[FE8] How to enable/ disable Fog of War during Skirmishes?

Questions
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It seems that whether there’s FoW or not during a skirmish
is determined together with whether a skirmish spawns or not on an area.

Also Neleras Peak (Volcano area in CH18) never ever has FoW.

So I was wondering if there is a “table” of “area skirmishes”
that determines which areas can have FoW
and at which % rate for each one to have a FoW.

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See here. Chances for FoW are 50/50 by default for any skirmish (battle map type 2). (That piece of code corresponds to FE8U:08030E54).

That’s it for the ASM. For anything that breaks this rule (you mentioned the Ch18 map), it will be handled by events.

Specifically in the skirmish beginning events located at FE8U:089FFC30 (which are common for all skirmishes). It’s a bit of a mess at first glance so here’s how this scene works:

  • It sets up a list of chapter id/event scene pointer on the event queue.
  • It calls another event (FE8U:89FFC0C) which looks through the queued list.
  • It calls the event that corresponds to the current chapter/map id.

If you look at the enqueued list, the one scene corresponding to Ch18 (chapter id 0x12 or 0x1F, both point to the same scene anyway) is at FE8U:08A0013C, which looks like this:

Events 
SVAL s2 0
CALL $9EE828 // Setup unit load count based on difficulty

SVAL sD 0
SVAL s1 0x32; SENQUEUE
SVAL s1 0x19; SENQUEUE
SVAL s1 0xF; SENQUEUE
SVAL s1 0x5; SENQUEUE
SVAL s1 0x5; SENQUEUE
CALL $9EE84C // Setup random position probabilities

FOGVISION 0 // Force fog vision to 0 (no fog) (!!!)

END

There is your one exception.

(So no, there’s no fancy table mapping chapters to FoW chances, only the default 50/50 and then it’s up to events).

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Awesome find. Really helps me out.
Really Thanks !!!