[pre-release] Request YOUR mount!

[ozzybwild]

Hi!

[prologue]
Since the newest ModelViewer got released i dug a little bit deeper into the net to find an updated wotlk dbc viewer. So basically I spent the last like.. week? or more.. MANUALLY selecting the neatest ModelID's (easy with ModelViewer) and creating lists of "verbal" descriptions (pretty simple) to the items i thought of as interesting for modding purposes. The list grew and grew, and after going through ALL weaponslists writing lots (for sure NOT, but i guess nearly all..) of the new IDs down. After those i rushed through the equipment of interest for my private server project (guess i don't need to release that later..) and now..

Now, I actually went as far as manually finding the used textures in a model/character/MOUNT, looking them up with my dbc tool and THEN finally extract whichever Models or ModelVARIATIONS use that texture.
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So, before I am going to release the lists I made, I want to make sure I REALLY breach the wall with my work. Therefor, I need YOU to reply with your Mount-wishes. Be it "seen already" or "just an idea from a dream". Please post it and I will try to find out where the barriers are with the way I went.

PS: I have no real life. I am a 23yo, single business-informatics student who's got vacations. Flame me. But post your requests first, please! :wave:
PPS: Germany, 0:31 a.m. .. guess I'll work till 3 and then tomorrow try to do all requests and release soon.

[PhilipStoffer]

Hey.

I'd really appritiate Winged Steed of the Ebon Blade > Red Proto-Drake.

And about having no life, join the club <3 I play Wow about 11 hours a day, if not more.

+Rep of course.

[Mitron]

If it possible to make it can you make any normal mount dragon into the toy dragon ?? would be awsome :P

[ozzybwild]

hi there

-> red proto drake works great with ncdb 49 i guess..

-> deathknight mount still needs a corepatch i think (applying the spell to scale speed with the ridinglevel, if it isn't supposed to be a .lua anyway). however, i can try to find ( / create if necessary) a .lua to make it work

-> the toy idea is great, mitron! actually i want to create a simple html/jscript based creation tool so it's easier to create variations of mounts way faster.. and adding "create toy with model xy" to the tool is a neat idea. */cheer* for that!

[thebigman]

how about mounting..... a tauren?

[ozzybwild]

/fast reply/

Tauren_MountedCanoe(EPIC! watermount?):
21602

copied straight from my inwork list



the only mountable "tauren" from the wotlk dbcs i have atm. play around with the model id.. i planned something like creating a custom spell based on the shaman/druid's "waterwalk" that either adds a mountspell ontop (if possible.. since adding a morph would be useless for non-tauren :/ ) or just trigger a .lua with the spelluse (if that works, however..).

..i hope it is actually a hidden model since i didn't "see" it ingame yet.. but again, i stopped playing with late 2.4.3.. whatever.. :wave:

PS: use "/mount 21602" to mount, "/dismount" to dismount (only works as GM). if you want a useable item you sadly got to wait for the release :/

still i hope you like this find. i love it since it actually was the model i learned how to "model/texture-find" IDs with

[PhilipStoffer]

If you need assistance with anything in the Winged Steed > Red Proto, I'll be happy to contribute with whatever I can, even though I doubt you'll need what I know, since I don't know all that much.

Thank you for taking your time spent on my behalf, means a lot to me

[ozzybwild]

hm i just took a few mins to look at the deathknight mount again.. seems lua won't be able to set the speed, unless you write a custon c/cpp script to enhance the core with those functions, and that is close to rewriting / patching the core itself it's too much of work to dig into from my point of view, sorry :/

good news is you can just add eight new mounts created with the tool i work on. each speed for each faction had an own mount id then, but at least it worked somehow

[ozzybwild]

ahrg..
*freaksout*

what the hell happened to that spelltable antrix had, which made it so easy to add a custom mount by just copying the spell end editing the modelid in the newly created spell's column o_O"

humm humm.. does anyone have an explanation for this?

[Clain]

Was removed a long time ago because its all loaded from Spell.DBC

[pryd]

Thanks for the boat ID it worked great.

BTW what model viewer are you using? Last one I had kept crashing.



Also had success with small toy plane D.ID = 26557



And a ghost gryphon D.ID = 20065

[ozzybwild]

wow NEAT!

i didn't see the toy model so far! great sub :]

well.. actually i got models like:

"gem nightsaber",
a rideable northrend giant,
ALL dragon models,
RIDEABLE spiderbots and "shredders" used by gnomes in gadgetzan

and so on..

the problem i have atm is how to add those "massively"?
creating a formular based tool isn't the problem for me, but the fact the spells211 or what it was got deleted :/

=> does anyone have EXPERIENCE with adding CUSTOM dbc entries for mounts or small pets?
any help is honestly appreciated

//edit: ANY kind of structural information regarding the EXISTING spellfixes etc (spell*) tables is, as well

[ozzybwild]

sorry for the <doublepost> but i think this is a useful push since i got WAY further now:

i found a working DBCEditor, and finally deciphered the rows for smallpets (worked on that since about yesterday afternoon ^^)..

the problem is, that the editor i have doesn't really support custom adding rows to the dbc :/

does anyone have a WORKING dbc_editor, that lets me add custom rows (to e.g. spells.dbc) or even better load "injection files" (csv dumps) that then can be referenced from sql?

if so, it would be a question of mere hours to finish an alpha of my work: a tool to create smallpets and mounts that creates dbc / csv files to inject into your server, that then can be referenced via automatically created sql-"items". sadly that's one step further then i wanted the user to have to go, but seemingly it's the only way i guess that should work "acceptable" for handy emulation customization

[ozzybwild]

[triplepost alert]

*grins* no honestly, this whole post is soon history..

NEWS:

1. I stay with Arcemu.

2. I already started work

My progress so far (MASSIVELY growing hour by hour..):


Mount Display Collection:

Mountable Display IDs from WOTLK: 95-100% done, all "exciting" ones are definitely.
Mountable Display IDs from BC: 0% (not started yet)
Mountable Display IDs from WOW: 0% (not started yet)
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Small Pet Display Collection:

Small Pet Display IDs from WOTLK: ? 10%-50% ? need to look into this, as i still am busy with creating the mount-libraries..
Small Pet Display IDs from BC: ~0%
Small Pet Display IDs from WOW: ~0%
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Coding - Interface

GUI: not started, low priority
Data(/Text)-Processing: 100%
Form error/input detection/correction: 90+%
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Coding - Definitions
Existing Mounts supported (incl. spellID, itemID, npcID, ORIGINAL_displayID): 100%
Existing Flying Mounts supported(incl. spellID, itemID, npcID, ORIGINAL_displayID): 100%
Existing Small Pets supported: not started yet

ROADMAP:
1. get shit done perfect.
2. try to get shit done fast.
3. redo shit 'cause it wasn't perfect.
4. release.

predicted time period: the next night, a bit of coffee and we have a BIG release tomorrow if all works.. *blinks*

PS: Sorry for another mouth-watering, but actually I'm pissed of after working through the second fourth of the mounts.. it's HARD work looking up shit by hand you know? But i'm too lazy to write a parser and actually need the typing experience.. gah, Information Business is hard.. *yawns*.. but now, back to work! *laughs manically*

[Kirsebaer]

A Battlesong giraffe
A giraffe with armor for trolls?