Final Fantasy Hacktics

can't figure out much of anything, been messing with it all day. i can move stuff around but there is NO + SIGN THE INSTRUCTIONS DISCUSS TO ADD IN POLYGONS!!!!!!! so frustrating

i'm currently working on remaking all the maps and from what i gather you change weather condition with the bracket keys and need to match the condition used in game with the condition you alter in order to see modifications. the issue is when i cycle the background color changes but i can't tell which background is which weather condition. for example: first map you need the rainy version, how do i know which is rainy b/c the rain doesn't show up during editing.

ok, formation spriting=easy...but the battle sprites are killing me here. i can get the sprite to appear and walk but attacks are partial images and the portraits aren't there. when i imported the file back into cdmage it gave me the "file is longer, will be truncated msg and i clicked yes. so the file apparently is too large yet i followed the tutorial to the "T" (what little info there was to go off of) i exported from cdmage-open shishi-"open"=>extracted sprite-"import"=>wanted sprite-"save as"=>overwrite extracted sprite-cdmage=>import file(this is where it errors). any insight would be pretty spectacular. i'll attach the image of the imported sprite making me look dumb