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Library of the Ancients => Final Fantasy IV Research & Development => Topic started by: Deathlike2 on January 25, 2009, 09:19:54 AM
Title: Armor Modding Info
Post by: Deathlike2 on January 25, 2009, 09:19:54 AM
I'm pretty sure this isn't new info, but I started to mess around with some of the armor data, which I've found a lot more meaningful now..
Note that the most significant/leading bit in this info is bit 0.
Byte 0: Bit 0 - Metallic Bit 1-7 - Magic Evasion value
Byte 1: Bit 0-7 - Defense value
Byte 2: Bit 0-7 - Evasion value
Byte 3: Bit 0-7 - Magic Defense value
Byte 4: Bit 0 - Shield Bonus? (Defense Multiplier += level/16) Bit 1-7 - Elemental/Status table
Byte 5: Race Resistances
Byte 6: Bit 0 - Ring Bit 1 - Armor Bit 2 - Shield Bit 3-7 - Character Equippability table
Byte 7: Bit 0 - Str Bit 1 - Agi Bit 2 - Vit Bit 3 - Wis Bit 4 - Will Bits 5-7 - special table that dictates bonuses
Note: When any of the bytes 0-4 = 1, the bonuses are positive. When any of the bytes 0-4 = 0, the bonus is 0 or negative.
Title: Re: Armor Modding Info
Post by: Phoenix on January 25, 2009, 04:56:07 PM
That matches my own data, for the most part. I believe the byte 6 armor classification bits are:
bits 0-1: 00: Shield 01: Helmet 10: Armor 11: Gauntlet / Ring bit 2: ?
However, I'd also like to point out that these don't actually work. It's another case of the bits matching, but not useable. The determination of which pieces of armor equip where is hard-coded.
Also, I think you meant to write "bit" in byte 7, and in your last sentence. Just to supplement your info, the table for those three bits that determine the stat bonuses is like this: 000: +3 100: +5, -5 to all stats not increased 001: +5 101: +10, -10 to all stats not increased 010: +10 110: +15, -15 to all stats not increased 011: +15 111: +5, -10 to all stats not increased
Title: Re: Armor Modding Info
Post by: Deathlike2 on January 25, 2009, 07:05:09 PM
Yea...
For a moment, I thought you could apply the shield bonus to non-shield data, but I must've been crazy for a bit.
Title: Re: Armor Modding Info
Post by: Phoenix on January 26, 2009, 06:04:32 PM
I did some testing with that a while back, and what I found was that if you deactivated the shield bit on shields, it gave the following changes:
[defense value]+4 is added to attack [defense% value]/2-49 is added to attack%
Not sure what coding does this, and I'm sure it's not intentional, but it's interesting nonetheless.