Every NPC Child > Draenei child ?

[Bardoz]

Hi

There's something I don't understand about model changing and here it is :
I'm using WoW 3.3.5a on a private server and I'm trying to make a patch in order to have all orphans (bloodelf, orc, human and draenei) in Shattrath City to be draenei but with different textures (/colors) for the four of them.

I want to keep the original texture for the first draenei kid so I extract the 6 files from MPQ (DRAENEIFEMALEKID : DraeneiFemaleKid.M2, DraeneiFemaleKid00.skin, DraeneiFemaleKid01.skin, DraeneiFemaleKid0060-00.anim, DraeneiFemaleKid0077-00.anim, DRAENEIFEMALEKID_01.BLP), rename them to fit the others children (for example, BLOODELFMALEKID : BloodelfMaleKid.M2, BloodelfMaleKid00.skin, BloodelfMaleKid01.skin, BloodelfMaleKid0060-00.anim, BloodelfMaleKid0077-00.anim, BLOODELFMALEKID_01.BLP), I import these ones with a new texture in a file named patch-A.MPQ and then close my MPQ Editor.

After that, I launch the game : every child is a draenei BUT every child have the original texture, none of them have have the texture I created for each one of them. I don't think the textures I created are the problem because I'm able to change the original texture with one of my own and then, all the kids have that one.

TLTR: Is it possible to change a model to be the same as another one but with another texture ?

Thanks in advance !

[predattak]

i guess u must edit some dbc and "tell" the server which texture for which npc. i hope someone more advanced in this kind of editing will help u more

[pyriel]

yes its possible so long as they arent the same npc.

for example:
- you could create a second copy of the draeni child model, create a new texture for it and name it "that other kid.m2" and put it in game, then youd have to go to the dbc's and find the specific npc your looking for (wowhead to get the ID...itsi n the URL) and change the model the dbc references for that npc id.

- you CANT however create multiple models of the same npc because the game wont know which to load...in other words you cant make multiple colors of idk...ironforge guards, because they're all the same one (most of them anyway) (Ironforge Guard - NPC - World of Warcraft)

[Bardoz]

Someone already answered my question by telling me to edit *.m2 files with an hex editor and it worked, but thanks a lot guys, your help is greatly appreciated.