[Discussion] Reskinning dead in wotlk.

[Gawdlaw]

Hey guys, let me explain... Yesterday i downloaded the latest patch of the wotlk beta and i found something i never hoped to find.. :confused:



Blp changes to .Skin?

this means it wont be able to reskin the files anymore.. only to replace them with others..

so what we need is a new converter. Or we just hope this .skin files are just nothing..

M2 also dead?

some m2's from the wotlk beta are invissible when you change them..

Lets hope this issnt the end..



~MMowned lover , Gawdlaw ~

[Lord-T-Rex]

Would be hard...

[-Lex]

Nah, i doubt they will change all textures to .skin, and overall the structure of the filetypes inside their mpq's are a bit changed. it will just take some time before all is back to normal.

[[Soul Eater]]

Weird, did it also happened for lichking.mpq ? For me it just contains normal .blp files, I recently tried to extract the frostwyrm mount, I could perfectly convert the BLP to a PNG but I got trouble with the M2 itself. It always crash in MWCS when I try to click it. Does that also happen for you?

[Gawdlaw]

Weird, did it also happened for lichking.mpq ? For me it just contains normal .blp files, I recently tried to extract the frostwyrm mount, I could perfectly convert the BLP to a PNG but I got trouble with the M2 itself. It always crash in MWCS when I try to click it. Does that also happen for you?

yes, this also happened to me. (every wotlk model that crashes in Model viewer/mwcs wont appear ingame also) :S
and i found this in the /data/enGB/patch.MPQ

[BACKABACKA]

They dont seem to get it. If they ruin model editing all we can do is start cheating and hacking people.

[Gawdlaw]

They dont seem to get it. If they ruin model editing all we can do is start cheating and hacking people.

Or just go find another hobby..

[BACKABACKA]

Thats what my hobby is going to be, hacking people and cheating blizzard out of money.

[Gawdlaw]

Thats what my hobby is going to be, hacking people and cheating blizzard out of money.

Good luck.. makes looks no sense to me.. :confused:

[[Soul Eater]]

Hm okay, well lichking.MPQ is still with the BLP files, and yea it seems all wotlk models is keep crashing and won't show up ingame. I even tried it ingame, and all I get is a invisible model and when I try to move nothing happen.....

[Tigurius]

The Problem with the crashing m2's is that they contain the new particles, so if u fix the new particle system it won't be a problem to get them ingame in 2.4. And if they added a new filetyp of textures, well... it will be some work to create new tools and define the structure of them but well. Also they changed some parts of the adt's, so we will need another Noggit fix!

[devmode]

They let us run loose for a while, even let us build worlds, now they want to regain control of their game *technically at this point if you do not like wow you can spend a month and come out w something that will look C O M P L E T L E Y diffirent(not models and stuff but from the ground up) *, its just Blizz wanting to be the boss again imo...

[Tigurius]

or they want to implent new things which can't be implented in the old formats(see new particles!)

[^Xayo]

Guys, we know blizzard probably .skin is a .blp format but SLIGHTLY changed, i herd that they introduced 1024x1024 textures in wotlk, maybe they had to change some things in the blp format and renamed it to .skin

For example:

Look at the m2s from 1.12 and 2.0 They only changed small things and it will be the same now , fer sure it is the particle system btw.

[Hock]

Your looking in the wrong MPQ file or something because i can easily view all the new DK skins in the new patch data. Make sure your looking in "CHARACTER" and nothing else.