Tech Editor - Period

[Agent 12]

I'm not at my computer right now. But just so you know I have had a few that have given me the ame values so far I think they are just stronger versions and the value is set in the properties which we have not found yet. Think rust tyrano fire breath vs black tyrano fire breath same animations different attack value.

Ill double check tomorrow.

Jp

[Vehek]

I think I may have the (power, etc.) headers for enemy techs!
I set a write breakpoint on 7EAEE6 (the start of where it writes to when loading player techs or player physical attacks) and found that when an enemy made a tech attack, $C1/D838 was executed to load the data.

Enemy tech property headers start at 0C7AC9.

[Agent 12]

!!

Do you know how long their properties are??

--JP

[Vehek]

They also seem to be 12 bytes long. However, they don't store all the possible effects.

[Agent 12]

Added the enemy techs that mauron posted earlier (it looks like they were still wrong, i'm not sure what you were doing wrong).  I also added support for enemy "properties".  Note that right now it says view properties but you can edit things like graphics headers etc.  Don't edit anything except what is labeled under "Properties" (it's more clear when you use the program). 

Judging off the enemy stat attacks it looks like vehek is correct.  They see to be syncing up.  It also looks like the final status affect unknown for offense is "slow" (nagettes slow spell gave it away).

Remember don't edit anything except things located under the properties category.

--JP

[Vehek]

Over in the 8th character topic, I posted a command the game uses to find what PC grouping a attack/tech falls under. It looks like element is in nearby data.
$C1/D6A4 BF EE 1B CC LDA $CC1BEE,x (x is attack/tech index * 0B)
I'm going to try to find how enemy attacks are determined.

edit-
I noticed that for PCs, it stored the value it got to 7EB190, and I used that to find the command for enemy techs.
$FD/AAF6 BF CC 6F CC LDA $CC6FCC,x
(x is same as before)

[JLukas]

tech index * 0B

If it hasn't been mentioned already, $0B is the max number of objects in a battle (3 PCs, 8 enemies)  It may or may not apply to that specific example, but it's something to be on the lookout for.

[Zakyrus]

Could you make it so you can change what "enemy type" an enemy is? ...Dinosaur, Magical, Robot, etc.

This would be fantastic for use with weapons that have specific functions to such types.
Such as "extra damage to dinosaur types" or "150%/200% to magical" or "Stop on Machine types"

~Z

[JLukas]

I was looking into that a few days ago, in fact.  Yes, it's a simple bit setting in the enemy stats.  If you have a list of which monsters you want to update, post a list and I can find the bytes to change.

Is there a setting for dinosaur enemies, though?  I only saw Machines and Magical types.

[Zakyrus]

I was looking into that a few days ago, in fact.  Yes, it's a simple bit setting in the enemy stats.  If you have a list of which monsters you want to update, post a list and I can find the bytes to change.

Well, there's ALOT of them I'd like to know...is there a formulae for finding that out, or is the data staggered?

Is there a setting for dinosaur enemies, though?  I only saw Machines and Magical types.

In the "Chrono Trigger Editing Companion", there's a catagory for "extra damage to dinosaur types" (it's near the top of the weapon-stats combo-list) so I was assuming there was.

[JLukas]

Well, there's ALOT of them I'd like to know...is there a formulae for finding that out, or is the data staggered?

Enemy index hex value x $17 +CC4715

the result is the byte to modify:

set bit 08 to be a magic enemy
set bit 40 to be a machine enemy

Ex: Gato $92 x $17 = $D1E
$D1E + $CC4715 = $CC5433

In the "Chrono Trigger Editing Companion", there's a catagory for "extra damage to dinosaur types"

It was probably confused with the Lightning Element then.  I don't know of any weapon/spell for use against a dinosaur enemy type.

[Zakyrus]

Enemy index hex value x $17 +CC4715

the result is the byte to modify:

set bit 08 to be a magic enemy
set bit 40 to be a machine enemy

Ex: Gato $92 x $17 = $D1E
$D1E + $CC4715 = $CC5433

Cool. I'll play around with this later tonight. 

It was probably confused with the Lightning Element then.  I don't know of any weapon/spell for use against a dinosaur enemy type.

I'll try putting the modifier on a weapon and see if it does anything different... I'll keep you informed.

~Z

[Rickets]

I can't get tech editor to run, I downloaded both files and the .exe just crashes and MS gives me an error report option.

"TechEditor-Provoke has encountered a problem and needs to close." Advice??

The .net 2 installer i downloaded and installed is called dotnetfx.exe (I heard this was needed in order to run techeditor)

I used this one...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en

Or could it be that I need this one too?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/default.aspx

[Agent 12]

Well...i'm surprised that it doesn't work with 2.0, but just to be safe get the latest version (.net 3.5 sp1).  Maybe I'm using something from the newest version.  Are you able to run TF it also uses the .net frame work. 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ab99342f-5d1a-413d-8319-81da479ab0d7&displaylang=en



--JP

[Rickets]

Thanks jsondag2, problem solved. Might wanna put that link in post 1 if you don't mind...
Now the adventure begins