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« on: July 25, 2006, 01:31:00 am »
THE POST 7690546 QuoteBegin-Spellshaper+Jul 25 2006, 06:56 AM --> | QUOTE (Spellshaper @ Jul 25 2006, 06:56 AM) | why are trolls interested in money anyways? : :
They should be more after blood and gore. :wacko: |
Trolls can be somewhat civilized! And they love gold and weapons.   If you are victorious in battle with trolls, you will get some nice bounty!
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« on: July 25, 2006, 12:45:00 am »
THE POST 7689472 Be careful crossing bridges... There could be trolls lurking around. If you are caught, the trolls will demand a toll. If you do not pay the toll... Well... someone is gonna get a butt whoopin'. Hopefully it will not be you! B)   Thanks for the comments guys!
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« on: July 23, 2006, 01:30:00 am »
THE POST 7610623 QuoteBegin-xlibman+Jul 22 2006, 06:35 PM --> | QUOTE (xlibman @ Jul 22 2006, 06:35 PM) | | wow cool, do you have all attacks implemented yet? I dunno if i asked yet but was there some kind of magic animations in the original ultima V? |
Attacks are partially implemented along with the enemy AI. When magic is used during combat in the original Ultima V, the screen inverts in stages (see a screenshot of moongate travel) along with an eerie sound. And if it is a projectile (like the Magic Missile), then you will also see the projectile animation. BTW: nice avatar xlibman. "The enemy begins to fight back"  "They are ganging up on me. RUN!" 
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« on: July 22, 2006, 01:49:00 am »
THE POST 7575790 Thanks for asking.   I would say that combat is 50% complete. Once combat is complete... the only thing that remains is tidying up a lot of little things. I guess I should bump my overall progress to 80%.
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« on: July 15, 2006, 02:28:00 am »
QuoteBegin-Athlor+Jul 15 2006, 07:50 AM--> | QUOTE (Athlor @ Jul 15 2006, 07:50 AM) | One of my Cybikos work. The other keeps disconnecting itself from it's batteries.  
Xlibman, you are not the only one. A lot of people say they don't like that slanted perspective. I don't mind it myself but, I think that's why it was never popular.
Ultima 7 used 32x32 versions of this perspective. Ultima 8 then went to a real isometric perspective. Lastly, Ultima 9 went to regular 3D. |
Back in the 80's, I played Ultima I through V. They all had the "classic" bird's eye view, non-slanted tiles. Then about 5 years later I watched and helped one of my Navy buddies play Ultima VII. The slanted tiles were neat looking, but I still missed the old classic look.
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« on: July 15, 2006, 02:13:00 am »
QuoteBegin-Athlor+Jul 15 2006, 07:39 AM--> | QUOTE (Athlor @ Jul 15 2006, 07:39 AM) | You may have noticed the dungeon pics have no line-of-sight code. That will be the hardest part, I think. The source even had a pregenerated array in c. I haven't a clue yet how to implementing it as yet.
I'm also not sure I have the exact sequence of combat down right. I'm going to use animget to study it better. I added the wiggling when struck code part in last night.  
It's technically playable but not really right yet. |
I use a pregenerated array in C to accomplish the LOS algorithm. It is so much faster than actually trying to calculate it. I had to have an intermediate tile grid of 17x17 tiles, because Ultima V has light sources, which really complicated the LOS algorithm. Would you like some help implementing it?
I also need to add the "wiggling" algorithm for the Tremor spell among other things.
What exactly is "animget"?
Keep up the great work Athlor!
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« on: July 13, 2006, 03:31:00 pm »
Do I hear an Ultima revival coming on? This is great news. Athlor, do you ever visit Dino's webpage?
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« on: July 12, 2006, 05:49:00 am »
That looks really cool Athlor! B)  Hmmm... I wonder what is beneath that title?
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« on: July 12, 2006, 02:32:00 am »
THE POST 7174115 QuoteBegin-Athlor+Jul 12 2006, 08:09 AM --> | QUOTE (Athlor @ Jul 12 2006, 08:09 AM) | I do like the lighter but remember guys these are inverted planes. The lighter examples could potentially look still better with a recolored tileset.
AnYwAyZ, I'm glad I mentioned this. I just wasn't sure if you considered the idea. |
You are right Athlor!
I may play around with recoloring the tileset after the initial release. The tile inversion was something I already had implemented to initiate a magic spell, moongate trave, and a weapon hit detection.
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« on: July 11, 2006, 02:15:00 pm »
THE POST 7155813 QuoteBegin-xlibman+Jul 11 2006, 08:07 PM --> | QUOTE (xlibman @ Jul 11 2006, 08:07 PM) | @ranman O_O sweet but i kinda like the old one better, closer to U5 original   |
Me too But my second favorite is the white background setting. I do not care for either of the gray backgrounds.
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« on: July 11, 2006, 01:59:00 pm »
THE POST 7155252 Okay... You asked for it...  Which one do you like the best?
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« on: July 11, 2006, 05:44:00 am »
THE POST 7135618 QuoteBegin-Athlor+Jul 11 2006, 07:46 AM --> | QUOTE (Athlor @ Jul 11 2006, 07:46 AM) | | I love RPG's that give you a larger range of personalization. I like hidden weapons too, like finishing a game and finding out if you'd found this certain sword you life would have been easier. |
Yeah, that is a neat thing about the Ultimas. If I knew what I know now about Ultima V, I could have played it entirely different. I wasn't too smart back then. :lol:  QuoteBegin --> | QUOTE | | I've been wondering about the game's darkness though. Did you plan this or is it because of the look of the regular versions. I seen an old Mac monochrome version and it made me realize not all Ultima versions were dark colored. Black is the default color of a crt but a grayscale lcd's default color is white. Wouldn't that also mean it might consume more power being so dark? |
My original plans were to make it look as close to the PC/Apple/Commodore versions as possible. They are all dark backgrounds. It will consume a little more battery power. But, I have thought about that too... I have a 2 screen inversion values that I can use to invert either or both video planes. So, with the press of a button, you can have this game look entirely different. Hmmm... Maybe I should post a screen shot of that?
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--> | QUOTE | Another thought. I stumbled upon the Nes version of U5 the other day. Did you know that it uses a quasi-isometric slanted tileset, like Ultima 6 & 7? I didn't know that until yesterday.   |
I think I remember seeing that. But, in the NES version of U5, the story line was shortened quite a bit -- I guess they were reaching their memory limits. :lol: Also, in the NES version of U5, the tiles were alot brighter too.
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« on: July 10, 2006, 12:38:00 pm »
QuoteBegin-xlibman+Jul 10 2006, 06:34 PM--> | QUOTE (xlibman @ Jul 10 2006, 06:34 PM) | | how many ppl have entered so far? |
About 50 have registered so far. But, the new registrations have slowed down quite a bit.
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« on: July 09, 2006, 11:45:00 am »
Wow! Looks very nice!
I am going to try this out!
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« on: July 08, 2006, 05:45:00 am »
QuoteBegin-kalan_vod+Jul 8 2006, 11:16 AM--> | QUOTE (kalan_vod @ Jul 8 2006, 11:16 AM) | | Fix it if you would like.... |
I should not have to fix it.  
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