It might be a stupid idea but isn't it possible to put over the game an overlay like steam does it with the games?
'Why would I want this?' you might ask. Well the idea behind it is simply to have a full controllable menu and box system, which is also easier to modify and is independent from the framerates of the game (at last I believe an overlay has its own frame limiter). Also text files would be unified in one location, which makes translations or alterations to the text a lot easier and the use of different fonts would bring in some life to the game, too.
My ideas for it:
For the field:
- Creating text boxes which are connected to models on field like in ff9 (if we can read out the current position of the npc plus a z axis value to place the box near the head)
- advanced text effects like size deformation, shake effects, etc
For battle:
- A 60fps menu while the game run in its default 15fps
- Maybe more possibilities to modify the look of the menu
For the menu:
I surely haven't thought about all the problems, which might be there, but this is only an idea to hopefully inspire a talented person to investigate the real possibilities of this. The main problem I see is to eliminate visual of the default box and menu system.
Btw. a fully customizable menu would give me the option to change FF7 materia system to an interesting materia job class system.
