would help if a barge could move at a non 0 altitude without being on a surface. Not sure when this was added in, but I rem...

Michele

Many of them remain playable with tools like DosBox or VMWare, some even play under XP itself. Main prob on modern equipment was the cheap shortcut of using a "timing loops" back then rather than real timers, which DosBox can address. Ultima 6, Savage Empire, and Martian Dreams still work,...

Michele

I have the same error Jeff Oakley is experiencing with Karnax freezing up like his usecode is jamming in his throat.

This sequence worked in earlier Exult releases with both the original and the modified UseCode which I use.

Karnax freezes no matter which is loaded.

Michele

Best way to handle this, I saw it occur in the original game, is to wait on resurrecting them until you have access to one bucket of "Water of Discipline" for each of them. I generally stored the bodies at the hub of the serpent gate network until i had this, and would then take them to Mo...

Michele

Flying barges, and ships do work in SI, including in the original game. The elevation change in the original game had a limit of 6 in the Z (height) though, as compared to the change of 12 in Z in Black Gate. In the original game I could use a "Qaulity 255" engine to fire up the movement o...

Michele

Been years since I went dinging about in this file, but I remember it s being a combination of position pointers within initgame.dat follwed by the contents of the files themselves, always arrayed in the exact same file order. The original initgame.dat file is not compacted. Keep this in mind if ya ...

Michele

The odd responses she gives at this time when in party also imply Origin knew some would get her into the party after Batlin's death, using normal game mechanics with no cheats.

Michele

May wish to keep Selina in. I suspect many rezzed her and used her in preference to Wilfred.

Michele

I am surprised that a dynamic map (one which shows the current world map as opposed to a static map) has not been tried.

Michele

As to the password questions (copy protection), UseCode can be rewritten to bypass the questiions and flag you as legitimate. With the original game, I hexed the UseCode and wrote the answer to each question OVER a section of the question since like most legitimate users find copy protection a real ...

Michele

It worked back in the original game too.
I remember those 2 sniping at each other in the Jail :p

Michele

Over 700 years if you ever looked at the articles about how earthmen age in Sosaria. Iolo, Shamino, Dupre and the other heroes of Ultima 4 are all from this earth supposedly, and they age at a reduced rate in Brittainian time. I remember seeing somewhere about there being like a 200 year lapse betwe...

Michele

If its a small island with a blink ring in the middle, i believe it was part of the old Claw Island project. (Sub Map 74)

Michele

Semi-mystry to me as well since i've yet to see one which can decompile into anything other than assembly. :s

Least we can make new usecode though. B-)

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