Custom Artwork How-To

[Thantos]

Thanks for the info. LOL i built tons of custom houses, towns, and dungeons. Scripted tons of new critters and items. But I never did the OWNER stuff before so this is a learning experience. Well i can kinda script lol. im not up to your level yet but im learning. ( slowly )
Thanks again for the help.

[HellRazor]

Originally Posted by Thantos

Thanks for the info. LOL i built tons of custom houses, towns, and dungeons. Scripted tons of new critters and items. But I never did the OWNER stuff before so this is a learning experience. Well i can kinda script lol. im not up to your level yet but im learning. ( slowly )
Thanks again for the help.

No problem! It's kind of complicated until you get the hang of it, but you'll figure it out.

[Mountain Dew]

i was following what u said and see what happend




date/time : 2007-12-13, 02:41:05, 286ms




system up time : 13 hours 18 minutes
program up time : 1 hour 8 minutes






executable : mulpatcher.exe
exec. date/time : 2007-04-21 23:43
madExcept version : 2.7i
exception class : EConvertError
exception message : '0x3EO' is not a valid integer value.

main thread ($548):
00430832 mulpatcher.exe SysUtils 3035 ConvertErrorFmt
00430fd1 mulpatcher.exe SysUtils 4072 StrToInt
0055c221 mulpatcher.exe uMulpatcher 3125 TMainForm.Copy1Click
0048a731 mulpatcher.exe Menus 1787 TMenuItem.Click
0048be89 mulpatcher.exe Menus 2507 TMenu.DispatchCommand
0048cfd8 mulpatcher.exe Menus 3213 TPopupList.WndProc
0048cf15 mulpatcher.exe Menus 3194 TPopupList.MainWndProc
0044d6c8 mulpatcher.exe Classes 10563 StdWndProc
7e4196c2 user32.dll DispatchMessageA
0049b448 mulpatcher.exe Forms 6696 TApplication.ProcessMessage
0049b48f mulpatcher.exe Forms 6715 TApplication.HandleMessage
0049b72a mulpatcher.exe Forms 6799 TApplication.Run
0057406c mulpatcher.exe mulpatcher 96 initialization

thread $e30:
7c90eb94 ntdll.dll KiFastSystemCallRet
7c90d85a ntdll.dll NtDelayExecution

modules:
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68b20000 GLU32.dll 5.1.2600.2180 C:\WINDOWS\system32
69000000 atioglxx.dll 6.14.10.6956 C:\WINDOWS\system32
71aa0000 WS2HELP.dll 5.1.2600.2180 C:\WINDOWS\system32
71ab0000 WS2_32.dll 5.1.2600.2180 C:\WINDOWS\system32
71ad0000 wsock32.dll 5.1.2600.2180 C:\WINDOWS\system32
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hardware:

disassembling:
[...]
00430822 push eax
00430823 mov ecx, [ebp-4]
00430826 mov dl, 1
00430828 mov eax, [$4302d4]
0043082d call +$35ce ($433e00) ; SysUtils.Exception.CreateResFmt
00430832 > call -$2c213 ($404624) ; System.@RaiseExcept
00430837 3036 mov esp, ebp
00430839 pop ebp
0043083a ret

[Spazmodan]

"Now you need a script for your new item. What I usually do is find a like script, in this case the robe script works, copy it, paste it into Notepad, and modify it to suit my needs. Here's a piece of code from my custom robe." He says that...but i can't seem to find a robe script other then AdminRobe, GMRobe, etc. So i decided to go into AdminRobe and edit that but before he told me to close mulpatcher. I went to open it again and he says to take the Tiledata hex number or whatever and put it into the script so you can add it as the custom art you're doing. So i go in there and everything is cleared, like on Settings my files were still loading the stuff from my backup folder but i went to tiledata and on the very bottom where i added the name, quality, etc. it wasn't there anymore and neither was the gumpid's and everything. I saved them to a folder too..this makes no sense. I tried and just forgot about it and put the hex id into the script, and went on my shard, did [add adminrobe and it was an unused icon. So wtf is going on? It'd be nice if there were some screenshots or something so i could figure out what he's doing. I'm so lost in this.

[pglizerd]

Hello Spazmodan you have to save all your files you edited and open body def file and add custom line to it for a new robe if you try to reload files like you did it will be blank get a script for a robe like werewolf robe and try it on that you can email me and ill try to explain better

[Tannis]

Originally Posted by Spazmodan

"Now you need a script for your new item. What I usually do is find a like script, in this case the robe script works, copy it, paste it into Notepad, and modify it to suit my needs. Here's a piece of code from my custom robe." He says that...

She!!! *shakes fist*

[Sythen]

Ironically it was that line about creating your own script that made me create an interactive tutorial ... on the same subject. lol.

Honestly though, statics are easy to install into the UO files, its the animation that gets me every time!

[Tannis]

Originally Posted by Sythen

Ironically it was that line about creating your own script that made me create an interactive tutorial ... on the same subject. lol.

Honestly though, statics are easy to install into the UO files, its the animation that gets me every time!

Once you've done it a few times though, you'll be able to do it in your sleep. You just have to get into the rhythm of it. You'll get to the point that you can do 500 customs with animations in a couple hours. I just wish I knew how to (and had the patience to) use Photoshop better so I could make my own artwork.

[Sythen]

Lately I've been adding in real photographs and inserting them into picture frames using photoshop. The thing is with photoshop I havent been able to skew pictures to 45 degrees. Isometric drawings are generally equal measurments on all lines, but UO uses a trisometric platform for its graphics.

That being said, picture frames at a 45 degree angel generally do well (using that as an example). Now to convert a flat 1 dimensional picture I had to use paint shop pro... because unlike photoshop, paint shop pro has a 'free with the program' Skewing that skews pictures by degrees rather than having to do it by freehand. This gives an accurate representation in my opinion... see:

This picture is of a friend of mine and his girlfriend and is set at a 45 degree angle using a skew tool.

Anyway to draw regular graphics think small at first. Everything in UO is scaled down. So as long as you get that 45 degree angle or somewhere close to it (43-47 degrees), the flaws really arent noticable if you make a mistake. This degree measurement is different for every item tho... books and flat items this is awesome for; but mobiles its another story.

mobiles are still at a 45 degree angle but instead of your edges on the pic being at the 45 degree point, your characters head will be at that point. Then you work your way down 45 degrees instead of up 45 degrees. Am I making sense? I hope this helps.

All files should be in Bitmap (.bmp) form with a black or white background. White and Black are transparent in the game world; white background objects tend to look like they are floating, so I prefer to use a black background for all the images I put together.

[Yandor]

Hey thanks!

[Tannis]

Originally Posted by Sythen

Lately I've been adding in real photographs and inserting them into picture frames using photoshop. The thing is with photoshop I havent been able to skew pictures to 45 degrees. Isometric drawings are generally equal measurments on all lines, but UO uses a trisometric platform for its graphics.

That being said, picture frames at a 45 degree angel generally do well (using that as an example). Now to convert a flat 1 dimensional picture I had to use paint shop pro... because unlike photoshop, paint shop pro has a 'free with the program' Skewing that skews pictures by degrees rather than having to do it by freehand. This gives an accurate representation in my opinion... see:

This picture is of a friend of mine and his girlfriend and is set at a 45 degree angle using a skew tool.

Anyway to draw regular graphics think small at first. Everything in UO is scaled down. So as long as you get that 45 degree angle or somewhere close to it (43-47 degrees), the flaws really arent noticable if you make a mistake. This degree measurement is different for every item tho... books and flat items this is awesome for; but mobiles its another story.

mobiles are still at a 45 degree angle but instead of your edges on the pic being at the 45 degree point, your characters head will be at that point. Then you work your way down 45 degrees instead of up 45 degrees. Am I making sense? I hope this helps.

All files should be in Bitmap (.bmp) form with a black or white background. White and Black are transparent in the game world; white background objects tend to look like they are floating, so I prefer to use a black background for all the images I put together.

It's best to use black, especially if you're using MUOTool to make your patches smaller. With MUOTool, if the art has a white background, it ends up being non-transparent for some reason that we haven't been able to figure out. I went through over 500 pieces of art and changed the background to black lol.

[Karmael_Equinox]

I followed the tutorial "which was fantastic" however when I create the item in game, it has no name. I have entered the name and checked with inside uo and it is named.

Any ideas what I've done that's wrong?

[Thantos]

you have to script it for it to have a name, i think. thats the only way i could get a name to stay on it.

[Karmael_Equinox]

I think that's for runuo/sphere stuff... We have a pol server and scripts arn't needed for clothing/items from what I understand. (yes I know this is runuo but I couldn't find a tutorial anywhere else.)

[HellRazor]

By default, statics use the item name in tiledata.mul unless overridden by a script.

[Karmael_Equinox]

I have updated the tile data and have it named but it still doesn't show up when the item is created in game. I have found the place where the script goes and am trying that out tonight.

Thanks for your help and comments

[HellRazor]

Originally Posted by Karmael_Equinox

I have updated the tile data and have it named but it still doesn't show up when the item is created in game. I have found the place where the script goes and am trying that out tonight.

Thanks for your help and comments

If the item has a script, the script will override tiledata.mul. Just set the name property and that should fix it.

[Karmael_Equinox]

Originally Posted by HellRazor

If the item has a script, the script will override tiledata.mul. Just set the name property and that should fix it.

Does it matter if we're using POL? cause I'm not exactly sure what you mean.

I have it named in the tiledata but the name still doesn't show up in game.. So where should I set the name property?

[HellRazor]

I'm not sure how POL handles it. You will probably need to ask on the POL forums.

[Karmael_Equinox]

thanks I will do that.

[smeghead]

I used mulpatcher to replace the splash screens on the client on my server.
now when i launch the client on my server i see my new splashscreen which is great!

but how do i make it so that when players connect to my shard THEY see the altered splash/login screen
sorry for the noob Q
thanks

[Tiamat13]

Originally Posted by smeghead

I used mulpatcher to replace the splash screens on the client on my server.
now when i launch the client on my server i see my new splashscreen which is great!

but how do i make it so that when players connect to my shard THEY see the altered splash/login screen
sorry for the noob Q
thanks

Patch the Gump files to them.

[smeghead]

huh? ................

[Karmael]

Can you explain to me exactly what you did to your splash screen? We have edited ours to follow exactly as per the tutorial and in some places it's like the color has dissapeared...

In order for your players to see the new splash screen you need to send them copies of your gump files so that it updates theirs as well.

[HellRazor]

UO interprets true black (RGB 0, 0, 0) and pure white (RGB 255, 255, 255), as well as some variants, as being transparent. Try replacing your blacks and whites with shades that are almost black or white.