Your work is incredible jmp. I've been checking in on mods for Final Fantasy VII and VIII every now and then to see if there's been some improvements or major developments. I hadn't seen your stuff sadly before now, despite being on the forum most likely at the time you started it. Your work ethic is astounding, and the speed at which you can make a field is amazing. I'm not a modder and don't really have any skills, but even I can tell your work is great.
Out of all the other stuff I've seen on here yours is the most impressive. I like that you stay so true to the original whilst completely remodeling, retexturing, and relighting the field. I've always been pretty turned off by top-down perspective type games because you can't see the action or the detail like you can when you look at it from down on the ground, as well as the fact that they generally have low-quality resolutions given they're not used anymore by many games. But you have shown me that you CAN make Final Fantasy VII look beautiful and still keep its original style. One of the things I found I hated most about FFVII and FVIII was the pre-rendered animations for things like smoke and water were very slow feeling and not smooth.
They felt very dated to my modern sensibilities. I didn't even realize it was possible to do so much with a game so old and dated given pre-rendered backgrounds, in general, are no longer used by games these days and Final Fantasy abandoned them after FFIX (though after just looking that games BG art up I guess I was mistaken about how beautiful they can look). I don't know if you've just given up on this or not but if you haven't I just wanted to give you some encouragement!