[FF9 PC/Steam] Improved NPC and battle background textures

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Mcindus what's the problem in FFVIII that character models are unable to blink once you apply custom character textures? It seems the same way in FFIX. In FFx i didn't had such problems.
I may be releasing an update today that lowers the texture for the field texture so it behave normally.
The ref needs to wait sadly (blinking eyes and things as garnet ribbon).
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Animations don't work properly in FF8 mods because of hashcode collisions.  The .tim file layers are too similar in pixel content for Tonberry to distinguish between the two, so the animation frame gets 'lost' persay.  Because Tonberry works from the VRAM dump, this issue isn't easily remedied until Tonberry gets a better hashing algorithm, or variations are written in manually to look for altered pixels in locations where the 'eyes' are different.  If the game could refer to these images in advance, then there would be no problem - as it would look up the location for the proper eye from the texture atlas and then the animation would work.  Coming from the VRAM, the game only looks for entire code alterations and looks up a different image with the eyes already placed in the appropriate location.  For a more in depth definition of this, message me :)
 
I'm not using the steam version of the game, I bought the game for my buddy and I'm using a cracked version of the game to test mods that improve upon the game so in the official version of the game the code might be as you say. However I happen to have access to the official steam version so I'll try your fixes on that version of the game tomorrow. If it does work I'll make a thread with all these fixes in a single folder so people can easily get rid of these problems.

•Remove cheats
•Remove card/talk icons
•Improve sounds

That folder would have to be edited in the future to fix the UI for the battle system, then finally the port will be at the same level of quality as the original ps1 game.
 
:o

Confused. Was FF9PC released on another online shop as well?
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I dunno, I just play offline.

I didn't know there was a cracked version of FF9 PC. Not that I'm interested.
 
Ok I got a problem, I tried removing the lines you said in the cracked version of the game, this one 0x6000B43. And now the game freezes the moment I get close to any NPC. Maybe it's because I'm using the "cracked" version of the game which is some older unpatched version of the game that it doesn't work. Or maybe I made some mistake either way I just need this for the steam version, maybe someone could help me out, open up hades workshop, disable cheats and remove the icons then share the file on here so I could send it to my buddy.  :|

If not it's ok but yeah it would be nice since I clearly don't know what I'm doing. :(
 
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Ok I got a problem, I tried removing the lines you said in the cracked version of the game, this one 0x6000B43. And now the game stops working the moment I launch it. Maybe it's because I'm using the "cracked" version of the game which is some older unpatched version of the game that it doesn't work. Or maybe I made some mistake either way I just need this for the steam version, maybe someone could help me out, open up hades workshop, disable cheats and remove the icons then share the file on here so I could send it to my buddy.  :|

If not it's ok but yeah it would be nice since I clearly don't know what I'm doing. :(
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I don't think someone will be able to help you since you use a cracked version.
Use your steam version instead. Like I said, the files tirlititi mention are in the updated version.
 
I don't think someone will be able to help you since you use a cracked version.
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In fact, it is explicitly against the rules to help with, or to ask for help with, cracked copies of the game.
 
You misunderstood me, I need help with the steam version. Removing the icons and cheats, I don't care about the cracked version at all, the reason I'm doing this is for my buddy, not because I'm gonna play the game. You're already helping anyone who is interested in downloading any of your mods, this isn't anything complicated, just a small little edit to remove icons and cheats, the dll file for the sound I already got. Come on anyone, because when I try it, it freezes whenever I approach an NPC. I'm not a programmer. :(
 
Ok I tried removing those lines in the steam version and the same thing as with the cracked version, when you approach an NPC the game freezes, the music keeps playing but it freezes and eventually crashes.  :|
 
Please refer to https://www.ff7catalog.com/posts/174492/ as this thread here has nothing to do with that particular problem, Lein.

@Topic It seems there're still some broken NPC textures. I encountered two problems:
1. When you're chased by the drill in Fossil Roo. The Textures are all messed up. In the battle scene everything is okay, though.
2. When you're chased by the Bandersnatcher(s). The Textures are all messed up. In the battle scene everything is okay, though.

Besides that I could test everything till end of Disc 2 and those are the only things that caught my attention.
 
1. When you're chased by the drill in Fossil Roo. The Textures are all messed up. In the battle scene everything is okay, though.
2. When you're chased by the Bandersnatcher(s). The Textures are all messed up. In the battle scene everything is okay, though.
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I saw those too.
btw, was there an update to them backgrounds or not?
 
I saw those too.
btw, was there an update to them backgrounds or not?
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No, not as of now.
I want to go trough the whole Game at least once now and see for myself as the community did already a great job but now no one post anything broken (which is positive of course).
 
No, not as of now.
I want to go trough the whole Game at least once now and see for myself as the community did already a great job but now no one post anything broken (which is positive of course).
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Yeah, I seen no others errors from disc 3 on up.
 
FYI: An update to the textures will come.
I applied ESRGAN to all textures so they look way more crips and do contain a whole lot more details than ever.

I'll have it ready till the end of the week.
@Dclem You didn't overcome the UV map problem with the blinking, correct? This is such a stupid "bug"... -.-°
 
looking forward to it.
FYI: An update to the textures will come.
I applied ESRGAN to all textures so they look way more crips and do contain a whole lot more details than ever.

I'll have it ready till the end of the week.
@Dclem You didn't overcome the UV map problem with the blinking, correct? This is such a stupid "bug"... -.-°
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Well, everything is ready but I didn't uploaded as of now as I want to improve the textures a bit more.
Shouldn't take that long (hopefully).
 
After going back and forth, the quality between ESRGAN and my old one, at least for the very low res FFIX textures, aren't that big...
So no release but again, as there's no really quality improvement, that shouldn't be that big a deal.
 
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