Originally posted by Dangus ))<>(( Taargus:

Number 3 there is exactly the issue i think an enthusiastic modder is going to run into when they try to start changing things. If the old sprites don't fit into the new sprite sheets via 2x 3x or 4x, then they aren't going to look right... or move right. I'd start with the world tiles though... seems a good first step.

The thing is, with V at least, we can already start changing it... I think someone already successfuly changed Bartz to the old sprite weeks ago. But V has 1861 assets... that's gonna take a LONG time to fix.

Personally, I actually think the new sprites are fine... they aren't award winning by any stretch, but they aren't THAT bad. My personal hang up was always with their mind boggling decision to obscure everything under that filter. This should have always been an option, not a mandated prescription. But whatever, it's been fixed for now.... well at least until SE updates the game again (if they do).

I agree, the newer sprites are.. passable, I suppose. They're not really good per'se, but they could be worse. My issue was always the filter as well, so now that we've removed that I'm pretty satisfied honestly.

That said, I'd love to see some artists take a crack at drawing new sprites for both of these games, particularly if they do it in the same style as the PSP FF ports. (Which in my humble opinion, were truly beautiful games aesthetically.)

Originally posted by Davoodinator:

those are amazing. Thank you Krisan Thyme.

Do you have an idea when we will have a public release of the tool i saw in the tweets for editing the assets?

No, I do not. Nyxo is working on it, so just give him some time to do his thing.

They're both up now:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/ff-modding/discussions/1/517142892058143800/
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/ff-modding/discussions/1/451848854986717197/

Originally posted by Dangus ))<>(( Taargus:

Originally posted by Nyxo:

Go nuts. More exposure can only be good for the community :)
Everybody needs to experience the game how it's meant to be!

Awesome. I'll share it now!

Would what you learned on this fix work for V?

I've already managed to get it to work in FFV, actually. Example: http://i.imgur.com/eEPCMnQ.png
Credit for the work is still on Nyxo, I just ported it over lazily between other projects. I'll setup a release for it and make a proper VI release thread in Nyxo's honor here before too much longer.

You can just redownload it, and repatch. You don't need to restore backups. This was a minor thing, didn't cause any damage just a little goof from me uploading the wrong archive, heh.

Originally posted by Ainz:

Thanks for the MOD Krisan, color xbox button mod is awesome :D
btw, I think you had some typo in Install Outerworld Addons.bat

Here:
echo Patching JP Files...
echo ==================================================
cd .\mod
Cocoon.exe inject2 filelist2a.win32.bin white_img2a.win32.bin ".\Data" db\resident\wdbpack.bin

JP Files are filelist2v.win32.bin and white_img2v.win32.bin, right?

Yeah there's a small error in it, I noticed it earlier. I uploaded a slightly earlier build by accident where I hadn't finished the batch process yet. I'll have the proper one up shortly.

EDIT:
Done. I was actually going to wait to do this until I released something else later today-ish, but now works too.

Originally posted by Dangus ))<>(( Taargus:

https://twitter.com/rivernyxx/status/677714786541510656

little bit of news.

Edit: Oh wait is that you Nyxo?

Yep, that's him. And that's me in his replies.

Originally posted by Dangus ))<>(( Taargus:

Originally posted by Krisan Thyme:

Something is being worked on now, so just wait a little while longer.

That's good to hear. I've had to throw in the towel in regards to removing the bilinear filter on V and VI... maybe something will come from breaking into the .obb?

Already thrown in the towel? Shame to hear. I don't have the time to pursue it myself, but yeah it's not as simple a fix as some seem to think.

Originally posted by terderrer:

i know this is a stretch since

a. people are more worried about the graphics
b. graphics are more easy to minipulate then battle ui code
c. have not seen people talk about it bugging them yet

but is there any possible way to mod the in battle user interface? it bugs me that they changed how it works

Possible? Sure. Will it be done? Who knows. I have no plans for V and VI currently, I'm too busy as it is, but if I don't do it someone else might. File access will happen soon for VI, so we'll see what happens after that.

Originally posted by Legion:

Anyway to install this manually? Can't use Cocoon.exe on my end.. would like to be able to just drag and drop files ol' school style if possible. :)

Speaking of the Outerworld Addons mod btw

No, the files are packed and encrypted, you have to use Cocoon.
If you're running the BAT file as Admin, don't do that, it messes up the installer. If that's not your issue, you'll have to be a lot more clear on what the problem is.

Something is being worked on now, so just wait a little while longer.