[Cataclysm Alpha - QUESTION] How exactly do you find out what's new in the patch ?

[sT@N]

Hey guys, I want to contribute and dig the client a bit so I just wanted to ask someone how to datamine the newest patches ? I mean such things like the new Garrosh model or the goblin dance as well as worgen druid forms, because in WMV I searched EVERY SINGLE model and it is nowhere to be seen, nor is it in WMStudio.

Or how do you know what changes have precisely been applied to a new build ?
Do you extract the *patch.exe somehow ? Tried that, didn't work for me :/ or do you use some sort of software to differentiate the content of the MPQ before and right after it is patched to know what's new ?

Please do not flame me, I just want to find this out and forgive me if I posted this in an innapropriate forums, but I couldn't find a better fitting one.

+rep for anyone helping me.

regards

[Confidence]

A lot of information on Cataclysm can be found throughout the WoW Forums posted by Blizzard Employees. Other stuff, such as the models, were probably obtained by screenshot in-game during the alpha. I'm not too sure about anything beyond that, though.

[Pushkin]

mpq editor
model viewer
sandbox
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[sT@N]

Thanks guys for the help...

We possess the same updated client as those who play the Alpha. So it has to be somewhere in the game files I guess, it can't be server-side I suppose, maybe WMV isn't displaying all models and those are hidden elsewhere.

[Ravenheart]

Did you add all MPQ packs from Cataclysm client into Model Viewer? That could be you problem I guess. I also recommend a version of WMV developed for the Cataclysm client: WMV_Binary_v0701_r210_Win32_DevWork.zip - wowmodelviewer - Version 0.7.0.1 r210 - Windows 32-bit Edition DEV WORK for Cataclysm - Project Hosting on Google Code
Hope this helps..

btw, any chance, that you're slovak, sT@N?

[sT@N]

Did you add all MPQ packs from Cataclysm client into Model Viewer? That could be you problem I guess. I also recommend a version of WMV developed for the Cataclysm client: WMV_Binary_v0701_r210_Win32_DevWork.zip - wowmodelviewer - Version 0.7.0.1 r210 - Windows 32-bit Edition DEV WORK for Cataclysm - Project Hosting on Google Code
Hope this helps..

btw, any chance, that you're slovak, sT@N?

Indeed I am from Slovakia, do I know you by chance ? -- so weird, download the WMV you linked and now seems to work cookies for you !


cheers

[Ravenheart]

Indeed I am from Slovakia, do I know you by chance ? -- so weird, download the WMV you linked and now seems to work cookies for you !


cheers

Glad it worked
Yea, you may still remember me, I used to be a moderator on WoWResource back then.. Yas