Ultima VII Revisited

Welcome to Ultima VII: Revisited, my attempt to write a replacement engine for Ultima VII: The Black Gate.

To run this program, you will need to copy the contents of your original DOS ULTIMA7 folder to /Data/u7. This will allow the replacement engine to read in the maps and graphics from the original files.

• Locate your Ultima 7 game files (eg. C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Ultima 7)

• Copy ALL of these files, folders and subfolders into ./Data/U7 (hint: look for the U7.txt file)

• Clone the project into a local folder using whatever git interface you prefer
• Copy the entire contents of your original DOS ULTIMA7 directory to $(SolutionDir)/Redist/Data/U7/

• Make sure you have the Meson Build system installed
• Run meson setup build, or if you want to generate a Visual Studio project, meson setup --backend vs build
• Run meson compile -C build to build the project
• Go to build/ directory and run the u7revisited program

Windows:

1. Install CMake (3.15 or higher) - Visual Studio 2019+ includes CMake support that you can install via the Visual Studio Installer. See CMake projects in Visual Studio for details.
2. You MUST open "Developer Command Prompt for VS 2019" to get a console with cmake on your path! A normal Powershell or cmd.exe will not work!
3. CD to the project folder, and configure and generate build files:
   cd U7Revisted cmake -S . -B build
4. Open the new solution file in Visual Studio 2019+: build/U7Revisited.sln
5. Build the project using Visual Studio (Ctrl+Shift+B or Build → Build Solution) or F5 to build & debug
6. The Release executable will be automatically copied to Redist/u7revisited.exe after building

Linux:

1. Install CMake and required dependencies:
   sudo apt-get install cmake build-essential libgl1-mesa-dev libx11-dev libxrandr-dev libxi-dev libxcursor-dev libxinerama-dev
2. Configure and generate build files: cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
3. Build the project: cmake --build build -j$(nproc)
4. The Release executable will be automatically copied to Redist/u7revisited after building

• WASD: Move around.
• Q/E: Rotate left and right.
• Mousewheel: Zoom in/Zoom out.
• To teleport to a location, left-click there in the minimap.
• Double-left-click on an NPC to attempt to talk to them (not all NPCs work yet)
• Double-right-click on a container to open it and view its contents (NPCs are considered containers)
• Press +/- on the keypad to slow down/speed up time. Press Enter on the keypad to advance time one hour.
• Press ESC to exit.

This is an open source project, which means that you can grab the source files from github.com/viridiangames and build it yourself!

Sandbox is the "debug" mode and has extra options available for building and testing the world. You can make changes and save them to work on the game from inside the game! The red square in the upper left corner toggles NPC pathfinding.

• LMB - Clicking on objects, NPCs or floor tiles prints debug info
• LDBL - Left double clicking calls Interact() on objects/NPCs
• F1 Toggles the Shape Editor Tool
• F7 Toggles black outline borders and dragging of static objects
• F9 Toggles debug bounding boxes
• F10 Toggles pathfind costs shown by coloring tiles
• F11 Toggles green highlights for scripted objects
• -> Right arrow skips ahead time to the next hour

FEEDBACK IS WELCOME BOY HOWDY IS IT WELCOME!

The best way to give feedback is to send it to my email address [email protected] and put Revisited in the subject line.

Have fun, and Rule Britannia.