Final Fantasy Hacktics

it makes sense to me to stick with white and black mage simply because of the history of final fantasy

i think Dragoon is the best, its like trademark final fantasy stuff
plus Kain was awesome right? i think ill recreate him in this game

origionally i did not like the -ra, -ga, -ja thing im old school ff.
however, after getting used to it i think it sounds good. for one thing i think if you created a skillset that had some of the spells but not all of them it would be less tacky. each spell sounds more independent instead of just one ups from the spell that came before it.

i dont recall seeing bio like that....
maybe... Bio, Biora, Bioga lol that sounds kind of funny... but maybe thats better? you bring up a good point with bio tho, because im a completeness freak.. if bio was bio1, 2 3 id keep all the element spells as 1,2,3 as well...

the problem im faced with right now is... i know how to hex edit the names... but i dont know how to expand a name past its origional length without screwing up other text. at least not without alot of work

so here is a program i use instead of cd mage. it doesnt ask me to do any extra crap i can just go strait to the files, import them and close it with no issues at all...

well im sure you can do it, only one thing tho.. for the time being you will still have the same problem with the missing attack animations... im afraid youll probably have to make him mage only for the time being but im definately gonna use him he looks great compared to the other new characters.

sweet, i converted that rip into a working balthier sprite pasting it over one of mustadio's two identical sprites

i have an idea for creating aeris tho...
the dancer body with a similar shade of pink like lede's dress put aeris head there, add the red jacket and there ya go.. u get the ff7 version lol... plus you have parts of the dancer body left over as template to add in the rest of the frames. just an idea...

its easy, just export the palette of whoever the character is, open this file in fftsprite and import that palette. but what do i do to get these files out myself? and then put them back in?

so vincent, how do you go about renaming stuff?
i can do it with a hex editor but its a pain for me if i try to make the name longer than the origional text.

thanks! ill give that a try if it works then ill probably take some crappy skill and put that effect in place. and then give the cleric/princess job a 100% success raise 2 spell. those stone shining gfx look so good and to only be seen once per game...

i took out meteor from that skill set. he likes using that over the others as well. friggin ai.

By the way Zodiac, since this is pertaining to sprites. there is another topic to bring up. many might be ok with the fact that characters that dont normally join u look screwed up in the formation menu but im hoping that problem will be fixable later on. all im aware of is that there are a seperate set of portraits and a fake sprite for each menu character as well. they are stored in a .bin file such as eventchr or eventface or something like that... do you see a future in adding the missing "sprites" to the formation menu? i know for me its only for completeness sake but still...

that spell is from the "Dimension Magic" set and is called "Melt"
the first time it was a spell in an ff game was probably ff3/6 "Merton"

3 other spells come with it, "Quake", "Tornado", "Meteor". (they should have given a water spell instead of the already existing meteor.. sigh)

so question,

if i want to assign the red revive gfx, from when malak was revived,
to the spell raise 2. what do i do?

theres another program i know of, i renamed it years ago and cant remember what it really was. i have the file tho... its been alot more user friendly to me than cd mage. where can i submit files to this site lol..?

how did i make the video? hmm it was some recording option on epsxe but it doesnt record sound? i guess?

but i did some hex editing to make her status that of a mage and removed auto dead so i would never have to use gs codes to make her useful. gave her a cool custom skillset. but for the video i gs'ed her to use that spell cause hey, i think by now everyone knows that Algus deserved a more painful death eh?

nice red mage  

inserting sprites:
with a completed sprite open cd mage, open your game and go into the battle folder where all the sprites are stored. right click (wasnt it?) and it should ask if you want to insert a file into it. insert your sprite into the sprite you want to change. (if it says your file is bigger DONT do it)

one thing about playing with sprite colors is that each game uses certain shades of color.. it can look obviously out of place if you use the wrong shades. unlike the gray that looks good there .

to add to that, even if you use a palette from some other character and match the exact colors it might look out of place too.. an example could be that ive tried to take the color of ramza chapter2/3 's blue armor color and apply that to gaffgarions armor (trying to make him look like mr dk cecil from ff4 lol). the result was kind of like the mega man thing.. it just doesn't look right. on the flip side... i took the colors from ramza's chapter4 clothes and used them on Kletian and it looked pretty good. ( you can see a small glimpse of him in my "teta revenge" video i posted on the "palette colors" page too.

Kuraudo thats great work! the the colors also look like they fit ingame with other sprites. i actually like this grey sprite

i have a few files id like to donate but how do i go about getting them to you?
i have another program besides cd mage that i like to use alot more. i really cant remember who gave it to me but i just had it called "cdprog" also if no one knows where to find snespal for editing palettes id like to just send that one as well. and also id like to give out my teta sprite to anyone who wants it. where can i send that stuff? i didnt make any of them myself (except the teta sprite of course) so i take no credit for that but id love to help by sharing this stuff.

there is a point to editing the sprites if you want to make all mage jobs. you can make human enemies that cant use attack commands at all if you equip them with something that has no range, others who dont hack would never know the sprite is incomplete. i hope to make an enemy with the "???" status that fights with non-charge and regenerates mp mwahaha.

by the way, look under the topic "palette colors" the second post on that page shows some screenshots of my custom in game stuff.

ahh sorry to double post, but you know what would also be pretty neat.

fully animating the 10 yo boy and girl sprites....

Mod Edit: Sorry for having my pants on. -Zodiac

the only thing thats kept me back from creating new sprites is that lacking attacking animations is quite a big deal... but heres some more of my stuff
made it a long long time ago

Lust
http://s140.photobucket.com/albums/r9/z ... ftmod2.jpg
http://s140.photobucket.com/albums/r9/z ... ftmod3.jpg

Teta as a theif
http://s140.photobucket.com/albums/r9/z ... atheif.jpg

Miluda with meliawhatever's outfit
http://s140.photobucket.com/albums/r9/z ... miluda.jpg

St.Ajora (Phony Saint)
http://s140.photobucket.com/albums/r9/z ... tajora.jpg

Reis (palette experiment)
http://s140.photobucket.com/albums/r9/z ... =reis2.jpg