Ideal Dragon has posted another screenshot from his attempt to remake Ultima 8 using Exult and the Ultima 7 engine. In contrast to the last screenshot, this one shows off some new wall graphics that look much closer to the brick walls in Ultima 8, and re-creates a building seen in that game:

Ideal’s post on the Ultima Dragons Facebook group explains what we’re seeing here in greater detail:

This screenshot is a little outdated as I have since expanded and flipped it horizontally for accuracy, but here is a little taste of the first building being constructed in my Ultima VIII: Exult project. This is an outdated version of the building in Tenebrae where you find the dead dude. Also, those cauldrons are just there to show them off, they won’t be in the final building.

As you can see, there’s some new assets – a fireplace, a lantern, some cauldrons, a brass ringpull on the door. I’ve got all sorts of other art I’ve been working on for this mod, and 3 NPCs have complete sprites (Devon, Shaana, and Hydros). Stardrop (also on the dev team) has assisted me to figure out how to directly port art from Pagan itself into U7, albeit it takes a bit of manual cleanup each time.

The main pass of the base world map is also complete, although currently there’s only one building on it.

If you want to follow up-to-the-minute development of this remake, you can join this channel on the Ultima Dragons Discord server; Ideal and several others regularly collaborate and post ideas there.