[ Question ] 2 days work and I'm stuck! (Mount conversion)

[Neckringer]

Ok my friend gave me the idea of trying wow modal editing, I managed to get the Wotlk loading screen and spell changes to work but one thing I cannot do is mounts! I am desperately in need of a step by step if you can.

The two mounts I want to do are...

Swift Brown Steed - Item - World of Warcraft Swift brown steed converted to Amani War Bear - Item - World of Warcraft Amani War Bear or Polar Bear by Dragon[Sky] horses_-_bear.MPQ - FileFront.com

If people can help me with those I can hopefully do the flying ones on my own if not I may be back Thank you lots for any help you give, please be as clear as possible I'll need it

+Rep Of course for helpers!

[[Soul Eater]]

Reason why that of Dsky doesnt work anymore is because that is a DBC edit, after every new patch, the previous DBC edit doesnt work anymore.

But well if you want to swap the PvP brown horse with the Amana war bear, just find the tree paths.

The horse tree paths are listed in common.mpq , under CREATURE\RIDINGHORSE

It seems you want to swap the PvP horse right? Then copy the treepath CREATURE\RIDINGHORSE\RidingHorsePvPT2.m2 and paste it on your notepad so you can copy it back later. Then we need the textures.

CREATURE\RIDINGHORSE\RidingHorseEyeGlowViolet.blp = the eye glow of the horse

CREATURE\RIDINGHORSE\PvPRidingHorseSkinBrown.blp = the skin of the horse

then just close the MPQ. Then open up patch.mpq , and then find the treepath for the bear mount. Just browse it through Creature\Bearmount (note that if you can't find it, just press one of those maps and press B to see which maps begins with the letter B)

when you browsed it, extract \BearMount.M2 . Then extract any of the bearmountarmor colors, and extract also bearmountskin.blp any color you want.

Once done, close that mpq and create a new MPQ. I think you know how to do it now.

Import bearmount.m2 and name it CREATURE\RIDINGHORSE\RidingHorsePvPT2.m2

then import the bearmountarmor.blp and name it

CREATURE\RIDINGHORSE\RidingHorseEyeGlowViolet.blp (note, that since it is armor we actually need a other blp file then the skin, luckily that horse got glowing eyes and we can swap the blp of his glowing eye with the armor)

Then import the bearmountskin.blp and name it

CREATURE\RIDINGHORSE\PvPRidingHorseSkinBrown.blp (Note, since bearmountskin.blp is a skin type, we need to have a lookalike treepath so that the skin would work, in this case, pvpridinghorsekinbrown.blp)

Hopefully you understand it a bit and that you can pull it off on your own. But you surely can do since you know basic m2 swapping if you've done spell swaps.

I COULD and do it myself and upload the MPQ but I think it's better that you learn it yourselve so you can do it on your own in the future.

And yes my method is a hassle one, but this is how I started model editing 2 years ago, and I don't trust dbc edits like I said above, after every patch ALL dbc edits are just useless and you need to make it again. With this method you don't need to change it every patch considering the treepaths will always be the same, until wotlk maybe.

[Neckringer]

First of all I want to say Wow! Your a genius! Your guide was extremely easy to follow and helped me a lot, however it still does not work.

I got up to the M2 swapping and have no idea what to do. The spell swaps that I did I downloaded from mmowned, put them in my data folder called patch-5.MPQ different numbers ofc and they worked.

I'm going to +Rep you anyway for getting me this far but if you could help with this final part that would be great.

Oh also it's the epic ground mount Swift Brown Steed i want to swap with the bear if that makes a difference? I did your guide with the correct files not the PVP ones though.

[[Soul Eater]]

Ah okay, well basically the thing is you make a new MPQ.

You've extracted the amani war bear right? Okay, simply you need Mywarcraftstudio to make and create new MPQs. If you got that, good.

First click on create MPQ and name it like patch-3.MPQ like you already said.

Then click on add file, then browse through the amani war bear. Double click on the amani war bear m2 and then a box pops up and it says "bearmount.m2" . The thing is, you are going to change the name into the treepath you've copied. So basically replacing "bearmount.m2" with the treepath you copied.

Then you are just doing the same thing for all the other things that I mentioned, remember, eye glows are used for their armor and skin type files are used for the skins. I know it's a hassle to know that, but basically that's how it goes because blizzard got various mapping points to textures.

[Neckringer]

It works!!!! Thank you so much! Your awesome, I'm gonna spread my rep around then give you even more. Thank you! Two days work done I'm gonna try it with other mounts tomorrow, thanks again.

+Rep

Just curious will it work the same with weapons? E.g. Mallet of the tides to Windfury
If it does I'm gonna try doing that and post the MPQ on mmowned to get rid of leacher