FAQ: Create .MUL's that work for SE too. - RunUO

Lysdexic · 03-31-2005, 06:42 PM

OSI, being the yutz's they are, decided to release SE without using the Verdata.mul. For those of you who don't know, the Verdata.mul was a file that would overwrite images, animations, tiledata, hues and other portions of all the other .mul's. Now many people have these wonderful verdata's that are useless for their SE clients.

I'll only begin with a Gump tutorial... the rest is pretty much similar.

First, you need a program that can edit all of the .mul's: MulPatcher

Second... MAKE BACKUPS BEFORE YOU GO DINKING AROUND WITH SHIT CUZ WE DON'T WANNA HEAR YOU CRY THAT YOU FUBARED!

Third... Get InsideUO <-- This InsideUO works for SE

If you want the UO Desktop Pictures, keep reading... if you have your own .BMP's, skip to next. Download the UODesktop you would like, open InsideUO, and load the .UOP file into InsideUO (the .UOP file is really a verdata just renamed for the patching purposes). Then, click on Gumps, find the pictures you'd like to use, right click and choose Save as .BMP. Be sure to remember the Hex Value for each picture!

Put mulpatcher.exe in your UO folder and run it.

Go to the Settings tab and load the gump files (you need to load both GumpArt.mul and GumpIdx.mul).

Click back to Gump (no anim) tab and find the picture you wish to replace, right click it, and choose Load From Bitmap. Load your .BMP you want to use.

Go back to Settings tab and hit Save.

The GumpArt.mul and GumpIdx.mul are useable by all clients.

**Big Note**
Editing files such as GumpArt.mul and GumpIdx.mul can be overwritten when OSI releases new patches. You will have to save all the BMP's just in case they do so you can recreate an updated set of .MUL's.

evil lord kirby · 04-23-2005, 05:15 PM

Ok i followed this like you said for using the uodesktops i tried switching the radar graphics i saved went in game and no changes were seen did i save the files wrong or something?

Lysdexic · 04-23-2005, 07:46 PM

Load your new GumpArt.mul and .idx and look to see if your new graphics are in there (either use InsideUO or mulpatcher to do that).

evil lord kirby · 04-24-2005, 03:41 AM

Im so confused right now i did what you said checked it with insideuo they were there no problem i saved it properly im sure if they are there in insideuo but in game there is no change. So how exactly can it display a gump that no longer exists in the mul right if i replaced it it should display the replacement not the original. This sucks.

Grevan · 04-24-2005, 02:23 PM

Common mistake made by myself is...

Make sure your client and your server are using the same files...

Check to make sure your client files are patched.

Grevan

XxSP1DERxX · 04-24-2005, 03:04 PM

Also make sure that if you are using UOGateway, you add the file to the entry (or replace it in your UO folder).

evil lord kirby · 04-24-2005, 04:18 PM

Well im not online doing this so i replaced the muls in my uo directory and fired up uo and nothing i know i did that much right after all ive got alot of stuff i built frozen in and its basically the same idea right.

akrondar · 04-24-2005, 06:48 PM

i dont remember, but i think that if you are loading a verdata file in the mulpatcher, it doesn´t include the information about layers, weight, names, etc... All that info are in the tiledata.mul, if you can´t use the mul patcher for that, you can use a program called tiledaeditor for that porpuse

evil lord kirby · 04-24-2005, 07:09 PM

well that would be great if i were trying to add new tiles but im just trying to replace gumps and they dont use tiledata but im sure eventually ill be messing with tiles too after i get my gumps to works properly.

akrondar · 04-24-2005, 07:13 PM

ups XD, sorry then

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Maybe another way to do it is using muotool, you can download it form the gateway website. You open the program, import a verdata ( from uo-desktop if you like) and save it as xxx.muo then you compress it into a xxx.rar and upload it into the gateway ( admin option ), you connect to your shard and ok.

I think that way you can make it too... i hope it helps..

evil lord kirby · 04-24-2005, 07:21 PM

Well i just loaded the verdata with the uodesktop in it and saved to a .bmp using mulpatcher then i opened the bmp on my desktop and it wasnt the one i saved it was just the normal version of the gump so im a bit confused as to why it would do that and im thinking it may be part of my problem its like even though it should be using the new gump it isnt really letting my overwrite it in the mul

Lysdexic · 04-25-2005, 12:18 AM

Save it from InsideUO instead...

evil lord kirby · 04-25-2005, 03:07 PM

Insideuo gives me an error when i try to save it as a bmp from verdata says it is unsupported and shit so what i did was take a screen shot of it open in the insideuo window and open it in paint then cut it out of the screen shot and import it into the mul and save it and it saved it in the mul but i bet it wasnt saved as bmp properly i saved as a 24bit will that make a difference?

LoeZ · 05-01-2005, 05:29 AM

When trying to save a gump as a *.bmp i keep getting this strage error:

Code:

invalid data request <numbers> for indexed file

What am i doing wrong?

evil lord kirby · 05-02-2005, 04:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LoeZ

When trying to save a gump as a *.bmp i keep getting this strage error:

Code:

invalid data request <numbers> for indexed file

What am i doing wrong?

How are you trying to save it as a .bmp if useing insideuo it says feature has not been implimented and i think mulpatcher has an export to .bmp feature that works but if all else fails you can always open the picture of the gump useing a program like insideuo and hit print scrn then go into paint or other image editor and paste the sceen of it and select the gump and cut it out of the screen shot then save that as a .bmp and should work too but its the long way of doing it and i dont recommend it.

Liquid-Fusion · 05-05-2005, 05:13 PM

try to add a weapon/armor guide.. or I can make it if you want

Killamus · 05-05-2005, 05:17 PM

Broken link?

hammer_69_99_99 · 05-16-2005, 02:52 PM

im trying to replace the loginscreen with the older loginscreen but it says that i cant save it to gumpidx.mul... any reason y i cant???

Lysdexic · 05-16-2005, 08:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hammer_69_99_99

im trying to replace the loginscreen with the older loginscreen but it says that i cant save it to gumpidx.mul... any reason y i cant???

Probably because you have UO open.

Links not broken, had to take the comp down for a few days to repair another one.

03-31-2005, 06:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
Lysdexic Forum Expert Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Minnesota... somewhere in the boonies Age: 29 Posts: 1,171	FAQ: Create .MUL's that work for SE too. OSI, being the yutz's they are, decided to release SE without using the Verdata.mul. For those of you who don't know, the Verdata.mul was a file that would overwrite images, animations, tiledata, hues and other portions of all the other .mul's. Now many people have these wonderful verdata's that are useless for their SE clients. I'll only begin with a Gump tutorial... the rest is pretty much similar. First, you need a program that can edit all of the .mul's: MulPatcher Second... MAKE BACKUPS BEFORE YOU GO DINKING AROUND WITH SHIT CUZ WE DON'T WANNA HEAR YOU CRY THAT YOU FUBARED! Third... Get InsideUO <-- This InsideUO works for SE If you want the UO Desktop Pictures, keep reading... if you have your own .BMP's, skip to next. Download the UODesktop you would like, open InsideUO, and load the .UOP file into InsideUO (the .UOP file is really a verdata just renamed for the patching purposes). Then, click on Gumps, find the pictures you'd like to use, right click and choose Save as .BMP. Be sure to remember the Hex Value for each picture! Put mulpatcher.exe in your UO folder and run it. Go to the Settings tab and load the gump files (you need to load both GumpArt.mul and GumpIdx.mul). Click back to Gump (no anim) tab and find the picture you wish to replace, right click it, and choose Load From Bitmap. Load your .BMP you want to use. Go back to Settings tab and hit Save. The GumpArt.mul and GumpIdx.mul are useable by all clients. Big Note Editing files such as GumpArt.mul and GumpIdx.mul can be overwritten when OSI releases new patches. You will have to save all the BMP's just in case they do so you can recreate an updated set of .MUL's. __________________ Signatures are tools of the devil...

04-23-2005, 07:46 PM	#3 (permalink)
Lysdexic Forum Expert Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Minnesota... somewhere in the boonies Age: 29 Posts: 1,171	Load your new GumpArt.mul and .idx and look to see if your new graphics are in there (either use InsideUO or mulpatcher to do that). __________________ Signatures are tools of the devil...

04-25-2005, 12:18 AM	#12 (permalink)
Lysdexic Forum Expert Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Minnesota... somewhere in the boonies Age: 29 Posts: 1,171	Save it from InsideUO instead... __________________ Signatures are tools of the devil...

05-01-2005, 05:29 AM	#14 (permalink)
LoeZ Join Date: Nov 2004 Age: 18 Posts: 18	When trying to save a gump as a *.bmp i keep getting this strage error: Code: invalid data request <numbers> for indexed file What am i doing wrong?

05-05-2005, 05:17 PM	#17 (permalink)
Killamus Forum Expert Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Sitting in a chair fulfilling my life's goal Age: 22 Posts: 2,650	Broken link? __________________ Procrastinators unite! Tomorrow. Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.

04-23-2005, 05:15 PM	#2 (permalink)
evil lord kirby Account Terminated Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Titusville PA Age: 26 Posts: 975	Ok i followed this like you said for using the uodesktops i tried switching the radar graphics i saved went in game and no changes were seen did i save the files wrong or something?

04-24-2005, 03:41 AM	#4 (permalink)
evil lord kirby Account Terminated Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Titusville PA Age: 26 Posts: 975	Im so confused right now i did what you said checked it with insideuo they were there no problem i saved it properly im sure if they are there in insideuo but in game there is no change. So how exactly can it display a gump that no longer exists in the mul right if i replaced it it should display the replacement not the original. This sucks.

04-24-2005, 02:23 PM	#5 (permalink)
Grevan Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 7	Common mistake made by myself is... Make sure your client and your server are using the same files... Check to make sure your client files are patched. Grevan

04-24-2005, 03:04 PM	#6 (permalink)
XxSP1DERxX Join Date: Oct 2002 Age: 23 Posts: 4,689	Also make sure that if you are using UOGateway, you add the file to the entry (or replace it in your UO folder).

04-24-2005, 04:18 PM	#7 (permalink)
evil lord kirby Account Terminated Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Titusville PA Age: 26 Posts: 975	Well im not online doing this so i replaced the muls in my uo directory and fired up uo and nothing i know i did that much right after all ive got alot of stuff i built frozen in and its basically the same idea right.

04-24-2005, 06:48 PM	#8 (permalink)
akrondar Forum Novice Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 116	i dont remember, but i think that if you are loading a verdata file in the mulpatcher, it doesn´t include the information about layers, weight, names, etc... All that info are in the tiledata.mul, if you can´t use the mul patcher for that, you can use a program called tiledaeditor for that porpuse

04-24-2005, 07:09 PM	#9 (permalink)
evil lord kirby Account Terminated Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Titusville PA Age: 26 Posts: 975	well that would be great if i were trying to add new tiles but im just trying to replace gumps and they dont use tiledata but im sure eventually ill be messing with tiles too after i get my gumps to works properly.

04-24-2005, 07:13 PM	#10 (permalink)
akrondar Forum Novice Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 116	ups XD, sorry then . Maybe another way to do it is using muotool, you can download it form the gateway website. You open the program, import a verdata ( from uo-desktop if you like) and save it as xxx.muo then you compress it into a xxx.rar and upload it into the gateway ( admin option ), you connect to your shard and ok. I think that way you can make it too... i hope it helps..

04-24-2005, 07:21 PM	#11 (permalink)
evil lord kirby Account Terminated Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Titusville PA Age: 26 Posts: 975	Well i just loaded the verdata with the uodesktop in it and saved to a .bmp using mulpatcher then i opened the bmp on my desktop and it wasnt the one i saved it was just the normal version of the gump so im a bit confused as to why it would do that and im thinking it may be part of my problem its like even though it should be using the new gump it isnt really letting my overwrite it in the mul

04-25-2005, 03:07 PM	#13 (permalink)
evil lord kirby Account Terminated Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Titusville PA Age: 26 Posts: 975	Insideuo gives me an error when i try to save it as a bmp from verdata says it is unsupported and shit so what i did was take a screen shot of it open in the insideuo window and open it in paint then cut it out of the screen shot and import it into the mul and save it and it saved it in the mul but i bet it wasnt saved as bmp properly i saved as a 24bit will that make a difference?

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Liquid-Fusion Join Date: Mar 2005 Age: 19 Posts: 64	try to add a weapon/armor guide.. or I can make it if you want

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