Pentagram for Ultima 8?

[Kennedy]

Where can I get the Pentagram program for Ultima 8? I am interested in generating maps for Ultima 8. The lack of an automap feature is a real pain.

[wjp]

It's in exult's CVS. The module name is 'pentagram'

There are no pre-built binaries available, so you'll have to compile it yourself.

[Kennedy]

Okay, I found it at:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/view ... pentagram/

What exactly do I need to do though to compile the files?

[wjp]

What operating system are you using?

[Kennedy]

Unfortunately I'm stuck with windows xp for now, at least until i get 98 on my other partition.

[nadir]

You need cygwin.

[Kirben]

mingw is needed for windows, cygwin is only used as a shell. Or you could try http://exult.info/snapshots/Pentagram.exe

[artaxerxes]

You're the best Kirben!

Artaxerxes

[Dominus]

oh, no, now you did it kirben
you pointed those who don't read the #exult logs to the snapshot. How dare you?
As always thank your trusty snapshot provider.
Now I'm interested in what the people will say about Pentagram.

[XxVenomxX]

Hey! That's great stuff
For some reason, I never thought about going left after talking to Devon in the intro, so I saw part of the map I've never seen before
Anyways, it'll be interesting to see if it advances at all. Either way, it's cool to be able to see different parts of U8 picked apart

[gruck]

thank you kirben!

[gruck]

I checked it out, good looking stuff. Found all sorts of interesting maps that I had enever seen before.

Now get to work, make me penult, now now now now now now

j/k

[Max]

if i would understand how all this works i would just start to work on it:)

[Colourless]

Well, at the moment we aren't really looking for help as such. No in programming anyway. If anyone wants to reverse engineer the file formats though, be our guest.

Though it would be a good idea to ask us first. Some of the things we know, are not written in code, nor are they documented in cvs.

-Colourless Dragon

[Mirek]

Just a small suggestion: I think it would be good to put a link to Pentagram EXE on the Download page. I found it here by a pure chance...

I know that Pentagram is not Exult (so you perhaps do not want to give it much publicity in order to avoid "when Pentagram will be fully playable?" questions), but I think it could be on download anyway (e.g. in a separate section as Ultima 8 map viewer).


Mirek

[Kennedy]

Thanks, I realy enjoyed the map viewer, though it does seam to display the shapes that are further up infront of the ones that are further down when it should be the other way around and this looks kind of strange.

[wjp]

The shape ordering algorithm isn't perfect yet. It isn't just a case of simply reversing some comparison, though, unfortunately