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Quote from: Leonarth on August 02, 2020, 03:49:01 pmIt does exist, all jobs have all animations
I apologize if that sounded rude, my intention was to say that I've come across a bug. I edited my post.

Quote from: Leonarth on August 02, 2020, 03:49:01 pmAlso, unrelated, but I did make the option to display up to 9999 hp, have you tested that yet?
Wow, it works! What more can I say, its awesome and I like it!!
All I have left is say is the problems vanilla has:
-HP and MP can only be 255 base, but the remaining stats can be 999. Odd design choice.
-Max growth rate for any stat is only 25.5. The 2800 is the max possible and that too because you've allowed Lv.100. If we had a growth rate of 99 then we'd be hitting the 9999 mark. Either way, it's great having 4 digits for HP.
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FFTA/FFTA2 Hacking / Re: FFTA Long Night 0.64 release!
August 02, 2020, 02:45:14 pm
Quote from: Leonarth on August 02, 2020, 11:52:25 amKeep in mind the engine hacks are made to be used as a base, rather than be added on to an existing hack
I'm using them as an add-on. I make all the changes in the AIO/nightmare and then apply the engine hacks at the end.  :?
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Quote from: Leonarth on August 02, 2020, 11:57:47 amWhich jobs did you use the ability with? Which ability was it? Which weapons did you try it with?
Human White mage - Staff - Bolt sword
Human Archer - Shortbow - Fire sword
Moogle Thief - Knife - Fire Sword (working)

I randomized again and now it's working for humans but not for Viera.
Viera White mage - Staff - Bolt sword
Human Thief - Knife - Bolt Sword (working)

Quote from: Leonarth on August 02, 2020, 11:57:47 amMore importantly, did you use the patch included with the randomizer? Or did you use the engine hacks?
I did not apply the .ups, just used the engine hacks.

Edit: I tested again on vanilla and my mod with the engine hacks, and no bugs were found. Somehow not with the randomizer, so maybe just ignore it.
I added some extra jobs for all the races in the unused slots. They have proper stats and sprites but no abilities similar to the Battle Queen. This may be causing the randomizer to have problems?

Edit 2: Tested more without the randomizer and found that the Human thief was fine but White mage and Archer got bugged.
FFTA_hack_Randomized.zip
FFTA_hack_Randomized_2.zip
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Quote from: Leonarth on July 31, 2020, 01:55:00 pmSure, I didn't change anything about gameplay, this is only a display thing, like I said on my post.
It displays properly.

Also, awesome work on the animations. Every job can use Llednar's jump and Bangaa jump :)

I was using your randomizer on my mod and found that the humans bugged when using the Gladiator's elemental swords. The screen dimmed, the characters are still moving but the game froze. The same thing happens in vanilla if we give these skills to any other job, so I think that Humans are missing the animation.
Moogles were fine.
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FFTA/FFTA2 Hacking / Re: FFTA - Unused class slots
August 02, 2020, 10:17:22 am
Quote from: Leonarth on July 13, 2020, 06:44:35 pmI know all of this stuff can be pretty confusing at first so be sure to ask if you don't get something.
I am dumb and I have difficulty just understanding what you've written. If you can bear with me, I have many questions:

-1- Do I paste the whole code in the buildfile? or do I just paste the first three lines?
-2- MyNewList is address of the new pointer? Can I just use some address beyond 0xA39920?
-3- test.bin is automatically created? or must I put something in it?
-4- about the code newAbility(0xDD,0x93,0x4C,1,10)
--5--0xDD this is index.
--6--0x4C is the ability First Aid. Do I just a digit for 3 digit addresses like 0x136 Meteorite?
--7--0x93 is its description/flavor text.
--8--(81 is the yellow in-battle effect text; it's not in that code, so is it not important?)
--9--what is 1? does it mean A-ability? If so, what to use for S/R/C abilities?

I got the list of indexes and abilities here, but not descriptions and type https://datacrystal.romhacking.net/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Tactics_Advance:String_Tables
If you're still here, a few more dumb questions:
-10- Is it required to copy abilities? Can I only repoint and add abilities via the AIO or will this break something somewhere?
-11- If we can't do the above, can I just copy and paste "First Aid" multiple times and edit later in the AIO?

Monsters and playable classes have some 10 slots each and I want to double that.
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FFTA/FFTA2 Hacking / Re: FFTA Long Night 0.64 release!
August 01, 2020, 08:29:34 am
Quote from: dck on August 01, 2020, 06:23:11 amSince you actually saw the post-Exodus content, you might have noticed weird formations like clans with tons of angel rings and multi-totema fights at the very endgame.
It was 80% vanilla for the story. I've not played much with clans. I just went looking for the Pudding and Medusa. Good to hear the golems made the cut. Their portraits are great.
If you have space, consider some petrified monsters. The vanilla game has many name-only jobs. These names got me interested for monster variations. First time I played FFTA, I was quite disappointed that they were just names and not any unique monsters. Not even new colours.
Magewyrm and Worldwyrm.
Ochu, Neochu, Top Malboro, and Devilboro.
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FFTA/FFTA2 Hacking / Re: FFTA Long Night 0.64 release!
August 01, 2020, 05:42:27 am
Quote from: dck on August 01, 2020, 03:48:24 am(521a7d > soldier entry) (521a88 > soldier palette)

05 undead
0d poison
0e berserk
ff stone
Oh right, every job has those 4 palettes. The golems were a nice addition. Why not distribute them in other maps as well? Or do they already exist somewhere?
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I found that the Bishop's skill: Holy is bugged on mGBA, even in vanilla. It freezes the game for a few seconds and then the animation continues.
Edit: corrected spelling
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Quote from: dck on July 31, 2020, 07:54:03 pmThe idea was always to have Ezel and Babus both share their counter skills, so they both would have six total skills overall.
smart

Quote from: dck on July 31, 2020, 07:54:03 pmEzel the legit way, could you tell me if when he joined he had active abilities slotted in the reaction and support categories?
Yes, he did. But he had only 4 skills, not 6. Oddly, two of those were the same combo.


You've made a purple flan. Could you tell me how to add/change monster palettes? I'm interested in Green/Purple Dragons and Blue/Red/Yellow Malboros.
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Quote from: Leonarth on July 31, 2020, 09:04:56 amOn a sidenote, yesterday I added support for the display of negative stat numbers from items, negative stats show up red in the shop and inventory and actually substract from stats instead of making them huge. If you guys can try that out and test it more for me that would be helpful, if you are interested in the option.
Yess please.

This might interest you:
The game shows MOVE and JUMP values beyond 9 as 0. Seems like it can only display a single digit.

I wanted to ask:
If you could make JP upto 4 digits, why not HP as well? The max DMG is fine being capped at 3 digits.
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I was just wondering:

FFTA2 has an enemy only support ability called Wellspring. Does it stack with Regen?
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I remembered this https://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=12161.0
Even fixed damage skills are not independent of equipped-weapon.
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Quote from: Leonarth on July 27, 2020, 04:57:35 amThe short of it is that when the "Judge PTS?" option is set to Off a different part of the code grants rewards, I was not aware of this, as I just don't use that option. The result was that rewards under these conditions were simply vanilla: 1 point for obeying a law, 10 for Hunting and JP capped is at 10. That last part was the reason JP was being reset.
I was using that option. I did not think it important because a textbox is just cosmetic.
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Quote from: dck on July 27, 2020, 03:43:25 pmCHEER:
I think that's a much more interesting ability than with huge range, are units able to Cheer themselves? I personally would make it only for non-user targets.
I made it self targetable. Stat bonus is only 10%, unlike the 30% from Weapon Atk+.

Quote from: dck on July 27, 2020, 03:43:25 pmDEFEND:
Defense status isn't the best but it does stack with all other defensive buffs, like protect and def+. It can end up making a huge difference, but I don't think it's OP or anything, just useful.
Yes, stacking with Weapon Def+ is huge.

Quote from: dck on July 27, 2020, 03:43:25 pmI'm pretty sure the gun abilities autoapply on hit and won't actually care about it. I might be misremembering though, easy to check I guess.
I checked Nightmare and it's fine there. I tested it on monsters and it does not always apply, but I don't understand why the proc chance is so high? Is this unusual luck?

Quote from: dck on July 27, 2020, 03:43:25 pmBtw, high damage non-weapon physical abilities with dual wield tend to be super busted because it just takes the final attack score, adds skill power then uses that skill power as multiplier. The damage is normally ridiculous which is why I was commenting on Dagger and Firebomb, not sure where I read they had dual wield come to think about it lmao.
I did not know this.
Dual did not affect the damage, but being empty handed vs having a single weapon made a difference.
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Quote from: dck on July 26, 2020, 02:06:54 pmRegarding class changes I'll note down thoughts on jobs below, the only assumptions I'm making are that their available gear is the same and multiclassing is similar too.
Thanks a lot for your time and the feedback.

Quote from: dck on July 26, 2020, 02:06:54 pmRegarding class changes I'll note down thoughts on jobs below, the only assumptions I'm making are that their available gear is the same and multiclassing is similar too.
Gear and class change is same.
Soldier
Replaced Chakra with First aid, power decreased from 99 to 70.

Paladin
Nurse is fine for me. Although the heal is a bit weak AOE status is quite useful.

Black mage
Decreased power of illusions from 32 to 30.

Hunter and Warrior
Sidewinder also removes positive buffs like regen and re-raise.

Dragoon
Yes, recoil is only one hit. Alternative would be to increase recoil from 33% to 50%.

Defender
AOE is defend is not as good as it might seem. I'm still confused between Warcry and Sacrifice.

Gladiator
Decreased power from 65 to 55. I'll look at making him similar to a Parivir, if not I'll remove the effects.

White monk
Replaced Earth heal with Cheer. Cheer = All stat Up + Haste, range 1, zero MP

Bishop
Move decreased from 4 to 3. I'll into adding AOE to White Flame.

Templar
Move decreased from 4 to 3. Replaced Cheer with Earth Heal.

White mage
Raise = power increased from 50 to 65

Beastmaster
Angel whisper = power decreased to 99

Fencer
They still have raipers. Its a nod to the spellblade from ffta2.

Red mage
Thanks, I forgot to decrease power. Fire/Thunder/Ice = power decreased from 40 to 35.

Sniper
Doom Archer never does full HP damage, some times it does 90% MP damage. Doom was added to fit the name and to make up for the loss of Death Sickle.

Gunner
I still need a 4th skill. I'm not sure what else to do here. Also, jobs with 3 move have 80% status defense. So, it's not as bad as vanilla.

Juggler
Range is only 2, to limit status. He got dual wield as well.

Theif
He got similar skill at 80 power with 4 range. Any comments?

Gadgeteer
Gold Battery = power decreased from 99 to 70, MP decreased from 48 to 24
I find it funny that you've not commented on Yellow spring (Defend + Protect + Shell).

Time mage
I want to give him hastega, but the animation does not exist. Sleep/Stop is evasion zero till they wake up.
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QuoteWhat do you mean by "losing any default ones
I made a Bangaa Warrior into a Human. So, I gained a Human and lost a Bangaa.

If I use the unused slots to create Humans, they do not reflect in the wheel. Is there a way to add more playable jobs without exchanging any old ones?

I remember you writing something about this using the Hermatic as an example. The base game not supporting more and the LR wheel being the fix?
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Quote from: Leonarth on July 25, 2020, 08:33:06 pmthe reason it's showing 6 is that you are using my patches
Oh, I forgot you made this. Is there a way to add more jobs to the wheel without losing any default ones?

Quote from: dck on July 25, 2020, 09:26:57 pmyou make some interesting ability choices that I'd need more time to really comment on
Please do

Quote from: dck on July 25, 2020, 09:26:57 pmIt seems like you also restructured racial stats so all races have the same base.
All jobs of a race have the same base stats. Looking at LN, you've done similarly.

Quote from: dck on July 25, 2020, 09:26:57 pmI don't know if you're running the level scaling hack, but if you are you might have some trouble with the starting party being extremely weak due to generating at level 1, and thus having no extra stat points that help them with their class at all.
I have included level scaling as an optional hack, but I did intentionally make the starting party Lv.1. I did this to fix Marche and Montblac having bad bases in vanilla and hence becoming inflexible. Marche being bad magically and Montblanc being bad physically.

Quote from: dck on July 25, 2020, 09:26:57 pmThat's something I myself didn't solve yet, so be sure to mention if you have any ideas!
I tried adding stats to accessories and liked it.

For Magical jobs: Rods and Staves, but not Maces.
They give 20 MAG, gloves give 10 MAG, and boots give another 10 MAG. These 40 MAG points are really good early game. Its worth 4 level ups. I've increased their values slightly to scale late game. I've also made magical variants for every weapon type, for end game use. For example, the Legalace sword has 51 ATK and 15 MAG, while the Chirijiraden has 62 ATK.

Magical Bangaa are not great. They can make do early game, but they will catch up for late game.

For Physical jobs: Not much, just 2H weapons.
2H weapons range from 50 to 99 ATK while 1H range from 28 to 66 ATK. Gloves give 5 ATK and boots give another 5 ATK. It's only 5 because the damage formula for physical weapons adds it to both the character and the weapon's ATK number.
So, effectively, you've got 60 ATK for your very first 2H weapon. Great early game.

I don't have any solution for physical Nu Mou though, at least for the early game. They will catch up later.
Do you have any ideas?

By the way, do know how to increase the range of Souls? Just increasing their range in the AIO does not reflect in-game. I like their animation and the Nu Mou even shoots stuff from the soul when performing a combo.

Quote from: dck on July 25, 2020, 09:26:57 pmI read you were giving every class shields or considering it? Idk if you have a different method
Sephiran found a way here https://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?msg=217685
You can also give ITEM to all playable jobs.

TLDr:
For shields: Change the bytes at 0x080CAD5E to 73 2A 12 DD. Then, select it in AIO.
If you want all jobs with the hidden Item A-Ability, use this: Change the bytes at 0x080C8232 to 73 28 00 DC
If you want only playable and changeable jobs with the hidden Item A-Ability, use this: Change the bytes at 0x080C8232 to 2B 28 00 DC
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Quote from: dck on July 24, 2020, 07:02:48 amIt's pretty cool repurposing the basic filler abilities that jobs won't miss into something special for pseudo-unique characters
The blue mage has the highest number of a-abilities at 21. 19 in vanilla and 2 unused.
Even if we reduce it to 8, we're still left with 13. That's enough for a full job with support and reaction abilities.

Is is possible to add more jobs to the circle? I made the Warrior a human and found that the game can display up to 12 jobs in one circle. If you add another then it only shows 6. This change does not work for any jobs beyond the playable ones, last one being moogle time mage 2B.

Quote from: dck on July 24, 2020, 07:02:48 amfocusing too much on ensuring every class fits the mold of exactly 4 abilities.
I'm trying for 4 or 5 per job.

Quote from: dck on July 24, 2020, 07:02:48 amI think if some spare a bit of individual ability power to have more options, like say elementalist having a wider spread of weaker than average spells, that could help you make them still distinct while having something more to tweak than the raw power/utility in their skillsets.
I don't understand this.
I've already kept the elementalist's 5 damage abilities. I moved their 2 healing abilities to the Bangaa because I gave Viera Curaga and Unicorn. Less redundancy for Viera and unique healing abilities for Bangaa.
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Quote from: dck on July 24, 2020, 06:37:46 amEzel who can't even be recruited yet
I've only finished the main story and I encountered two bugs:
-1- In Llednar's last fight, some ability crashed the game. I just out-sped him the next time.
-2- Li-Grim's Descent crashes the game probably because Totema's behavior was changed.

Quote from: dck on July 24, 2020, 06:37:46 amit's a malboro quad-wielding heal staves that, I think, has double hit.
I have not seen this.
Also, if you made 3 new monsters, why not include them in any of the story missions. I only went searching for the Naga and Pudding because they're mentioned in the OP.

Quote from: dck on July 24, 2020, 06:37:46 amI think the main reason I didn't was because their portrait would look atrocious
I very much liked the golem's shadow portraits. Howsoever you may have added them. If nothing, just leave the portrait blank, like those boxes and statues.

Quote from: dck on July 24, 2020, 06:37:46 amVery nice to have this back and forth! I'll have access to the development files sometime this weekend and in all honesty it's pretty invigorating to see other people working on their own things too, hopefully will have something to contribute soon!
:)
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I have very recently finished your mod. Yes, finished. I bought that mission using a vanilla save. Sped through the game with a hacked character.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: You have some very nice abilities and animations.
-Ether Talon
-Spit rock
-Bangaa with Llednar's jump and more.
-The golems, their sprites, and portraits.
-The panthers can prowl.
-Pudding
-Black monk is great. Even better that Shara gets to be one.
To me, the Assassin is broken because she is the single class to get a melee and a ranged weapon: Katanas and Great bows.
-Jobs with no speed but armor type gives speed. Clever workaround to the fact that FFTA cannot display negative numbers (although it can calculate them).

Quote from: dck on July 23, 2020, 08:22:52 pmHealboro doesn't actually work as intended and breaks animations on aiming at slopes. (delet)
Why not use Saint cross' animation? Holy's animation has a problem with positive numbers.If you mean Pudding then It's not your fault.

I honestly think that you should consider hacking FFTA2. The ability editing is very flexible and the animations have very little limitations. You'd make some great abilities.

Edit: I just tested Holy's animation, and it's bugged in MGBA, even on vanilla. VBA, the old one, is fine though. Tested Sanctus from your mod and it's working fine in VBA.
I'd like to see a purple dragon and a green dragon. Even your Sanctus' description reads "Breath of a divine dragon".