"Gears" - The FF7 Documentaion Project

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I looked at the document in Open Office and it looks good! Keep up the good work.

I just wanted to make a positive comment to keep you motivated. Good work.
 
I need screenshots

If you guys could, I would adire some really dynamic screenshots of FF7 in action. I have some placeholders now, but the PC graphics look so much better in terms of bitmaps. I could use the following:

Pictures full pictures of the menu, worldmap, minigame, battle, and field.

I can't use pictures with  logos or other corruptions on the pictures. Also, I would really like the stock engine. No hi res Clouds or a Sephy/Arieth/Yuffie party please. (At least, not for now)

If you can, using Qhimm's save game converter, try and get some screenshots of PC vs PSX graphics. (Both pictures at almost the some point in time.) I think the PC version has a taller 3d battle view

Thanks

ADDUNDUM:

I've uploded a new version of "Gears", you can can dowload it at http://the-afterm.ath.cx/gears

Changes include an expanded Table of Contents (Outline), a spiffy cover sheet, Engine basics, and psudo-text for the entire document.

Have fun....
 
How is it messed up? Does the picture not show?  Is it screwing up the formatting? Is there a "broken link" like the image wasn't saved to the sdw file?

Thiere are also other images too. (The engine overiew) that's a openoffic drawing. Does that come up?


Also does anyone know where Terrence Fegenson went off to? I would adore to edit his battle mechanics FAQ, but need his permission to slightly edit his doc to better jive with mine, such as adding tables and some pictures.
 
Fixed ^_^

Running linux, I have a slightly diffrent font martix that windows users. This creates a lot of "off by one" errors. I'll try and look out for that.


ADDUNDUM!!!

To keep myself from double-posting.. I just want everyone to know that I updated my Gears doc in the download area almost every night. You can grab it and review if you wish.
 
Do you still want those screens? (I noticed you have some in the doc. now)

I can cap some when I get home, but you'll need to be a bit more specific (What menus, etc.).
 
Maybe.

I have FF7 installed on my PC now and have been playing musical save games between my PSX emulator in Linux and the native app on windows. So I can capture from either. I did do the battle mechnics from Terrence's doc. For fun, you can capture a screenshot of all of the 31 statuses (sleep, blind, poison, silence, etc) . I can add that to battle mecanics tables.

Also does any one know when the 7777 check is made during the battle program flow. Terrence didn't mention it.

I'm working on adding all the known file formats right now. It's a bigger project that I thought. Formatting it all is such a pain ^_^
 
Well persoanlly I reckon its only impletmented into the battle flow untill you have 7778 HP or more.  And its then inserted from there...
 
Maybe.

I have FF7 installed on my PC now and have been playing musical save games between my PSX emulator in Linux and the native app on windows. So I can capture from either. I did do the battle mechnics from Terrence's doc. For fun, you can capture a screenshot of all of the 31 statuses (sleep, blind, poison, silence, etc) . I can add that to battle mecanics tables.

Also does any one know when the 7777 check is made during the battle program flow. Terrence didn't mention it.

I'm working on adding all the known file formats right now. It's a bigger project that I thought. Formatting it all is such a pain ^_^
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I was wondering when you would say 'air' hehehe
Well if he need help with battle models Kislinskiy has gotten further on the things than I have, I can decode them and I have the first section decoded (Section 0) the next section needs to be decoded as I think it is actually the information I'm looking for (mumble).

Open Office Dies on loading the document, well actually it just dies period for some reason, but at least I have something to look at in the future (mumbles begrudgingly at open office).
 
OK, I have an Idea, I'll save the Gears doc localy and export a PDF every night. That way it won't be such a hassle for anyone who wants to read it.

I'm going to be signing up on that romhackers site, it looks like a real awesome resourse. They deal more with the scripting attibutes while Qhimm here deals with the graphical side of things. I'm gonna make a postnig, watch some BBC "Coupling" (I got that show on DVD for my b-day... It's the BOMB!) and go to bed. I'll make an addundum when I have the PDF up.

ADDUNDUM!!!
I have now moved the doc internally and have a PDF set up. You can access it here
http://the-afterm.ath.cx/gears/gears.pdf

You can also just access it from the root directory if you don't want to load the whole thing in your browser.

http://the-afterm.ath.cx/gears

That should get some more eyes on it.
 
Gee, thanks Halkun. Make me go through all the trouble of downloading OpenOffice to see this thing, then replace it with a PDF as soon as I get it installed! :P Then I realize that due to my recent reformatting, I don't have Adobe Acrobat! So I have to download Acrobat Reader as well! :P :P

Heh. Just teasing.

And as I finally find myself able to read through this file.... I just have one thing to say about it... *big breath*  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi. Nam liber tempor cum soluta nobis eleifend option congue nihil imperdiet doming id quod mazim placerat facer possim assum. Typi non habent claritatem insitam; est usus legentis in iis qui facit eorum claritatem. Investigationes demonstraverunt lectores legere me lius quod ii legunt saepius. Claritas est etiam processus dynamicus, qui sequitur mutationem consuetudium lectorum. Mirum est notare quam littera gothica, quam nunc putamus parum claram, anteposuerit litterarum formas humanitatis per seacula quarta decima et quinta decima. Eodem modo typi, qui nunc nobis videntur parum clari, fiant sollemnes in futurum.

:P

-Contra
 
Do a search for "Lorem ipsum" on google. That has a very intresting stroy.....
 
OK, I have an Idea, I'll save the Gears doc localy and export a PDF every night. That way it won't be such a hassle for anyone who wants to read it.
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yaaeeeey ! great idea :) finally i can read it
 
I updated Gears again. I need to make sure that everyone's docs on thier websites are complete. I have discrpences on the .P format. Also I need the .a format. Ahlexx's is missing and Fice doen't have a doc
 
I think Halkun was refering to Alhexx's .A document there Jari...
 
Oops, that's right, I forgot that hi was doing armed servide duity... I was active in the american military from 199-1996, so I can relate
 
I was active in the american military from 199-1996, so I can relate
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DAMN!!! 1006 years in the military and you claim to be only 30!  Tell me...What is your secret?

hehehe
 j/k
 
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