Author Topic: Ultima V: Warriors Of Destiny, Status: Progressing (Read 60055 times)

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #15 on:** September 04, 2005, 04:41:00 am »

are you working on both version at the same time, or do you update one then port the code to the other platform once there is lot of progress?

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Ranman · « **Reply #16 on:** September 04, 2005, 07:25:00 am »

That is actually a very good question.

I have a very generic (cross platform) key reading function. So, I only need to worry about how I draw the graphics to the screen. Everything else is the same.

However, you are right, normally I code for the 89. So, everything is tested on it first, then I have to tweak it a little bit for the 92+.

In the case of the titlescreen, it is a completely different image... well it is actually enlarged to fit the entire screen.

I am using 3 of my own user defined font sets. A 4x6 (fixed width) font used mainly on the 89 -- I did not want to worry about variable widths fonts. A 6x8 (fixed font) with kind of an "Old English" look to it. Finally, a 6x8 (fixed font) font containing the Runic alphabet. Somwtimes when you read a sign or talk to people it will be displayed with the Runic alphabet.

Heh... Just something to make it a little harder

Better keep a cheat sheet handy!

David

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DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #17 on:** September 05, 2005, 05:59:00 am »

does the fonts are the same than the TI fonts or fonts you made?

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Ranman · « **Reply #18 on:** September 05, 2005, 12:34:00 pm »

Here is a screenshot of the 92+ and V200 version of Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny.

This should demonstrate the talking, menu navigation, and the 3 fonts I created to use. I still need to do a little work with the automatic scrolling of text.

Any comments? Concerns?

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DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #19 on:** September 05, 2005, 02:46:00 pm »

look awesome so far, but I noticed that the time seems to flow faster than normal, does it flow in realtime on real calc or is it like that in the game?

I like your font as well

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Ranman · « **Reply #20 on:** September 05, 2005, 04:38:00 pm »

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QUOTE (Kevin @ 5 September 2005, 20:46)

look awesome so far, but I noticed that the time seems to flow faster than normal, does it flow in realtime on real calc or is it like that in the game?

I like your font as well

Thanks Kevin. When the game is complete, time will not advance until a move is made. Ultima V is a turn based game.

Actually, on the screenshot, the lower right "window" is going to be a history window. This is to closely emulate the classic Ultima I - VI games. You will not see time, xy coordinates, etc. This is for my debug purposes only.
B)

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Ranman · « **Reply #21 on:** September 05, 2005, 04:58:00 pm »

Another important note...

Notice that every NPC can answer the 5 basic questions: name, greeting, look, job, and goodbye. So, to minimize typing, I put shortcuts across the top of the talk window. All other questions for the NPC must be typed in manually O_O

In the screenshot above, you see me typing in "welcome" and "entertain".

EDIT: Concerning manual typing, only the first 4 letters are used to search for the answer; for instance: "welc" gives the same response as "welcome". This will help reduce the amount of typing needed (especially on a non-qwerty keyboard such as TI89).

This post has been edited by David Randall on 6 Sep, 2005, 7:45

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Ranman · « **Reply #22 on:** September 06, 2005, 03:54:00 pm »

For those of you interested in seeing some screenshots of the 1988 PC version of Ultima V...

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These images are located at www.MobyGames.com

This post has been edited by David Randall on 7 Sep, 2005, 20:44

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DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #23 on:** September 07, 2005, 12:55:00 am »

I only see Mobygames the definitive source for PC games screenshots

I like the question to NPC thing, this make this RPG more versatile, more complex, and more... RPG

EDIT: now I see them, your version is exactly like the old one, just gs O_O

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Mic · « **Reply #24 on:** September 08, 2005, 05:24:00 am »

Excellent game

I've informed the french community on TI-BANK

>D

This post has been edited by Mic on 8 Sep, 2005, 11:25

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DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #25 on:** September 08, 2005, 12:30:00 pm »

nice, I noticed the news about Shadow falls and other recent projects here. Nice because they are not necessarly known to the french 68k community. Welcome to the forums btw

And yeah I also remember when the news about Minish Cap %)

Now I need more time and motivation to post news. Tomorrow I dont work but I dont even know if I'll even post any news due to lack of motivation (after everything that happened this summer)

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arti · « **Reply #26 on:** September 08, 2005, 02:21:00 pm »

Could I post them?

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Ranman · « **Reply #27 on:** September 08, 2005, 02:36:00 pm »

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QUOTE (Kevin @ 8 September 2005, 18:30)

Now I need more time and motivation to post news. Tomorrow I dont work but I dont even know if I'll even post any news due to lack of motivation (after everything that happened this summer)

Cheer up Kevin >D

A lot a people luv you out here! Don't let a few bad apples get you down.

Let Arti post some news and you start programming another great RPG.

Which RPG will be finished first? Ultima V or Kevin's new surprise ... I'll race you

Heh... you would probably win.

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DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #28 on:** September 08, 2005, 02:53:00 pm »

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QUOTE (arti @ 8 September 2005, 21:21)

Could I post them?

too late >D

I dunno how I got through tho, I am surprised I even got time to post the news before having to go to sleep :oops:

, I dunno if I forgot anything tho, but at least I got to post it, I think I am more motivated today (thanks to Gammaray music) I hope I'll be the other days too :?

, last news was back 7 days ago I really needed to post a new one, and on top of that the last one was a (semi) fake news.

thanks for the support guys

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Ranman · « **Reply #29 on:** September 09, 2005, 02:48:00 pm »

I messed around with the NPC talking functionality... I added auto scrolling, blinking cursor, cummulative printing, among a few other things. It is quite a bit more polished than the previous screenshot. B)

Here is an updated screenshot:

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