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Modifying Ai's Behaviour

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 22:14:53 +0000

Modifying Ai's Behaviour

The "behavior" of a computer player, Ai, can be modified in the Spt of that character e.g, when to perform a move.

In performing a move by Ai, the distance is an important factor to consider, setting a range of distance values for a specific move will reduce the tendency of Ai performing moves randomly, thereby, increasing the Ai's skill.

1. How to make Ai use a move at a given range of distance;

This is the ICECOL of Iczzy

"81": {
            "__AMF0_OBJECT_CLASSNAME__": "Data.Action",
            "selfLoop": false,
            "nextAi": -1.0,
            "allowTurnFace": false,
            "nextAti": -1.0,
            "frame": null,
            "aiz2": 250.0,
            "special": 0.0,
            "landAti": -1.0,
            "landAi": -1.0,
            "nextAgi": -1.0,
            "name": "ICECOL",
            "a_keyTgr": null,
            "landAgi": -1.0,
            "frameIndex": 231.0,
            "aix1b": -750.0,
            "mpBurn": 0.0,
            "index": 81.0,
            "aix2": 750.0,
            "aiz1": -250.0,
            "nextActionName": null,
            "type": -1.0,
            "aix2b": 750.0,
            "aix1": -750.0,
            "landActionName": null
        },

"aiz2","aix1b","aix2","aiz1","aix2b" and "aix1" are the parameters governing the distance at which Com will decide to attack. An enemy withing this range is in the territory of Com, so Ai will attack.

We can see that aiz2 = 250, which means; if an enemy is within the range of 1 - 250μm in the positive direction, ie. facing the Ai, Com Iczzy will use the ICECOL in the presence of sufficient mp. (i used μm as the unit of measurement, this may not be the unit used in the game) Perhaps, at 300μm, enemy won't be affected by the attack, so Com wont use the ICECOL.

aix1b = -750, means; if enemy is within the range of -750 to -1, in the negative direction, i.e behind Ai, Com Iczzy will perform the ICECOL if there's enough mp.

Normal Com Iczzy

2. To make Ai not make use of a particular skill.

Since the distance assists Ai in deciding when to attack, it can be modified in a way that Com won't use this skill.
If the values of "aiz2","aix1b","aix2","aiz1","aix2b" and "aix1" are set to 0, Com Iczzy won't use the ICECOL at any distance.

"81": {
            "__AMF0_OBJECT_CLASSNAME__": "Data.Action",
            "selfLoop": false,
            "nextAi": -1.0,
            "allowTurnFace": false,
            "nextAti": -1.0,
            "frame": null,
            "aiz2": 0.0,
            "special": 0.0,
            "landAti": -1.0,
            "landAi": -1.0,
            "nextAgi": -1.0,
            "name": "ICECOL",
            "a_keyTgr": null,
            "landAgi": -1.0,
            "frameIndex": 231.0,
            "aix1b": 0.0,
            "mpBurn": 0.0,
            "index": 81.0,
            "aix2": 0.0,
            "aiz1": 0.0,
            "nextActionName": null,
            "type": -1.0,
            "aix2b": 0.0,
            "aix1": 0.0,
            "landActionName": null
        },

Simple explanation; Since matter occupies "Space", it's impossible for two things to occupy the same position at a given time, similar reasoning shows that, when those values are set to 0, it means Com will only use that skill when the enemy is standing exactly where Com is, which is not possible.

Thanks to BuEBaiDi, more will be added with time.

Understanding The ItemSpt

Sun, 04 Feb 2024 18:54:24 +0000

The projectiles released by any character can be found in 185 - Data.Global_itemSpt

So, to modify the characteristics of any projectile released by characters, you will have to modify the ActionGroup and Frame of the corresponding projectile in the ItemSpt

Here are some important things I've been able to learn, by the help of Jeatles.

1. To make an projectile travel farther after it's been released, e.g, Lucas' air blade, you have to increase the "ite_lifeTime": in the ActionGroup which has the "name": as lucasB

2. To make a prop more durable, e.g, making Lucas' air blade to be able to take out other projectiles, e.g, Shawn's arrowsuper or Livermore's laser and still keep going, you have to change "ite_dura": and "ite_duraD": in the ActionGroup and increase "attackMany": in the corresponding Frame of the Action.

[Note: Frame index can be found in the corresponding Action]

Due to my limited knowledge, I don't fully understand the relationship between "ite_dura": and "ite_duraD": , but for clarity, you can increase the dura to a very large number, and the duraD, to a very small number, e.g

"ite_dura": 8000.0,
"ite_duraD": 60.0,

Experiments have proven those values to be able to incredibly increase the strength of a prop.
More will be added gradually.

Make a Character Execute a Move While Performing a Skill

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:17:20 +0000

Make Shawn's arrows freeze the enemy

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 19:03:20 +0000

Create EXE for HF and APK for HFX using Adobe AIR SDK by HARMAN

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 11:17:36 +0000

Customize the EXE (aka. Adobe Flash Player Projector)

Sun, 05 Jul 2020 11:24:05 +0000

Introduction

It is possible to "convert" the SWF to an EXE using HF Workshop, which is actually just using Adobe Flash Player Projector to create a standalone of the SWF. There are many versions of the FP available for download, and you may download them here here.

Note: If you are curious about the algorithm HF Workshop is using, you may check it here.

However, HF Workshop does not customize the FP projector. So here are some instructions on how you can achieve this.

Note: The EXE must not be compressed with UPX for this to work.

Changing the icon

For changing the icon, you'll need Resource Editor. Open the Flash Player projector file (SA.exe), before adding HF swf to it, with resource editor. Expand the "Icon" folder, right click on the first icon, click on "Load resource..." and select the ICO file you want. If you don't have a ICO file but only an image, you can convert the image to ICO using any online tool, like https://icoconvert.com/. The official HF ICO is available here. You may do this for all the icons there, though one should be enough to change the displayed icon of the EXE file. You may then use this modified SA.exe to convert HF swf to exe.

Notes:
- The EXE must not be compressed with UPX for this to work.
- This must be done before combining HF swf with SA.exe.

Removing the menu bar

The menu bar is not very useful. Of all of its options, full screen is probably the only useful one, but this can be achieved with CTRL+F too. Removing this bar is actually easy. With Resource Editor again, open the EXE with it, expand the "Menu" folder and delete all the menu entries.

Changing the window's title

This one varies with the FP version. On old versions, I was told that using Resource Editor, changing the title can be done on the "String Table" folder. But on more recent versions (the oldest I tried was version 11), changing the title must be done with an hex editor. In version 11 and version 20 (the ones I tried), you have to search for A\0d\0o\0b\0e\0 \0F\0l\0a\0s\0h\0 \0P\0l\0a\0y\0e\0r\0 \0X\0X, where the \0 represents the null byte (00 in hexadecimal) and appears between every character, and XX represents the version (11, 20...). After you've found this, you can write your own title on top of this (keeping the null bytes intact), and you must terminate the title with a null byte, and you also cannot have a title bigger than the already existing one, using this simple method. So, your title could look like: H\0e\0r\0o\0 \0F\0i\0g\0h\0t\0e\0r\0 \0v\00\0.\07\0+\0\0\0X\0X

Note: Resource Hacker appears to break Trong's Flash Player. Resource Editor is a good alternative that works.

Tutorial: Allow Raye's Lightning attack to turn direction

Sun, 21 Jun 2020 10:33:03 +0000

Tutorial: Animation / Frames' duration

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 19:49:11 +0000

Tutorial: Change where Shawn's arrow spawns

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 19:45:11 +0000

If you'd like to change where Shawn's arrow spawns, or any other projectile, you'll find the data for it in globalDat (id=142). Find the PtWithName of the projectile (10 for Shawn's arrow, standing) and change the velocity attributes (vx, vy and vz).

vz will cause the arrow to go up with negative values, and down with positive values. Default is 0 so it goes straight.
vy will cause the arrow to go higher with negative values, and lower with positive values.
vx is what you want, lower values will cause the arrow to not go as far, but they will also hit the opponent that is touching you.

This will also change the velocity of the arrow though. This is the solution told me. Don't know any other right now.

Tutorial: Change HP, MP and SP of character.

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 18:56:22 +0000

How to change HP, MP and SP of a character with HF workshop?

Tutorial: Action Transplant

Sun, 01 Mar 2020 05:01:38 +0000

For the tutorial, see the pdf in the attachment. You can do the transplant manually or with the tool I made.
Also in the attachment are 2 formats of action_transplant tools: the python file action_transplant.py (which is the code of the action transplant tool) and an executable file action_transplant.exe.
If you already installed Python, then install the module "json" and then you can run the .py file with python to transplant actions. Since HFE does not support .py files uploading, I changed its suffix to .txt. You just need to change it back to .py to use it.
If you don't have Python on you PC, then download the .exe file and follow the instructions in it to transplant actions. Note that this .exe file only runs on 64-bit windows system. Since I encountered some problem with file sharing platform, the .exe file will be uploaded later.

With the help of I uploaded the zip file which contains the tool of .exe format.

  Turorial of Action Transplant.pdf (Size: 87.29 KB / Downloads: 1003)

  action_transplant.txt (Size: 9.81 KB / Downloads: 798)

  action_transplant.zip (Size: 6.46 MB / Downloads: 915)

Tutorial: Replace and Swap Characters

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 08:15:09 +0000

See the pdf in the attachment:

Tutorial to Replace and Swap Characters.pdf (Size: 34.32 KB / Downloads: 1207)

人物对换与人物覆盖教程.pdf (Size: 300.78 KB / Downloads: 858)