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Runic text to English + Copy Protection Questions

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 11:51 am
by eriol
Hello everyone,

I've been playing around with the usecode of Ultima 7 BG for a while, and thought why not try converting all these runic signs to English as something I would like to have in my game.

The right way to do that is to make a single change to UI_display_runes(), but that method is hard coded so I moved to a more brute force approach and changed all the signs, plaques and graves in Usecode.

That led me to think of the copy protection questions asked by Finnigan and Batlin, I liked to have them still ask the questions and say the proper dialog and all, but didn't want to bother with referencing the manual, so what ever you reply will always result in a success. That change to the usecode was more fun than I expected :)

I made it so these changes can be applied to Ultima 7 BG with the Keyring Mod (overwrites the usecode file in the mod) and without (as a usecode file in patch folder).

Oh and one other thing, I didn't like the new nice looking avatar faces in the Keyring Mod, and went and played around with the faces.shp file and added the uglier avatar faces. I just like to play my game like that.

Anyways, I liked the results and thought maybe someone would want such a thing in their game as well, or just look at the code and do something better. Below is a link the a zip file that should contain 3 folders, one for each patch. Keep in mind that I did this for my own preferences, your free to change and do whatever you like with these patches.

Exult_Ultima7BG_Patches.zip
http://www26.zippyshare.com/v/96450450/file.html

Re: Runic text to English + Copy Protection Questions

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:51 pm
by Dominus
He he, seems someone has fun with usecode.

Translating can be set via a flag for the avatar. The one about the answers sounds fun but nothing we can endorse (we cannot help with circumventing the copyright questions). ;)

Re: Runic text to English + Copy Protection Questions

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:10 pm
by eriol
For translating runic text I did try to set the READ global flag (34), but it fails to do anything in BG and just assumed it was only for SI. Is there a different flag in BG I should try to set?

Re: Runic text to English + Copy Protection Questions

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 9:11 pm
by eriol
Oh sorry for double post, figured it out. It's the avatar's NPC Flag with value 34 rather than global flag. Silly me :)

Re: Runic text to English + Copy Protection Questions

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:48 am
by Dominus
I was thinking whether to write Avatar NPC flag ;)
You do know you can set this easily via our F2 cheat menu?