The best I can offer for an answer is an educated guess, based on what I’ve read how these things work…keep in mind I am actually not an expert in these graphics programs.

I believe it was solely the AA. My understanding is that AA uses the vertex coordinates and a “depth buffer” to determine where poly edges are and what pixels “behind” in…[Read more]

In RESOURCEINItextsHeroDescribe.txt, Svendson is heroLastname_145. A little further down in that same file, the unique model used is heroModel_145 {Depp12}.

For starting ship/gear, the file ProgramcharactersRPGUtilite.c function GrantHeroSpecifics set all of that. To change the starting ship for that character, change the line:

chr.Ship.Type =…[Read more]

The reason for no response is because I can’t make the same thing happen in my game.

First, the problem occurs with AA turned on, but that is probably particular to the video card being used. I only have one, cheap laptop that supports very little graphic properties. When I toggle it on, I don’t get the same problem. If I can’t reproduce a…[Read more]

I do want to get this figured out, but would be much more helpful if I just had a monitor setup of my own to work through, LOL

Everything I see shows that it probably would change the resolution like it did when under fullscreen, but at least show us the real settings it was using, so I’m a bit confused why it didn’t. Also, when you actually…[Read more]

Try switching to windowed and see if that changes it.

Awhile back, I changed the fullscreen mode to select the “best” supported resolution for the monitor, because if you select 800 x 600, but your start.ini is set to something wonky and unsupported 900 x 1080, the game used to crash. So I decided for the case where someone may have manually…[Read more]

Hmmm, I think I have a theory…are you playing in “Fullscreen” mode? Not windowed?

This turned out to be a bug for DX9 64 bit, that the 32 bit DX 9 did not have. I fixed it and uploaded to Itch a few minutes ago.

Itch updated with latest.

Maelstrom Update

Add animal nature shore crabs

Limit screenshots (F8) to 1 per second…no multiples on key hold.

Add support to allow multiple languages to work with a single install, select in Config.exe

Add cannon direct aim fire support

FMOD update to version 1.10.11

Support for new sail type to fix…[Read more]

OK, let’s verify what the game is really running now…

Find Programconsole.c and open with a text editor. Replace the entire contents with the following:

void ExecuteConsole()
{
Log_SetStringToLog("screen_x " + Render.screen_x);
Log_SetStringToLog("screen_y " + Render.screen_y);
}

Save, then launch and load that save game. Once…[Read more]

Hmmm, unsure as I don’t have “nice things” to check for myself the behavior…

Can you find the start.ini for ERAS, open in a text editor and verify the screen_x and screen_y values? What do they say?

If you want something to show at level 1 or above, scroll down to the bullets and add what you want like this:

TakeNItems(ch,"bullet", Rand(20)+10);
TakeNItems(ch,"potion1", Rand(11)+1);

//Add line here
if (rand(8) == 1) { TakeNItems(ch,"blade29", 1);}
if (rand(8) == 1) { TakeNItems(ch,"cirass1", 1);}

The rand(8) == 1 simply means there is a 1…[Read more]

If one uses the Itch client to launch the config or game, I tried to add settings for all of the possibilities in the .itch.example.toml file found in the gentlemen-of-fortune-maelstrom-engine that gets created by the Itch install. However, the Itch install does not provide a way to alter those paths and/or that file if one chooses a different…[Read more]

That cannon ability will take effect with the various gunner implements when either you or your gunner have them.

I also finally changed the fact that the Storm Engine never switched the billow direction for square sails on ships like this:

I’ve changed that. Also, the perpendicular square sails, when meeting a…[Read more]

The .level and .rare settings only affect what will be found in corpse loots. For trader/store, those settings are ignored and only certain weapons are available. There is leveling there too, but it doesn’t use the settings. For trader items, another function is used, in file scripts/utils.c, called GiveItemToTrader().

In that function,…[Read more]

Hmm, I see that same problem with New Horizons. Whoops.

Anyway, great news it was a simple fix and I’ll be sure to update them on Itch. However, if you have automatic update from Itch, it will overwrite that file again with my screen resolution, so you may need to put it back after it updates. I intend to never update that start.ini so I don’t…[Read more]

That is my mistake. I accidentally uploaded my personal start.ini file for that game and it contains all the POTC resource in E:POTCItch. You don’t want that…

Find where the Program and RESOURCE folders for POTC were placed on your machine when you downloaded. Open start.ini in a text editor and change the very first…[Read more]

Galleon Legero cannons will be fixed in next update.

However, I checked both the Fifty Gunner and French Fifty and I can’t seem to understand the “invisible additional ladders” you speak of. I looked at all hull textures for both ships and nothing looks wrong to me.

I think I might have this fixed. Next update release.

Itch version is the same as Loyalty version. It’s been updated while on Itch, but started out the same as what the Loyalty group was getting. So dev mode is the same. Though that’s also an easy change…I don’t remember offhand, but I think it’s just a line in _mod_on_off.h. Anyway, nothing changed in that respect.

In fact, since you are a…[Read more]

Something like this?