Ultima 5 Map Collection Pack
Greetings and Good Morning Friends and Avatars! I am pleased to bring to you a project that had been sitting on the back burner for quite a while. I finally found a little bit of time today to put the files into a zip file to share with everyone. Back in the day, Xenerkes Dragon did some amazing work in the community that inspired many of my fan artwork that I did back in 2000 and 2001. (I feel old now…) Xenerkes has since returned to the community now 13 years later and is continuing his awesome work..
One of his works was the ability to extract the maps out of Ultima 1 through 6. As a child I drew alot of fantasy maps, and that was something that continued through high school, college, and still to this day… So in honor of Xenerkes, as well as to fulfill my promise from years ago to community members, for whom I promised to do this for during Xenerkes absence…. I give you a download of the TGA file format maps of Ultima 5. (I highly recommend Photoshop and other graphic/image editing software to open and use these files).
These are the same maps I have shared versions of a few on my Deviant Art page, as well as on Facebook on the UDIC Facebook page. I also used the overland map and converted it to a 300 DPI file and sized it for a print project for the Ultima 5 map on canvas that many have seen in the Shroud of the Avatar streams I have been a part of. While it was only an art experiment, I still enjoyed doing it. (A quarter was used to give you a better perception of what the scale is in the photos.)
In no particular order, the maps in this zip file include:
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TGA format Ultima 5 map files – [wpdm_file id=530]
Was looking forward to it but the download link doesn’t seem to work…
You have to log in first before the download will work.
Well, that shouldn’t be. Let me see if I can’t clear that issue up…
Bah…it looks like this is an issue with the download manager the site uses.
What’s worse, the next update for that download manager is going to re-index all of the files in the download repo, which will (probably) screw things up across all the subdomains.
So…since I’m going to have a very hard time of it regardless (boo!), I think it’s time to switch back to the download manager I used at Old Aiera. It wasn’t as elegant or user-friendly on the back-end, but it had the virtue of just working. And it had a couple features that I really liked, which I’ve been missing these last two years.
are those maps not available anymore? all I see is “TGA format Ultima 5 map files – [wpdm_file id=530]”, how can i download the zip?
I believe not all downloads have been restored yet since the issue with the download manager. Here is a dropbox link to a backup archive of them… https://www.dropbox.com/s/vybhf48tdjdck60/Ultima5_TGA_Maps.zip?dl=0
Didnt expect such a fast answer, thx!
This was a project near and dear to many of us dragons. Plus those of us who help with content here on Ultima Codex try to be as efficient as we can in replying to our wonderful visitors. Just glad to see people have an interest in the hard work that me and Xenerkes had done separately that helped make this happen. 🙂
Great pack 🙂 I remember staring for hours and hours at all these maps back in the days (especially U5)! Dreaming of the day when we would be able to wander in Britannia in 3D…
Memories!