Final Fantasy Mod Progress Thread, Part III

[DJ Bonebraker]

Here's a few updates: I've found a few more bugs (like, for instance, the fact that you can load Hero Parties, Mercenary Companies and Barbarian Hordes into Armies ), which I've fixed.... Also, I finally found a good unit to represent the Merc Company: Kryten's Pikeman Multi-figure unit.

Additionally, I also updated the Yevon Temple and Maester Tower to be culture-group specific, and I've posted screenshots of all the merc armies, as well as the lineup of the new Evil civ buildings.

 

[Stormrage]

Everything looks great! And I like your Merc Company solution

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

Hokay...

I'm sorry about the lack of updates/progress, but I spent most of the long weekend running around, and all day Monday working on the Elvaan settler unit (which is, AFAIK, the first unit I made in a single day, so I'm rather proud of that).

I did get some progress done on the Summoned creature SWs tonight, though:

I now have 6 of the needed SWs done: Baron Castle (FF IV), The Esper Statues (FF VI), The Jenova Project (FF VII ), Mag Mell (FF CC), The Earth Shrine (Orcs) and The Hall of the Mountain King (Dwarves).

Those who are attentive will notice that I'm using Ogedei's Dolmen wonder for the Earth Shrine, and the Petra Wonder made by Ukas? as the Hall of the Moutnain Kings (I don't care what anyone else says.... Petra was made by dwarves! There's no other possible explanation for it )

Thanks to Chris85 for providing the images for making the splash for Baron Castle and Mag Mell... I made the icons for Mag Mell by doing a hi-res scan of the strategy guide page with the map of Mag Mell on it... BTW, if anyone could help me with finding a good splash-worthy pic of the Veo Lu Sluice, I could use that for finally getting the last of the Great Wonders done (the Veo Lu Sluice replaces and acts like Hoover Dam in the normal game)... I've already scanned the relevant pages in the book to get the icons for that particular wonder.

Perhaps someone could suggest a good image search engine? Google seems to be.... lacking in this regard lately.

Which Leaves:

The Temple of Fiends (FF I & II )
The Great Gospel (FF I & II )
The Fire Shrine (FF III)... I've started on this one in bryce... basically a Volcano with a temple on it.
Phoenix Aery (FF V)... Again, should have that done by tomorrow, if I don't get too side-tracked
The Huge Materia (FF VII )
Garden (FF VIII).... Just need to round up some pedia iconable graphics...
Eidolon Wall (FF IX)
Cavern of the Stolen Fayth (FF X... because Yojimbo is the ultimate badass)
Cape Terrigan Quest (FF XI).... May use a "treasure Map" featuring Cape Terrigan for the icons, with a good pic of Garuda as the splash.
Zodiac Stones (World of Ivalice)... The image Chris85 provided might work as a good base for creating the graphics in Bryce, but we shall see.....

 

[Stormrage]

Well, I have a funny one for the Temple of Fiends..

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

Well, I have a funny one for the Temple of Fiends..

Yeah, I was thinking along those lines, although I may have to crop out some stuff.... As a matter of fact one of them Evil buildings that MRTN made a Loooong time ago would do for the icons.....

"The Architecht was a deranged Necromancer, and the contractor was a member of the Eldritch Mafia.... We should consider ouselves lucky if the building is merely sentient."

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

Ok, got a few more buildings done, but have kind of hit a wall right now...

Thanks to Brian Clevenger's 8-bit theater, I got a good splash for the temple of fiends, and it was only a matter of converting one of MRTNs evil building conversions for the icons.

I also made the entire fire shrine from scratch (I seem to remember it being a volcano, so I made a volcano with a temple built into it), and like how it turned out.

The Phoenix Nest, I made from a combination of my old Blitzball court and a screenshot of the Phoenix summon in FF VII.

In addition, I have sort of replaced the graphics for one of the GREAT wonders that I still hadn't found the graphics for... I scanned the page of the official strat guide for FF CC to get the icons and splash graphics for the Veo Lu Sluice (replaces the Hoover Dam), although I'd rather find a better splash somewhere (the Icons, IMHO, are great).

I still have the following Summon SW to do:

The Great Gospel (FF I&II )
Garden (FF VIII)
Eidolon Wall (FF IX)
Cavern of the Stolen Fayth (FF X)
Cape Terrigan Quest (FFXI)
Zodiac Stones (World of Ivalice)

In addition, I still don't have any decent graphics for the following Great and Small wonders for all civs:

Zidane's Voyage (need a pic or two of the Blue Narcissus)
The White Materia (currently uses the SDI graphics)
Wall Street... Can anyone think of anything FF related to replace it with?

I've replaced all the other SW that are not FF-related (or could be made FF related... The only ones that are the same as the epic game would be the Heroic Epic and Military Academy, although I nixed the "requires victorious army" flag and made it generate armies over time instead of allowing you to build armies)

The problem right now for me is that searching images for the remaining wonders and small wonders hasn't been turning up much, and every time I try to go to ffwikia, FireFox crashes.

In addition, while coming home today, I saw a blimp flying over and around the field in front of my house, so I'm thinking that may be a sign

...Although I would like to have this mod finished by the end of this month.

Anyhow, here's the previews:

 

[Quinzy]

Score! I can't wait for another airship!
And those previews look awesome! I'm so psyched about this mod!

 

[Stormrage]

Everything looks great!

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

Looking great.

Any buildings you might need to get done?

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

Looking great.

Any buildings you might need to get done?

Yeah, I could use some help with these:

I still have the following Summon SW to do:

The Great Gospel (FF I&II )
Garden (FF VIII)
Eidolon Wall (FF IX)
Cavern of the Stolen Fayth (FF X)
Cape Terrigan Quest (FFXI)
Zodiac Stones (World of Ivalice)

In addition, I still don't have any decent graphics for the following Great and Small wonders for all civs:

Zidane's Voyage (need a pic or two of the Blue Narcissus)
The White Materia (currently uses the SDI graphics)
Wall Street... Can anyone think of anything FF related to replace it with?
The Myrrh Trade (currently uses the Longevity graphics)

Also, maybe you could help me find some good pics of the Veo Lu Sluice for the splash?

These buildings are the main thing holding up the release of the mod (I'm also going to be changing out some tech icons as well).

...That and the fact that I can't seem to find any good props for making a Grand Vizier Razfahd LH.....

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

Would you mind providing some screenshots of the structures mentioned? I will get to them as soon as I finish up Asia Buildings Pack 4a.

A replacement for "Wall Street", hm? The only things I can think of at the moment are the Auction House from FF6 or Gold Tower from "Secret of Mana" (which isn't actually Final Fantasy, but was briefly called "Final Fantasy Adventures" although it was officially under the Seiken Densetsu series in Japan).

 

[Stormrage]

There is also an Auction House in FF 9, right?

 

[alex9988]

Theres also like 5 Auction houses in FFXI

Making Wall Street into Auctionhouse might be a good idea

 

[Psionicle]

There's also the Auction house in FF6, the one where you might get an esper from.

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

Well, If I had some pics to go off of, I'd be more than happy to add it (although I could just go with the Wall Street graphics for now and just call it an auction house).

@Ogedei, There's a basic pic of the Veo Lu Sluice in the bottom right corner of this pic:

This was made from a scan I did of the strat guide... It works great as icons, but not so good as a splash.

Also, there's a pic of a typical Garden (Centra Shelter) from FF VIII on the previous page (Chris85 provided the splash graphics, but I don't have icons).

Unfortunately, I have been unable to google up any decent pics of the other things, which is why I haven't been able to do them.

 

[kluthe]

Yeah, I could use some help with these:

I still have the following Summon SW to do:

The Great Gospel (FF I&II )
Garden (FF VIII)
Eidolon Wall (FF IX)
Cavern of the Stolen Fayth (FF X)
Cape Terrigan Quest (FFXI)
Zodiac Stones (World of Ivalice)

In addition, I still don't have any decent graphics for the following Great and Small wonders for all civs:

Zidane's Voyage (need a pic or two of the Blue Narcissus)
The White Materia (currently uses the SDI graphics)
Wall Street... Can anyone think of anything FF related to replace it with?
The Myrrh Trade (currently uses the Longevity graphics)

Also, maybe you could help me find some good pics of the Veo Lu Sluice for the splash?

These buildings are the main thing holding up the release of the mod (I'm also going to be changing out some tech icons as well).

...That and the fact that I can't seem to find any good props for making a Grand Vizier Razfahd LH.....

the bazaar could replace wall street.

 

[Blue Monkey]

Also, maybe you could help me find some good pics of the Veo Lu Sluice for the splash?

I looked, but couldn't find anything for you. But maybe this will cheer you up -

Spoiler :

We got your Bonus Moogles, your Strategic Moogles, your Luxury Moogles, your Moogle Resources (large & small, but no shadows), ... and looky here, a Moogle Wonder!

Moogly DL


Don't know if you've made these for yourself, but I saw you've got a "Moogle Forest" in the mod, & I wanted to try my hand at making a resource. The palettes are corrected, but I don't know how the resource itself will look in-game.

Kupo-nya!

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

Well, I didn't include any Moogle resource because, well, there's not much point since there aren't any units even remotely close to moogles available (not to mention the models are impossible to find as well).... I was thinking about adding a Mognet Central GW at one point, but ended up using the Lunatic Pandora Laboratory instead (as a replacement for the internet).

Anyways, I've decided to change Wall Street to The Auction House, since there are multiple games that have that particular feature (VI, IX, XI, and IIRC, X-2), and the Wall Street Graphics would work well for that.

Also, does anyone know where I could get a good middle-eastern type helmet prop? I'm trying to make the Grand Vizier Razfahd LH, and seem to be stalled there.... I can kind of fudge the armor and the shirt under it, but that helmet, I have a feeling, will be what makes or breaks this LH.

 

[Quinzy]

In looking at images, you could try mapping a Roman Legionary's helmet. It has the same shape, I think

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

Hrmmm... The closest I have is some greek helmets... I suppose I could use them, but I suck at UV mapping objects.