What file points to Helm information?

[ubermonkey]

I'm trying to bypass the standard helm fix and go straight to the source.

The standard helm fix is to extract all the "Item\ObjectComponents\Head" m2s and skins. Then to copy and rename the Race/Gender your converting to into the Race/Gender your converting from.

I'm thinking that the game knows exactly how and where to look if it needs a helmet model for a particular Race/Gender. If I am playing a Human Male and I equip a helmet. Somewhere there must be a line of information saying "I'm playing a Human Male. Look to the "Item\ObjectComponents\Head" folder and use HuM files."

If that is how it works then it would eliminate the need to copy and rename all those m2 and skins potentially saving about 3-4mb before compacting in a mpq creator.

[schlumpf]

They are assembled by taking the two character id of a race and f or m according to your gender. The ids can be found in CharRaces.dbc.

Problem on this is: You could only swap it for whole races, not only for male humans.

[ubermonkey]

The boot fix, also located in the same file, is the only thing that affects both races as far as I can tell, too.

Is is possible to separate the lines into 2 for both male and female? I'm looking at the the Human line for example. The only fields I can distinguish that are separated for Male and Female are Field 4 and 5.

This is the original line.
1 12 1 0x102C 49 50 Hu 1 7 7 15007 0x448 Human 81 Human 0xFF01FF 0xFF01CC 0xFF01CC NORMAL PIERCINGS NORMAL 0

Perhaps it's possible to create two lines from this.
1 12 1 0x102C 49 49 Hu 1 7 7 15007 0x448 Human 81 Human 0xFF01FF 0xFF01CC 0xFF01CC NORMAL PIERCINGS NORMAL 0

1 12 1 0x102C 50 50 Hu 1 7 7 15007 0x448 Human 81 Human 0xFF01FF 0xFF01CC 0xFF01CC NORMAL PIERCINGS NORMAL 0

I can't test to see if this works until the servers come online but It doesn't crash on startup and that's always the first good sign. From here I could edit the Boot Fix and Helms as you say for each seperate Race/Gender.

[schlumpf]

Nope. One line is one race. That field is just the model, nothing else.
I don't know how WoW handles this, but it will most likely take the first one.

[ubermonkey]

Nope. One line is one race. That field is just the model, nothing else.
I don't know how WoW handles this, but it will most likely take the first one.

Ya, that's what it does. It only accepts one. That's really inconvenient. Thanks for responding.