Arcanum 1024x768 Edition v081004 [Discontinued]

Drog Black Tooth · Guest

The project is discontinued.

If you still have any version of this patch installed and would like to use the latest version of the UAP, then you need to uninstall the patch by deleting the following files:
Arcanum1024x768.exe
Arcanum8.dat
modules\Arcanum.PATCH3
Arcanum 1024x768 Edition.txt
ArcanumXSplash1024x768.dat (if you have it)

Please do not try using the patch with the latest UAP, it will definitely cause problems.

P.S. Eventually, a proper patch with support for any resolution will be made. I'll probably start working on it in a few months.

HYPERPOWER! · Untrained Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 2 Location: Perth, WA

Hi!

I signed up to say thanks.

How are you handling the vicinity checks? Does the aggro range remain the same as with the 800x600 resolution? I'd hate to trigger the thugs in the Boil when I first enter Tarant. P:

Whenever I run the game in a higher resolution than intended, the gameplay window remains 400 pixels high, but expands to whatever the horizontal resolution I choose when I run one of the exe's. Is this what you are planning to change when you say you're working on an original mode?

Once again, thanks for doing this, as well as your work on the unofficial patches.
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HYPERPOWER! · Untrained Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 2 Location: Perth, WA

Too awesome, thank you very much. (:
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Drog Black Tooth · Guest

A new zoomed out world map, 533x533 instead of 365x365, the extra details are really nice, I think.

Also, added fillers to top and bottom panels, no more black borders.

Also, a few mock ups for other menus:

I think the logbook is OK this way. The character editor is too complex to mess with, moreover I can't think of a really good idea to reposition all these buttons and bars. Considering the inventory screen, I can probably expand it, so that you can carry a few plate mails without stuffing them into quick slots, but that would change the gameplay a bit, so I'm not sure.

Suggestions?

The_Bob · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:04 pm Post subject:

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team a · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:44 am Post subject:

Does the art for inventory, schematic, and paper doll automatically resize to fit? Judging by the dimensions for some of the .art files (some of which are very small), I would expect that it could, although you might have to redefine the size of what one tile in the inventory is.

Or, you could spread some of that spacing around, so the borders on the sides of each window are about the same. The worldmap looks pretty good this way. I imagine that this would require a lot of tweaking on some windows, but might not be as hard for others with fewer objects to display, like the logbook.
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Drog Black Tooth · Guest

OK, the initial version is ready. Almost all menus have been redrawn so they fill the whole screen. Only the main menu, options and some multiplayer related screens were not resized, as it's not really needed.

I'm quite happy with this version, so unless somebody finds a bug there will be no additions/changes any time soon.

Vicinity checks in scripts seem to work fine. The resolution isn't that high, so there's a slim chance of a bug.

The patch works on any version of the game that has the 1.0.7.4 patch, but the UAP is recommended. The patch has all the UAP specific engine tweaks. Also, it uses separate files, so you're still able to play in the original resolution if you have the mod installed.

In addition, I'd like to note that at any rate the game was never meant to be played in a resolution higher than 800x600 and this mod wasn't tested a lot, so there's a chance that you may run into a bug. In that case, please report it in this thread and it will be fixed.

The first post is updated with the download link.

rroyo · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:28 pm Post subject:

Lexx · Untrained Joined: 22 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

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The_Bob · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:03 pm Post subject:

Drog Black Tooth · Guest

A small update:
-Sounds positioning is changed, according to the resolution.
-The last action slots now work correctly when the original HUD is used in the fullscreen mode.

Updated the first post.

team a · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject:

Drog Black Tooth · Guest

Drog Black Tooth · Guest

Another tiny bugfix: fixed a compatibility issue with the Extra Pack.

NOTE: If you already have the Extra Pack and the 1024x768 mod v080803 installed, then reinstall the Extra Pack, and then install the new, 080806 version of the mod.

First post updated.

Dark Elf · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject:

http://www.terra-arcanum.com/downloads/arcanum/fixes/Arc1024x768Ed_080806.exe

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Drog Black Tooth · Guest

Another tiny update. Added blackborders around slides, so you don't see the cached garbage around them.

I also made a pack with highres splash screens (1024x568 instead of 800x400). They're NOT the same images as the original ones, but they're based on the official highres art. Feel free to try them. Put the dat file in your Arcanum folder and they will work. Please note though, if you try to run the game in the original 800x600 mode with them, you won't get any splash screens at all (the game will still run though).

Grab the both files in the first post.

In addition, in case you want the slides to take the whole screen, you can resize them (be sure to convert them back to 256 colors (indexed) mode when you're done). The .bmps are located in the 'slide' folder in arcanum.dat. After you've converted them, add these changes to Arcanum1024x768.exe:
0x1697A6:0004
0x1697AE:0003

BTW, feel free to post any suggestions on improvement of this mod.

Drog Black Tooth · Guest

Updated.

-Fixed the problem with the wrong player position when loading the game the first time.
-Fixed compatibility issues with the UAP.

Viqsi · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jul 2008 Posts: 17

Two things:
* The little upper-left "circular window" in various menu screens that normally shows your character and immediate surroundings is off-center - it instead shows things up and to the left. (You can see this in the screenshots in this thread.)
* There doesn't appear to be any fill-in on the bottom and right for the various books, newspapers, notes, etc. in the game. What would it take to add those? (I'd assumed it would simply require just making available one updated image per type of item.)

This is otherwise made of awesome and I love it.

DokEnkephalin · Master Joined: 05 Dec 2008 Posts: 101

Huh, just noticed this, but I've been running the 1024x768 version just fine with the latest UAP, and now with AWIP6.0. There were a few crashes before I ran your cache utility, but none since. The only problem I see now is on the character page, the portrait is concealed by some of the buttons and lables.

Russell · Not a whinger. Honest. Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Posts: 32

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Earth Nuggets · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:45 am Post subject:

I don't think there are any files related to that interface left in the game's DAT file, so there wouldn't be anything to work with. Was it from an old beta or something?

I found something similar, but kind of looks even more outdated:

[Edit - I went to that Ultima page you mentioned. The creator didn't modify anything, just posted screenshots from old previews.]