MMO-Champ...how do they do it?

[pwncraft]

I have been racking my brain for 3 days now trying to figure out how ************ can make videos like this: YouTube - Grunty the Murloc Marine
(I cant post links cause of my low post count :-/)

Now...I can get that murloc opened in modelviewer textured + animated.. but there is no displayid because obviously no one has looted this. I'm almost positive he uses a private server, but how in gods name does he get the items "In-Game" with no display id? I considered this to maybe be a clever use of vegas or some after effects..but the shadows are there, the gun fires the correctly textured bullets, the barrel flashes with the right texture from the mpq...

On multiple occasions he has new items with no displayid in game. He had t8 before anyone.

how does he do it? Is he doing a swap with his own char? But the wmefix wont work on 3.1.2 ptr servers...

If anyone can answer this please PM me. If you can fill me in I will reward you.

pwn

[Galinda]

Public Test Realm dude.

For example. Log on to the PTR, go to the trading card reward vendor, select you want to buy the chicken mount, and type in 3333. Voila.

You probably wont find the code for it in the current dbc because it doesn't "truely" exist yet, but it may be in the ptr data.



Get mining :P

[pwncraft]

It's in the ptr data, i have one on the ptr...its the blizzcon pet i cant figure out! I have no clue how he got it.. :-/

[Synris]

its MMO-champions job (more than one person btw) to do a routine check of each little patch, and they are always the ones who stumble across things like this in doing so..

off topic how did you get textures on your marine in model viewer? mines white

[Moskva]

I have been racking my brain for 3 days now trying to figure out how ************ can make videos like this: YouTube - Grunty the Murloc Marine
(I cant post links cause of my low post count :-/)

Now...I can get that murloc opened in modelviewer textured + animated.. but there is no displayid because obviously no one has looted this. I'm almost positive he uses a private server, but how in gods name does he get the items "In-Game" with no display id? I considered this to maybe be a clever use of vegas or some after effects..but the shadows are there, the gun fires the correctly textured bullets, the barrel flashes with the right texture from the mpq...

On multiple occasions he has new items with no displayid in game. He had t8 before anyone.

how does he do it? Is he doing a swap with his own char? But the wmefix wont work on 3.1.2 ptr servers...

If anyone can answer this please PM me. If you can fill me in I will reward you.

pwn

You misunderstand what display ID is. Display IDs (plus lots of item information, actually - most of the sorting info, no names/stats/&c however) and all display information are kept in the DBC files, which are pushed out with each patch. Even if an item was undiscovered, there is a display id entry for it in the ItemDisplayInfo.dbc file, which has the models used, textures, animations, glow points, etc.

From there, it's a matter of changing the display ID in your WDB file (the local cache of items that does contain the item's tooltips/stats/&c) to the new display ID.

I don't know the specifics of what Boubouille does, however, I'm fairly certain that he has written himself (or has had written, though I find the former more likely) a comparison viewer for DBC files; alternatively, he could use the simple route and run a DBC to CSV converter (of which there are many) then run a simple diff on those to find the differences.

Doing this, all model changes and new models become very obvious and easy to spot with each new push.

[sakimi]

Moskva pretty much covered it, but I'll also add that they get a lot of data from the PTR/Beta servers and clients/files.

[pwncraft]

Thanks guys for all of the awesome info. you rock! So I'm guessing what they do is probably just change the item id to something older? then call the older object in game?

Sorry ifi seem noobish, I usualy pick this stuff up pretty quick.

[[Z]em]

they gather information through various files that are downloaded to test the PTR's.
i think its very time comsuming, but yet again gets cool results :P