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Troubleshooting / Re: 7th Heaven won't update to 3.1.0.0
« on: 2023-06-11 04:54:16 »
IIRC coming from pre-3.0 is going to require downloading and installing via the installer rather than the updater because of new dependencies.
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7th Heaven / Re: 7th Heaven- No movies or texture path appearing
« on: 2023-06-11 04:42:18 »
The paths were removed from the UI as they were never meant to be tampered with. Allowing users to change them only causes problems.
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Team Avalanche / Re: Team Avalanche Gallery: Released Scenes
« on: 2023-05-03 11:42:48 »
There's not a really a better place for this, so:
For posterity, here is an updated eals_1 field with blue water and grey rocks as had been requested several times. It is already part of the 7th heaven catalog package.
https://bonez.7thheaven.rocks/permanent/eals_1.7z
For posterity, here is an updated eals_1 field with blue water and grey rocks as had been requested several times. It is already part of the 7th heaven catalog package.
https://bonez.7thheaven.rocks/permanent/eals_1.7z
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General Discussion / Re: Project edge and discord
« on: 2023-05-03 11:16:44 »Quote from: GeoffreyMc Jefferson on April 29, 2023, 10:27:00 am
Discord is good for one thing only and that is real-time conversations. It's not good for sharing media, it's not a good place for lengthy in-depth discussions and it's certainly not a good way to preserve conversations in a digestable format that's easy to follow for outsiders. In fact due to it's always scrolling nature, it's DESIGNED to make conversations disposable and hard to follow for outsiders coming in.
If this is a accurate description of how discord work, then it is indeed even worse than I thought and it isn't even half deserving to be the forums doom that it yet managed to become. But here we are and too few people seem to care, so, I hesitated but here I am again to say that I agree.
Actually, none of that is true anymore... Discord now has a fully fledged forum system.
Those are all permanent topics in the "Echo-s bugs" subforum... Just saying... It's not taking the forum's place, but it has more potential than ever to do so. It actually is good for everything now. lol... If it wasn't for the 25 years of information we have built up here, it would probably go that way.
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General Discussion / Re: Project edge and discord
« on: 2023-04-30 11:33:35 »I've been a reader of this forum for many years and I have to agree with the OP.
I just don't get this strange obsession people have with Discord, which has become popular especially with gaming communities for some reason. Discord is a chatroom provider and as such, it just isn't a replacement for forums, and never will be. It's almost like people who don't understand how discussions on the internet work have infiltrated the internet and took it hostage.
Discord is good for one thing only and that is real-time conversations. It's not good for sharing media, it's not a good place for lengthy in-depth discussions and it's certainly not a good way to preserve conversations in a digestable format that's easy to follow for outsiders. In fact due to it's always scrolling nature, it's DESIGNED to make conversations disposable and hard to follow for outsiders coming in.
Forums in comparison are clearly structured, easy to navigate, searchable, indexable, even many years later. Every thread has an opening post (that can be edited if needed) and even years later you can tell who replied to what and easily follow the the entire conversation. They're objectively the better option for detailed discussions, and they're MOST definitely the better option for modders and people who want to track the progress of mods, some of which can take years to get finished.
Then there's the fact that due to everyone making their own bloody Discord servers, it's causing a fragmentation of groups of people with the same interests into many separate, isolated Discord subcommunities, which could easily be a single forum with separate subforums, that again is more clearly structured, easier to navigate, searchable, indexable and doesn't depend on a single service provider.
The scary part is that thanks to so many communities depending on Discord now, as fragmented as they are, we're at great risk of losing a huge amount of information either to time, or other reasons if something happens to Discord as a platform. For that reason alone, it's VITAL that we keep independent forums that run on their own servers like this one alive, and don't start to depend on platforms like Discord that are outside of our control.
The Qhimm forums aren't going anywhere for a lot of the reasons you listed. No one ever said they were. It's just another tool to communicate quickly and have those real-time conversations you're talking about. It's not replacing the forums. The information still ends up here, just not as quickly sometimes.
See:
https://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=21284.0
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General Discussion / Re: Project edge and discord
« on: 2023-04-15 03:53:22 »
You're probably right. That last sentence was a little far. Sometimes I forget I'm wearing a moderator hat. I apologize for that.
The way I said it probably seemed rude, but in all seriousness what I was trying to say was: "I don't understand it, but more power to you."
Having said that, I did say "don't start this discussion again", but you basically said "ok I won't talk about how I wish jusete would post here more because I don't like discord and have too many accounts. Anyway, I wish jusete would post here more because I don't like discord and have too many accounts." And the tongue emoji did kind of make that seem on purpose:
Bonez the moderator warned you, then bonez the person got a little annoyed and responded. but I do apologize.
I don't have a problem with people that hate discord, I don't actually care one way or the other. I just don't understand the reasoning behind it. Because it's a chat app. What's to like or dislike? It's just a tool. Idk. And the given reason (having too many accounts) is perplexing to me as well. But as I was trying to say initially, oh well. It doesn't matter and I don't need to understand it.
I guess you're right and we don't use the same internet. Just since I woke up, I used my Philips hue account to turn the lights on, I used my YouTube account to watch some videos, used my plex account To watch a movie, my Crunchyroll account to watch chainsaw man, played riichi city mahjong which required a steam account and a riichi city account, then played elite dangerous which requires a steam account and an fdev account, all of which while using my VPN which uses an account. I checked my bank account which used my account, paid my spectrum cable bill through my account, downloaded a poker manager app which required a Google play store account, got an email for a GitHub PR which requires an email account to receive and a GitHub account to commit. I used my Spotify account on my drive to the poker game I'm at. As I sit and play cards, I'm playing chess using a chess.com account, and of course I've checked discord and now qhimm... So 17 accounts just today so far and the day isn't over. My password manager (which is an account in and of itself) has about 250 accounts in it. So if you go the whole day without using even half as many accounts, then yeah I guess we use the internet differently and yeah it's foreign to me. From my point of view, it seems weird to limit myself to what I can do on the internet just because I have to enter an email address and a password. Seems like a small price to pay. The smallest, in fact. Or how you can dislike something if you refuse to make an account to even try it. Especially if the subject matter is of interest and contains information and downloads you(collective) desire. Which meets your qualifications for making accounts... That's all. But oh well...
Now, let me put the moderator hat back on... I'ma move this conversation out of jusete's thread as it no longer pertains to his fields. However, jusete's position on this subject has been explained many times. Ff7maniac's view of disliking discord and having too many accounts has been stated many times. Rehashing them isn't going to push jusete one way or the other. You can continue discussing having too many accounts or disliking discord here, but please keep the "why won't jusete post here?" out of his thread.
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There's a fine line between principals and stubbornness but, I salute you and the hill you've chosen to die on, sir. o7
The way I said it probably seemed rude, but in all seriousness what I was trying to say was: "I don't understand it, but more power to you."
Having said that, I did say "don't start this discussion again", but you basically said "ok I won't talk about how I wish jusete would post here more because I don't like discord and have too many accounts. Anyway, I wish jusete would post here more because I don't like discord and have too many accounts." And the tongue emoji did kind of make that seem on purpose:
I know, I didn't want to start the discussion again ^^ if the scenes are not considered finished, like 100% or it's a version 1 etc there is no problem. it's just that if the scenes are finished, he himself said he would post them here too. I didn't want to bring back the old discussions at all, sorry ^^. for people don't like discord or play a non-english version like French and can't use 7th heaven, there is this site which is updated more frequently than qhimm if I'm not mistaken.
https://finalfantasy.german-syslinux-blog.de/FF7/
he may not like discord but he must have told himself that he was going to manage his site in such a way as to make the scenes available more quickly than on qhimm. i'm not saying it's going to take a year for jusete to post the new scenes here but, I find it's handy to have an alternative for people who don't like discord or they find they already have enough of account on the net like that, which is the case for me with these two examples I have enough accounts like that and I don't like discordi want to say a big thank you to jusete for these scenes he does a magnificent job with these fields^^
Bonez the moderator warned you, then bonez the person got a little annoyed and responded. but I do apologize.
I don't have a problem with people that hate discord, I don't actually care one way or the other. I just don't understand the reasoning behind it. Because it's a chat app. What's to like or dislike? It's just a tool. Idk. And the given reason (having too many accounts) is perplexing to me as well. But as I was trying to say initially, oh well. It doesn't matter and I don't need to understand it.
Euuuh, not at all. The only accounts I have are where I might have something to say, informations and downloads I ever wanted so far were and still are available without subscription. Maybe we just don't use the same internet, or for the same purposes, but anyway your message was low and unwhorthy of a moderator, so I wanted to say something even if it's probably pointless. Well, you never know, but speaking only for me, how could I know if Discord is something I could like since I can't even read what's happening on it without making a account, and yes, on principal, this bother me.
There is a fine line between many things, and comment like your last one are just blurring it even more, they don't help to see it or speak to the root of a problem. That's all I can say, not speaking about the work of Jusete or how he choose to share it but your last comment.
I guess you're right and we don't use the same internet. Just since I woke up, I used my Philips hue account to turn the lights on, I used my YouTube account to watch some videos, used my plex account To watch a movie, my Crunchyroll account to watch chainsaw man, played riichi city mahjong which required a steam account and a riichi city account, then played elite dangerous which requires a steam account and an fdev account, all of which while using my VPN which uses an account. I checked my bank account which used my account, paid my spectrum cable bill through my account, downloaded a poker manager app which required a Google play store account, got an email for a GitHub PR which requires an email account to receive and a GitHub account to commit. I used my Spotify account on my drive to the poker game I'm at. As I sit and play cards, I'm playing chess using a chess.com account, and of course I've checked discord and now qhimm... So 17 accounts just today so far and the day isn't over. My password manager (which is an account in and of itself) has about 250 accounts in it. So if you go the whole day without using even half as many accounts, then yeah I guess we use the internet differently and yeah it's foreign to me. From my point of view, it seems weird to limit myself to what I can do on the internet just because I have to enter an email address and a password. Seems like a small price to pay. The smallest, in fact. Or how you can dislike something if you refuse to make an account to even try it. Especially if the subject matter is of interest and contains information and downloads you(collective) desire. Which meets your qualifications for making accounts... That's all. But oh well...
Now, let me put the moderator hat back on... I'ma move this conversation out of jusete's thread as it no longer pertains to his fields. However, jusete's position on this subject has been explained many times. Ff7maniac's view of disliking discord and having too many accounts has been stated many times. Rehashing them isn't going to push jusete one way or the other. You can continue discussing having too many accounts or disliking discord here, but please keep the "why won't jusete post here?" out of his thread.
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General Discussion / Re: Project edge and discord
« on: 2023-04-14 06:23:56 »he may not like discord but he must have told himself that he was going to manage his site in such a way as to make the scenes available more quickly than on qhimm. i'm not saying it's going to take a year for jusete to post the new scenes here but, I find it's handy to have an alternative for people who don't like discord or they find they already have enough of account on the net like that, which is the case for me with these two examples I have enough accounts like that and I don't like discord
You have to make accounts to do pretty much anything on the internet besides using google to do a simple search or downloading torrents from a public tracker. It's kind of like saying "I own this car and need to get to the grocery store 10 miles away, but I refuse to get a driver's license because I already have too many pieces of plastic with my name on them, so I'll just walk instead."... There's a fine line between principals and stubbornness but, I salute you and the hill you've chosen to die on, sir. o7
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General Discussion / Re: Project edge and discord
« on: 2023-04-13 07:08:29 »I know, I didn't want to start the discussion again ^^ if the scenes are not considered finished, like 100% or it's a version 1 etc there is no problem. it's just that if the scenes are finished, he himself said he would post them here too. I didn't want to bring back the old discussions at all, sorry ^^. for people don't like discord or play a non-english version like French and can't use 7th heaven, there is this site which is updated more frequently than qhimm if I'm not mistaken.
https://finalfantasy.german-syslinux-blog.de/FF7/
That's SoulEvan that runs that site. The other one that's upset Jusete doesn't post as much here and refuses to use Discord. But I guess he must have started lol cause he got them before I posted them here but after Jusete posted them to the Discord.
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General Discussion / Re: Project edge and discord
« on: 2023-04-13 04:08:48 »if there are new things why jusete does not make them available? he had said that he would post the finish scenes here too and not just on discord.
Let's not start that... That has been explained and discussed to death... Yourself included in those.
-Jusete posts the finished fields here. Admittedly not always as quickly as other options.
-Jusete posts the finished fields as well as progress updates/conversation on the discord more regularly.
-The fields are uploaded to the 7H catalog.
-The fields are available via torrent.
Again, you have the freedom to choose any of the 4 options, but if you insist on option 1, be prepared to not receive the updates in as timely as a manner as the others.
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Sorry, I've been a bit disconnected from modding and modelling. I'm really busy ATM at home and work so not too much time to spend on the mod. I'll have some time on the weekend though and ill try to finish the train station. I'm more active in the discord channel so if you have any questions just post it there.
I just said it few posts above. I'm more active in discord because is the faster way to communicate and post pictures. I'll post the updates here as well but only the finished fields. As bonez said, everything is updated in 7th heaven catalog as soon as I release a new field. Sorry if sounds rude, but is not my problem if you don't like discord or other forums. This is the way I can do it and I'll do it.
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Team Avalanche / Re: Project Edge (Jusete's field scenes)
« on: 2023-04-12 11:11:56 »It seams the above links for mds7st32 are not workingdds
https://mega.nz/file/VRY12IRb#CVFZ3na20Y82YcMQoKjHZcXILnYo0wj69Fa5cfvH69E
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https://mega.nz/file/AUYwFaCD#CbzeIXaklgeONbST88rwFh1-MB3aoyTTmJmbYWR_pfY
jusete there are new things ? ^^dds
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/473555452563554304/1093632323947335721/md1stin_dds.rar
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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/473555452563554304/1093632324316438558/md1stin_png.rar
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Releases / Re: [FF7PC][Tsunamods] Finishing Touch: ESUI Theme and Avatars
« on: 2023-04-12 10:55:32 »EDIT: Seems to be fine, my apologies! Awesome work!
Those Tactics avatars are INSANE, kudos! Any chance they may be released to be used as profile pics / avatars?
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Releases / [FF7PC][Tsunamods] ReTouch: ESUI Theme and Avatars
« on: 2023-04-12 10:53:31 »
This is an IRO file which will require 7th Heaven Mod Manager (see: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=19533.0)
Be sure this mod is above any other User Interface mods in your load order.
This mod requires 7th Heaven 2.9+.
DOWNLOAD HERE
If you enjoy the mod, consider a little something for the many many hours it took to put this together: Donate Here
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General Discussion / Re: [FF7PC] Are there any mods that fix the PC port's broken lighting?
« on: 2023-03-28 03:33:37 »
Is it weird I think it actually looks better on PC than PS1?
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General Discussion / Re: Braver - open source FF7 engine reimplementation
« on: 2023-03-17 02:37:24 »Huge? Eh, once the battle engine is fully done (and that's a fair bit of work!), it wouldn't be a horrible amount of work to add in something like that since it's almost entirely reusing the existing code for damage calculations, animations, and so on. Not anywhere near that yet, though!
I'd've thought the bigger problem with PvP is that the FF7 battle engine isn't balanced at all for PvP - i.e. players often have abilities that do massive amounts of damage because monsters aren't capped at 9999HP. So spells and limits that would just take off 10% of a boss monsters HP will kill a player outright. Unless you took the simple approach of just "multiply everybody's HP by 10" or something...
This is why people talking about wanting PVP never made sense to me. There'd be no elemental/status weaknesses to exploit or protect from, and one use of Ultima or Knights of the Round would wipe an entire party at full HP. That's why the only turn based combat you see able to do PVP successfully is Pokemon, because there's basically an infinite combination of fighters with those weaknesses and strengths I mentioned before. Without those stats, every fight would just be a slash battle of attrition.
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Releases / Re: [FF7PC][Tsunamods] Cosmo Memory: Complete Sound Overhaul
« on: 2023-03-09 01:56:58 »
Yeah, the analog autorun is new. Hopefully they can be fixed to work in tandem. In the meantime, the only thing you could do is turn off the analog controls in 7h driver settings and use the actual autorun mod from "Gameplay Tweaks" (you would just miss out on the omni-directional movement), or the better option is you can use both analog control + the actual autorun mod which will essentially always play running footsteps by default but you can still walk and hear walking footsteps by lightly pressing the analog stick+cancel button (since you're using the analog controls, you're probably rarely walking anyway), or of course turn off footsteps all together.
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Releases / Re: [FF7PC][Tsunamods] Finishing Touch: ESUI Theme and Avatars
« on: 2023-02-11 23:36:45 »The game crashes everytime on New Threat 2.0 when using FT or ESUI once you choose abilities in battle mode. It doesn't crash when turning off FT and ESUI.
Turn off the "Using Echo-S" option in ESUI.
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Releases / Re: [FF7PC][Tsunamods] Finishing Touch: ESUI Theme and Avatars
« on: 2023-01-31 20:09:46 »V2.29995 seems to have also misaligned clouds level up bar - exp earned on the level up bar is showing progress passed where the bar ends and continuing outside of its box and onto the menu.
Please ensure whether bugs happen with FT off and both FT and ESUI off before reporting here.
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Support / Re: Music Sync During Cloud/Sephiroth Scene in Nibelheim
« on: 2023-01-30 04:15:51 »Disclaimer: I haven't played the game in years. I'm just now thinking about a replay will all of the new mods.
Last time I played, I used a music mod which worked great for most of the game. However, there was one scene that it completely destroyed. It's the exact moment that Cloud grabs the sword and it starts shaking. In the original, the music is perfectly synced so that the most epic part of the track plays exactly when that happens. The mod broke that, and it really destroyed the impact of the scene.
Now you might be thinking, "yeah, but that was a long time ago. Have you tried it recently?"
No, but I've scene recent YouTube videos of others on that same scene, and they had the same problem.
So, what I'm asking is if at this point there is any music mod that has fixed that (or a separate fix outside of any individual music mod).
Thanks.
It's not specifically a music mod thing... The regular vanilla PC music doesn't loop enough times to have it crescendo at the right time... Since music mods generally use vanilla as a template, or use different tempos, most of them don't have correct timing either... The Echo-S soundtrack may be the first music mod to have correct timing for that song. Maybe Anxious Heart fixed it too, idk.
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Releases / Re: [FF7PC][Tsunamods] Finishing Touch: ESUI Theme and Avatars
« on: 2023-01-18 08:11:51 »
Color schemes don't work on previous saves. It only works on new games. But I will put in a force for previous saves as well.
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Releases / Re: [FF7PC][Tsunamods] Finishing Touch: ESUI Theme and Avatars
« on: 2023-01-16 05:16:58 »
Is working for me.
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Troubleshooting / Re: Game not launching
« on: 2023-01-15 03:58:20 »Hi today I was trying to play FF7 off of 7th Heaven. But, I was getting an error message every time I would launch it. The game was running fine just yesterday. I didn't mess with anything from yesterday and today. Here's the message that shows up when I try launching the game.
### Launching Final Fantasy VII ###
Checking FF7 is not running ...
Checking FF7 .exe exists at D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\FF7.exe ...
Verifying installed game is compatible ...
Verifying game is not installed in a System/Protected folder ...
Creating missing required directories ...
Verifying English game files exist ...
Verifying game is full/max install ...
Verifying additional files for 'battle' and 'kernel' folders exist ...
Verifying all movie files exist ...
Verifying music files exist ...
Verifying latest game driver is installed ...
FFNx seems to be present.
Verifying game driver shaders folders exist ...
Verifying ff7 exe ...
Checking a profile is active ...
Checking mod compatibility requirements ...
Checking mod constraints for compatibility ...
Checking mod load order requirements ...
Looking for game disc ...
Found game disc at F:\ ...
Applying changed values to registry ...
Copying ff7input.cfg to FF7 path ...
using control configuration file [Default] Steam KB+PlayStation (Stock).cfg ...
Copying D:\7thHeaven\Resources\Controls\[Default] Steam KB+PlayStation (Stock).cfg -> D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\ff7input.cfg ...
Creating Runtime Profile ...
Unknown error when launching the game: Input string was not in a correct format.
If anyone has a fix or knows what's wrong. Please let me know. It would be very much appreciated.
The reason for this error is because Finishing Touch requires 7h 2.9+
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Troubleshooting / Re: Cannot apply mods with (latest version of)7th Heaven
« on: 2023-01-02 23:19:17 »
Sounds like your mods folder (which contains a folder called "textures" and "7th heaven") isn't in the right place... It needs to be right by ff7.exe
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Releases / Re: [FF7PC] Final Fantasy VII "AVALANCHE ARISEN" Battle Textures iro
« on: 2022-12-25 00:23:44 »
I guess it's a total coincidence that 2 separate people have been asking for the exact same multiple, obscure, old, out dated mods, German translation, map/radar textures, at the exact same time.