New spells...

[Sen]

Why don't you make Beatrix's Climhazzard the Omnislash skill itself? then just rename it..

[Zozma]

i donno, i think it would be a waste to use an identical effect thats so flashy for two different skills unless its color was different, then again it wouldn't be so bad for her to have omnislash anyway...

[Zozma]

also if i was ever able to remove the limit flash and the little ice stones from finish touch, id recolor it green and make another tornado effect...
that would be pretty sweet if you asked me it would look even better than the real tornado effect.

also: i thought about this one once, you know how on ff7 palmer's weapon is a "mako gun" that has bolt, fire and ice spells?
it would be interesting to make one of the guns randomly shoot any of the 3 spells wouldn't it?

[Sen]

I'm wondering don't you have any problems with the hurricane effect?

About your idea of a mako gun I think Cherry Blossom does that kind of effect.

[Zozma]

no, i haven't had any glitches with hurricane, in fact it works perfectly for Aeraga since i have effects for aero and aera already

also cherry blossom, is  a bit too extreme, im talking about randomly casting one of the 3 elements per shot actually...

[Sen]

Doesn't the game freezes when you replace a Bio spell with the hurricane effect ?

[Zozma]

why do that? did you recolor it? if not then you don't need to paste the effect there...

i see what you're saying, yes it does but i don't think its necessary to recolor that effect unless you just really want to.

[Sen]

No I didn't recolor it I just replace a Bio spell then set like Fire 3's properties.

[Zozma]

dont replace the spell by insertion, just assign the same gfx to that bio spell too in the skill editor.

[Sen]

Oh I see!! I haven't done that yet.

[Zozma]

yeah thats how they created the new skills for the psp version, they just borrow the same effect file from another skill. one of the dark knights new skills uses the earth slash effect, another is koutetsu and then the other is Shock!

[Vanya]

That's kinda lame that they didn't even try to recolor them.

Anyway. I had an idea for my new Medic job that is replacing the old chemist. The dilemma I was having was that I wanted to emphasize their healing abilities without having to give the item skills to another job. So I thought about it this way: what if they use the items as part of their medical procedures? Shouldn't they be able to do some healing while they cure status conditions? Then I remembered the formula used by 'Phoenix Down'. It performs a status action and restore 1 to X-1 HP. So now I've set all the basic status items to restore 1-9 HP. Remedy and Holy Water restore 1-25 HP. And lastly, Phoenix Down restores 1-50 HP. What do you guys think?

[Zozma]

i just thought of something....

Leviathan... if i wanted to remove the image without being able to open the file... i wonder... maybe i can change the color palette of the entire picture to all 0,0,0 black without changing the water color... plus it might lower the file size ?? hmm hmm? anyone know the color palette location?

[Sen]

If you still have the effect sheets from http://www.dotchan.com/fft/effects.html because the site is now gone, you could open it on GIMP and get it R,B,G and divide it by 8 so you could search on SNESpal.

if not then I think the Leviathan picture's colors is lighter than the effect and it  
has red and yellow with it.

[Zozma]

one thing that sucks is that i had that effect picture saved on the pc for a good while... why! whyd i delete it lol..

[LastingDawn]

Well there is a program called "FFTView" which was used to extract these pictures, it might not look as nice, but it does do the trick.

[Zozma]

as long as i can get the color palette ;P or even a few matching colors

[Vanya]

@Zozma: I tried removing Leviathan, but he just turned into a silhouette. Maybe there's a specific value for transparency?

[LastingDawn]

Silhouette, eh? That still sounds pretty cool. If you can make the water black and transparent you could sport a "Shadow Dragon" or some sort.

[Vanya]

I just need to know the value that the game uses for transparency. But it could be more complicated. The transparent pixels could be coded into the image itself. Without the ability to re-compress it there may be NO HOPE!!!!