Final Fantasy Flashtics [*** 0.6 Available ***]

[Twinees]

No probs dbp, thank Eternal for linking it to me
And im working on FF7 characters atm, so hopefully i will get them done in time for your game

[dbp]

I see, Eternal is in involved 
Great team communication work.

That would be really cool to get your custom characters ready for the game.
Actually i don't know how long it will take to achieve all my desire for this project.

Anyway i will do it step by step, demo by demo, because if i look at the mass of work i still have to do....

[dbp]

Just a WIP of what i am doing right now for implementing units on Map.
How to get the walkable area ?

Here we go :

The 3D battlefield is in fact a simple 2D Table.
When you create the map you define how many column and how many lines do you want.

Then you define the starting node :  4_3 in this example.
Next, you have to look for all the neighbors of this node and check is they are on a walkable tile or not.
Here are the neighbors of our node. respectively : 4_2, 4_4, 3_3, 5_3


Then you repeat the operation in a loop with the Move Range of the unit as the limit.
A Move Range of 3 will give this result.


Here is a variation with a wall


I hope that you enjoyed the technical informations.
Regards.

[Phaze]

This is looking very good. I can't wait untill this is finished. Keep up the good work and i'll be keeping my eye on this.

[dbp]

Thank you !
As i am working alone, the progression is very slow, also, i can't work on it full-time.
But it can't be helped i think...

I really wish that i can recreate at least a little bit the atmosphere of FFT.
More to come very soon !

[dbp]

Some more WIP

Next Demo will be available tomorrow if i do my job correctly...

[Kagebunji]

This looks very promising. I am looking forward to this Dbp. Good job on this.

[dbp]

Here it is !
check it out it the first post as always.

Trust me or not but it was really painful...
Before inserting a character, i have started with a sphere. The important thing in this demo is the fact that the unit go from point A to point B while avoiding obstacles.

This demonstrate the A* pathfinding.
It does not find the shortest path all the time but at least it goes to the point B all the time i have tried.

SOME NEW KEYBOARD EVENTS :

C : change battlefield angle. (wide or close angle).
V and B : rotate battlefield.
SPACE BAR : If the focus is on character it get the moving range. press again to go to the destination.

Enjoy the very hard work on this.

[Eternal]

Yes, this must have been very hard work. Very impressive! I can only imagine how much harder it gets from here, though.

[dbp]

Cloud is finally on the battlefield !

Now you can see a real concrete example
The next release will be only some internal coding changes.
I need to do some clean up of the code.

See you very soon !
Regards.

[Dome]

You are awesome

[dbp]

I did a little update. I think that the Change Tab Glitch has been corrected. (But i am not sure).
If you guys can try on different browser to see if the bug is still there.

Also, the demo run in 640 x 480 for a better visibility.

[Asmo X]

This is really cool. And some fast work too

[FelixFlywheel]

Whoa!  That looks amazing! o__o;

[Cheetah]

Great work dbp. How do you plan on implementing the height of the panels and walking through/around player/npc characters? I honestly didn't know that Flash could handle this kind of 3D. I was amazed when I did your first map preview and rotated the map and it looked good . Feel free to ask any questions here about how the original FFT functions because we have a very good handle on it. Have you seen the program by gomtuu for viewing and making maps?

[GeneralStrife]

Wow!

[MysticKnightFF5]

I have a handle on how flash works, unfortunately, I'm not familiar with the language...at all. Unless it's similar to java. If you want help I can go through and learn the flash syntax. >.>

That aside, height will definitely not be a problem, and I'm quite sure walking through other's won't be, but again, I'm not familiar with flash at all.

[dbp]

Hi guys !
Thank you for your comments !

Sorry, my English is not that great, what does mean npc characters ?
The height of the panels are a little bit tricky to handle, i have to add work on it, so i am not going to add them right now.

In fact i am working on the attack and implementing some dialogs.
Also, i have replaced the Sprite Editor by a simple .png file.

As soon as Cloud will be more complete, i will show you the file i am using, so fortunately, all people will be able to implement their own character very easily ! (At least if you know a little bit how to use photoshop or any other image editing program).

Implementing the background, pathfinding and stuff what a quite painful. So right now i want to have a little bit more fun.
But i also need to create a king of "AI" for the computer, and that not going to be that easy...

*Edit*
MysticKnightFF5 Thank for your help ! For the moment the programming part looks ok, but i need some 3D designers to help me make some FF7 background for the game.
Like Midgar or some cool spots to fight !
Also, do not expect to be able to play this version as you play FFT game. I cannot achieve that, it is clearly impossible goal.
This will be more something like a very very light version of FFT with a lot of extra chars and extra quest.
Even if the game is the game will be limited, i hope i can make something fun for the user experience.

[Cheetah]

NPC = Non-Playable Character.

Can flash piece together sprites? I feel like we understand the coding which builds the sprites and I would think it would be faster to implement that then create a completely new animation system.

PS: I made a comment in your "Help" thread questions about ripped sound effects and provided a useful link.

[MysticKnightFF5]

I'm bad at artistic stuff sorry, but I do know a bunch of sprite generators, if you want them.