Final Fantasy Hacktics

perhaps a bandit would make more sense?

there ive updated the above post so you can have elmdor

for anyone who would like to create some new sword skills i have one idea for you...

all monsters have a basic attack that uses the normal attack formula.
certain monsters attacks actually call upon the weapon strike animation and by just giving that monster "Attack" (the skill right above "potion" (ITS NOT BLANK that might make a good update in the patcher) they will simply perform a normal attack instead. (also the tree monsters could finally be more useful)

these skills use the said animation:
Choco Attack
Choco Ball
Choco Meteor
Bite  (Bomb)
Beak (Steel Hawk)
Eye Gouge (Goblin)
Small Bomb (Blue)
Small Bomb (Black)
Small Bomb (Red)
Tentacles (Squidlarkin)
Shake Off (Minitaurus) (i like this skill as is...)
Knife Hand (Living Bone) (its cool but perhapts the skills gfx could be used for something else maybe implementing a shield break skill for mighty sword?)

Small bomb? 3 of them just to have the bomblet color match the bomb? screw that! they removed the 2 extras from the psp version as well anyway. now i have "Dark Wave" and "Dusk Blade" additions to the dark knight set finally i can consider it a whole job with 4 sword skills instead of 2. and now my Mystic Knight can finally get 3 skills "Heat Smash", "Static Blade", "Ice Smash"

thats great, i think ill stop playing around with the hex editor now i keep putting FA where an FE should be and that throws all the job names out of allignment XD cause elmdor is NOT delita's sis lol...

and then things like , ! ? - bla bla bla take like 2 or 3 letters to make.

you need the sprite file itself? or the bmp version? here is cloud anyway...

im starting to wonder where did everyone go? there are usually alot of new posts on the subject every day but im not seeing it. i like the pirate idea as well.

ive used that check before, i thought ppl already knew about it...
thats what i used to hide my blue chocobo's status. it does work on humans as well!

By the way... has anyone done a hex text hack at all? an example you have to remplace 5 occurances of each spell and 10 occurances of each job name.
well... after doing changing elmdors job do Daimyo and algus's job to Fencer
i tested it and it was fine... but after applying a newly modified patch to the scus i noticed it changed some of them back! (to be exact when i searched thru the hex again after patching i found 9 occurrances of my new job name and the one that re-patching changes is the one that appears in battle when you look in the characters job list... well maybe its a good thing if the text editing is ever implemented?

i do use the two dukes, ive created skillsets for them and so on... besides four letters isnt significant enough, id rather dummy one of the many "divine knights" actually i used one of them to create "Mystic Knight" which will be my alicia makeover.

i also actually do prefer to use the fencer name once so i chose algus as the one, and ramza as chapter 2 and 3 merc and then 4 heretic sounds perfect.

haha looking at that zalbag/ horn thing if you gave him a bandana and made it go over one eye hed make a good looking pirate..

ahh so its 1000% thats exactly all i needed to know

its quite simple this special guest blue chocobo with hidden status, to hide the glitchy, if he only gains like 1 or 2 hp per then its not so bad

with that "conjured" thing in mind... elmdor.....
has anyone figured out what bugs his skillset?

i had to create a third "Sword Spirit" skillset and created 4 new spells
with the draw out gfx that dont draw out a katana... its like summoning the spirit of the katana without drawing out woooo! of course muramasa is one of them. still i cant seem to make the origional skillsets work at all even removing "katana stock" from the skillset type doesnt work...

i made boco a blue chocobo that does not join  in the woods but appears one last time at the falls doesnt join there either both appearances he has hidden status because his special skill set makes him look so bugged.
but he has non charge, chocoattack/cure4/esuna/wall/haste/slow/blizzard.  and hamedo instead of counter.

got a question about ??? status tho, by what % does it multiply the hp and mp? i want to make his hp growth equal to that of a normal chocobo but while in ??? status..

id rather have more equipment skills like Equip longbow, harp, rod/staff, ribbon etc... no other job besides archer can use long bows. hey thats a good idea maybe ill make a special character that uses bows...

i like mustadio being the only one with those skills too i thought about giving another skill that projects the damage formula 2D (holy sworskillsets) thru the weapon range. ( it looks like the blast that worker 8 has was it compress?) thats a pretty sweet looking skill shot out of a gun.. anyway then when i added Balthier with my own custom "Sky Pirate" set i gave that to him instead as well as a long range coin stealing skill that gives you alot money. (absorb gil) lol

try this out tho, save alma's sprite over agrias or a female theif or so on.. and test it in battle... perhapts its just that alma is shorter? i donno.. or maybe the arms connect from a differnt point

you say there are four types?

does one include a variation of humans? because surely there are at least two...

well its strange because i thought it was all about spacing too.. but it also seems to have to do with the origional sprite as well... you can take an identical image of alma and save it over the female theif sprite for example, and the arms are all screwy... i donno its like the arms have to be moved all over again if you try to use certain sprites to overwrite with. so there is definately some compatability things. maybe because some characters are shorter, and of course a factor also might be the file size itself even if the images are the same size the files arent.....

another example ill give is, i have a completed Teta sprite shes about alma's size and so putting her file inside one of alma's duplicates works perfectly... however... but it just doesnt work for putting it over agrias's dupe sprite.. im not gonna go back and move all the arms, ill use the sprite that already works perfectly

i looked at it, and things were way out of place even if you did use the right sprite....

okay cheetah

some things you have to consider when adding a sprite to the game:

which sprite did you have to overwrite to add this one?
for example, try saving alma's sprite over agrias or a common theif or the other way arround...
the arms are really not where they should be!

i suggest if you arent already, use meliadouls duplicate sprite H85.spr as the one you write over.

hey with the text patch in place has anyone had trouble when casting "poison frog" ? for me he quoted the poison frog quote then started quoting the midgar swarm quote VERY slowly right after so i had to deactivate his quote...

also isnt there any way at all to make damage formula 2E successfully hit monsters and still show the skill gfx? or maybe some way to correct it (these are mighty sword skills)

its very easy there are many duplicate sprites the ones that have a dupe that im aware of are:

Alma (i think she actually has 2 dupes)
Agrias
Rafa
Malak
Meliadoul
Gafgarion
Celia
Lede

that alone is.. 8 or 9 free sprites all you have to do is go in entd edit and make sure that the origional charcter uses their 1 remaining sprite wherever they appear..