Alternate Ultima 4 Tileset
Produced by: Josh Steele
Website: u4graphics @ GitHub
Alternate Ultima 4 Graphics
Josh Steele’s 256-colour alternate grachics for xu4 (Ultima 4).
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Josh Steele drew up this alternate set of tiles for Ultima 4 almost twenty years ago, first in 16 colours, and then again in 256 colours. Apparently, it has enjoyed use in a few fan-made games, though the set was only released publicly a few years ago. The set is incomplete, but Steele — as of early 2017 — has been working on finishing up the remaining tiles.
These graphics requre xu4 to use.
Downloaded this, just had two zipped .png files. Tried going into the game’s Graphics folder and placing them in the png subfolder, but no difference in the game. Where do they go, eh?
Hang on, I’ll see if I can find someone who knows xu4 better than I.
Thank ya, even if unsuccessful. Love XU4, but the default tiles are pretty icky. They’re probably better than DOSbox, but I was spoiled by the over-saturated Apple ][ color monitors. So a 256 color tileset sounds great and looks great from the .png files.
Kinda surprised over 100 downloads on this and nobody has asked how to install them.
Indeed.
Okay, here’s what Houston Dragon suggested when I took this problem to the UDFC:
Give that a try?
Thank you and thank him. Fooled around endlessly with the Configure in the game before, but the way the window is set up, I thought my only Video Options were Scale, Mode, Filter and Gamma. The “Game Graphics Options” looks like the banner to me, but it’s a menu. Far out.
It’s now beautiful!
Sweet deal, and glad that worked for you!
Hey all! Loooong time fan of Ultima. Finished Ultima 3 and wanting to get into Ultima 4 again. Is anyone able to get the title tile to work correctly? It looks too big and distorted. I tried converting the png to 1920×1080 but that didn’t work. The tileset in the screenshot above looks great! If anyone has any tips it’d be much appreciated 🙂
Sorry, what exactly are you trying to do? Or, what’s the exact issue you’re having?
Thanks for the response! I basically can’t get the alternate tileset to work in XU4. I’ve extracted them to every folder and used both the gig and DOS versions of Ultima 4. I’ve even tried to convert the tiles to the specs of the ones in XU4 but they just don’t show up. Perhaps specific settings or exactly where the alternate tiles go would be of help. Thanks a lot!
Ah, ok, that’s the issue.
I don’t know the answer myself, but I’ll see if I can catch the attention of an expert.