Numbers on plaques

[Guru Dragon]

The room numbers in the plaques in the Sleeping Bull are a little off. I looks like the right-side column of pixels is the left-side column of the next number.

[Malignant Manor]

This isn't an Exult bug. The gold sign font numbers are screwed up in both BG and SI.

[Guru Dragon]

I see, so it's the actual SI data that's messed up. Would it be possible to patch it when Exult is installed? I don't know how hard it is to adjust the X offset of the blitter. Although, you could also fix it by removing a column of pixels from the graphic.

Does Exult patch any of the data, or is that something reserved for a mod?

[Malignant Manor]

You can download a fix here.

[Guru Dragon]

Where is the patch directory? I looked all through the Exult folder, but I couldn't find one. I tried making a folder called ".\Exult\patch" and dumping the file in there, but it didn't have any effect.

[Malignant Manor]

The patch directory would be inside the game. ie, ultima7/patch, serpent/patch, etc. Create the directory if it isn't there. If you use the keyring mod, it would go in the data directory inside the keyring folder. If you use the SI Fixes mod, it would go in the data directory inside the sifixes folder.

[Guru Dragon]

Okay, I created the patch directory and you did indeed fix the number on the signs. Good work!

However, the menu font is now totally blank, and causes the game to crash! Maybe another tweak, and it'll be fixed?

[marzo]

Are you using the release (1.2) or the snapshots (1.4.x)? I ask because the release only accepts a full patch file for fonts.vga, while the provided file is likely a difference patch which the snapshots can handle.

[Malignant Manor]

I wasn't thinking about the release version. I would like to not submit a patch for it since it saves so many EA owned copyrighted files that are unnecessary. You can download Exult Studios (ES) and add a blank frame to each of the other fonts and then save. If ES doesn't work as a standalone with the release version, you would have to download the snapshot and then switch back when you are finished if you want to still use the release version.

[marzo]

Oh, I quite agree with that sentiment. The process you describe should work with ES as a standalone, yes; only map-editing in Exult would not work (or most of the other non-vga files ES saves, for that matter).

[Guru Dragon]

Ah yes, I was running the stable release. I upgraded to 1.4 and now it work properly. Thank you very much, and good work!

[Malignant Manor]

The old link got deleted by the host. Here is a working link for the gold sign fix.

[Malignant Manor]

They deleted the link again. Here's a new one.

[Malignant Manor]

http://www.filefront.com/16168987/Gold_ ... d Sign Fix

A new link is above since Filefront deleted the file again for no reason.