If someone who does have that skill set and wants to help it come to fruition ever sees this, I'm still down to do it.

Originally posted by mugel90:

Not to be a nuisance, but is this project still alive? I looked at some of your amazing sprite work Plucky and I gotta say, it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I’d pay money for a mod like this, it’s that good. Please don’t give up. Looking at your work with Terra, you’re giving us what Square miserably failed to deliver.

This exact project is probably dead. My hope was replacing the sprites would just be a first step in fixing up the entire port to not look like garbage. The tools to do that have never materialized and I'm not super interested in only fixing a few things and still having the final game look like a hodgepodge of different resolutions and art styles. That's the part I hate the most about this sloppy port and it's not something I have the knowledge base to fix myself. I'm not a programmer or a reverse engineer of programs.

There is a lot of art that can't be replaced using the tool. It's very limited. The one thing that can be easily edited is sprites, but even that has quite a few restrictions.

hehehehe... dongnoodles...

My hard drive died so I've been without computer for a few days. I'm just getting back up and running.

It's really hard to get an actual good cape animation as part of the walk animation is also the standing animation. Whatever you do is going to be a compromise from what a cape should look like.

Those RPGMaker assets are the right direction as they are working with the same limitation. Chrono Trigger allowed a lot more animation frames for the walk cycles than FF6 does.

Originally posted by Siethasay:

And does anyone know anything about being able to change the Magitek Armor? It would be a shame if this sprite I was working on wasn't able to be used...

The magitek armor is sprite sheet "charff". The game just kind of chops the driver's sprite and sticks it on top. I didn't find any kind of mask sprite so I don't think there's any control over how characters are stuck into the armor.

The super limited animation options, the bizarre use of multiple resolutions for different parts of the game, the horrible UI, and the inaccessibility to a lot of the art are the things that made me want to explore moving away from the included exe and try modding it a different route. But that's also a lot more work which is why I've been silent for a while.

Originally posted by Siethasay:

Since you started Terra, I was going to use your sprites as bases. Do you have any opinions of what would be a good start? I can honestly do Mog since it would be the easiest to do a sprite sheet of. LOL.

I'm personally still not completely happy with Terra's hair. I really like the bob cut that she has in several of the images and I tried merging it with the ponytail haircut she has in other images. I might just want to give her one or the other at this point.

As to where to start with animation, that's one of the biggest things that cut my enthusiasm. The animations are such convoluted mergings of reused frames it really limits how outside the box you can go, and it just bumbed me out.

Also your new hands are definitely better than what I came up with initially.

I see you deleted Celes. I gave her a try.

https://i.imgur.com/R6cY4ui.gif