How many did you add? Some of the example ones I’m looking at have like 15+. Maybe put some after the C000040 as well just in case.
I originally added 10 at the beginning. Tried with 20 and 8 after the C000040 command and still glitches.
No idea then. Could you post your animation?
Yeah sure thing. I’ll post the link to my dropbox so you can download it. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/at1v47a606jm7ci/AAAweQqbsEG6WAdmeeK2dEe7a?dl=0
I think the problem has to do with line 510 in FEditor’s \asm\FE7\Spell Anim System\CSA System.txt:
@ Not doing this here anymore
@swi #0x12 @LZ77UnCompVramThis writes the object tiles to the OAM each frame (?), but it was commented out and moved somewhere else (for efficiency probably), which I think caused the glitch. Meanwhile it was not changed in FE8 and works fine there. Maybe you could use the spell animation system from an older version of FEditor?
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Oh ok. I just need to find an older version of FEditor since I have the most recent one and the render edition.
EDIT: So turns out the older version of FEditor did the trick.
My only issue is that I be able to use the older version of FEditor with the latest one, since it can mess up the ROM. The only reason this worked was because I use the older version AFTER inserting the thief animation. Actually I haven’t tested to see if anything else in the game was messed up from it, so I can’t say if it worked 100%. But it is something though. 
Oh good! I think it should work if you copy over the contents of \asm\FE7\Spell Anim System from the old FEditor to the new one.
The old FEditor that I found didn’t have an asm folder. It’s the 20090711.1 version. Is there another version that’s older than the current one that has the asm folder available?
I don’t think so. You may need to modify the rom by a hex editor – or the java src–.
You’re right, what you need to do is take “CSA System.patch.txt” from the old FEditor and replace “\src\Model\FE7.java” lines 163-246 in the new FEditor. Then run build.py (or is it .bat?) to compile it. Then it works - for clean roms.
If the rom has already been opened in the new FEditor you need to copy the “CSA System.dmp” without the first 0x30 bytes, and paste it to 0xCB680. That should fix it.
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The rom has already been opened in the latest version of FEditor, so I want to try to copy the csa system.dmp file. But I’m a little confused about the 0x30 bytes part. Could you explain how many bytes that I need to skip?
Also, the csa system.dmp file is from the new FEditor right?
0x30 is 48 in decimal. Even easier, it’s the first 3 lines, assuming you have the standard 16 bytes/line.
Actually I’ve been trying to get this working and sadly it’s not so simple. I have now made a version of FEditor which fixes the issue for any clean roms: Download here
However it will NOT work when animations are already inserted because the Spell Animation Array has been repointed to a different location in the newer version.
Oh I see. Thank you for explaining it to me! I had a feeling it was the first three lines, but I wasn’t 100% sure.
And thank you circleseverywhere for making the FEditor to help fix the issue. Going to have backtrack on my hack a bit, but luckily I documented everything I did, so it shouldn’t take too long. Well I hope anyway. I will try inserting the animations later today.
EDIT:
I tried inserting the animation but there was a blue line that appears when the spell animation was playing.
What’s weird is that it only happens once in a while. After a couple of times of reloading a save state does the line appear.
I tried inserting ragnarok to test and see if it was the script or frames that was the issue but you’ll see a line again here.
Not sure if it’s because of where I inserted the spell animations. I tried inserting the knife animation at 0x3E slot and for the ragnarok spell, I tried replacing the ballista arrow animation at 0x10.
EDIT #2: Nvm, I figured out what was causing the issue. Inserting the spell at a different value fixed it. Also found out that inserting the animation at 0x3E messes up the cavalier animation. Again, I would like to thank you for helping me getting this to work.
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Good work figuring out the weird line, that was bugging me too
Took a bit of trial and error to see what was causing the issue. Did a bit more experimenting and realized that the game gets bricked when trying to patch Blazer’s instrument patch after inserting the knife animation. I also tried patching first before inserting and doing this will end up with that weird line and messing up the cavalier animation.
So I’m not sure if the value of the spell insertion was really the issue. But having a clean rom will insert the animation fine. I’m going to keep trying and figure out the order of inserting stuff to be able to get both the patch and animation to work together.
If I I had to guess I’d say that there’s some sort of overlap between where Blazer’s instrument patch puts things and where the new spell animation table has been placed by FEditor.
That’s probably it. I tried patching the rom first before inserting the animation. It seemed to work, but once I try inserting music or graphics, the spell animation messes up with the weird line showing up again when it was fine before the insertion.
I’ve tried many combinations of what to insert first to get the animation to run smoothly, but so far I haven’t figured it out. =/
Probably will just work around this issue by making a separate battle animation for the thief to throw knives and have a custom animation pointer set up for the thief.
Meaningless to an offset conflict.
That’s true. I’ve tried deallocating space once I realized that. But I’m not sure where FEditor would insert stuff. Does FEditor say where in the rom it would begin to insert stuff when you deallocate space?