Final Fantasy Hacktics

To be honest i think she belongs in an '80s workout video, which is great if thats what you were going for. Just kinda looks like she's wearing spandex is all

Sure, i was just prepping resources.zip from a post back on page 2,

Quote from: formerdeathcorps on February 05, 2011, 04:31:44 am
After weeks of discussion on iRC with Raven, I think I have the final structure hammered out.  Everything I've already posted on this matter will be completely rewritten.

Plans:

And I didnt see any mention of that particular flag, so i figured i'd say something, just on the extremely off chance that you guys missed it.

There's also the blank AI flag just above Direct Attack. No abilities have it flagged, and so should be completely usable if you had a desire to do so.

Philisov, eternal, thank you for the ideas! Both seem like they will work and I will have to try them out.

Yes precisely

Hey there, looking to kick lancer on its butt and turn it into a true tanking class. Those who have played MMOs or FFXIII know that controlling aggression (or aggro) is an important part of any tank's repertoire. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for doing something like that in FFT, preferably without needing to rewrite the AI.

I have a few ideas, well two, so far.
The first is an ability to give all allies the "defend" status, without giving it to the user. Since i'm planning on using the Defend innate all hack anyway, this doesn't seem like a terrible idea, just a not very good one. It still seems a little overpowered, though it should help to draw aggression because i believe the AI would rather attack a character that isnt defending.

The second is similar, but with wall instead. The AI won't target people with Wall, and if i can figure out a way (i.e. find a hack) that doesnt make them immune to damage, that would be significantly better. (I just realized that the wall spell does not actually give the wall status, so i had to test it quick).

Any ideas that would make the AI target a character less or target the tank more would be greatly appreciated.

Excellent you're my hero and i eagerly await any and all process. Super excited

Since you plan on using the boolean in FFTPatcher between "Hit Allies" and "Follow Target," does that mean you are going to build in Xif's Weapon Strike Fix into the elemental calculations, so weapon elementals can be taken into consideration as well? I know you said that the elemental routine you posted isnt finished, but i didnt see anything that mentioned weapon elements (i am also very poor at reading asm and am relying on your purple text). Thanks!

Well, the dolls will not be triggered by shields, since they're out of horizontal alignment. I did get part of dolls for both daggers and harps, but as i checked each value for ZZ (not just the ones that produced full weapons) there is no way to do it without altering WEP1. It looks like they were going to originally include them, and would have had a separate call for them, but either could find no place for them or didnt have time to finish (very similar to many of the portraits in UNIT.BIN and WLDFACE.BIN)

Nah nothing with animations. I'll take a look and see if I can find any of those notes you mentioned and go from there.

Edit: Wiki is up at http://ffhacktics.com/wiki/Item_Graphics. If i left anything out please let me know.

@PGF what format are you running on your windows machine? i've encountered that 4gb problem before, too, but only when i was trying to copy to FAT32 over USB. If you go NTFS it should work.

@ Cheetah: I'll get right on that.
http://ffhacktics.com/wiki/Item_Graphics

As for the dolls, i did encounter partials during the cataloging of daggers and harps, but it seems that the only successful way of using them in-game is to physically replace another weapon graphic in WEP1 (my favorite is harp, then it looks like the character is messing with the doll like a Voodoo Doll.) I shall upload a pic as soon as i can put together an animated .gif

I want it all. Now damn it! lol

Fair enough. I was thinking about doing a 1 shot with a short CT for arrow storm and then a few shots with a longer CT with bullet storm. That's why its super noticeable for me right now.

Okay so i'm trying to build an arrow storm or bulletstorm ability that performs a random-fire within an area and acts like a song or dance (i.e. goes off repeatedly throughout the battle). I've got most of the mechanics worked out (random fire, range 5 radius 2, weapon strike, persevere, etc) but i have one problem. When i use the bow, the arrow's trajectory is backwards. As in, comes from the opposite side of the target from the attacker. Any ideas?

The target panel in this screenshot is the panel directly to the right of the corpse.

Quote from: Vanya on February 26, 2011, 11:03:56 am
And, finally, can I haz ur olde j0b?

Lol sorry its already been filled. And i doubt you live in Wisconsin (or would want to).

Here We Go



P.S. For the last picture, that's Sword, Ninja Sword, Knight Sword, Katanas, Rods, and Staves (Plural of Staff) in that order. Weapons without pictures only have one possible value for ZZ, which is 00.

Alright i've cataloged all of the weapons, their battle.bin offsets, and the ZZ values for everything. it doesnt look like i've discovered anything truly new at this point, but a proper list is always handy to have. I wont have time to post my findings for a few days as i just got promoted and i've got a terrible cold, but as soon as i have a day off i'll post the list and a few .png files for everyone.

I am fairly certain. There was a similar thread i saw a while back that suggested this, and i just checked to confirm. Let me see if i can find the thread.

Yup here it is.
http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=534.20

In fact, it was your post Vanya that led me to this conclusion.



Although i'm not sure what you meant by projectile. I thought you meant arrows and crossbow bolts, but it turned out to be the swoosh/blur effects i mentioned before.

Edit: Another thing i've found, or at least have been confused about: When i was going through the dagger sprites, I found that there are more than one picture or perhaps frame per sprite, and i could not tell them apart from the screenshots i took in PSx. For example, a weapon with type Knife and a ZZ value of 00 seems to correspond to the first -row- of daggers in WEP1, not just one of them. I haven't yet figured out if one is used for the attack animation and the other is used for, say, weapon guard. I'm going to have to recolor them to figure it out.

Edit 2: Further testing reveals that each row is essentially the same sprite, just different frames within the sprite.

Well here's what i've discovered so far. Its not much and i think most of it has been posted elsewhere on the site.

XY ZZ

As we know there's two bytes for each item slot. The first byte is comprised of two single-digit hex values, X and Y. The second byte is (most likely) a single two-digit value. Granted i haven't tested past daggers yet.

X controls the palette according to WEP1 in Shishi's. This controls the color of the weapon, essentially. Some palettes are more well defined than others.
Y controls the palette of the weapon effect (slashing blur, etc) of the attack, as defined in WEP2, below. While you can browse the palettes in shishi's, i'll say here that it seems to cycle various colors, including blue, red, yellow, green, brown, purple and grey (or gray).

Although now that i think about it i may have to test to see if perhaps the two ZZ digits are actually ZA, where A is the weapon sprite (determined by type) and Z is the effect sprite (also, most likely, determined by type). Needs further testing, will update with results.

Edit:  So that last thought was wrong. The two ZZ digits are definitely connected. After testing two daggers that were 00 00 and 00 10 i was expecting the same daggers with the same palettes to produce different swoosh effects, and instead i got a dagger and a pole. Definitely still XY ZZ.

Edit 2: Alright well. I finished testing the daggers. Its mostly garbage when ZZ is higher than 06, though you can definitely tell that the garbage is parts of other items (if you're looking at WEP1). When ZZ was 20, it looped back around. Some quick math revealed that each single increment of ZZ is 8 pixels. (i.e. 01 is 8 px lower than 00) Its late and i'll move on to whatever weapon group is next tomorrow. gross, ninja blades. i can't even pick one out on WEP1.

i myself am busy as well but if i get a chance to mess around with it i'll post what i find.
good luck with your 'heavy life stuff' and i hope its not too heavy