Magimaster-lol, it's really easy, once you get the hang of it...
I'd like to express great thanks to those who helped me-especially dziugo!!! I cannot thank you enough.
Through further use of the knowledge I've gained, I also created the best healing spell possible... (within bounds, that is-no forever peerless, no invincibility etc)
I really liked the spell 'ultima.' However, at the beginning, it was set up as an enemy attack-all spell with no statuses, and the camera panning out to the enemy in the end. I really wanted to be able to have a healing spell using ultima's sounds and graphics.-especially since it has a green glow that, if you squint just a little bit, could be said to be a glow of health, rather than a glow of doom.
To do this, I had to fix the following:
1. MP cost. initially 130... since after all, this will be the 'ultimate' healing/buff spell, I want this to be 255.
2. change the camera angle-set it to focus on the players instead.
3. change attack attributes-before change, when the player selected ultima, the pointer automatically was set as 'all opponents.' I had to somehow fix this so that it would automatically point to all allies (not just for aesthetic reasons... by changing the auto target, I could have my characters use sneak attack on this spell)
4. Make it so that restore 'applies' to the character (make it in and of itself a restorative spell)
5. give it the ability to heal HP... I didn't want it to heal MP as well, since it already uses MP to cast it... something that uses a resource to create more of the same resource? not likely...
6. give it 100% chance to apply whatever buffs I'm going to give
7. set its buffs-haste, regen, barrier, mbarrier, death force, resist, lucky girl
8. finally, set its element as 'restorative.' any other elements caused the spell to deal damage instead.
and it worked!
Final spell list:
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1. casting cost 255
2. camera position from 'Ultima' (original one where it closes on the character casting the spell in 3 directions then pans out on the enemy)
3. strength level of 65 (KotR 80)-this is still enough to reach 9999 dmg @ level 99, mag 255, full hero drinks, level 5 mp turbo, even with quad magic attached
4. 100% chance of inflicting death, sleep, poison, confusion, silencee, slow, stop, frog, small, petrify, paralyzed, darkness, DUAL (drain HP like poison) each of 6 hits
5. attacks 6 times
6. ignores opp. defense
7. can be quad magic-ed
Hultima
1. casting cost 255
2. camera position like normal healing spells
3. initial targeting to players-can be sneak attacked
4. fully heal
5. 100% chance of giving haste, regen, barrier, mbarrier, death force, resist, lucky girl
6. and looks cooler than any healing spell
Now, I want to enjoy the fruits of this labor by going through the game (finally). I actually only began playing this summer, and have not yet gone through the whole game yet, heh.
Once I go through the game, I might return and work on a 'guide to memory editing'... since I'd imagine a lot of people would like to do this too...
Or maybe I'm just being too forward. Oh well. Thank you!
-comet2
. I do know what an OR combination is in math... but wasn't sure whether it applied in this instance, and definitely did not know that an OR combination in binary is the sum of the two... damn humanity major.
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