How do I edit damage formulas? [FFVIII]

[evilmog6]

@Maki I wasn't suggesting there was a problem with Doomtrain if that's what you mean Maybe an addition that can toggle Squall's weapon to not behave this way would be a cool feature addition to the tool, but I didn't mean to make it sound like anything was wrong with it in this regard, its FF8 itself that is coded this way it seems.

@JWP and on that note, I tried what you said to change the attack type byte from 0A to 01. I am not really good with the hex stuff so I am mostly eagerly using the tools you guys magically make, but I can sometimes sort out some of your posts and I am pretty sure I found the right byte according to the post on the weapon section, and that value made sense since it was "10"... it didn't seem to change the behavior in the game though, even 0% hit in the menu with 01 in that byte and squall can't miss. Not sure if I messed up my edit, or if that just isn't enough to fix it. I edited the 6th byte in from the offset, the byte just before the byte that seems to definitely change attack power so I think its the right one...

 

[mexico]

Ah, mexico, I made a mistake. Not SARALYON, but SARALYOFF.
There's also: 104 SARALYDISPOFF
The SARALYON is fired after passing SeeD test, so maybe...

OK... so I opened the script with Deling but I understand nothing... Where am I supposed to find the line 103 SALARYON ? Sorry, I realise now how it will be hard for me to do this mod. ^^'

 

[mexico]

Thanks to myst6re, I found it. Finally, that was easy. ^^

 

[miruss89]

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*****************************************       Section 5 - Weapon Data        *****************************************

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struct Weapon { WORD name_offset; BYTE renzokuken_finishers; //0x01 = Rough Divide, 0x02 = Fated Circle, 0x04 = Blasting Zone, 0x08 = Lion Heart BYTE unk; BYTE character_id; BYTE attack_type; BYTE attack_power; BYTE hit_bonus; BYTE str_bonus; BYTE weapon_tier; BYTE unk[2];}

i tried changing the renzokuken finisher to 0x08 for the Lionheart Gunblade weapon data and it just make all limitbreak finisher to be just Lionheart only for an encounter battles with one enemy, but if more than one enemy in a battles, the game crash if i select renzokuken rather than normal attack. Sorry for my bad english.