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Graphical / Re: [WIP] APZ's New Canon Cloud

« on: 2012-12-24 17:58:50 »

Enjoying a well earned break. I'm going to finish a few characters I have, release my Doom 3 mod (it's done, just not packed for the internet yet) THEN! I'll start on New Canon Cloud again

Oh the excitement.

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Graphical / Re: [WIP] APZ's New Canon Cloud

« on: 2012-08-03 05:52:21 »

Well, you have to consider APZ that I have in fact not seen any of the WIP since you started this in the first part (the one you just announced the scrapping of.) Also, if you can get the original APZ Cloud (the one that is 100% original) online, let us know. I very much like the screens you dropped in the thread.

Cheers,

Corigne

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Graphical / Re: [WIP] APZ's New Canon Cloud

« on: 2012-08-02 09:13:29 »

Hey APZ, I've been gone a long time and I'm glad to hear you've been making progress.  Cheers mate.

Shoot me a message some time, I'm trying to get back in touch with the community since my move put me out of touch with everyone.

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Aali's Custom FF7/FF8 Driver / Re: Aali's driver [v 0.7.11b] Help/Bugs/Suggestions

« on: 2012-05-31 20:02:47 »

Quick bump on my previous post.  I don't normally do this, but this model swap issue is restricting my ability to play with custom the custom cloud model.

Cheers,


Corigne

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Q-Gears / Re: Current state.

« on: 2012-05-14 20:37:55 »

As usual first advise - grab lastest version os source from merkurial, compile it, maybe compile utilites an try to understand how it works. Feel free to ask questions =)

Will do, thanks for the response.

Cheers,

Corigne

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Releases / Re: [REL] Menu Overhaul Project

« on: 2012-05-13 08:09:19 »

Can you post your opengl config file for Aali's custom driver? I have a hunch that the problem might be a conflict between settings chosen in the menu overhaul and the Aali config file.  Just a hunch.

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Releases / Re: New RedXIII model

« on: 2012-05-13 08:06:54 »

Ahhh. Well that makes things a bit clearer. I must have missed that before. I'm not a fair hand, as I said before, but this makes me want to try doing some model/texture work of my own.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Chocobos. (An introduction, and query.)

« on: 2012-05-13 03:12:44 »

Only staff have the ability to delete posts. Just change the content to 'delete this' and someone will get round to it.

Noted. Thank you.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Chocobos. (An introduction, and query.)

« on: 2012-05-13 01:24:05 »

Wonderful. I've decided for starters to pick up AoA: HAL for reference before I even touch the binaries.  I appreciate your direction on this one, I hope to quickly grow to be a productive member of the community.  Also, I think I'm going to join on the Q-Gears project as running FF7 on linux and mac is something I am rather desirous of, and building an open source engine would mean having source docs to work with when writing mods.  Getting Q-Gears to a beta phase is a definite must, as I think it would help this community grow to encompass even more users.

Cheers,

Corigne

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trees

« on: 2012-05-13 01:12:21 »

Relevant.

I see what you did there.

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Q-Gears / Re: Current state.

« on: 2012-05-12 21:19:05 »

Hey, Akari.  You just got another developer at your disposal. Well... err, "new" developer. I just got my first development related job and I'm still going through uni, though I'm technically on break for a few months.

I'll have to pick up C++, but that shouldn't be any harder than any other language I've had to learn on the go.

I'm going to wait until later this weekend, or maybe tonight if I can manage it, to register on source-forge and the bug tracker.  I'm also familiar enough with SVN to get myself in trouble, so I'll continue to brush up on its use at work as I have been. (we use it for our development).

If you have anything that needs being done, I'd be happy to take a whack at it with my Conformer.

Cheers,

Corigne

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Chocobos. (An introduction, and query.)

« on: 2012-05-12 20:58:27 »

Well, I'm interested in possibly spending some time on the world map if that's an area lacking in understanding.  I should get familiar with the assembler first though. I'll take a look and start there  As for FF IX, it's the only FF I haven't owned, so I will have to get back to you on that one once I've managed to find a PSX copy.  My first goal is to write a mod that accesses and displays the item library in an interface that allows you to add entries for new items in FF VII; where a users can select the appropriate models and textures to accompany the item's stats all in a nice gui that helps avoid direct lgp unpacking/packing.  (Personally with my experience as a user I don't mind messing around in the lgp databases, but I've heard a lot of end users aren't confident in doing so.)  That's a bit of a long term goal, but a goal all the same.

Perhaps I should look into any current progress in reverse engineering the FFVII item databases, and see what  I can do to help.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trees

« on: 2012-05-12 20:38:08 »

I like trees. Trees don't engage in pointless flamewars or beg for ripped models. Nor do they necro ancient threads with requests for links or post stupid joke threads.

Some people here could learn a lot from trees.

My thoughts exactly Bosola.

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Graphical / Re: HD vincent project!

« on: 2012-05-12 19:49:22 »

Well, I dunno. I think they suit him, since he's been stuck in a coffin for god knows how many years. I bet he still has one of these babies too: http://tinyurl.com/2czqzb6

Hehehe. Goodness me-- I remember having an old Nokia.

Vincent may have been in a coffin for nigh on half a decade, but in the FF7 universe it's quite clear his weapons, evident from his flashback in dirge, are fairly modern.  Vincent was also a member of the Turks, giving him access to next generation technology as part of that task force.   So if you think about it... last generation's next generation is this generation's modern standard. (In theory.  Often the weapons he would probably be given would be prototypes of the models available today.) 

However I digress, for it's pointless to make the above point when he is acquiring modern weapons from shops across the land.  Go with the modern weapons is my vote.

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Aali's Custom FF7/FF8 Driver / Re: Aali's driver [v 0.7.11b] Help/Bugs/Suggestions

« on: 2012-05-12 19:38:31 »

No, you don't need to do that anymore.

I'm glad you could clarify that, I was just being safe. Cheers.

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Releases / Re: New RedXIII model

« on: 2012-05-12 19:29:27 »

I would say keep it simple, give his body a bit more definition and shape. (Remember he's a lean creature.  You can accomplish this with a little bit of polygon tweaking.)  Also, I like the texture on the most recent model.  Do you think you would be able skin him with a nice smooth orange/red color set as in the original concept art? You could reduce the opacity on the texture, but the style of the game makes me think some nice smooth colors would look a bit better. Great work so far! I'm a poor hand with models and textures myself, so you're already doing well in my book.

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Aali's Custom FF7/FF8 Driver / Re: Aali's driver [v 0.7.11b] Help/Bugs/Suggestions

« on: 2012-05-12 19:08:31 »

I didn't have that issue when I installed the driver, but to be safe I would play through with a vanilla installation and save your first save once in each of the ten memory slots.

Also, if you want to use graphical mods I know the Team Avalanche mod is stable with the driver, and in fact requires it.  You can find that here.  That one gives you updated world graphics, and comes with an updated Barrett model and texture.  As for other character replacements, most anything else you'll find aren't technically legal.  However if you're willing to wait I know APZ Freak is working on a new cannon specific Cloud model, you can keep an eye on the project here.

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FF8 Tools / Re: [0.6b] Deling - a FF8 field editor

« on: 2012-05-12 00:57:49 »

While I don't know Greek, I'd be happy to look into this for you.  As far as I know all you'd have to do is find someone willing to translate the script, or find a translated script. Then you could change the character set to match the script, or something along those lines.

I imagine changing the character set is something that's been done before around here, especially considering the Team Avalanche mod does an entire overhaul on the game's interface.

Cheers,

Corigne

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Completely Unrelated / Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Chocobos. (An introduction, and query.)

« on: 2012-05-11 23:15:25 »

Hello fellow code-junkies.

I'm fairly new to the world of coding compared to some-- having only a meager four years experience in the craft, and have been using/tweaking/building/gaming with computers since before I could walk.  A few months ago I got my first programming oriented job, and as my responsibilities have progressed I've found my thirst for code has grown.  I started with only two years experimentation in Java, and self taught C, Javascript, Bash, some Objective-C, and HTTP in that short time.  As you can imagine, while I've been writing algorithms for a little while and my logic is quite sound, I'm still new to the world of mods and hacking.  I've always enjoyed reading this forum, but never had the time to join.  Now that I've joined, I want to develop some necessary skills to take the mods and hacks I enjoy using-- and begin creating them.

I'm curious as to what projects are out there, and in finding who would be willing to break this greenhorn in.

If not, what would people like to see?

Cheers,

Corigne

EDIT: While this is slightly misplaced-- I wanted to draw the attention of only the modding/hacking community here.

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Aali's Custom FF7/FF8 Driver / Re: Aali's driver [v 0.7.11b] Help/Bugs/Suggestions

« on: 2012-05-11 17:08:40 »

I'm a long time FF7 veteran, but I'm new to the forums.  Though in all honesty I've been using them as a resource for modding my copy of FF7 PC for a few years now.

Anyway-- to get to the meat of the problem...

I'm using version 0.7.11 of Aali's custom driver, and a friend threw a custom Cloud model my way.  I have packed and repacked battle.lgp many times in the past with custom models and such with no issue-- yet upon entering battle I encountered a critical error.  I've confirmed that the modification of the files did in fact cause the problem through some simple testing and now I just want to know if I've done something wrong to upset the almighty render gods.

I would attach the required logs and crash dumps normally, but I don't appear to have the proper permissions.  Below are the links to the google docs hosted files.

Config : https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3fw6onZOYJsT2dtc0pXRWt5R2s
APP.log : https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3fw6onZOYJsbG9Gc1dMLWdIQUE
crash.dmp : https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3fw6onZOYJsOVZZczVuUm9xQjQ

Best regards and thanks in advance,

Corigne