Final Fantasy Hacktics

Thanks for all your help/suggestions.

Ok, how do I change cloud's limit break animations to just be swordstrikes instead of the "charge" and then sword strike that he does? Is that possible?

If that's the case, where do those that want to mod WotL go?

Anyway, I'm trying to change infernal strike into a crushing blow animation without the magic charge and have different effects, but I changed the effect to what is listed under crushing blow and it keeps doing the shadowblade/infernal strike animation. How do I change that?

Im using WotL, so I don't see frog attack anywhere. I've decided on modifying the dark knight skillset, which has 5 abilities, and zalbag's ark knight skillset, which has 4 abilities, but I'm still 1 ability short for what I want to accomplish. I'm thinking I'm going to use gaffgarion's duskblade or whatever the hell it's called ability since he never learns it/uses it anyway as my 10th and that should solve the issue.

How do I change crushing blow's animation from using the magic startup to just being a swordskill like the rest?

There don't seem to be any free slots for you to make brand new abilities, it seems you have to mess with the ones already listed. Is there anywhere where you can make new abilities without affecting old ones, or is there a large list of unused abilities that can be modified?

Also, I'm trying to make the iaido skills into weapon strikes, but so far all it does is the iaido animation instead of the weapon strike animation. How to fix that?

How can you change the effect animation?

Also, is there any way to make iaido skills into ranged target swordskills or are they hard coded to be centered on the user?

Ok, cool, got the statuses to work. Now how do I go about doing the custom swordskills thing? You say use the blank abilities above frog attack but where is that located and how do I start using a blank ability and make it into a job's skillset?

Also, how can you mess around with custom animations like the knightmare patch seems to be doing?

The intention would be to make a custom swordskill set and I'm not sure what that'll be or what abilities it would use yet but lets say one of them would want to use the bolt 3 animation in WotL, how would I go about giving the swordskill the bolt 3 animation and a different damage formula without screwing up the regular bolt 3?

How do you go about getting a new skill for that?

When I say I set it, I looked up for instance that silence is 1D or whatever the actual designation is in the status list, and so I put in the status effect thing "1D" but it puts a different status on there. What's up?

I'm trying to change the knight's skillset damage formula to the swordskill damage formulas, but keeping it as a normal strike with the normal to hit percentage, but instead of, say, doing 3 MA damage it's a physical attack with physical damage but has a chance to add the silence effect. It seems to look good on paper in the patcher, but then when I tested it, the same skill gives the reraise effect on a hit. I double checked my status numbers and made sure it was the correct one, so what am I doing wrong?

Also, if you want to change a standard black magic spell to a swordskill for instance, by adding the weapon strike animation and no charge time, say thundaja, will that screw with the base spell for everyone else? Meaning, will black mages be unable to use thundaja, either mine or the enemy's, because it now requires a sword and attack animation and all that? Is there a way around this?

Thank you all for your help and input, I finally got it to work the way I wanted it to.

Now, for another question: Is there any way to change abilities into swordskills without affecting how they operate for classes that use them? Say, you wanted to make a swordskill called "Thunder Blade" and it uses the thundaja animation with an added weapon strike feature and some whatever damage formula. Does this mean that any other class who uses it, like black mages, some bosses, etc. will have that skill screwed up with the new metrics and effects? If so, is there a way around this?

Thanks so much, nyzer, your suggestion is what did it. Seems that it's not the squire text itself that can't be exceeded, but rather an overall total of character width.

The only problem I have now is that my ppsspp stops working when an enemy crystallizes. Any known fixes for that?

Damn. I don't understand why such a stupid little thing is such a big deal. You can modify the text of anything anywhere else but the battle screen has a width limit? Nonsense.

Is there a blank class or something I can use instead that has a really long name and therefore a nice character width?

It seems that you can't exceed the character length of the squire name for the battle selection menu. Is there any way around this?

Quote from: Jumza on November 04, 2015, 08:21:20 pm
Yes! The FFTPatcher Suite is where it's at for that!

In there you'll want to use the programs FFTPatcher and FFTacText.

Using FFTP, open up a new PSP patch file and go to the Skillsets tab. You'll notice (after looking around in it a bit) that there are 4 different Mettle skillsets. The first is Ramza ch1, the second Ramza ch2/3, the third Ramza ch4, and the last Delita ch1. Edit the skills in the first three so that Ramza has the skills you want (while keeping in mind their position on the list, otherwise it'll get messed up between chapters)!

Then, go into FFTacText, make a new patch file same as above, go to Skillset Names in the dropdown bar, there are 4 Mettle's again, same order as above. Edit to your hearts desire!

Apply the above patches and voila!

Why won't it let me change the name from squire to something else?

I get how to start up a new patch and all that, but once the patch is done, how do I patch it onto the ISO i have for ppsspp?

Also, for tactext, do you load the ISO to edit it or something else? It seems to be asking for a .fftext or something? Where do I find that?

And how do I modify the ISO with patcher and tactext?

I'm having a hard time figuring out what to do in patcher. I'm trying to find a way to modify characters but there's no list of characters in patcher.

Will the PSP patch work on ppsspp? And if so, how do I do that? Sorry if this has been hashed over many times, I've been googling and searching forums for a while now and haven't seen any successful guides on how to do this.

Is it possible to change Ramza's squire mettle set to be named something else as well as have different abilities?