Beautiful Britannia – Project Information
The main focus for this release was to bring in more high-res textures.
Features of this release:
- Fully playable version of Ultima IX Ascension
- Main continent upgrade: 30% finished (Yew area upgrade: 90% finished)
- 150+ new highres textures
Quick Install instructions:
- Unzip the Release into your Ultima IX install directory (where u9.exe is located, otherwise the Installer will not work)
- Now you have a new directory within your Ultima IX install directory, named BB, with a Subdir named BB2011R2, further the Installer called BB2011R2.cmd
- To the next please run BB2011R2.cmd
- At the first start the Installer creates a Backup of the original files in the BACKUP Subdir of the BB2011R2 directory.
- Enter 1 for installing the BB2011R2 (Enter 2 for restoring the previous installation)
- Now please start a new the game or use a early savegames from the earth map or stonegate.
Necessary settings for options.ini to use the new textures:
[Performance]
Use16BitTextures=1
UseCompressedTextures=0
Further recommended settings for options.ini:
[Performance]
FarClippingPlaneDistance=12000
MiddleClippingPlaneDistance=9000
MaxObjCullSize=12
CullStartDist=4500
DungeonClippingPlaneDistance=6000
MaxMeshesPerFrame=100
MeshCacheMemorySize=512000000
MaxInstancesPerFrame=200
UseTerrainDetailLevels=0
[Lighting]
LightQuality=3
[Game]
Game Rasterizer=2
LODScale=8.0
The Release is available for Download on the project section of Beautiful Britannia on Ultima:Aiera:
https://ultima9.ultimacodex.com/beautiful-britannia/
I recommend to check out the latest screens to see what you will get.
The next release will provide completely reworked terrain textures in HighRes (including all transition textures), further some more Highres object textures.
But the main feature will be the expansion of cove island.
Features of this release:
- Fully playable version of Ultima IX Ascension
- Main continent upgrade: 30% finished (Yew area upgrade: 90% finished)
- Cove Island 100% finished, including the expansion
- 200+ highres textures, including highres textures for all types of terrain
Beautiful Britannia 2012 is scheduled for late 2012.