Wow Custom Patchs Question

[cwkhorne]

ok so i'm making a custom content wow server. i plan on having tons of custom things. and i know especially if i make custom instances and items that in order for players to be able to play the instances (and see the items instead of a ? mark) they need to download my servers "patch" my question about this is what all do i need to put into the patch and where would it all go? the reason i'm asking this is cause(which is a weird place to start) i'm starting my server by making the launcher for it. what i want this launcher to be able to do is one have a login spot, two once logged in it shows the news from my website, three have a play button(duhhh) four have a download patch button.

would appreciate any help also anyone that wants to help program it can. it will be programmed in C#, also when it is done i will release it in open source.(with a restriction[the reason being not all servers have a launcher and with this they would be able to edit it themselves and even customize it to there server and there needs.] the restriction being i will have my server on the bottom of the launcher as a footer, it will just state programmed by "myserversname's Devs" and if anyone else helps with it then there name will be added.

again appreciate any help, also doubt this matters or not then again it might be essential but my server will be running off of skyfire.(ok that may be a lie its not 100% yet cause currently im the only dev....and yeah just need to look into trinity more and arc....and mangos.....



p.s. put this as "patch" due to the main issue is not knowing where the patch files will go or what all i need to give for the patch.(yes i am a newb dev for wow but i am going to change that)

[cwkhorne]

and that was decided rather quickly. going to do pure from scratch trinity core. since i know C++.....and dont have much knowledge in lua yet....figured that'd be the smartest one to go for and since any repacks ideas was thrown out the door via meeting with my HGM

[stoneharry]

Modcraft - View topic - [TUTORIAL]*MPQ/Patch Basics

Also don't expect other people to program it for you or tell you how to program it. That's something that just comes with experience.

[cwkhorne]

link to a tutorial or more than plenty for me thank you very much appreciate the help