I've been looking around the forum for a bit, and I'm still a little confused... I want to change Teleport/Teleport 2 to have the effect animation of Teleport 3: Send and/or Teleport 3: Arrive. Has there been any attempts to do something like this (giving a movement ability the animation of what appears to be an attack ability)?
Teleport isn't an effect and therein lies the problem. It is only an animation.
My guess is that the the effect calling is located in Altima's SEQ
Teleport & Teleport 2 do have entries in the animation tab of the Patcher. You should be able to change the animations for them there, but it would require some ASM work to actually get either of those movement skills to use a spell effect instead of an animation.
the animation isn't directly changeable through the patcher.
I was afraid of that.
Wonder what the data in their entries controls then.