Request : Small helmet fix guide?

[Dydus]

i have a good idea of how to fix the problem with race changing helmets, but i dont really know how to go about it

what im wanting to do is change my gender (undead male, to undead female) but when i do the helmet is off,

i know how to find the folders etc with mwcs but, im not sure how you go about putting the files back into the common.mpq

can anyone tell me how to? i think i can get it to work from that

something about changing the Helm_Robe_DungeonMage_B_01_ScM.m2 to Helm_Robe_DungeonMage_B_01_ScF.m2 then putting it back in the folder

[nosfiarmus]

hmm look like you have done something wrong and made the same post 2 times

[llDemonll]

These are very vague but if you can model change you can follow them easy.

1. Open MyWoWStudio
2. Open common.mpq
3. Items -> ObjectComponents -> Head
4. Select all files in there containing your current race (before you model-switched) and extract them. Ex: If you are Gnome Male extract all files with GnM in the name.
5. Use BatchRenamer and switch all the file names to the ones you want. Ex: If you were Gnome Male switching to Human Male you would put 'GnM' as what you wanted to rename and 'HuM' as what you wanted BatchRenamer to change it to.
6. Repack the extract files from Step 4 into a new .mpq file and build that archive.
7. Put the archive in the appropriate directory, run ModelChange.exe and whala, you are done.

[Dydus]

hmm look like you have done something wrong and made the same post 2 times

it was late and i was tired

These are very vague but if you can model change you can follow them easy.

1. Open MyWoWStudio
2. Open common.mpq
3. Items -> ObjectComponents -> Head
4. Select all files in there containing your current race (before you model-switched) and extract them. Ex: If you are Gnome Male extract all files with GnM in the name.
5. Use BatchRenamer and switch all the file names to the ones you want. Ex: If you were Gnome Male switching to Human Male you would put 'GnM' as what you wanted to rename and 'HuM' as what you wanted BatchRenamer to change it to.
6. Repack the extract files from Step 4 into a new .mpq file and build that archive.
7. Put the archive in the appropriate directory, run ModelChange.exe and whala, you are done.

ive not really done anything more than follow one of faust's guides, so im not that gr8 :>

is it me being lazy, or is there a way to select all the items with ScM in them at the same time? instead of going through them.

and what is this batch renamer u say? any links for it?

[llDemonll]

Batch Renamer:
http://batchrenamer.sourceforge.net/

Ok, so more in-depth:
1. Open MyWoWStudio
2. File -> Open MPQ Archive -> 'common.mpq' which is in your WoW/Data directory.
3. Expand 'ITEM' folder -> ObjectComponents -> HEAD, so you should now have a HUGE list of items with random names.
4. For this step, capitalization is important. Create a folder on your Desktop called 'ITEM', inside that folder create another folder called 'ObjectComponents', and inside that folder create another folder called 'HEAD'.
5. You are going to want to go through the whole entire list of items in MyWoWStudio (yes, this is the fun part) and click on each one ending in 'ScF.m2', then right click on it (it is important that you click on it first, then right click on it) and press 'Extract File To...'. Browse to the ITEM folder you created on your Desktop, and extract the file to 'ITEM/ObjectComponents/HEAD'.
6. Repeat this step for all the files in the directory ending in 'ScF.m2'.
7. When you are done with that, open BatchRenamer. In the window on the left side of the screen, browse to (if you hard drive is set up in the standard way) 'C:/Documents and Settings/Your Name/Desktop/ITEM/ObjectComponents/HEAD' and you should see a huge list in the window on the right of all files ending in 'ScF.m2'. If you don't, you have done something wrong.
8. In the 'Search and Replace' field at the top left of BatchRenamer put in 'ScF' as the Replace field, and 'ScM' as the with field. Once you have done this press 'Go!' in the upper right corner. Now all the files in there should end with 'ScM.m2', and if not you did something wrong.
9. Go back into MyWoWStudio and go to Pack -> Create MPQ Archive and says yes to closing current archive. Name the pack 'patch-4' (or patch-5, patch-6, etc., etc. if you already have ones named those numbers), and save it on your desktop as well.
10. Right-click in the large white space where all the item directories used to be, and go to 'Import Folder...'. Browse to your Desktop, and TYPE IN 'ITEM' in the open field and press enter twice. It is essential that you type in ITEM and dont double click on the folder itself. If you did this right, your white space should now have a folder called 'ITEM' in it, which you should be able to expand and see 'ObjectComponents', 'HEAD', and all the files that you renamed.
11. Go to Pack -> Save and Close Archive, and then move this file (the one you named 'patch-x.mpq') into your WoW/Data folder.
12. Run WoW with ModelChanger.exe, login, close ModelChanger.exe, and you should be good to go.

Hope that helps =)

[Dydus]

its worked perfectly dude, thanks alot, and ur right, step 5 was the fun part, 130 files to be extracted ><

+rep for this xD

[Romulus33527]

I dont understand #3

" 3. Expand 'ITEM' folder -> ObjectComponents -> HEAD, so you should now have a HUGE list of items with random names."

Expand "ITEM" folder?

When I open up things like 'common.mpq' nothing shows up in the left box. Any help?

[Romulus33527]

It didnt work for me. The helms still does the same crap. I did every step right...