Final Fantasy Hacktics

Modding => Help! => Topic started by: YurrickLavada on October 11, 2018, 12:19:51 am

Title: A few questions
Post by: YurrickLavada on October 11, 2018, 12:19:51 am
Apologizes if these questions have already been answered, I'm new to the hacking/editing thing and I'm fairly lost. (Step by step would help as I'm kinda slow)

So I have the FFTPatcher pack, I was able to change the sprites around as i wished. But I do not know how to...

A. Change base job, namely Ramza's Squire to Paladin (for Beatrix) or add a new job if necessary.

B. Add/rename new abilities (again for Beatrix's Seiken skillset and skills)

Basically, I want to make Ramza into beatrix from FFIX and while the Sprite Editor had a tutorial I could follow, the Patcher... doesn't so I got lost and I don't want to break the game :(

Also, I used the FFTacText to change the names of some blank skills but it doesn't reflect in the patcher, although it's highly likely I messed up
Title: Re: A few questions
Post by: 3lric on October 11, 2018, 01:04:29 am
You have to edit the names in resources.zip if you want it reflected visually in the patcher..
Title: Re: A few questions
Post by: YurrickLavada on October 11, 2018, 01:59:30 am
Ok so i did that and now I'm getting this after changing Accumulate in the Guts skillset to Stasis Sword (as a test) and this was the only change.
Title: Re: A few questions
Post by: YurrickLavada on October 11, 2018, 02:30:37 am
As it currently stands, I can't edit anything in the FFTPatcher (everything from the FFTacText works perfectly though)
Title: Re: A few questions
Post by: 3lric on October 11, 2018, 02:33:08 am
Do you have the image loaded in tactext or shishi when trying to edit it in fftp? Dont do that
Title: Re: A few questions
Post by: YurrickLavada on October 11, 2018, 02:39:09 am
I do not, but I changed the stuff in tactext first, should i reverse the order?

Here's what i'm doing in order

>Editted names in TacText (works fine)

>Edit sprites in Shishi (also works fine)

>Uses Patcher, changed Skillset of Guts, got the b0rken thing, changed one skill from Guts, got b0rken thing, then changed NOTHING just to see and I get the b0rken thing.
Title: Re: A few questions
Post by: YurrickLavada on October 11, 2018, 02:50:03 am
This seems to be a PSX issue as I'm seeing other cases of it online
Title: Re: A few questions
Post by: 3lric on October 11, 2018, 03:50:31 am
A psx issue? That makes no sense. And no, it doesnt matter what order you do those things in. Sounds more like an issue with your OS
Title: Re: A few questions
Post by: Xifanie on October 11, 2018, 06:15:34 am
I have to agree, it sounds like you're using FFTPatcher in Wine or something through Linux.

If that's not the case... then definitely a problem I've never heard of before and I would try re-downloading the thing.
Title: Re: A few questions
Post by: YurrickLavada on October 11, 2018, 11:07:15 am
Regardless, I figured out the root of the problem, I was using save states so whenever I would load a state, I would get the error. When i stopped using them, everything was working. My apologies for consuming your time.
Title: Re: A few questions
Post by: 3lric on October 11, 2018, 11:09:38 am
That doesnt explain why fftp would crash, again, unless you were trying to edit the image, while it was loaded into the emulator or something else.