Exult Forum

Marzo:

I haven't looked at Exult's code, but it shouldn't be too difficult to calculate the day-to-night transition algorithmically. (That's definitely more feasible than creating four versions of each image!)

Basically just need to reduce each images' reds and greens and boost its blues.

Also, humility is never at odds with truth. Saying truth, that you are the Avatar when someone asks, is not pride, it is simply honesty. That person might look up to the Avatar and would love to meet him/her someday, but he doesn't happen to know the Avatar's given name. So your real name would be u...

This reminds me of the plot line at Skara Brae where everyone's trying so hard to be humble, but the only person who succeeds is the one guy who isn't trying, and is simply enjoying his life.

The way I see it, it would be only the Avatar, because that's *you*. So you see what you would see; no telepathicly seeing through the eyes of your friends. (Of course, if primary control switches to someone else like if the Avatar goes unconscous, then line of sight would work from that person. Bas...

Trevor: If my idea were implemented, you wouldn't be able to see the dungeon or the secret room behind the baths at all, until you got into it. If you want to see an example of what I mean, take a look at the picture at: http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl3polof/64games/pics/Ultima4game.gif It's in the low r...

Trevor:

This idea is so you can set the view to anything you want without spoiling the game by seeing things your character shouldn't -- as in, things behind walls, through mountains, or inside other buildings.

I like the idea of completely blacking it out. Fog of war works for strategy-type games, but for RPGs, only showing what your character would normally see makes the experience seem more real.

Ah, beat to the chase by the guy who actually designed it! (And I'm stoked that he's here commenting on this forum! Welcome!) Subtle digs at organized religion aside, I still don't think that any of this game insults the concept of religion and Christianity itself, so I don't think AJ has much to fe...

AJ: Ultima VII does not paint religion in a bad light. In fact, you are playing a sort of religious savior yourself, and one of the eight Virtues is Spirituality. The philosophy of Virtue that the Avatar must follow evokes Christianity and other world religions far more than the Fellowship does. I d...

Here's a suggestion for greatly improving Exult: implement line-of-sight blacking out of the map, especially for resolutions larger than the original 320x200. Earlier Ultimas include the concept of line-of-sight, and black out areas that aren't in view. Besides making it more challenging to find sec...

If you're asking about Black Gate in general (and not a fan-made mod that I'm unaware of), here's your answer: The Ultima series includes combat and questing as parts of each game, but they're not the primary focus. The focus has always been the stories being told and on making the world its citizen...

I got bit by this bug as well, and figured out a way around it. I used the Telekenesis spell on the key to activate it, then added it to my key ring. That works if you can *see* a key but can't physically reach it!

Hast the Gargoyle taught thee nothing? To manipulate the object of thy lust, through the pressing of buttons to make her want thee, is a violation of Ethics!

Where'd virtues come from?

The Wisps did it.

Everyone knows they traded it to the Feudal Lords long ago in return for some kind of armageddon spell.

Ok, so I'm not missing anything in the game by not being able to turn in Spector's note and seeing him to justice?

Thanks for the response!

Hey I'm curious about something. I found the incriminating note for Spector in the goblin's cave. Problem is, I found the evidence for Marsten's guilt first, and took it back. Now that Marsten is arrested, I can't seem to get at the conversation option again to hand them Spector's note. Is this a bu...

I've posted it to the feature tracker:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=352335

(Just to clarify, while ~/Library/Exult might not be optimal for the save games, it's still better than putting invisible folders into the user's home directory. At least here people will be able to easily find it, and it is consistent with how other applications behave.)

Fingolfin, Thanks for the response! (And thanks for maintaining the Mac port of Exult, I've had a great time playing with it.) You're right about the save game files, they probably shouldn't go in ~/Library/Application Support. They shouldn't go in Documents either, for the same reasons you mentione...

I've been thinking about what would have to happen to make Exult behave more like a native Mac OS X application. This mainly has to do with where the various directories are put. Most of this would probably just involve changing the default config file. Background: On the Mac, the executable and all...

Done!

I'm running Exult 1.4 on the Mac, and I'm occationally getting a crash when opening anyone's inventory screen. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. But, when it does happen, it also happens with new games, not just saved games. (I built the game using "make Exult_app" from the cv...

I wonder why the default on Mac OS X is to only let you have one game or the other installed at a time. The default really should be:

./ULTIMA7

and

./SERPENT

That's what I'm using.

The music for 1.4 now has way too much tremolo in it (that's the stylistic waving of pitch). Tremolo may be good for spice, and only used lightly in certain places, but it's used everywhere. Some of the songs sound downright awful now. Here's an example (a saved game in Frigidazzi's chambers I origi...

wjp, Your change is the same as what I did to get it to compile last night (glad I was reading it right). Thanks for getting it checked into the CVS. I ran into another error building Exult, though I waited until I got your official fix to try and sort it out. Luckily, I was able to figure this one ...

Actually.. The other time I saw this bug (and dismissed, assuming it was unimportant) was when I showed one of these items (I think the slippers too) to a wizard, who told me to go to Bucia at (the name of her shop). It then gives two questions to ask: one about Bucia, and the other about the name o...

Pardon my ignorance about usecode, but does this mean that the official release of Serpent Isle listed "slippers" as a question but failed to provide a response - and that the official game engine would have caught this error and wouldn't have shown "slippers" as an option at all?

I took a look through the code. It does reference a variable 'cheat' in contain.cc (line 522) that's not defined anywhere in the file or its header: case 800: // Chest. if (!cheat.in_map_editor() && get_quality() >= 251) // Trapped? { // Run normal usecode fun. ucmachine->call_usecode(shnum,...

I got it directly from CVS this time, and got the same exact error. This is my first time using cvs directly, and after logging in, did the following command: rich$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/exult co -P exult cvs checkout: Updating exult U exult/.cvsignore [and a whol...

NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT POST SPOILERS TO THIS THREAD. I'm still playing through the game. I bought the Ultima Collection a while back, and I'm just now getting up to Ultima 7 part 2. Thanks! When talking to the Rat Woman (Mosh), one of the conversation options is "Slippers". When choosing it ...

After ./autogen.sh and ./configure seemed to work, make exits with an error. There's too much stuff to post everything here, but the final lines it put out are: if /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./../headers -I./.. -I./../imagewin -I./../shapes -I./../...

I got the 1.4 CVS snapshot, and in the README.MacOSX leaves out an important step that had me confused for a little bit. It says to use Fink to install sdl, sdl-mixer, automake1.9, and libtool1.4. It doesn't mention that to use them, I have to add the following lines to my .bash_login file: PATH=/sw...

I've got Tiger and XCode 1.1 on my system. Has anyone here had luck getting it to build with XCode? The only instructions I've seen have to do with building using CodeWarrior, which I don't have.

Thanks!