[Exult-general] Exult Studio, new game and so on...

[Dominik R <dom...@gm...>]

Hi all,
after not doing anything for a while I looked at my Xultima4 project
to remake u4 with the Exult engine (yeah another one of those remake
projects, only I don't have any team members and no webpage for it -
otherwise you could see what kind of and how many developers I still
need :)).
Anyway just looking at basic map editing I stumbled over the same old
issues.
So some of those are:
- custom cheat-map (F3) support. The F3 map would come in handy on
editing the world as it makes jumping to the general area you want to
work on much easier as you see what there is (upposed to be). An easy
example on how to do it could be to have Exult load on non-BG/SI games
the map.shp in the patch/static dir.

- a mass-object selector mode in Exult Studio. So you can select much
more objects in one go. Similar as "pick for combo" only that you can
choose a whole area. OR maybe in that mode, click on cunks to select all
non-chunk objects.

A nice tool I found for this project is the tlkconv program by the xu4
team. All the city conversations are stored in these tlk files and
that tool converts them to xml (and back if wanted).
Example:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<dialogue xml:space="preserve">
  <person id="0" name="Iolo" pronoun="He" turnAwayProb="0">
    <description>Charming bard</description>
    <topic query="job">I play for&#xA;the people.</topic>
    <topic query="health">Good.</topic>
    <topic query="PLAY">I play my lute&#xA;and receive the&#xA;good wishes of&#xA;the people.<question type="0">Do you like&#xA;my music?<yes>I would&#xA;join thee!</yes><no>A shame.</no></question></topic>
    <topic query="COMP">If you treat&#xA;someone else&#xA;well then they&#xA;will have reason&#xA;to do the same.</topic>
  </person>

This looks like it might be useable to convert to Exult usecode but as
I'm not a  programmer that is up to the coder searched for on the
non-existing webpage.

Take care
-- 
Dom