VERy 0.14 - Your way to the third age of UO

What is VERy?

VERy is a free expansion pack for Ultima Online, especially for use on
home servers like UOX.

What VERy gives you:
- The power to walk through walls and over water (If you are a GM)
- New items
- New hues
- The ability to create any new hue that you want through scripts

Usage

Place the VERY.EXE into your UO client directory and execute it. It should
create a VERDATA.CLI file, which is the VERy-patched version of that file.
Make a backup of your current VERDATA.MUL and replace it with the generated
VERDATA.CLI. When you next start UO and log into a UOX (or FUSE) server
the changes should be active.

If you want to use this to generate a verdata file for use by your SERVER
execute it with "VERY #" and it will not include the godwalk-changes into
the verdata. (This is needed so the server can decide only to allow
GMs to walk through walls; if you have NPCs walking through walls you
have not been following this section of the docs)

WARNING: Before trying to connect to the real Ultima Online, remove this
patch again by replacing the patched VERDATA with the backup you made
before. If you do not do this, you will be unable to apply client patches,
preventing you from playing the game. Also, while this doesnt exactly give
you an advantage over other players, OSI might see it as a disallowed use
of third party programs on their UO service, which might get your account
banned. So, just to be safe, revert to the normal VERDATA before logging
on there.

The I AM TOO LAZY TO READ ALL THAT section

- Unzip ALL FILES to [UO directory]
- Type: very
- Type: ren verdata.mul verdata.old
- Type: ren verdata.cli verdata.mul
- Run UO

If you manage to mess up your system with this, its all your fault.

New/Modified items

0d da - Warp gate (Replaces red moongate; UO doesnt allow new animations)
1f fe - Checkered surcoat
3d 85 - UO box
3d 86 - loincloth (looks bad, I know)
3d 87 - dragonscale wire
3d 88 - animal pack
3d 89 - equipable sunglasses
[3e a7 - Ridable energy vortex]

NOTE: Item 3ea7 is NOT usable by dragging to paperdoll; extra code has to
be added to the server to add it to the player when its needed. (Perhaps
a "Magical Mount" spell could be created?)

New/Modified hues (from the 0.13 default script)

04 83 - Cironians Hue
This is one that I hacked into hues.mul long before I started work on
VERy. While I didnt put it up on the web back then I distributed the file
to some friends, so this might look familiar to you. :)

04 84 - White
Simply the brightest white available until today in UO.

04 85 - VERy black
The darkest non-pureblack color I could create while still keeping some
contrast. (Uses dark blue colors)

04 86 - Fire Armor
Red with yellow/orange highlights.

04 87 - Evil Armor
Fades from black to dark green to bright green.

04 88 - Magic Bronze
04 89 - Frost Armor
04 8a - Dragoon Green
04 8b - Purple Haze
04 8c - Mystic Pink
04 8d - Cool Blue
04 8e - Phantom
04 8f - Ornith Mystic
04 90 - force
04 91 - Neon Green

Notes

Also, if someone has some small tile art for me (for the checkered surcoat
or the hero dress), mail it to me so I can include in in VERy as soon as
I get the tile art patcher working. (I am not a good artist)

The above note also applies if you think you can make some nice artwork for
non-equipable items. (Or anything else you can think of)

This is a companion tool for UOX, but I think with a bit of work you can
make FUSE servers use it too. (No, you CAN NOT walk through stuff on the
real OSI UO servers with this so forget it guys)

VERy-History

0.14
- Wooden gump theme by DasRaetsel added

0.13
- Gump capability added
- Sunglasses item plus male/female gumps added

0.12
- Some text output changed
- Lots of completely new items
- Credits section added to the readme

0.11
- Fixed a hue bug which broke them if you scripted more than eight hues
- Related to this, some extra stability was also added :)
- Added Sayter's hues to the distributions

0.10
- VERy now allows hues to be scripted! Check very.scp for details.

0.09
- Hue 0484 (white) looks much better now
- Hue 0485 (black) is even darker than before
(I used a trick here to keep contrast)
- Hue 0486 (Fire Armor) and 0487 (Evil Armor) added
- All hues are "halo-reduced" now

0.08
- Item 3ea7 added

0.07a
- Small fix for debug code left in the 0.07 release

0.07
- Item 3ee8 reverted back out, as OSI added it under ID 2050 now
- Added hue manipulation code, see the readme for the 3 new color codes

0.06
- VERy does now work without a previous VERDATA.MUL (Why do you need this?)
- Added another exclusive item :)
- Fixed bug with large forge multis
- Added a command line option to create server-side file
- Added this readme

0.05
- Client-side ability to walk through almost everything on the map
- Added a checkered surcoat

Contact

Contact me at cironian@stratics.com for suggestions or bug reports. As this
is a tool for advanced users only, do NOT mail me asking for help on how
to use it. Also, come to #uox on irc.stratics.com for help.

Check http://uox.stratics.com for updates to this tool.

Credits

Hues 0483-0487 by Cironian <cironian@stratics.com>
Hues 0488-0491 by Sayter <britadvisor@hotmail.com>

Tile 0dda-0dde by pepper <pepper@mail.portup.com>
Tile 1ffe by Nathan <brainguy@jps.net>
Tile 3d85 and 3d86 by Cironian <cironian@stratics.com>
Tile 3d87 by Sir Gwydion <scorpoeye45@geocities.com>
Tile 3d88 by DasRaetsel <sascha@toxic.franken.de>
Tile 3d89 by matt <mattias.edelius@spirex.se>

Wooden gumps by DasRaetsel <sascha@toxic.franken.de>

All other content (program, gumps, graphical fixes, etc) by Cironian :)