[FE7] Skills

[Anthony N]

So I was planning to create custom skills for my FE7 hack. But most threads on skills i've read are documentation on FE8 -_-

I plan to insert ASM codes then maybe repoint the addresses over the old ones in the Class/Character Ability array (if there's one) used in Nightmare's Class and Character Editor modules. Can anyone tell me if this is feasible? :p (btw if anyone knows the pointers to the Class/Character Ability array in Nightmare's modules please let me know)

[Brendor]

It all depends on what you're trying to do. Somethink like Patience is just unit->hit += 15 whereas, because skills don't exist in FE7, a skill like Sol involves VRAM manipulation and actually editing the battle code. I started something on this but Pi has made more progress than me on this. You could wait for him to release his source, or like I said, if it's a simple thing and you know assembly you can probably just do stuff yourself

[CT075]

i don't think the class/character ability arrays work like that; they're bitmasks so you'd have to rewrite a pretty huge amount of processing code

for that matter anyone capable of this wouldn't refer to anything of the sort as "ASM codes"

[Anthony N]

*sigh* that's a bummer... so the only "favorable" alternative for me is FE8 then? (with Hextator's patches...)

then again, i'm curious to know where the class/characters/weapons abilities' bits retrieve data from...

[CT075]

it just checks if the relevant bit is set in any routine it would be needed in