Custom sprites for Iolo, Dupre, and Shamino

If you follow the Nuvie changelog, you’ll likely have noticed this recent change made to the engine’s data:

Add custom actor tiles for black-haired female Avatar with a headband by DMagnus.

I suspect they mean this Avatar, who (I confess) is my favourite of the available portrait options:

And here are the new frames in question:

I didn’t actually think it possible that Nuvie would ever steal my heart away from vanilla Ultima 6, but I think at this point it’s safe to say that it has. The sheer quantity of awesome things that its team are able to do with the engine is simply amazing, and damn if it doesn’t make Ultima 6 look incredible.