Hey !
I found your bug. It was not was I thought.

Some characters have one of their command linked to their trance command counterpart. All of that can be seen/modified in the "Stats" panel. It is useful for letting the trance spells learned at the same rate as the normal ones, like Zidane's Dyne which are learned along his Skills. However, it has a specific requirement (else, it soft locks in battle like what you had):
all the spells under the normal command must be present in the Ability Set (in the stats panel).

That means, if for instance you modify the spells under the "Skills" command, you should also replace the spells in Zidane's Ability Set in the stats panel to match the difference.

How do you create your mod?
I think that the problems is because you use HW on an already modded game ; it can have weird effects... You should always, in the normal way of using the tool, use .hws files instead of saving your mod solely with the other formats (binary/ppf for PSX, Steam game files for Steam).

I will look into it nonetheless and see what I can do. Can you confirm me that it is the way you proceed though? I will surely not be able to allow HW to open correctly games that are already modded in some ways (ie. with modded Assembly-CSharp.dll) but if you use .hws files, then there is something really bad to fix.

@Lyrithus: It is indeed not possible to change the model ID of weapons using HW yet. It is a feature available for the PSX version but it's a bit harder to do in Steam version. To be honest, I kind of forgot about that so it's been a long time since I didn't check if I could implement it easily now.

There is no "trl" tool to my knowledge. You shouldn't care about whatever Dwight says ; I don't know in which reality he lives but it seems pretty different from mine.

EDIT: Thank you Saftle (I guess it is you) for cleaning up the subforum. Much appreciated.

Nop, it's not simple to let Beatrix have Trance at all. She misses a trance model besides all the flags preventing her to have this feature.

Extended how? In the sense to add more time?

You can setup the base time of the minigame like this:
- Go to the "Environment -> Fields" panel (it takes some time to load),
- Search for the field "Chocobo Forest" or one of the two others,
- In "Edit Script", select the function "Main_22",
- You see the line "ChangeTimerTime( ( 60 / VAR_GlobInt8_36 ) + 1 )": replace 60 by any number ; "VAR_GlobInt8_36" is a handicap factor used in the Chocobo's Lagoon when you only have half of the area accessible.
- Then Parse + Ok².

The Assembly-CSharp.dll was not updated (nor the resources.assets). I don't know what changed ; DarkSpartan may be right when he said that only DotNet was updated (indeed it went from 4.5.1 to 4.5.2 but I didn't check thoroughly that it was the only thing).

It wasn't a big update anyway. I was surprised there was an update at all. To tell you the truth, I imagined that Silicon Studio's contract ended in december 2016 and that they won't update anything anymore.

I'm not sure about Necron's death animation. If you can use it without softlocking the game, that's good but most of the death animations softlock the game.
In [Ultima-Terra], it may be a 'Play Model on target v1' or whatever figure ; they are alike.

Unfortunatly, it's not possible. Ultima's spell animation (and most of the "[BadGuy-Death]") are missing 'something' that makes the battle resume after they are done.

We need to be able to edit the spell animations deeper than what we can do now for fixing that. I remember that, for Ultima, I narrowed the problem in the last "Play Model on target v4" in the spell animation: if you remove that line, only half of the spell animation will play but the battle eventually resumes (and you can use it as a party spell).

@Magus: You're welcome :)
@Dwight: If I remember correctly, the character models are half-transparent with the "ghost" version. It was initially a bug that I obtained by mistake when making this mod and I thought it was neat so I've kept a version of it.

No, that's not the latest version. The latest version was compiled in december 2016 (and came out a few months later). For some reason, Steam doesn't always update the game even after a full reinstallation.

To update the game, go to your Steam's "My Games", right-click on FF9, then "Properties", then search for something like "Verify the integrity of the local files" and do that. It also uninstalls all the mods (replacing the files in FF9's Steam folder).