[Request] Noggenfogger -> Death Knight Arthas

[Baron Frostfel]

Was wondering if anyone wouldn't mind helping me out? I'm new to the "model swap" thing, but thought this would be a cool one to mess around with a bit. I don't want the Lich King version, mind you, but the regular DK Arthas (sans the helmet).

Also, aside from the mpq file, what else do I have to do? Lol, sorry to be a noob :P

[needcheats]

( Are you a french guy ? / Es-tu français ? )

If it's just changing the noggenfogger squelet to DK Arthas that's easy, but you should know that if you make such an easy thing all the squelets that are like the noggenfogger squelet will be DK Arthas

what you have to do is to get the treepath of this squelet model and his blp ( using wowmodelviewer is the easiest way when you're a noob ) and the treepath of the DK Arthas without helmet and his blp

Then you'll have to extract the m2 and blp files of DK Arthas with MywarcraftStudio, then you create a new archive MPQ called patch-5.MPQ ( be sure to have "MPQ" and not "mpq" ) inside this archive you'll add the m2 and blp files of DK Arthas and you'll rename them so their names would be like the noggenfogger squelet, after that you "Save and Close archive".

From now on, your patch will modify the squelett model and his texture to DK Arthas with his texture... I'm sure you coulda find a sort of tutorial everywhere else but nevermind I did it now

Edit : taking the .skin files are also important for 3.X

Or just edit the CreatureDisplayInfo.dbc ...

[needcheats]

Editing the CreatureDisplayInfo.dbc could change your squelet noggenfogger but all squelets that have same model+blp would be DK arthas ( but if the same model has another blp it would be a squelett )

What to do ? just open the CreatureDisplayInfo.dbc and find the display_id of what you want to have, keep an eye on this line, and put the same numbers on the line of what you want to change ( a different one obviously ), change everything but the display_id ( the first column ).

- First solution ( boring ) -

Now how to find a display_id ? first you can search for the entry of the creature you want to mount ( for swift spectral tiger ) it's 24004, you can find these ids on wowhead if you know the way ( just see the link of the creature Swift Spectral Tiger, the entry is with the link ).

Then the display_id, well if you have a private server database you just search for the entry of your creature and the dispaly_id will be there, but as you're asking and doing that things I think you don't have one.

- Second solution ( the best ) -

Or you search for the name of one blp that goes on the creature you search in the CreatureDisplayInfo.dbc :

Example : I search the Swift Spectral Tiger displayid, I open MywarcraftStudio, click on the CreatureDisplayInfo.dbc that I have extracted from the patch-enUS.MPQ before, and put on my new patch-enUS-5.MPQ, a window called "Database Cache" just open to show you the very insides of the dbc,

there is a little blank white space near the "Find" button just here you write "Spectral" and it will find the SpectralTigerRidingArmored texture, on the first column of this line there is the display_id and the line you were looking for !

All the texture aren't always that easy to find, most of the time you'll have to go in the Common.MPQ or patch.MPQ to find the good names for your blp mounts.
These files will have a Treepath that will be like that "Creature\XXXXXX\xxxxx.blp"
the "xXXx..." is the name of your creature folder, it will contains all the texture that can be use with the same model, you'll only find blp in Common.MPQ no .m2 ( it can prevents you from crashing MWS )

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