[Model Swap] Druid Tree Form -> Malfurion, More Detailed Travel & Aquatic Forms

[beautiful]

Greetings!

I spent all day figuring out how to do simple model swaps and gearing using the various programs and guides located on mmowned.com. I have succeeded in making a Beautiful Druid Pack.

Here is what is included:

Travel Form
Original: Tiger -----> New: Frostsabre
This is the more detailed cat model, the same as the NE mounts but on a small scale. It has all appropriate animations. Cheetah mobs in places like the barrens may also be affected.




Aquatic Form
Original: Sealion -----> New: Lionseal

This is the awesome model of Ragemane, a blubbery elite. It is way more detailed; you cannot, however, dolphin-scoot the surface of water like you can with the old one.



Tree of Life Form
Original: Ent -----> New: NightElf

This is the night elf model of Arch Druid Malfurion Stormrage. This is way better than a flailing-armed treat. It has a spectral transparency, wears Druid Tier 2 (Tier 1 Helm), and has NE animations.



I owe a great amount of gratitude to reflex0rzor and his amazing GUIDE for model swapping!
I also want to thank Balky for their MODEL SWAP work which, when studied, helped me understand gear swapping.
The original model pictures above are courtesy of wowhead.com.

Download the Beautiful Druid Pack HERE

Use WinRar to extract the patch-d.mpq file and put it in the World of Warcraft/Data folder. Run WoW like normal. You can delete the file to remove the changes.

Let me know what you think! Thanks!

Edit: Aquatic Form color changed to better reflect current druid aquatic form.
Edit: Tree form transparency lessened to allow character colors to show better.

[Balky]

I like the malfurion swap,cheers+Rep

[korric]

Simple swaps but effective and awesome nontheless +Rep
By the way, where did you find the specific model for Malfurion Stormrage? cos as far as I know he doesn't have a specific model like Jaina or Varian

[beautiful]

Edit: Aquatic Form color changed to better reflect current druid aquatic form.
Edit: Tree form transparency lessened to allow character colors to show better.

Thanks for the comments and rep!

Malfurion Stormrage appears in-game at two locations (on through a quest) and via spiritual communication since he is still in the Emerald Dream/Nightmare. He has a normal night elf model, much like until recently Jaina was a normal human and Sylvanas a normal night elf then blood elf. I simply duplicated his features and gear by using model viewer to load NPC outfit of him and copied the numbers given into field 3 of DBC. This only works for the same character model though (ie: NE to NE; if i copied his code to a Tauren model it would look way different). Hope this helps.

[makeshiftdecisions]

Dude that's some nice work. Is there any way you could change the travel form onto a Keepers of the grove model?

[beautiful]

Hey makeshift, I can do that swap easily.



The thing is the Keeper model does not have very many animations; the only thing you can do with it is run or auto-attack. The actions for sit, dance, jump, etc have no animations associated. Disclaimer applies that any simple cat with cheetah skin (very few) will probably be affected. Don't try to use it with the file I posted above since they affect the same target model.

Unzip with WinRar and extract the .mpq file into the World of Warcraft\Data folder.

HERE YOU GO

[makeshiftdecisions]

You my friend are an absolute gent. this works beautifully he even takes out my staff on auto attack. I will rep you again as soon as possible thank you.

[beautiful]

Hey guys, I just found a way to retain caster form while in Tree of Life form (sort of). It is an extension of my work with Malfurion. Here is the post.

[Belenos]

I like the malfurion swap,cheers

There is nothing more to say

[chaosdwarf]

Hi, I've tried myself to make some model change for travel and aquatic forms but didn't success, i followed the guide you link at the end of your post but since the poster's english is very approximative and english is not my nativ language too, I didn't manage to follow it right.

Anyways I was wondering if you could make a MPQ archive with the Aquatic form model swapped for a Orca model (Orca - NPC - World of Warcraft) and the travel form model swapped for the same model that is in your pack but with the skin of a real life tiger, meaning orange with black stripes, and with the tree of life form swapped to a Dryad that we can find in the dragonblight zone (Winter's Sister - NPC - World of Warcraft).

thank you.

[chaosdwarf]

Ok guys don't mind the above post I managed to do it myself (for now only the orange tiger with black stripes as travelform), I will continue to make some experiments and upload it if I find it satisfying, thank you Beautiful, it's while studying on your pack that I understood how it works

[Bellmonta]

Able to make me a FEMALE version of the NE male in Tree of Life form?
The other swaps isnt for me necessary... I just want a (with the gear u added) female version of the Male u did on Tree of Life form... Possible?

[ji394su33000]

classical ! want more !