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Hades Workshop

I wrote a post[forums.qhimm.com] on Qhimm about the future of HW. I suggest you take a look at it if you're interested in contributing to the project :)

I had this problem during the tool development ; I thought it didn't happen anymore.
A solution for you would be just to copy-paste the created file "resources.assets" and not the .dll. There are few texts in the .dll and none of them can be modified with HW (the only useful ones are the default name of the characters).

Get the non-modified Assembly-CSharp.dll back and care only of the resources.assets.

How do you work with Hades Workshop: did you translate everything in one shot or did you do that in several sessions? In the second case, how do you resume your work?

That looping function for Ozma is split into 3 parts:
1) An initialization thing, which sets up the targets of Holy lvl 4 and Death Lvl 5, and Ozma's elemental absorbtion, and other stuff like that.
2) The system to replenish Ozma's ATB as soon as someone else has an action.
3) The ending move, that launches once Ozma's HP are under 10,000. It triggers Ozma's death animation.

Change that 3rd part into this :

if ( #( SV_FunctionEnemy[HP] <=$ 10000 ) ) { if (VAR_B7_60 < 3) { set SV_FunctionEnemy[HP] =$ FirstOf(SV_FunctionEnemy[MAX_HP]) set VAR_B7_60++ } else { while ( IsAttacking != 0 ) { Wait( 1 ) } if ( GetBattleState != 4 ) { return } RunBattleCode( 32, 0 ) while ( GetBattleState != 1 ) { Wait( 1 ) } set #( SV_Target = SV_FunctionEnemy ) RunBattleCode( 36, 9 ) AttackSpecial( 12 ) set SV_FunctionEnemy[STAND_ANIMATION] =$ 1 while ( IsAttacking != 0 ) { Wait( 1 ) } set SV_FunctionEnemy[DEFEATED_ON] =$ 1 set VAR_B5_199 |= 8 RunBattleCode( 33, 1 ) return } }

Also, before parsing, change the "allocate 60" into "allocate 61" because otherwise VAR_B7_60 is not a valid variable.

However, your calculation is wrong. With the script above, it makes
4*55,536 = 22,2144

There's no need to run the script below 20,000 instead of 10,000, and since Ozma dies under 10,000 HP normally, its default max HP is 55,536 in-game.

Yes. I'm porting a mod I made for the PSX version, Alternate Fantasy.
I grab the occasion to improve it a bit. Should be available in the week.

Congrats ;)

It is not possible to directly increase the max HP more than 65535, but you can use a trick to bypass the problem. You have to edit the AI script for that. I copy-paste the detailed answer I made when the question was asked for Kuja. The same remarks about Curaga and his counter attacks hold for Ozma.

For AI script, the functions are usually the followings.
- A single main function that usually only inits the enemies with a InitObject call.
- For each enemies, a set of function that can be made of :
-- Init : usually defines which regular attacks the enemy will use and their mana cost (set the caret on the numbers and look at the fields "Attack List" and "4-tuple" on the left).
-- ATB : what the enemy does when its ATB is full.
-- Loop : a function that check the enemy's state each frame and may respond to it accordingly. It always ends with the lines "Wait(1)" and "loop". That's the one you're looking for. (optional but frequent)
-- Counter : what the enemy does when it has been hitted (optional)
-- CounterEx : what the enemy does when it casts a spell on himself or anytime the "counter" doesn't trigger for some reason (optional)
-- Death : what happens when the enemy dies (optional)

For most bosses, you may have noticed that they display 10 000 more HP than they should. Trance Kuja's HP is 55535 in-game, not 65535. That's because the looping function is scripted so when Kuja goes under 10 000 HP, he speaks, cast Ultima and ends the fight.
That's this part of the code specifically :
if ( #( SV_FunctionEnemy[HP] <$ 10000 ) ) { // Wait until Kuja no longer attacks while ( IsAttacking != 0 ) { Wait( 1 ) } // Dunno... Maybe a check of "The battle has started" if ( GetData_30 != 4 ) { return } // Freeze the ATB and hide it. RunBattleCode( 32, 0 ) while ( GetData_30 != 1 ) { Wait( 1 ) } // Cast Ultima (the speech is included in it) set #( SV_Target = SV_PlayerTeam ) AttackSpecial( 5 ) while ( !( VAR_B5_199 & 16 ) ) { Wait( 1 ) } RunBattleCode( 40, 1 ) set VAR_B5_199 &= 65519 Wait( 1 ) while ( !( VAR_B5_199 & 16 ) ) { Wait( 1 ) } // Fade filter and ends the fight FadeFilter( 0, 1, 0, 255, 255, 255 ) set VAR_B5_199 &= 65519 while ( IsAttacking != 0 ) { Wait( 1 ) } set SV_FunctionEnemy[DEFEATED_ON] =$ 1 RunBattleCode( 33, 5 ) return }

So, you see, to check if an enemy's HP is under 10 000, that's the line "#( SV_FunctionEnemy[HP] <$ 10000 )".
Using simply "SV_FunctionEnemy[HP] <$ 10000" should also work. The purpose of the # operator and $ operator modifier is to handle multiple characters at once.
For instance, the expression "#( SV_PlayerTeam[HP] ==$ 1 )" will return true if there is at least 1 character in the team whose HP is 1.
However, "SV_PlayerTeam[HP] == 1" won't work. It will return true only if the 1st character's HP is 1 and all the others' are 0.

More precisely, suppose you have 4 characters in the team and their HP are 100, 113, 210 and 95.
"SV_PlayerTeam[HP]" returns a list : [100, 113, 210, 95]
"SV_PlayerTeam[HP] >=$ 100" also returns a list : [1, 1, 1, 0]
"#( SV_PlayerTeam[HP] >=$ 100 )" returns the amount of bits on : 3

So, how do you increase the HP limit? By doing exactly what you suggested ! You take a variable ("VAR_B7_60" is fine for that purpose and completly unused), increment it and heal each time Kuja goes under 10 000 and launch the end of the battle only once it reaches a certain amount.
You also need to set the local variable counter to more than 61 in order to use "VAR_B7_60". That means you must replace the "allocate [NB]" by "allocate 61" in the local variable panel.

To heal, use this line :
set SV_FunctionEnemy[HP] =$ FirstOf(SV_FunctionEnemy[MAX_HP])
"FirstOf" converts a list [value1, value2, value3, value4] into value1.
You can also use :
set SV_FunctionEnemy[HP] =$ 65535

You may want to init VAR_B7_60 to 0 in the enemy's initialization function but it's always initialized to 0 by default.

The resultant code should look something like this :
Function func_Trance_Kuja_Loop if ( !VAR_B7_0 ) { set VAR_B7_0 = 1 while ( !( GetData_40 & 8 ) ) { Wait( 1 ) set VAR_B5_206 = GetRandom } set SV_FunctionEnemy[54] =$ 0 while ( GetData_30 != 1 ) { Wait( 1 ) set VAR_B5_206 = GetRandom } RunBattleCode( 35, 0 ) while ( GetData_30 != 4 ) { Wait( 1 ) } } if ( #( SV_FunctionEnemy[HP] <$ 10000 ) ) { if ( VAR_B7_60 < 5 ) { set VAR_B7_60++ set SV_FunctionEnemy[HP] =$ FirstOf(SV_FunctionEnemy[MAX_HP]) } else { while ( IsAttacking != 0 ) { Wait( 1 ) } if ( GetData_30 != 4 ) { return } RunBattleCode( 32, 0 ) while ( GetData_30 != 1 ) { Wait( 1 ) } set #( SV_Target = SV_PlayerTeam ) AttackSpecial( 5 ) while ( !( VAR_B5_199 & 16 ) ) { Wait( 1 ) } RunBattleCode( 40, 1 ) set VAR_B5_199 &= 65519 Wait( 1 ) while ( !( VAR_B5_199 & 16 ) ) { Wait( 1 ) } FadeFilter( 0, 1, 0, 255, 255, 255 ) set VAR_B5_199 &= 65519 while ( IsAttacking != 0 ) { Wait( 1 ) } set SV_FunctionEnemy[DEFEATED_ON] =$ 1 RunBattleCode( 33, 5 ) return } } Wait( 1 ) loop

Note that Kuja's counter-attacks are based on his current HP. You may want to change that also. And you may also want not to heal Kuja completly (let's say bring his HP to 55535 instead of 65535) so his Curaga still heals him.
Hope you'll be more at ease after that ^^

Note that if you import the file "LocalVariableSettings_v1.hws" (using Open Mod), the variables of AI scripts will be given names fitting their purpose, so it'll be a bit easier to understand the script.

However, there may be bugs in-game when Grand Lethal hits twice.
EDIT : Nevermind, the bugs are not triggering anymore in the Steam version. That's a good news ^^

And here it is[www.hiveworkshop.com] :D

I'll create a thread for bug-fixing mods this week-end. Also, I'll import Alternate Fantasy to Steam !

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Memoria - Engine modifications

Yes. But you know there's already a beta version available?
If all the modifications are not possible, you can check at least what's possible (the display of the game's data and what you'll be able to modify works with only few problems).

Smoothly. There's still one big bug I need to take care of, and I have no idea of how long it'll take, plus I need to fix a few minor things, and after that, it'll be good.

Btw Albeoris, the big bug I'm talking about is happening when I change the virtual memory size of the Assembly.dll. The game doesn't launch properly after that. Any idea of what it could be?

EDIT : Nevermind, the problem was something else. It was the fact that "null" is not the same as "0" in C# ^^"

I don't find it to be such a good idea... there will be NPC handled by the engine (Assembly.dll) and NPC handled by the game's code (.eb files).
My tool can already modify the game's code, and since there won't be any memory preloading problem (as there are in the PSX version), it will be able to handle NPCs the normal way (both those that are in place and the custom ones).

How would you do that?
NPC managing is not in the Assembly.dll by default. Do you modify the .eb files as well?

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