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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Fixed an issue where colour palettes weren't ripping correctly and coming out with unsightly black artifacts ranging from extreme to "rather annoying". All better now ^^ See the before/after images.

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Fixed an issue regarding image/walkmesh alignment. 200+ out of the 700+ fields were affected, but now all 200+ align without issues.

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I literally just hit a button in Unity now and it sets up all 700+ scenes with camera, backgrounds, models, gateways, scripts ^^

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Fixed up a ripping tool which was 60% reliable, but is now 100% reliable, which means I now get all 383 of the game's field models super quick :D Now I just have to apply my anim-fixes in Blender, then I have a few things I do in Maya, lastly the Unity setup.... 383 times :|

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Got palettes working within the textures, which means I can now use the original and authentic approach to textures in Unity as opposed to skipping to a final image, which is not only cheating but would mean certain effects in the game can't be applied.

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Original FF7 data importing to Unity. Essentially working but lots of loose ends to tidy up! Soon I can start moving all the interaction work I already completed into the new pipeline. #FF7 #FFVII #FF7Rebuilt #Unity

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Wrap-around effect so that the world now loops when you fly off the edge of the map.

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Earlier clip when I was working out his boundary-detection and response

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Earlier vid where I was working out the movement code for all the segments (they all queue up behind the head of course)

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Zolom is in! Stays in his swamp-terrain, bounces from boundaries, moves in curves, hunts Cloud relentlessly >:D #FF7 #FFVII #FF7Rebuilt #Unity

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A less exciting but necessary update. Map overlays with vehicle/chocobo/character markers and triangle FoV scope! I also made it really easy to add custom vehicles that assume their own marker in future. No reason ^^; #FF7 #FFVII #Unity #FF7Rebuilt

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Pretty much done with Highwind controls. I've got a few tweaks to make but everything's there. I'm fairly proud of my camera-work. The shadow and the sea-spray gave me a bit fair challenge as did the Highwind's bizarre drifting controls. #FF7 #FFVII #Unity #FF7 #FF7Rebuilt

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Got the region/terrain/chocobo data in to Unity and behaving itself. Next I need to setup the filters to make use it so Cloud can't walk on mountains anymore. Once that's working I can jump into vehicles >:D

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Finally managed to get all the World assets ripped! Took a little more blood, sweat and crying-fits before they were usable in Unity. Now to move on to fun stuff like using vehichles & Chocobos :D #FFVII #FF7 #FF7Rebuilt #Unity

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

My sky looks nasty when you see how I'm doing it in the editor ^^

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Been working on character navigation, camera, sky and world-bend shader. Starting to get happier with it. Will get all the vehichles, landmarks n Weapons in soon enough, then I need to work on the underwater map. Will work harder to get parity right once everything's in place.

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This might not be new to the modding community, but I really like having access to the source files so I can explore Gaia this way!

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Back from Christmas travels and making a start on World Map! #FF7 #FFVII #FF7Rebuilt #Unity

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Finally, a use for this chatgpt regurgitation. Super saiyan hippo energy for 2025!

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Et voila! Shops. Buy/Sell items/Materia. Still a few things for me to improve but it's in good shape! Visit family for Xmas/NuYrs & I'm not one of those people who own a laptop so no updates from me until the new year, but then it's World Map stuff! #FF7 #FFVII #FF7Rebuilt #Unity

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Have had to repost with fixes :S Currently implementing the game's shops. Had to expand my database editor to include em, now I can start working on the in-game UI and field operations used to access them. The game features 80 shops in total! #FF7 #FFVII #FF7Rebuilt #Unity

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

"Save" has been fine for a short while, in theory, loading has too but I am only now trying it together after finally putting the start-menu together. #FF7 #FFVII #FF7Rebuilt

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Phew, parts of gamedev that are definitely more chore than fun. The series of splash screens before you get to the main menu. I skip through the credits but they're not video, had to animate the text/shadow slides from scratch D:

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The last of the events I still needed to get done to complete Bombing Mission! :D

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Final chamber's scene done! I'm on the home-stretch now to completing Bombing Mission! :D I finally get to see if I set up all the events properly on the way back during the escape ^^; @bsky.app your 1min video limit is LITERALLY killing me! #FF7 #FFVII #FF7Rebuilt #Unity

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

BoOM! - Countdown Timer test complete. Correct outcome when it reaches zero :D

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Got Save/Load working real nice! Had this KINDA working earlier, saved for session, but now actually stores to disk & is in tip-top shape in adhering to the save-map, which is here if anyone's curious about what/how FF7 data is stored: wiki.ffrtt.ru/index.php/FF... #FF7 #FFVII #FF7Rebuilt #Unity

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

More progress. Jessie leads Cloud downstairs before teaching him to jump/climb in the next scene. I've had jumping/climbing in for awhile now but only this evening got it working with AI/NPCs as well as just the player.

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Elevator scene! :D @shinraarchaeology.bsky.social pointed out to me the wall-lights in OG were very broken, gave me complete instructions to get them working again ^^ Very awesome! Still a few things here to iron out, but loving it! And these graphs get crazy! #FF7 #FFVII #FF7Rebuilt #Unity

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Another down! I've also handled all the events for the way back as well but I'll wait till I finish setting the bomb before I test any of those :) #FF7 #FFVII #FF7Rebuilt #FinalFantasyVII

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Another down. I underestimated the 2nd scene. What you don't see is all the save-map management. The events in the 2nd scene also cover when you return immediately or later with/without Jessie & in-time or not before the reactor explodes. It gets surprisingly blown out! #FF7 #FFVII #FF7Rebuilt

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

2nd CS done for now, incl. character-rename :D Everything is accurate, the only disappointing bits are: - no menu SFX (TBC) - camera fly-in not accurate (I'm doing a separate pass on all of these later, TBC) Bsky doesn't lemme upload vids longer than 1min 🤨

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Have actually had the field menu working for a long time. But here it is showing materia linking and status. Everything else is fully working too!

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Basically the original model is coloured white, I checked all the vertex colours and saw the blue channel reserved as a mask. Combined with my character lighting it's ok!

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Chocobo shader! Harder than it looks and probably still not accurate but close enough! See an explanation in the comments.

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The battle swirl :D Based on the PSX version, not the PC version. It's a little different but mostly there. I'm happy enough with it to move on. See reference video in comments.

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The graph for the above cutscene. Just so you get a sense of the enormity and arrangement

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

First cutscene cleared! Done all with custom nodes. See graph in comments.

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

An example of how I achieve the above with custom nodes.

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

If you're interested in my scene-layers. I have and merge layers myself as what I get from the asset-rips is not ideal.

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Regan - FF7 Unity Development @rmusicdev.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hi! This account is dedicated to my dev-work, recreating FF7 in Unity. It's going well! Follow for frequent progress updates :)

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