Worldbuilding, Model Editing and Display ID Questions

[S0rr0ws0ng]

Hi I've got a couple of questions regarding World building And general editing and I was wondering
if someone can help or point me in the right direction? so far the whole learning experience has been
the fun of 'trial and error' which I don't mind, but these are the following blocks i've not been able
to fathom out. I've made good friends with 'search' but i've still not able able to full work out the
following questions:-

Worldbuilding / Mapping / Noggit / Taliis
1) Land Ahoy?
Is it possible to 'create' land rather than raising/lowering the existing?


2) How do you do water?
It seems such a basic function but I can't see to work it out.
I can happily build my self a trench by deforming the map but I can't seem to work out how
I 'fill it' so to speak.


3) Holes.
Is there a simple way to make holes in the land? I tried with Taalis but when I attempted to reopen that area of the map WoW and Noggit both crash.
I grabbed the cmd line tool createholes but i'm at a mystery as to how to use it or where and when I should be running it from.

4) Portals
Can I create actual instance portals which only require the player to step into and then port to a specific location?
I've been through the tutorials on creating NPCs and items to acheive this, but I was wondering if its possible to build actual Instance style portals.


5) Other Maps
Can I access the instance maps via Noggitt? I would of thought I could just add the co-ordinates to the bookmarks file of Noggit but it doesn't look like
you can specify the map id as such.


Items and Display IDs
1)How/Where do you create new Display IDs for items/npcs.
I can create new nps, I can change their display, but can I assign a brand new Display ID for a particular model?
Example: I recoloured the white Chicken skin so it had a blue beak and feet. Now if i run it in game, all chickens now looks like that.
But in the chicken directory there are 2-3 different skins (brown chicken, black chicken, Robot Chicken etc) I know each ties to a display ID.
So, can i assign 'Green Chicken' a new display id? i figure if its possible its probably its adding its to one the millions of tables, in a similar way to adding actual items or npcs.

2) Item Icons.
When I 'create' a new item, sometimes in the backpack it's represented by the red '?', the item still functions and displays when equiped but is there anyway to specify which icon will appear in the backpack?

3) Professions.
I've not fully read up on it yet (but as i'm asking a whole bunch of questions...), but is it possible to create new reciepies for the professions which in turn create new items?

If anyone can provide me with any insight to any of the above - even if its to say 'meh, not possible.' then it'll be most appreciated.
Apologies for any typos/general craziness - hopefully its at least readable.

Cheers

[~sInX]

1) Land Ahoy?
Is it possible to 'create' land rather than raising/lowering the existing?

Take a look at http://www.mmowned.com/forums/model-...ing-water.html

2) How do you do water?
It seems such a basic function but I can't see to work it out.
I can happily build my self a trench by deforming the map but I can't seem to work out how
I 'fill it' so to speak.

Once again, refer to http://www.mmowned.com/forums/model-...ing-water.html
A guide i read when i first started world building, didn't really help me tbh, hopefully you'll find what you need in it.

3) Holes.
Is there a simple way to make holes in the land? I tried with Taalis but when I attempted to reopen that area of the map WoW and Noggit both crash.
I grabbed the cmd line tool createholes but i'm at a mystery as to how to use it or where and when I should be running it from.

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/model-editing-guides-programs/217116-guide-making-holes-taliis-noggit.html
Read the above guide
4) Portals

Can I create actual instance portals which only require the player to step into and then port to a specific location?
I've been through the tutorials on creating NPCs and items to acheive this, but I was wondering if its possible to build actual Instance style portals.

There was an exploit some time ago relative to switching a campfire into the darkportal which teleported you to Hellfire (Or something along those lines i can't 100% remember). Apart from that, no. The only way you can do this (to my knowledge) is via an emulator (private server).
5) Other Maps

Can I access the instance maps via Noggitt? I would of thought I could just add the co-ordinates to the bookmarks file of Noggit but it doesn't look like
you can specify the map id as such.

Most instanes are WMOs, the ones that aren't, however, can be access via Coords and can be edited from there.
I'm not too sure about the Items and Display IDs... I've always thought of Display IDs as being model (.mdx / .m2) representatives for the visual, 3d concept - not BLP files... >,<
For future referance - take a look at this guide if you're confused about a few aspects of model editing. (I never bothered to use it, i just encountered it whilst i was searching for some software, it looks rather usefull, especially for people like you whom are looking to learn )
Hope this helped.

[S0rr0ws0ng]

Excellent! thanks for the quick reply and the directions to the most needed tutorials