Good evening
I was looking for some help/advice - has anybody come across the in-game 'flag' that decides if a unit is a dragon or not and if so how to apply it to other units? A patch I am working on in my spare time is nearly complete, but it bugs me that I can't get the formula for the 'Dragoner' class abilities to work on the 'Dragoner' herself. My goal is to make the game also think the Dragoner is a dragon too as far as the abilities she uses are concerned!
There is no such flag, it is hardcoded to a range of Job IDs.
ok many thanks for the quick reply - i was afraid this was the case & i am still very green with editing & patching
The hardcoding is to a range of graphics ("M. Graphic" in FFTPatcher), not job IDs.
http://ffhacktics.com/wiki/Dragon_Check
You can use an ASM hack to adjust the range, but it needs to stay consecutive if you want to keep the same number of ASM lines.
Or... I just set Templar's M. Graphic to 10 (hex), gave Ubersquire Dragon (since my Reis was still a Holy Dragon), and successfully cast Dragon Level Up (Quick) on Beowulf. "M. Graphic" must stand for Monster Graphic, because Beowulf still looked like a human to me. I searched on the wiki for 0x015e (the M.Graphic offset used in the check) and turned up nothing of significance, so it's PROBABLY safe to give a human job a monster graphic.
Don't forget to edit the Dragon abilities so that she can self-target. Except for Dragon Level Up. It might not be a good idea to give her self-targeting instant 100% Quick.