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Xardas

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Changing the battle sprite of weapons
« on: January 10, 2017, 03:54:10 AM »
Hi guys,

I was wondering if changing the battle sprite of weapons would be possible with the knowledge acquired so far. I looked in the ROM map, and I couldn't find the appropriate section (but I'm positive that it's just like the prices not in the weapon data).

So here's my problem:
I want one of the sealed weapons to be a flying hammer (Thor's Hammer), and another one to be a trident. So far I thought of two approaches, but I'm stuck at both.
Approach I: Change the battle sprites of Rune Axe and Holy Lance into that of Thor's Hammer and Trident respectively. But as stated above, I don't have a clue where this information is stored.
Approach II: Change the events in the Sealed Castle into recieving Thor's Hammer and Trident instead. Although I can do that with treasures, I am stuck with other possibilities of treasure hunting (no, not talking about stealing this time :lungs:).
Thanks to FF5e Map editor, I could figure out something about the NPCs
I'll just give you Holy Lance as an example:
CE/105B: FC (00 )
CE/405D: FF (16 06 )
CE/1060: FC (01 )
CE/1062: FF (17 06 )
CE/1065: FC (02 )
CE/1067: FF (18 06 )
CE/106A: FF (0D 00 )
CE/106D: F0 ()
CE/106E: 046D
CE/1070: 0464
I wanted to change "Recieve Holy Lance" into "Recieve Trident". Holy Lance's item ID is 1F, but I can't find any 1F here, so I'm afraid that recieving the Holy Lance is not contained here.

Can anyone help me with one of those approaches please?
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Re: Changing the battle sprite of weapons
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2017, 06:25:23 AM »
Hey Xardas,

changing battle sprite of a weapon is tightly connected with Spell Animation Guide To my knowledge thats the only topic here that is connected with your question. Especially check 'Weapon Guide' attachment!
Also I think weapon sprites are not compressed, so you should be able to locate them in the ROM & visualize. LightPhoenix is the only person that have extended research on the topic, so you may try to PM him.

Changing event drop ... noisercross had some progress on the subject.
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Xardas

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Re: Changing the battle sprite of weapons
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2017, 07:43:17 AM »
...aaand sold! Thanks for the hint with the Spell Animation Guide.
I wasn't able to find LightPhoenix's weapon guide in the wiki. So I looked for the spell guide forum thread and bam - it's there.
And it worked perfectly, I now have my legendary trident *insert evil laughter here*.
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Re: Changing the battle sprite of weapons
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2017, 09:02:01 AM »
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I wasn't able to find LightPhoenix's weapon guide in the wiki. So I looked for the spell guide forum thread and bam - it's there.
Hehe its in the forum not wiki. The link I gave you is for the forum. 'Weapon Guide' is an attachment at that thread :)

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And it worked perfectly, I now have my legendary trident *insert evil laughter here*.
Congratulation! Would you like to share some screenshots or maybe some video?
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Re: Changing the battle sprite of weapons
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2017, 12:29:51 PM »
Quote from: Squall on January 10, 2017, 09:02:01 AM
Hehe its in the forum not wiki. The link I gave you is for the forum. 'Weapon Guide' is an attachment at that thread :)
Well that's awkward - I somehow managed to overlook that you sent an internal link so I accessed the spell guid via wiki, where a seperate weapon guide was mentioned. whoops
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Congratulation! Would you like to share some screenshots or maybe some video?
I will post screenshoots and videos if there is something to show. Well actually there is, but I already know that some of those things will be changed once again, so I'm not posting them yet (For example: I renamed the Holy Lance "Gungnir" and removed the Holy element. But then I changed my mind and wanted it to be a special trident (don't want to spoil the name), but I wasn't sure I would be able to change that. So now I can, but the name is still "Gungnir" ^^)
I know how this looks like - I just ask things and give nothing back, so I look like a douche. But I promise, there will be something to see, and you'll be able to see some of these before April.
And before the screenshots, there are still 2 questions or 3 to be answered.

But there is something I can offer to you all in the meantime: I know some Japanese, so feel free to ask me anything if there is something you want to be translated. I'm not native, but I claim to be better than Google translate.
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Re: Changing the battle sprite of weapons
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2017, 01:34:40 PM »
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I know how this looks like - I just ask things and give nothing back, so I look like a douche.
Not at all !!!
I've asked for screenshot, not because I expect to be given something, but because I'm also interested in handling visuals of weapons (include the animations). That's something  that I would love to add in the Viewer :)
Don't worry we are here to help each other as much as we can (sharing same passion about FF and FF5 in particular).

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But there is something I can offer to you all in the meantime: I know some Japanese
woah respect ^^ Every additional language somebody learn is a treasure. Japanese here is high valued one  :laugh:
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