Insane Difficulty: How to change sprites? - Insane Difficulty

I'm using Tile Molester, but isn't working on my FFTA rom - MP Edited.
How do you change the sprites in FFTA?

Windows 7 user.

Jon will be able to answer this, he's obsessed with FFTA sprites

maybe PM him, or wait till he sees this

Sprites in FFTA are stored in a strange way. But they should still be editable in Tile Molester. But yeah, they are stored in a way to save space, and don't contain the "empty" tiles. I made a program to view them ages ago, but I'm unsure if that will be enough for you. :\

Darthatron, on 19 May 2011 - 02:56 PM, said:

If I could use it to change sprites, will be enough... i don't wanna anything else. .-.
I don't know anything about programming... =/

Darth, could you please send Holy the same program you sent me? It worked magic in my case, and I was able to make my own human sprite sheets. (Darth made an awesome program!) Somewhere on here is actually 2 whole human sheets of Paladin and Soldier...I'll find them...

Edit: I made these, no portraits because those are stored somewhere else anyways, actually don't put the portrait on the actual sheet.
Soldier and Paladin complete sheets


And why do the work for Bangaas, Moogles and monsters when someone already has? Also some "hero" characters.
Shy Guy Kingdom Complete Sprite Sheets

Edit 2: Also if you make something, don't be afraid to post it, I think everyone working on FFTA X will give crits and try to help

and the question about modifying sprites in game remains unsolved. >.<'

You have to use TileMolester, or a hex editor. There is no easy way to do it yet.

Darth once put my custom White Mage into the game! That was awesome!

I also hope for a day when we can insert and extract sprites from FFTA with ease, would be so sweet! Right now its not the main concern, but keep making sprites for that day when it comes!

all i'm gonna say on the subject is "whenever someone makes their sprite sheet, please don't forget to add "Life Render" compatible animations."

Wait a second, I was just looking at Llednar's sprite sheet and I noticed that he has all the poses like any generic character with the exception of him turning into stone (when he dies). I think all units already have the neccessary animations to perform Life Render or anything else (at least sprite-wise).

The game has it's sprites, and renders them with the necessity.
This game is like a stop motion movie: Each moviment is a frame.
I don't know, but I think the game renders the image according to the background colour to recognize the color sheet.
Try to see any object sprite sheet...

I am not sure like 100%, but I think this game runs on a 4 layer setup, I know this because I used to make my own project games with BYOND which is exactly the same. My theory of the 4 layers goes like this:

1st layer (most in the background) is actually the background Sky layer, and is made up of special effects like when a spell is cast, the screen becomes "dark", but in reality all 4 layers become dark.

2nd layer is the Turf layer, which is obviously made up of the "turf" aka the land on which the units stand.

3rd layer is the Mob layer, which is made up of all the units in the game like Marche or a viera, etc.

4th layer is the Object layer, which is made up of not only objects seen like swords swinging, but also the spells are considered objects.

There may be a 5th layer called the Fly layer, which is also made up of objects that must be presented above all other layers.

Now you might wonder what is this bs I am rambling on about, and how the hell would I know this. Its simple, watch extremely closely whenever a unit who is "hidden" behind something like a tree or a building when he performs an ability action, the mob and object layers will most likely appear before the thing they are hidden by, which makes no sense. Another example is try moving (now this is isometric view) infront of a small obstacle when the unit is originally behind it. If you look at it very closely, the unit will often have his head chopped off for a split second. I can make a screenshot of what I'm talking about, but later, now I'm busy

makes sense

The GBA uses a 4 layer system + OAM. The 4 layers are all for background type stuff and are considered tiles. The OAM are the sprites, and they can each be set a "priority", thus can be behind or infront of any of the background layers.

Darth, could you make a tutorial saying how did you change the white mage sprites?
I would change a lot of FFTA sprites... '-'

Hey, I was pretty close, eh Darth? I was just guessing at how it is because of my prior coding knowledge haha. So its 4 bg layers and a 5th sprite layer, hmm makes sense...

Holy: I literally just went in and manually hand-wrote the hexcode that the image would have in a hex editor. It's no easy task.

Jon: The sprites don't really have a layer, they can be behind/infront of any layer. Also, send Holy that program I sent you, if you still have it.

I still got it boss! Will send!

I'm also wondering about changing sprites in ffta, its been approx 4 years, is there a way to change sprites without going into hex edit? And if hex edit is the way to go, is there a few pointers you can give me on how I can change it through hex edit?

i see

like ya say it is alot of effort to go to just to change a the chain, i did my XJR which came with a split link and changed it for a soft link, thats what prompted me to get the chain riveter. That way i can do any chain then.

So the chain is continous then? no soft link or anything???