Quote: Hi, since I've seen some people ask whether it's still possible to change the visuals of your spells since cataclysm, I'll let you know it IS.

Essentially the old method still works but it got a bit trickier due to game changes.

What you will need:

- An MPQ archive program (personally I use MPQ editor)

- DBCtoCSV.exe and dbcutil (normally dbcutil alone will do, however for reasons I will explain later it's better you have both. You can get dbcutil here :

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/world-...ndows-mac.html

It's included in Demonkunga's tools)

- Notepad or Excel, notepad is cleaner and easier. If you're one of those few unlucky bastards who doesn't have notepad, you can google "notepad++" for a free pimped up version of it.

- Signature and MD5 protection remover, get it here :

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/world-...n-remover.html

Guide :

There are two big differences compared to how it used to be.

1) The wow.exe now performs a check which rates the validity of patches and does not allow any patchnumber greater than that of the latest official patch to prevent home cooked patches from being injected into the game. Signature and MD5 protection remover to the rescue. Follow the guide provided here : http://www.mmowned.com/forums/world-...odel-edit.html , it's of vital importance that "Disable 'signaturefile" and "Maximize patch number limitation" are both checked for your wow.exe

2) The structure of the Spell.dbc file has shifted since the introduction of cataclysm. A lot of fields aren't there anymore and other new fields have been added. This causes dbcutil, dbc editor and most other dbc tools to not handle the file properly, making it hard to load, and even harder to modify without corrupting it Solution? We are NOT going to try and modify the spell.dbc file any more. However it still contains information that we will need.

a) Open MPQ editor or another MPQ program of your choice. Look for the following file in your wow directory : World of Warcraft/Data/enGB/locale-enGB.MPQ and open it. Depending on your location you might have a different subdirectory than enGB (enUS being the most common one I suppose)

b) Browse to the DBFilesClient directory inside the MPQ. And extract the following files : Spell.dbc and SpellVisual.dbc

c) Convert both files to a CSV using your dbc conversion tool. I prefer using DBCtoCSV.exe over DBCutil because the latter tends to lose big pieces of the spell.dbc file during the conversion (I'm not sure if the pieces that were lost are vitally important, but I'd like to be as complete as possible.)

d) Go to wowhead and search for your two spells, the one you want to change, and the one you want to make it look like. From here on, I'll go on by example changing Fel Armor into Shadowform.

e) Get their spell IDs and write them somewhere down.



You can get the IDs by hitting the link button at the right. Inside the string look for hspell:<number>, this number will be your spells ID. For Fel Armor that would be 28176, and Shadowform 15473.

f) Great, we've got the numbers, now lets browse inside our spell.csv using notepad.



The first value is the ID of our spell, we've looked up the ID of Fel Armor, 28176 which was provided by wowhead. As the tooltip information pointed out by the gray arrow confirms, we're looking at the right spell. However as said earlier, it's nearly impossible to edit this file without making it impossible to convertback to a .dbc afterwards. Instead we'll be modifying another file later on. But for that we need to know the visual ID of our spells first.

The visual IDs are the 17th and 18th field (usually there's only one on field 17 and 18 is left as a zero).

An easy way to recognize the 17th field, is to pick the field 4 blocks before the spell name.

Now we found out the visual ID of Fel Armor is 7578. If we rinse and repeat the process for Shadowform, we find its visual ID to be 3619.

3) And that was all we needed to know from our spell.csv, we no longer need it. Now let's open our SpellVisual.csv. The visual IDs which we got earlier are basically references to the IDs in this file. The classic way to change spell visuals was to change the referencing id in our spell.csv. But since that isn't possible any more we need to modify the data inside the SpellVisual.csv instead.



We've looked up the visual ID of Shadowform( 3619 ) which we found earlier in our spell.csv. In this file, the visual ID is the identifying key, thus it's in field 1. The information following are all the graphic parameters the id uses. For more information on the SpellVisual.dbc file: SpellVisual.dbc - WoW.Dev Wiki

a) So we're going to use that information and copy it to Fel Armor. Copy everything but the ID, as marked by the red line, beware you don't mess up with the commas during the copy paste.

b) Now we'll look up the visual ID of Fel Armor( 7578 ). And delete all information which follows :



c) And we paste the information we copied from Shadowform.



Eh voila, the magic has happened. We've done what we came to do. Save and Close the file.

4) now convert SpellVisual.csv back to SpellVisual.dbc by dropping it onto dbcutil.

5) Time to wrap this baby up into our own patch. Notice how we do not require spell.dbc anymore for our own patch. However don't toss the spell.csv away yet, in case you want to modify more spells later. Make sure the SpellVisual.dbc is in the right directories as shown by following screenshot :



Again, change enGB if necessary to your own local code.

6) After creating the MPQ, rename it to wow-update-xxxxx.MPQ With xxxxx being any number higher than the latest patch. Make sure you put show file extension on in your map options. And that your extension .MPQ is in all CAPS. If not, your patch may not work.



7) Drop the patch in your data directory. In previous screenshot, the two marked MPQ's are homebrew and have a higher number than the latest official patch (13623). If you're smarter than me you'll use more margin though, as I'll probably have to rename these come next patch.

And we're done! If you've removed the patch protection as told at the beginning of the guide, these patches should now be absorbed by the game next time you start up WoW, and you can see the modified spells. Once you understand the tree structure behind these files and the mechanism of referencing IDs, you can pretty much change every aspect of a spell without having to mess with the spell.dbc file. Good luck!

Quote:

Noggit SDL 3.1021

Finally Noggit SDL 3.1021 is there!

The most important change is probably a fix of the well known model bug as well as the removal of the requirement to fill all four layers.

But here's a approximate changelog:

• Steff |*Fix: If you selected an model, copied to clipboard, deleted source (it it is last model on map of this type) and pasted it then. Noggit crashed.
  
• Steff | Calculate camera height related to terrain height on map load.
  
• Steff |*Fix that texture swapper stayed visible if you changed the tool
  
• Steff |*Add new option to toggle model animation rendering. F11 and Menu option in View menu added for this. For easyer model selection like birds.
  
• schlumpf | various memory leaks or potential crashes
  
• Valium | Initial support for drawing tablets on Windows.* Crashes if you don't have a tablet installed.
  
• Valium |*Implemented Blizzard style wireframe.
  
• schlumpf |*mapchunk: save: fix: only set low_quality_texture_map bits once to avoid error in overwriting (missing clean) (the 4 layer bug)
  
• Adspartan |*Fix to prevent texture duplication on a chunk (swapping duplicated textures remove the duplicate).
  
• Adspartan |*Fix random hole bug when using the hole tool by checking is the cursor is not underground when adding a hole.
  
• Adspartan |*Set tile as changed when using "swap adt".
  
• Adspartan |*prevent m2/wmo selection when using a tool
  
• Adspartan |*Fix texture shift ingame
  
• Adspartan |*Alphamap loading / saving changes
  
• Adspartan |*Prevent crash when loading or drawing wmo. (for retroported WMOs)
  
• Adspartan |*Fix texture shift between noggit and wow client
  
• Adspartan |*Fix alphamap loading for uncompressed (204
  
• Adspartan |*Paste object at the cursor pos if nothing is selected
  
• Adspartan |*Vertex shading is now correctly implemented.
  
• Kaev |*This should hopefully fix all model bugs when you save your files
  

You can download Noggit SDL 3.1021 with all needed .dll files from here: https://mega.nz/#!qU01SZ4Y!YQvbjXQTo...YRWp0AaINbzXq0

Have fun and happy modding!

EDIT: Be careful, Steff warned me that there are some untested things in the SDL branch which could lead to bugs. If you can find any, please report them!

Quote: Hi. If anyone has M2TBC download link, please share. Thanks

Quote: I found this in a SVN whilst hunting around the internet for some other things. It was written in c# express, by the looks of it. I've updated it to a .sln file instead of a .csproj, added a couple of functions for getting the offset (which I needed for a project), and that's it. It hasn't been updated in over a year, according to the svn. Anyways, it's here if anyone wants to make use of it.

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Quote: Hello, guys, let me start by apologizing if I'm posting this on the wrong place, but I'm kinda desperate. So, I'm trying to play in a private server that uses a modded client that allows usernames to be an e-mail address.

After a lot of digging I figured how the WoW patch system works, and that I only needed to modify one entry on the
HTML Code:
Interface\GlueXML\AccountLogin.xml
file to increase the number of characters of the username.

But WoW client checks if that file was modified, so there are modded WoW.exe that skips that check (how they do this is found here). But I can't find any for Mac Os. And I can only play on a Mac right now.

So do you think a moded WoW.app exists? Or any other way to have larger user name on the Vanilla client?

Quote: Hello.

Anyone still has the item swapper for 4.3.4? All the download links for it are dead on the forum.

Quote: ModIt is a modified ModelViewer which allows you to edit various parts of the Model.



Currently added functions:

*Saving of the Model

*Display of Attachmentpoints & tagging of them

*Adding & Changing of Attachmentpoints

Download:

File-Upload.net - ModIt.zip

Bugtracker is available at:

Modcraft dev bug traker :ModIt: Tasklist

Quote:

Hello. As some of you may know, for quite a while I've been working on the first actual editor for M2 / WMO models for WoW. The project began about a year ago as a fork of happyhack's Blender addon for WMOs. Over time by my own efforts and with the help of some people, I was able to create a full featured (despite a couple of things, that yet have to be implemented) WMO editor. Now I am working on the M2 part of the project. Since there are a lot more tools that I want to develop, I am looking for somebody who can help me with development to finish it faster.

The project is written in Python 3.5.

Requirements:

- Python coding experience

- Ability to stick to project's architecture

- Ability to stick to given code style*(I use regular python standard PEP8 with a few minor additions to naming conventions)

Project goals:

- Full-featured editing of WMO / M2.

- Rudimentary editing of ADT.

- Support for multiple WoW versions.

- Editor for client DBs related to M2 / WMO (AreaTable, NPC stuff, etc).

The majority of the boring stuff, such as file parsing is arleady implemented. Import for M2 is implemented, except for particles.*

Last but not least,*donations that the project is going to receive in the future are going to be shared proportionally, even though the work is mostly volunteer. The project's aim is not money income, but the creation of the first proper editing toolkit for WoW files, as well as the Swiss Army Knife tool for machinima artists.

If you are interested, feel free to contact me here, on my Discord ( Skarn#2018 ) or elsewhere.

Quote: Greetings,

I figured I'd write a thread here to expose my current project to more people for feedback.

You may have seen my previous thread from a few years ago where I was working on a machinima tool. Well, a months ago I decided to restart it into a new project, on which I've been working each day.

I wasn't happy with the performance at all so I took some of the code I had written before and started to create a new and improved project, which I am naming WoWEdit FanEdition because I wish to implement most of the features available in the original software.

The main purpose of this software is to help machinima artists, but since I will be saving the project files in the original wow formats, it may be used for creating custom maps as well sometime, perhaps.

I've been working on streaming data live so far, loading content as you travel through the world. Here is a demo of the terrain so far, using a wow-like LoD system which I will explain later throughout the post.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/KsGjdxkGS0k?wmode=opaque

Github: GitHub - CucFlavius/wowedit_unity: An attempt at recreating the World of Warcraft Editor used by Blizzard Entertainment to create the environments for the game. My version's purpose is for the aiding of creating machinima / Creating custom environments using WoW's assets / exporting models etc. (Unity 5.6.1f1 Project)

Playlist of WIP videos: WoWEdit Progress - YouTube

WMO's are a work in progress, I can load them, and while they load instantly on older maps, such as Cataclysm and Mists, they take foreeever to load on WoD,Legion,BfA maps due to the insane amount that they added. So that definitely needs improving first.



I'll follow with more info, and some of my deep analysis of the WoW client and WoWEdit

Quote:A lot of people have been asking for and about the Noggit commands and I don't believe they have been posted... so here they are:

F1 - Toggle Models

F2 - Toggle Doodads

F3 - Toggle Terrain

F4 - Toggle Stats

Shift + F4 - Toggle Selecting

F5 - Save Bookmark

F6 - Toggle Map Objects

F7 - Toggle Chunk Lines

F8 - Toggle Detailed Info

F9 - Toggle Map Contour

F10 - Reload Textures

F11 - Reload Models

F12 - Reload WMOs

H - Disable Highres Terrain

I - Toggle Invert Mouse

J - Reload ADT File

K - Save ADT File

T - Changes Terrain Mode

Y - Changes Brush Type

M - Minimap

U - New Minimap

Ctrl + Shift + P - Save Map to RAW

ESC - Back/Exit

WASD - Move

R - Quick 180 degree turn

F - Toggle Fog

G - Toggle Drawing of Chunk Flag Info

+,- - Adjust Fog Distance

O,P - Slower/Faster Movement

B,N - Slower/Faster Time

Terrain Mode - Raise/Lower

Left Click + Shift - Raise Terrain

Left Click + Alt - Lower Terrain

Terrain Mode - Flatten/Blur

Left Click + Shift - Flatten Terrain

Left Click + Alt - Blur Terrain

Alt + Left Mouse - Change Brush Size

Shift + Right Mouse - Rotate Object

Ctrl + Right Mouse - Tilt Object

Alt + Right Mouse - Tilt Object

Middle Mouse - Move Object

Shift + Middle Mouse - Move Object

Ctrl + Middle Mouse - Move Object

Alt + Middle Mouse - Change Object Scale

Ctrl + Left Mouse - Clear Textures on Selected Block

Quote: Arctium WoW Client Launcher (Windows & macOS) updated to 8.0.1.27219 (Retail)

BfA Info:

We'll start with a client launcher just like in legion...

WoW Support:

# 8.0.1.27219 (Retail, Windows & macOS)

SHA256 Checksum (windows exe): ec53e98680c0744672cdb576b2bfaf7e8873ccbb5eb3ce26b7d0e806539612b8

SHA256 Checksum (macOS binary): ec8048ba36a4d55a1a28732d350add15a7a31497e8cf763bb24f4776a24fe8a2

Changelog

* Windows launcher updated for 8.0.1.27219

* macOS launcher release (preview)

Features

* Custom file loading

USAGE: README.txt

NOTE: It is still violating the TOS and can always lead into a ban.

NO bans reported since October 2017

DOWNLOAD: Arctium Files

Please report any launcher problems, thanks

Quote: I know others have already done this and there's more than one tool for this sort of thing already in existence. But I wanted to challenge myself to see if I could make this happen with 010 Editor. The purpose of me doing this was purely educational and to see if I could do it.

This method is extremely slow compared to what others have made using an actual system meant to write programs, with 010 Editor, every time the script is ran, it has to be recompiled again so it takes time and there are certain functions are only compiled at runtime so the entire script isn't compiled when the it starts so that's another cause for it taking so long.

This was made for maps made entirely through Talis, ADT Adder and Noggit SDL 1.2 to 1.4. I played around a little bit with some Kalimdor and Azeroth ADT Files, even ported over 3.3.5a's entire Eastern Kingdoms continent to Cataclysm, but it's mainly to be used on completely custom maps. Maps that started out as Blizzard Maps may not work after being converted.

Maps that have had Gretchin's AllWater tool applied to it more than once(Like if it asks you to reformat the adt even though you've already done it once before.) will probably error out since my script only looks for the first GRET MH2O instance.

I'm posting this so others may look at it if they wish to do so, and or just to show that this sort of thing is possible with 010 Editor as well.

I'll put Text Instructions first, and video instruction at the bottom with the download link(s).

A Working and Proper Installation of 010 Editor is Required for this to work(People using illegitmate copies may not have their sys paths set up properly so it may not work for you if you fit this bill), make sure you have 010's startup options set to Display Empty Interface. And MAKE SURE 010 Editor IS CLOSED Before Doing This or else it'll take slightly longer than it should.



I didn't feel like making a batch file to create another batchfile, so you HAVE to put the folder in the Rar file into your Drive C:





Put your Noggited ADTs into the ToBeVerted Folder then run the WC_ADT_Convert.bat batch file and go find something to do. The batch file also removes the extension on the adt files but that's part of the process.

When it's done, it should move the finished ADT's into the Finished Folder. Make sure to delete the original files from the ToBeVerted folder before doing another set of ADTs.

--Video Guide--

https://www.youtube.com/embed/_YNbL4wZ_Hs?wmode=opaque

♠ Download Links: Get them from the YouTube Video's Description, since if I have to update anything I'll most likely forget about which forums I've posted this in so to make it easier on people and myself, it's just easier to update one location and just forward everyone there.

Full Video(Long Vlog) on Detailing everything else needed to get a custom map to work in Cataclysm/MoP/WoD:

http://youtu.be/SAFWalrpAko

Thanks to all the people who shared their knowledge and research information on ADT/v18 - WoWDev , it helped a ton.

Thanks go out to jbr373, bardh, banzboyz77 and Mr. Farrare for lending me their ADT Files, some public and some private works to help in my research and study. And reznik too though I had no interaction with him, I just downloaded one of his maps.

Reznik's Island Map In Cataclysm:



http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...my-island.html ([Release] My Island)

WoTLK 3.3.5a Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor In Cataclysm 4.0.6a:

Quote: More Readable guide located at http://hex.sark-net.com/guide/

First of all i am writing this guide because i believe most people dont realise how easy this form of model editing is and how easy it is to update and change as neccesary. m_fatica wrote a previous guide ( http://www.mmowned.com/forums/model-...lds-armor.html ) However it wasnt really very simple. So hopefully this guide is a breeze for everyone.

First of all grab the wdb item swap kit.

(xvi32,link to search)

http://hex.sark-net.com/wdbitemcachemodelpack.rar

Now basically there are three parts to wdb model editing. Finding the item you want to change, searching for the code of the new item and replacing the old code.

Finding the item:

Boot up xvi32.

File -> Open -> navigate to /World Of Warcraft/cache/wdb/en## -> open itemcache.wdb

http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/ima...46daa96df8.jpg

Now you are faced with a collection of the cached items you have seen while playing wow.

Ctrl-F and search for the item you wish to change. In my case Crystalforged war axe.

http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/ima...a2b060742a.jpg

Now you see we have found the weapon. I have drawn to arrows to illustrate how we change the look of the weapon. Back to that soon.

Searching for the new:

visit http://hex.sark-net.com and search for any item you wish to change your searched item to. Below the results listed by the search there is a 4 digit hex number.

Replacing the old code:

This hex number is the number needed to make the weapon look the way it does so go back into avi32 where you found your weapon. Note how i drew the arrows before. After the name of the item is repeated a few times there is a blank space followed by two weird symbols. This is where you put the new code found on the hex search. So click on the space after the name has been repeated. A box on both sides should be highlighted. Go to the left side of the screen and click on the number next to the higlighted box and write in the new 4 digit code.

There we have it Simple WDB model editing that is quick and easy to do.

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Model Edits do-not work in the loading screen. they are item cache within the game so the changes will only affect in game.

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Cheers Dave-evad

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Quote: NOTE: I got this idea off of guild wars.

With texmod you can edit the looks of your armor and its real simple to use!

Download Texmod - http://www.tombraiderhub.com/tr7/mod...oad/texmod.zip

Open it and extract it to your WoW directory



Open Texmod.exe and on the top left you should see a folder, click on it and find wow.exe . Also click on logging mod and set your wow directory. Set specs similar to mine.



Click run, it should launch world of warcraft. Now log in and go into the world. You should see red words on the top left. Press "+" to go through the textures. The textures elected should be on the top left of the screen and highlighted in green in the world. heres a ex.



Once you find your desiderd texture, press enter once and it should be saved. exit wow. Now goto your wow directory with the folder "out". EX: C:\Program Files\World Of Warcraft\out . You should see the texture you just saved. Open it with your favorite picture editor, i used photo shop.



Do what ever you want with it, draw on it, make it black, swap it with another pic. After your done with it save it to the same directory and make sure you save it as a bmp file. Over wright the old one. once done open up texmod.exe and now goto the third tab, package build. Make it similar to this. click build. Save it in your wow directory.



Now goto packaging mode and click the folder button and look for your saved. open it and click run. goto the location where you edited the texture.



Enjoy!



This guide was written by me

Still don't understand, use this guild, but the terms are in guildwars.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guide...-game_graphics

Quote: Took me a while to find a version that works properly so I thought I'd make a fresh mirror and share.

I will not explain how to use the program, that's easy to look up.

https://mega.nz/#!ca5kCKAD!fne2NimqJ...HYSBmfhPjZevuI