Hi everyone! I spent a long time in the search results to see if there was another post with this issue, but I couldn't find the exact problem I'm having. I apologize if this has been solved before.
To get the question asked first - What am I missing in setting up a Blue Mage in FFTPatcher? A couple years ago, I changed Calculator to a Blue Mage with no issues at all; the mage got hit, learned, and could use a monster skill. I'm returning to modding FFT (PSX) now and the same steps I did in the past no longer work, but everything else I have changed in the patcher works great in-game. I'm including pictures in an effort to provide as much info as possible!
The issue I'm facing is that when my mage is hit, it asks "Do You Want To Learn x?" and I click "Yes." The skill shows up in the Formation menu, but I can't select it in battle. When "Blue Magic" is selected in battle (which I changed from Math Skill in the text editor), it states that they have not learned any abilities. I'm hoping this is a simple missed step on my part, so any help in discovering that will be greatly appreciated! Please let me know if there's anything else I can answer for more info.
Edit: I noticed that the last picture says "combo abilities;" could this be because of how the Calculator's skills require known spells from other classes? Is that right?
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You'll need to go to the action menu tab and change the calculator skillset to be a normal type instead of mathematics. Not sure that's the only thing you'll need to do, but that's a definite change you'll need to make.
Thanks Retro! I changed their skillset into an empty one that I adjusted, but unfortunately it suffers from the same issue (I'll try replacing an existing one next). Oddly now, the job comes with Choco Cure and Esuna, Mutilate, and Spark already learned. The skills don't show up in the Formation menu, but they're selectable and usable in battle. But yeah, I tried learning other skills and the same problem occurs where it asks if I want to learn the skill, it show sup in the Formation menus, but can't be selected in battle. I've been working on it this whole time and won't quit yet!
Edit: I misunderstood what you meant at first, so I went in and changed the action menu for Blue Mage to "Default" then "Monster" with no luck. I also changed an existing skillset to my Blue setup, and that didn't work either. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, but I'll keep trying. Thanks again!
Thank you again for your response!
There are often hardcoding issues on the other action menu types that require ASM hacks to fix. That might be one of them. You didn't go into detail about what went wrong with setting it to Default, though.
And no, you can't just change which skillset ID the generic job uses, either. This also has hardcoding. Hooray!