Anthony Salter has made a few significant changes to Ultima 7 Revisited, his 3D re-imagining of Ultima 7: The Black Gate, over the last few months. It would probably be too much to recap all of them, but fortunately some of the changes he has highlighted just in August are newsworthy in and of themselves.

For example…widescreen support!

The UI stretches a bit in the widescreen view, but even so…Britannia looks pretty amazing in widescreen 3D:

More recently, Anthony also implemented a new lighting model:

It’s worth taking a closer look at those screenshots, too, I think:

And just this week, he also hosted a stream showcasing how item placement works in the engine:

To be honest, this reminds me a bit of Ultima 9, which also featured objects that would seemingly transition between a 2D representation and a 3D representation depending on whether they were in the Avatar’s backpack or positioned somewhere in the game’s world.

And as you can see in the stream, Anthony is quite happy that the drag-and-drop feature worked on what appears to be the first live test of it.