Maps

[Cheetah]

Yeah I have definitely seen these before. I found some others at rpgamer.com, where did you find these. They are mostly from the original Japanese trailer. There is also a clip of Orbonne Monastery with a freaking high bridge that looks cool, and another map with a small building surrounded by trees. Recreating these maps would be super cool. Though like you said the Zirekile Falls one is basically identical layout-wise and just looks worse.

[Cheetah]

So I decided to use the online isometric graphics program that I posted about earlier to make the map I sketched up. Pretty quick and easy tool to use. Obviously I couldn't get the dimensions and angles all that exact, but it is a good 3D representation of what I'm going for. Really I just miss Gomtuu and wished that this thread had a bit more activity...or any activity.

[Vanya]

It looks frickin' awesome. I wish there was more activity on this front, too.

[Tersius]

Has anyone been able to get Gomtuu's viewer to work on WoTL maps?  Or does it only work on PSX ones?

[Cheetah]

The maps are all the same to my knowledge, though I haven't tried.

[gomtuu]

Has anyone been able to get Gomtuu's viewer to work on WoTL maps?  Or does it only work on PSX ones?

My viewer only works on PSX maps for now, but the map formats are not very different. If I remember correctly, the GNS files were the only ones that would cause trouble, and the difference was minor. Instead of referring to files by the sector number where they could be found on the PSX CD, the PSP GNS files just numbered the files sequentially or something.

[jimmyjw88]

I didn't go through all the posts but just wondering, are we able to make custom maps and put them into game?

[Kokojo]

Not yet )

[Cheetah]

Actually you can, it is just exceptionally difficult. Gomtuu as essentially decoded all the vital information and created tools, it is just very complicated.

[jimmyjw88]

Ah, I see. That map viewer tool?

[Cheetah]

The tool that actually allows you to edit stuff is the map slit/join tool. Divides all the parts of the maps into editable understandable chunks.

[jimmyjw88]

Hmm...I see. So does that mean we can edit a few things in the map and just load it in the game? Or it doesn't work like that? Anyway, after reading a few posts, I think I better don't mess with maps because I don't understand a thing.

[GodBeastX]

What's going on Tactics hackers?

I havn't been on FFT since fftactics.org disappeared so I though people lost interest in hacking it.

And behold, people are making more progress than ever before here.

Awhile ago I did a map viewer based off the findings of the FFT Monkeys group, and at the time there was very little information on anything but the visual parts of the maps (Rendering, etc). Is there a forum post with more discovered info? I'm sure if there's enough someone could make a 3D model -> FFT Map converter pretty easily and people could make maps in 3D Studio. I could even take a crack at it if there's still interest and enough info to go around.

[Cheetah]

Welcome, here is the info you need. Gomtuu our map expert and coder actual made a custom map editor.

Info: http://www.ffhacktics.com/wiki/Maps

Map Editor: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2479&start=0

If you wanted to contribute to the editor that would be amazing.