Does anyone have any experience with the Dance AI patch? I tried it out, and the AI still won’t dance. Is there a specific way the unit AI needs to be set up? Or does it not work with skill system?

I had a look at it one time and it seems complex. They’ll still prefer to attack you if their stats are better than the enemies around them, I think… something like that, anyway. Did you ensure that they can’t do anything else useful during their turn?

I did some more experimenting with it, and it looks like the AI will only dance for units that have both moved and taken some sort of action (attack, use a staff etc). It won’t dance for units that have only moved or only acted, which led to me thinking it wouldn’t dance at all as the test unit I wa…

I think you should try building the source code with small blocks commented out. FEBuilderGBA/FEBuilderGBA/blob/master/FEBuilderGBA/bin/Debug/config/patch2/FE8U/DanceAi/src/DanceAi.c #include "gbafe.h" static int DanceAiGetUnitDanceWeight(struct Unit* unit) { return unit->pow + unit…

From poking around a bit, I think this where it’s checking whether the enemy units have moved and performed an action, but I’m not following how r1 is arrived at to make the comparison before the branch. [Screenshot 2021-09-17 180610]

I don’t think looking at the disassembly is likely to be that useful. If you must look at the asm instead of the spurce C code, then I think you should build from the source and have it generate a .s file for you, as it will include generated comments on which lines of code are doing what.

Hmm, maybe it’s better that way, that enemy Dancers only refresh only those who did an action aside from Move. At least it gives players time to react.

Hey Permafrost, a long, long time ago I implemented DancerAI through Febuilder to my hack. I want to say that I had an issue in the beginning with it as well, though for one reason or another, it got solved (though I can’t remember why) and the dancers refreshed any unit who needed it regardless of …

I appreciate you dropping by to try to give a clue to what’s going on. I think that I stumbled on the solution by accident while looking over the settings in your hack. The only differences in AI setting were that you had changed the recovery mode AI, which I rarely bother with, but experimenting …

That’s a really funky thing in the AI, but if it works, it works! Glad you were able to get something working

[image] Permafrost: As far as I can tell, the Dancer in your hack dances for the Mercenary she spawns next to because you gave Dancers six movement. I would imagine if you want Dancers to work for standard unmounted promoted enemies you would need to give them seven move. @StanH you might wis…

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@StanH you might wish to look into this sometime. Dancer ai is a cool hack, btw!