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[Ward]

Hey everyone. I'm kinda new at hacking Fire Emblem and I really need help. I made a custom battle animation and ounce I insert the script FEditor adv says "Illegal Argument Exception. That image uses to many tiles!" I don't know what the problem at all maybe one of you could come up with something.

[Snow]

Ok four things:

1. Hi, welcome to FES . Either I didn't notice it or you didn't post something in the introduction forum.
2. This should probably have been posted in the Questions subforum. Most likely someone *coughShucough* will move it, but keep that in mind next time.
3. I really like the mug you have as your avatar, but the colors are very off. I think you used the paint colors? Try getting the colors you want from FE mugs, that way it looks closer to the mugs that are in the game plus you don't have to waste time on making colors yourself.
4. I sadly have no idea why you got that error message, though if I had to guess it might mean that the image/animation you're trying to insert is too big?

[Fire Blazer]

Topic moved

The reason why you get that error may have to do with the palette not being set up right, i.e. the transparent color isn't what it should be (check a tutorial for info on this), or the sprite you're using may be too big--sadly you can't use the whole space given to you, the sprite can only take so many "tiles" and if it takes more than that FEditor Adv will complain. It's unfortunate, but that's how it is...

[Phigo]

Hello everyone

I just started working on my FE-Hack and wanted to look how far I could get without any help (aside of the awesome tutorials).

So first off: Thanks a lot for the astounding work regarding the Ultimate Tutorial by Blazer and everyone else who did really awesome work with other tutorials as well. Thanks a lot

Now as to what my problem is: I tried to insert a test-animation and all seemed fine, but the colors that load ingame are rather unexpected. Could this have to do with the character palette or is this something else?

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I used the .txt template from Blazers Ultimate Tutorial and as mentioned before, FEditor Adv had no problems at all, but, as you can see, ingame is not what I asked for xD

This is what my character should look like:

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I hope you can see it clearly :X

I would appreciate any help greatly

Thank you very much beforehand!

[Fire Blazer]

I think it should mention something about the default palette

you need to set the character palette to the right one which is probably "default colors" i.e. the colors of the class not the individual character

[Phigo]

Ah, yes, stupid me :X
Thanks for the help.

[GhastStation]

speaking of tutorials. I find that it helps to look back at certain sections tutorials if you ran into something. If its a rather common problem, or a seemingly obvious one I should say. Looking back in the ultimate tutorial can solve the proiblem. I remember having palette issues when inserting map sprites but after i redid my homework it was fixed

[Phigo]

Yes, thanks, I know that. But sometimes you simply are blind to the obvious, that's nothing supernatural. I am just human and humans are not flawless, if theye were, help would never be needed and the world be very different.

It is the same with puzzles. Sometimes you just go blind and need help from others or a break to find the missing piece yourself. So I might have solved the problem myself today, but since I am rather impatient and like to communicate with other humans, I asked here.

After all that is what this forum is for, is it not?

(Also if you read carefully you would see, that I actually suspected the palette being the root of my problem, but somehow I preferred asking for help rather than simply trying it out...)

[Fire Blazer]

Yup, it happens. We need to be self-sufficient to some extent but at the same time we're not perfect so we can't do everything ourselves. Of course, trying to do as much as we can is important! Haha~

Anyhow, seems like you fixed it, it's no biggie, glad it was something simple!

[Phigo]

I hope this is the last time for a while, that I have to bother you.

What reason could there be, that the animation won't move? I loaded my script into Feditor Adv and got no errors. But when I load the game and attack, I only see the standing frame. He won't move. He just stands still, the HP of the enemy drop magically and thats it. No movement at all (the enemy moves normally though, no blackscreen, crash or whatever).

What could be the reason for this?

I am rather clueless, since everything looks good to me.

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Mode 1
C03
C07
6 p- standing.png
C22
4 p- attack1.png
4 p- attack2.png
4 p- attack3.png
4 p- attack4.png
5 p- attack5.png
C04
C1A
C1F
8 p- attack6.png
4 p- attack7.png
3 p- attack8.png
3 p- attack9.png
3 p- attack10.png
4 p- attack11.png
5 p- attack12.png
6 p- standing.png
C01
C06
C0D
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Mode: Complete
Animation frame count for this mode: 0
Last path: L:\FE Rise and Fall of an Era\Sprites\Animationen\Achilles\standing.png

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I don't know why this one is wider here, it actually has the exact same size as every other picture (248x160)...

I'm sorry if I'm annoying, but I can't find the problem. I tried various positions (more to the back, a bit more up or down, etc.), but he never moves.

I would really appreciate any help here D:

[GhastStation]

just by looking and not by actually analysing the spoilers are you sure the attack is a normal attack? like he's not landing critical after critical is he? because if yes then yeah you have only the standing frame. if you have no results then ill try to figure it out tonight when I get back.

[Phigo]

Yes, I am positive that it is the normal attack and not the critical hit.

I am really thankful for your help, GhastStation. I am looking forward to the results of your efforts

[GhastStation]

those pictures you sent aren't pngs, did you save them as jpegs?...

[Phigo]

No, I saved them as pngs. I don't know why they are jpgs now, maybe imageshack changed it to jpg?

I hope mediafire is a bit more flexible: Mediafire.

[GhastStation]

just zip the whole folder up and pm it to me