Item Texture Edit going bad.

[Robske]

Hey everyone,

For the past hours I've been trying to edit item textures, more specific, the textures that make up a robe. The result is the infamous green error texture.

This is how I did it:

- I acquire the paths to the item textures by using the Item and ItemDisplayInfo dbc's. In my case (Durable Robe) that would be:
* Robe_B_05Brown_Chest_TL_M.blp
* Robe_B_05Brown_Chest_TU_M.blp
* Robe_B_05Brown_Pant_LL.blp
* Robe_B_05Brown_Pant_LU.blp
* Robe_B_05Brown_Sleeve_AL.blp
* Robe_B_05Brown_Sleeve_AU.blp
I used MyWarcraftStudio to extract these files from common.mpq. I noticed that the dimensions of these blp's were 128 x 64, according to MWS.

I use an application that's named 'BLPConverter.exe' out of the box together with 'mass blp convert.bat' to change the blp files to the png format. The output png files have the same dimension (128x64)

After editing I use the same tool to convert the png file back to blp. I reconstruct the tree hierachy used in the original mpq and pack everything into patch-9.MPQ. (MWS viewer correctly displays the blps)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2754079/hierachy.png

Where did I go wrong? Dimensions? Color? The conversion process?

Kind regards

[[Soul Eater]]

If the texture is green, then most of the times it means that either the colors or the conversion went wrong.

For colors, always save the PNG format in indexed colors, and for converting, use a BLP > PNG converter.

Try the following thing out: convert to PNG first, edit it, convert it back to a BLP, and then convert that BLP again to a PNG. See if there were any changes or not. If it is, then it's most likely the conversion.

[Robske]

For colors, always save the PNG format in indexed colors, and for converting, use a BLP > PNG converter.

This was my mistake, I was using the RGB scheme. Thanks for the help.