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is this project dead?
- Thread starter uofrost
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HellRazor
Knight
Well, the thing is, the client could work off its own custom file formats and third party utilities could then be developed to move artwork from MUL files to the custom format. RUO wouldn't actually be providing any client files or data and anyone using the tools would be required to own a copy of the client. Not too much different than what we have now, the RUO emulator itself requires certain client files to operate but does not provide them.
The POL emulator already does something similar, it has a custom file format it uses to store map data for the server and a utility creates those files from the map*.mul files.
The POL emulator already does something similar, it has a custom file format it uses to store map data for the server and a utility creates those files from the map*.mul files.
Rather than creating a new file format and migrating the existing UO data over, might it not be more beneficial to simply provide some means of overriding specific resources individually?
Something as simple as looking for, say, /data/gumps/$GUMPID$.png (or /data/items/$ITEMID$.png, /data/sounds/$SOUNDID$.wav, et al.). If found, use it; otherwise, load from MUL directly.
Something as simple as looking for, say, /data/gumps/$GUMPID$.png (or /data/items/$ITEMID$.png, /data/sounds/$SOUNDID$.wav, et al.). If found, use it; otherwise, load from MUL directly.
D.Hyru-hybrid
Wanderer
Ugh, Krrios is such a tease.