Final Fantasy Hacktics

Hello my FFH Lurvers:

I would like to start my own section for people who are creating patches to request an effect they want to be altered. 
When requesting: please put which animation, color theme and your idea you want the effect to look like.


Sword Skills Edits

Dark Sword - E173 spoiler: Dark Sword Eye Removal spoiler: Night Sword w/o Stream and Eye spoiler: Night Sword w/o Stream spoiler: Only Eye Night Sword spoiler: Day Sword w/o Eye

Crush Punch - E165      spoiler: Blue Crush Punch

Split Punch - E164        spoiler: Poison Split Punch spoiler: Celdias Green Version

Icewolf Punch - E171      spoiler: Poison Icewolf Punch

Lighting Stab - E166 spoiler: Blue Stab

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Elements

Wind                  spoiler: Mini Tornado v1 spoiler: Mini Tornado v2 spoiler: Twister

Water            spoiler: Wateraga

Psychic        spoiler: Psycha spoiler: Psychaga spoiler: Psycha vs2 spoiler: Psychaga vs2

Ice spoiler: Blizzard Galaxy

Earth spoiler: Quakaga spoiler: Quakaga v2 ^has more clouds

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Summonless

spoiler: Moogle-less spoiler: Ramuh-less spoiler: Ifrit-less spoiler: Titan-less

spoiler: Golem-less spoiler: Carbuncle-less spoiler: Bahamut-less spoiler: Odin-less

spoiler: Leviathan-less spoiler: Salamander-less spoiler: Silf-less spoiler: Fairy-less

spoiler: Lich-less spoiler: Cyclops-less spoiler: Zodiac-less

spoiler: Shiva-less spoiler: 30% less spoiler: 50% less spoiler: 70% less

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Draw Out Edits

Heaven's Cloud    spoiler: Heavens Cloud-less

Muramasa - E139 spoiler: Blue Muramasa spoiler: Dark Blue Muramasa

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Miscellaneous

Cure 2 spoiler: Where is the Lurv

MBarrier spoiler: Heart Barrier

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All Effects run smoothly, any slow down in the videos are from my computer

Effect 04C
Effect 04F

Both of them requesting for you to remove the summon monster that appears.

Quote from: Pride on April 13, 2011, 02:21:50 am
Effect 04C

Effect 047 = removal of Silf

Yessss it looks great without Silf ^_^

Thank you very much.

Quote from: Pride on April 13, 2011, 02:21:50 am
Effect 04F

Effect 079 = Removal of Cyclops

Again, thank you for these and for doing it so quickly =D

Hmm... could you edit some swordskills? Specifically:
-Night Sword without the 'eye' (or better yet straight to the sword part)
-Blue-paletted crush punch
-Slightly faster version of hellcry punch

On second thought, could you try making some completely new swordskills? I would love to add some variety beyond the current ones.

The hell cry punch would remain the same speed things are hard coded so that a specific bin file executes in a in a fashion. The edits are purely cosmetic and will only alter color/looks.

Quote from: Durbs on April 13, 2011, 10:34:09 pm
Hmm... could you edit some swordskills? Specifically:
-Night Sword without the 'eye' (or better yet straight to the sword part)
-Blue-paletted crush punch
-Slightly faster version of hellcry punch

On second thought, could you try making some completely new swordskills? I would love to add some variety beyond the current ones.

UGH! Durbs! Are you making a patch? I am only taking request from people who are making a patch because I know they will use them. If you are making a patch, and know which swordskills specifically you wanted altered then you may request them.

Since I had free time I started on your first request.

E173 = Remove 'eye' on Night Sword

I like it better without the eye. I always thought that thing detracted from the sword aspect of the effect so much that it didn't really fit in anyways.

Quote from: dinosaur on April 14, 2011, 10:15:34 pm
UGH! Durbs! Are you making a patch? I am only taking request from people who are making a patch because I know they will use them.

I'm not necesarily making a new patch (I'm basically modifiying 1.3 with my own persnal preferences for my own entertainment), but that certainly doesn't mean I'm not going to use it.

Ok Dino I actually have a request because I failed at it. See if you can make any of the 2 ice breaths = wind breath, a fire breath =earth breath, and a thunder breath without the lightning = dark breath.

It's weird and tricky mine came out all f'd up. I am not trying go pass it off onto you, maybe I am just not having luck with it :/

E165 = Crush Punch color change to blue

This is really cool.  I'd request something, but I'm not gonna use it, so I won't waste your time.

Quote from: Pickle Girl Fanboy on April 18, 2011, 11:10:10 am
This is really cool.  I'd request something, but I'm not gonna use it, so I won't waste your time.

Well, please request anyways. I am not busy with any other requests :p so I have time to 'freelance'

What would you like?

4 effects, all derived from night sword.
1 with only the eye opening and closing.
1 with only the sword pop-up.
1 with only the other part.  The screen darkening and the dark mist.
1 with only the other part, but with a "Holy" themed palette, probably from Holy or one of the Cures.

And are you making the effects files available?

Do we have good animations for Aero, Water, Quake, and their -ara and -aga aspects?  How about a shorter holy and dark holy, like maybe flare with Holy and Dark Holy palettes?

Hey dino: Mando left me a message saying you two couldn't work out an edit on the bracelet/breath skills. I took a quick shot at it and Ice Breath ended up looking like this.



I was trying for green. :/


Edit: Take two, Success!!!

 E173_1

E173_2

E173_3

E173_4


Sorry Day Sword kind of sucks. I cannot eliminate the red flash. My favorite is the only eye night sword.

Maybe dry a yellow palette instead of blue for a Day Sword? Might go better with the forced red flash.

I can't see the second video, do you have a link to it?

I'm surprised you can't eliminate screen darkening.  I don't remember, but do all the swordskills do that?

Quote from: Pickle Girl Fanboy on April 19, 2011, 10:34:42 am
I can't see the second video, do you have a link to it?

I'm surprised you can't eliminate screen darkening.  I don't remember, but do all the swordskills do that?

I cannot put it in a spoiler, weird. I seems the swordskills do that those flashes. Sadface. Nothing we can do about it now.

Quote from: dinosaur on April 19, 2011, 12:20:44 pm
Nothing we can do about it now yet.

Fixed that for ya.  :P

Wateraga v1 E257
Animation = Finshing Touch, Color Palette = Silence

E257 = Mini Tornado

Alternation to the Finishing Touch Effect

Oooh, I really like Tornado! I'll have to use it somewhere!

Quakaga E068 (Removal of Titan Sprite)

Quakaga v1 = More visible rocks


Quakaga v2 = Cool lil animation before the rocks lift up and more dust

I must concur with the others: this is quite good work you're doing, dinosaur. Thank you. And I say that even though thus far the only ones that I might actually use are the very initial heart one and perhaps the Eye Only Night Sword, which would then necessitate Night Sword without the eye I suppose.

Of the most recent entries, I'm going to assume that Tornado video was the slowed down version of the effect, correct? Also, I personally like the second iteration of the "Quakaga" spell much better than the first one. That might just be me.

I'm tempted to ask for some things given what Pickle Girl Fanboy brought up, but this is another area that I wanted to at least attempt to learn to do the most basic parts myself. Besides, I still need to go through all of R999's videos, especially with my memory continually failing me.

Would it be okay to consult you if I require any help though down the road?

Quote from: Pickle Girl Fanboy on April 18, 2011, 01:38:03 pm
Do we have good animations for Aero, Water, Quake, and their -ara and -aga aspects?

Yeah, this is a problem, though I would argue that it's greater more for the most basic effects surprisingly compared to the more grandiose ones.

Also, Quake already technically exists, but I'm sure you knew that.

@TheDamned:

Use whatever you want, some effects are silly but I still want to show them.

The slow down is my computer. All the effect will run like normal.

Yes, please consult with me with anything you want :)

There are Water1,2,3 effects that Zozma made, I will look for them and post it here (of course given credit to Zozma)

You've been busy, dino. I like those edits. ^_^

Also, a good piece of Zozma's edits are here, in Site Submissions: http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=408.msg135520#msg135520 (http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=408.msg135520#msg135520)

You should pack all yours up into one file maybe and put a post there.

E031 = Psychic Abilities

Psychic v1
Animation = Flare, color palette = customized



Psychic v2 (Cleaner version)
Animation = Flare, Color Palette = Eusna





The Holy Flare is taking longer then expected, hopefully soon.

Wow! Some of these are fantastic! I love the Tornado, Wateraga, and Quakaga effects. I'll have to fit these in ^_^

mini-tornado v2 gives me the feeling of a waterfall more than a tornado with clouds, but that's kind of nice :> Also very nice how flare looks really confusing with them circles floating around, really good job on that.

Thank you Pride and Tea for the sweet comments :)

Keep up the good work, these are great animations!

Could I get a green paletted version of Split Punch please? I need it for Wiegraf for Parted Ways. Thanks!

Actually I do have a request.

Make Space Storage (rafa's) use the palette from Diamond Sword.

Make Diamond Sword have a blue/green palette.... or anything that would be ICE blue looking colors.(maybe the colors from hydragon pit may work?)

Quote from: Eternal248 on April 24, 2011, 02:56:54 pm
Could I get a green paletted version of Split Punch please? I need it for Wiegraf for Parted Ways. Thanks!

E164 = Green Split Punch

Animation = Split Punch, Palette= Custom



E171 Icewolf Punch

Animation = Icewolf Punch, Palette= Bio 2

These are all really good. I particularly like the Green Icewolf Bite one. I feel like the green Split Punch looks odd though, it doesn't look very refined. Keep up the good work though, these look freaking awesome.

Tried my own version of the Split Punch. Only uploading #2 from the video right now, by request. If someone wants the others I'll add them later.

Celdia is my teacher, my muse.

I am her bitch.

No you're not. You're just a good student. Also, you're taking requests which is more than can be said for me with these animations.

Yes Dino, You are very good at this ^^ some animation could be scaled down a bit (like the ones with bubbles) for a better resolution display during the animation. However its much better than what I have put forth. I'll be uploading my folder of color edits soon that has a even some I've collected from other people that look good. So far it has 24 or so in it.
I'll start taking requests myself soon.

I need to do more testing on key things like:
Effects of inserting a smaller effect.bin in a .bin that is MUCH larger. I know if its similar size it will work fine, but in a much larger file will there be a delay? I would assume no because the file would just be filled with 0s but who knows?

Also have you or celdia messed with more of the effect files that are completely gray? I noticed that night sword you cannot avoid the red from still coming up (due to hard code) I noticed a similar issue when editing wave around. Any of you tested things like triple thunder, thunder 2-4?

Quote from: Mando on April 25, 2011, 02:41:26 am
Actually I do have a request.

Make Space Storage (rafa's) use the palette from Diamond Sword.

Make Diamond Sword have a blue/green palette.... or anything that would be ICE blue looking colors.(maybe the colors from hydragon pit may work?)

FAIL


E181_2
E181_3


Sorry Mando, I been going bit by bit and I cannot find the code with the purple. I cannot eliminate that.

You know dino... that works for me. When using the space storage back I ended up with a much larger amount of purple and black.

There is enough green where I'd say it'd pass off as a wind based move still!

I appreciate all you have done for me dino :) and celdia.

OH okay! I will add the .bin

I will try and get the diamondsword to work, since I am fairly sure your busy on your own projects right now ^^

Hey, how are animations stored?  Could you import/export animations from other games?  How about an animation editor?

Animations are stored in a .bin ... outside that the first part is usually a palette the second part is the code for the effect... other than this I do not know... it would take some experimentation to see if you can get effects from other games...

OR if you studied an effect file you could probably determine how its using the graphical portion and change it accordingly to get your desired effect.

Quote from: Pickle Girl Fanboy on May 05, 2011, 04:21:27 pm
Hey, how are animations stored?  Could you import/export animations from other games?  How about an animation editor?

Yes- you could use other animations using the TIMUTIL editor but it only works on 32-bit OS.

E068

E235_1

E235_2

Some cool effects dino.

I love Titan Twister and Blizzard Galaxy, especially knowing exactly what you did to get those effects ^_^  Great application of less is more.

Quote from: GeneralStrife on May 07, 2011, 10:04:33 pm
Some cool effects dino.

Theeeeenks :D

Personally I think blizzard galaxy needs a little bit more ice in it's animation. As it is, it looks just like galaxy stop but with a bit of blue. Everything's looking really good so far!

Quote from: Pierce on May 08, 2011, 12:21:50 pm
Personally I think blizzard galaxy needs a little bit more ice in it's animation. As it is, it looks just like galaxy stop but with a bit of blue. Everything's looking really good so far!

I work on it now.

Pierce... you wanted more ice ....

I gave you more ice!!

E176


(ps- thanks Pierce! Your advice to add more ice gave me the idea)

I would like those , but take your time and feel free to refuse  :P:

Muramasa with more blue-ish black-ish tones (no red!)
Shiva with no Shiva sprite, but maybe something to replace it?
A whiter Shadow sticth
A red demi

Thanks <3

if you're taking requests, as you seem to be, can i get a blue tinged lightning stab without the lightning bolt?

Quote from: dinosaur on May 08, 2011, 11:48:57 pm
Pierce... you wanted more ice ....

I gave you more ice!!

I like this newer version of it, it makes it look like an actual ice attack. You do a very good job at this event editing business.
If I think of any interesting ideas of what I want to see, I'll let you know.

Hello dinosaur, I'm liking all these new animation.

I have but one request, I wonder if you could remove Leviathan from E073.BIN. That is all.

Fenrir: Leviathan has been done and is in a small collection of effect edits done by Zozma. You can find it here - http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=408.msg135520#msg135520 (http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=408.msg135520#msg135520)

Oh wow, really. I wasn't aware of it, in any case forget my request. Thanks Celdia.

Quote from: Kokojo on May 08, 2011, 11:51:49 pm
Muramasa with more blue-ish black-ish tones (no red!)
Shiva with no Shiva sprite, but maybe something to replace it?

E139 Muramasa




E065 Shiva
Shiva-less (decreasing in effects)

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Prideful: Dino, can I request a purple/dark palette of Flare?
dinosaur: Sorry? What did you say Prideful?! I might be able to see that comment ... in my forum :P

Pleases and thank yous as usual ^_^

Quote from: Pride on May 13, 2011, 10:08:27 pm
Pleases and thank yous as usual ^_^

Celdia has completed the request.  (link coming soon...)

Hey, I can't find a good video of either animation, but if you can find one could you take a stab at Saint Cross and Holy Blade from ffta2? I'm trying to replicate the ffta2 paladin's attacks.

EDIT: Wow, I literally can't find a single video. :evil:

Quote from: Durbs on May 14, 2011, 08:31:58 am
Hey, I can't find a good video of either animation, but if you can find one could you take a stab at Saint Cross and Holy Blade from ffta2? I'm trying to replicate the ffta2 paladin's attacks.

Never played the game. I would appreciate if you could find some good videos of each animations.

Quote from: RandMuadDib on May 09, 2011, 12:03:09 am
if you're taking requests, as you seem to be, can i get a blue tinged lightning stab without the lightning bolt?

E166 = Lighting Stab

Quote from: Durbs on May 14, 2011, 08:31:58 am
Hey, I can't find a good video of either animation, but if you can find one could you take a stab at Saint Cross and Holy Blade from ffta2? I'm trying to replicate the ffta2 paladin's attacks.

EDIT: Wow, I literally can't find a single video. :evil:

Its not same way holy blade works but essentially same concept... and already exists in game

thanks for the blue lightning stab!

Hmm, could I request a darkening of the Leviathan Water and a switched Leviathan for...
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101018230852/villains/images/thumb/0/0a/Shadow_Dragon.jpg/326px-Shadow_Dragon.jpg

If that is even possible mind you, if not a darkened Leviathan and darkened water would be perfectly fine with me.

I would request one more thing : A brown or earth-looking Fire bracelet.

Quote from: Kokojo on May 16, 2011, 07:38:07 pm
I would request one more thing : A brown or earth-looking Fire bracelet.

NO BRACELETS

LOL (koko didn't read the earlier posts obviously dino)  :D

Quote from: LastingDawn on May 16, 2011, 09:37:48 am
Hmm, could I request a darkening of the Leviathan Water and a switched Leviathan for...
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101018230852/villains/images/thumb/0/0a/Shadow_Dragon.jpg/326px-Shadow_Dragon.jpg

If that is even possible mind you, if not a darkened Leviathan and darkened water would be perfectly fine with me.

Sorry my sugarplums, I have been very MIA cause of work.

LD, I cannot switch sprites I am sorry I REALLY wished I could. The program that used to do it has a problem running on windows 7. I am trying to work on it...

Request!

Again I know but I actually tried this one but failed =(

I want the Heaven's Cloud Animation (Effect 137) without the spinning clouds, : )

Complete Summons without the sprites.

This personal project is removal ONLY of the sprites. If someone wants more removal let me know plz.


E063

E065

E066

E067

E068

E069

E070

E071

E072

E073

E074

E076

E077

E078

E079

E080 Zodiac

A lot of these effects look really convoluted without a sprite there to give them some context. There's also a lot of awkward pausing and off-center action that comes across badly for the same reason. For what it's worth, a couple of them look fairly seamless. Ramuh and Clops are the best ones. Lich and Ifrit aren't too bad. The rest would need a few more changes. Good job though

Quote from: dinosaur on May 27, 2011, 12:59:08 am
The program that used to do it has a problem running on windows 7. I am trying to work on it...

Have you tried using a virtual machine to run a different os?

salamander-less looks awesome

Hey, can you make green-paletted versions of all of the item animations? I want to make a class called an 'Herbalist' as a replacement to the chemist. They would use herbs and natural remedies in place of the consumable items of fft. I changed their sprites accordingly, but it looks unusual with the regularly colored animations.

E137
Heaven's Cloud-less




Pride, did you want those other spinney things removed too?

Huzzah! Thank you very much!

Edit: No its just the way I want it :P

Holy crap. The Heaven's Cloud thing looks freaking awesome. Probably the best thing I've seen yet.
I'm curious as to whether or not it's possible to have Choco Meteor, but instead of a meteor, something else like a drop of water. I don't need it for myself because I'm not making a patch or anything, I just know there aren't a lot of water animations for people that want to add Water/Watera/Waterga etc into their patches.

Hello Dino are you still taking requests ?
If so i'd like to ask you for a Holy Explosion E.167 with a dark palette e.g. Dark Whisper E.395
Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

Doesn't work. Holy Explosion will form errors or not take the color properly... I've tried many times already.

Was also wondering if u were still taking requests? If u r, I was wondering if I could get the poison spell in red possibly? Also, do u know how to change the color of a sprite that is under the poison effect. Like when ur poisoned, u turn green, would u perhaps know how to change that to red or blue. Actually if u could do poison in blue to, that would be amazing :)

Quote from: Jubei1986 on September 06, 2011, 07:02:14 pm
Was also wondering if u were still taking requests? If u r, I was wondering if I could get the poison spell in red possibly? Also, do u know how to change the color of a sprite that is under the poison effect. Like when ur poisoned, u turn green, would u perhaps know how to change that to red or blue. Actually if u could do poison in blue to, that would be amazing :)

Your wish is my command, good sir.

However I am not aware how to change the color of the actual unit. I do believe it is possible but you have to find the right person who can find the poison command code. Not sure who knows...

***One idea is that berserk units turn red! You can have the attack have the berserk ability but take off the berserk status so only the color stays.

It's too bad that you only mentioned using the spriteless summon animations for exactly that- Spriteless. Odin's in green would be exactly what I need for an attack i've thought up

New to posting in the forums, I've been messing with all this stuff for a while, trying to get good enough to make a patch, and all that good jazz. I was wondering if there were any step-by-step video tutorials on how to make a custom skill animation, from start to finish (As that would be more effective than me requesting, uh... I think 16 different skills I'm trying to make?). Anything you could offer would be greatly appreciated, and if I'm not realizing something and being a retard, tell me and I'll keep from clogging the arteries of this site with my swill. Thanks in advance.

BTW, if it's on this site, as much time as I've spent scouring it, I've likely found it and it doesn't make sense to me... -_-;
I know, I'm an idiot.

As far as I know, we are currently limited to color changes and removing pieces from effects, we can't do anything with sound, adding effects, or creating new effects, because no one has figured out the coding for the animations

Quote from: RandMuadDib on January 27, 2012, 10:50:21 pm
As far as I know, we are currently limited to color changes and removing pieces from effects, we can't do anything with sound, adding effects, or creating new effects, because no one has figured out the coding for the animations

You can replace pieces from effects with other pieces.  The very first video in this thread of Dinosaur's Cure + Allure edits shows this off.  You can't add new things to an effect, but you can change up large enough sections of the various effects that it can end up being completely unrecognizable.  The coding for animations is 99% likely to be simply based on event code, which I could edit with a hex editor if I cared, but it's likely strung around in different ways and has unique commands tossed in.

I don't want to make a new one, necessarily. Ok, here's an idea of what I was hoping to do. I found the sprite for Dart, from LOD, and I wanted to alter the colors and in game effects of the Skeleton's "Anima/Soul" animation, to create something reminiscent of his "Flameshot". First, is that type of thing possible? Second, what program would you use to do it? I have tilemolester, but I'm not sure if that's the one I need.

Quote from: Major.Figgelz on January 27, 2012, 11:48:36 pm
I don't want to make a new one, necessarily. Ok, here's an idea of what I was hoping to do. I found the sprite for Dart, from LOD, and I wanted to alter the colors and in game effects of the Skeleton's "Anima/Soul" animation, to create something reminiscent of his "Flameshot". First, is that type of thing possible? Second, what program would you use to do it? I have tilemolester, but I'm not sure if that's the one I need.

Yeah, that's pretty easy to do once you know how.  You actually need a number of different programs to do it from extraction of the original effect to inserting your final one, but TileMolester is one of them as I recall.  I know someone who's good with editing effects who I'll have post on this tomorrow when they're on if no one's pointed you in the right direction before then, since I really only have a cursory knowledge of it and I don't think anyone's made an actual Tutorial for it yet.

Awesome, sir! Much appreciated!

a suggestion :D
nightsword with muramasa's evil faces perhaps? :D

Major Figgelz, wouldn't the Bomb's Flame Attack work for that?

@Taichii - I wouldn't know HOW to do that, though. I think that would make an interesting looking skill, but I don't know how to make it, or even what programs I would need...

@Eternal - It actually might, I never thought of that.... O.O

So dino, perhaps you can assist in putting together a proper Quakara and Quakaga spell effects, as there are good effects for:
Quake and Quakaja (either the original quake spell in the dimension magic set or the removied titan version)

"Mimic titan" would have been an ideal quakaga spell, however the effect does not follow the target :( so something else...

also, i have good water, watera, and waterga effects (using no-leviathan as waterja), as well as Aero, Aera, Aeroga (using tornado as Aeroja)

Would be great for you to do little videos for those too if you ever have the time.

And my idea for dark spells of equivelance woud be the: so no need to make these
Dark - Pitfall effect
Darkra - Demi2 effect
Darkga - Dark Whisper
Darkja- Blind2 effect or a violet ulmagest (if it works)

this is just something i did when i had my patch, making total balance of all the 8 elements this game has available.

I am, however, curious to see if "Ulmagest" is able to take a violet palette similar to dark holy

Not sure if your still taking requests Dino but if you are i could really use ur Bahamut - less animation change of palette to like a redish to make it somewhat flame/fire type of animation planning on using it as "Cosmo Memory" for red xiii in my patch.

lol i think i also have a red bahamut at my mod, but i can't seem to fix it well..
any ideas on it dinosaur? :D
the bahamut's at the last page on my signature :D fft:lom

Sorry Lurvers!! I am so behind in life.

I want to get back to animations. I will get around to it sometime but do not think I have forgotten :)

Quote from: Taichii on March 08, 2012, 04:12:50 am
lol i think i also have a red bahamut at my mod, but i can't seem to fix it well..
any ideas on it dinosaur? :D

The summon animation looks great!! Can you be more specific on what you cannot fix?

well the one on the vid is e071 (1). bmp
i want it to look like e071 .bmp
i think the solution here is to replace offset 14-213 and 220 till the end of the dile.. so far i've only tested to replace the palette and change the image but i've not tried them together LOL.
the salamander summon (replaced ifrit) looks fine. and i don't think that its a coincidence that they both have the same palette (i think) well.. there XD

Could you do the Midgar Sorom summon without him and as a water looking spell ?