CHANGING AREA MELEE RANGES

By Stumpy

You may have noticed that when characters use an area melee attack, the range extends far beyond the swing of their fist due to a bug in FFvsTTR itself. Thanks to Stumpy, there’s now a way to change the range on area melee powers back to their FF settings.

You'll use one of two ways

Process 1: When you create a new hero file with an area melee power, run him/her/it through the M25AI Generator. It will create an m25ai file and set the correct area melee range.

Process 2: When you make any change to any existing character that has an area melee power (it doesn't matter what you change. If you click the OK button rather than the Cancel button when you edit the character you made a change) and you want to create a new m25ai or overwrite the existing one then run the character thru the M25 AI Generator.

If you DO NOT want to overwrite the existing m25ai file for the character you edited then ONLY run the "-------------------------" character thru M25 AI Generator. This way the only thing that happens is it updates your heroes' area melee powers' ranges.

Things to remember:

• You must quit and reload the game for the changes to take effect.
• The fix creates backups of your hero files that it changes. Look in your Heroes folder and remove the .bak files it creates after you know they're working fine with the new range.
• The ranges are set to be minRange=0 and maxRange=2. You can change the range it gives heroes if you'd like (This range has been tested with all sorts of meshes and it works the best) by opening the cM25 Generate AI.py file and look for the lines:
  
  Code:

          ChangeAreaMeleeRanges_BuiltIn(minRange=0,maxRange=2)
          ChangeAreaMeleeRanges_AllCustoms(minRange=0,maxRange=2)

• Remember when you run the M25 AI Generator, it updates ALL hero files and built-ins, not just the characters you're running through the AI Generator. It makes no changes to hero files that have the range fix already applied.