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Gameplay / Re: [FFVII] Cheats/mods for a Cloud-Sephiroth-Vincent party
« on: 2019-05-16 10:11:43 »
Sorry for the incredibly late reply, life ate me.
That said, I wish I knew enough about modding to make my own project, but I definitely don't. I'm surprisingly good at using trial and error to tweak with things I barely understand until I get them working the way I want, but I'm awful at actually coming to understand how things work.
I think I could definitely get the in-battle models working the way I want with this advice, but I'd want the field models changed too and it sounds like that's going to be way above my competence level. I may need to accept that what I want to do can't be done - at least not by someone at my meager skill level - and either accept not modding the characters at all, or going with one of the pre-made mods even if they're not quite what I'm looking for.
If I could create a project of my own - if I had the time, energy, and game-hacking knowledge necessary - I think my ideal mod would be one that replaces Cait Sith with Sephiroth, complete with altered story and dialogue in a sort of alternate universe interpretation of the main game. It would involve the Sephiroth that accompanies you being a fragment of the real Sephiroth that formed from the Lifestream(similar to the remnants from Advent Children) - Sephiroth's remaining humanity and compassion, rebelling against the insanity and hatred that took over the rest of him. Rather than sending Cait Sith with you, Reeve sends this splinter of Sephiroth with the party - who has probably come into contact (if not conflict) with Shinra since his both literal and figurative reformation, and may well have encountered and possibly started working with Reeve as they'd both be conscientious objectors to Shinra at this point. Obviously there'd be no point in sending a battle robot with the party as assistance/a point of contact when splinter-Sephiroth could serve the purpose far better. I think it'd be a really cool idea and I'm only regretful that my own lack of technical know-how means that there's no way on god's green earth I could ever make it.
(If anyone with actual skill likes the idea, though, and wants to make it a reality, I'm putting it out there as a concept for a reason. Hell, I'd offer to help write the dialogue.)
That said, I wish I knew enough about modding to make my own project, but I definitely don't. I'm surprisingly good at using trial and error to tweak with things I barely understand until I get them working the way I want, but I'm awful at actually coming to understand how things work.
I think I could definitely get the in-battle models working the way I want with this advice, but I'd want the field models changed too and it sounds like that's going to be way above my competence level. I may need to accept that what I want to do can't be done - at least not by someone at my meager skill level - and either accept not modding the characters at all, or going with one of the pre-made mods even if they're not quite what I'm looking for.
If I could create a project of my own - if I had the time, energy, and game-hacking knowledge necessary - I think my ideal mod would be one that replaces Cait Sith with Sephiroth, complete with altered story and dialogue in a sort of alternate universe interpretation of the main game. It would involve the Sephiroth that accompanies you being a fragment of the real Sephiroth that formed from the Lifestream(similar to the remnants from Advent Children) - Sephiroth's remaining humanity and compassion, rebelling against the insanity and hatred that took over the rest of him. Rather than sending Cait Sith with you, Reeve sends this splinter of Sephiroth with the party - who has probably come into contact (if not conflict) with Shinra since his both literal and figurative reformation, and may well have encountered and possibly started working with Reeve as they'd both be conscientious objectors to Shinra at this point. Obviously there'd be no point in sending a battle robot with the party as assistance/a point of contact when splinter-Sephiroth could serve the purpose far better. I think it'd be a really cool idea and I'm only regretful that my own lack of technical know-how means that there's no way on god's green earth I could ever make it.
(If anyone with actual skill likes the idea, though, and wants to make it a reality, I'm putting it out there as a concept for a reason. Hell, I'd offer to help write the dialogue.)