Hello, how's it going?
I'm currently in the process of making a race swap from Orc Male to Fel Orc Male, I've created a patch-n.mpq file with the renamed model + loose blp files, attached is a picture of what I've got so far.
My question is this, does anyone know how to fix the green effect around the eyes? It's supposed to be red and mostly transparent like a glow effect.
I thought maybe adding the orceye.blp file into the MPQ would fix it, but it doesn't seem to change anything; Would I need an M2 editor, and does anyone have a working one for 1.12 / 2.0.5610 F&F?
I also noticed that the only alive download link for 2.0.5610 Friends and Family alpha is on a Russian host with what appears to be a 50kb/s download cap, I have these files and wouldn't mind uploading them if anyone would like them on a fast mirror.
Edit:
I had guessed it might be a path thing since I learned that the m2 is responsible for where all the particles go, I looked at the original F&F patch.mpq and saw that the felorceye.blp file was in character\felorc\female so I simply added the path to my patch-4.mpq containing the orc-> fel orc swap but it did not work.
Following advice I was given, I opened the .m2 using HxD and found that it was getting the particle texture from CREATURE\FelOrc\FelOrcEye.blp, extracting that file and then packaging it wiith the race swap seems to have done the trick.
Hopefully this works with helmets and armor, I still have a lot of learning to do.
Of course with every hurdle cleared, another takes its place:
Is it normal that I'm now disconnecting from servers a lot, and is there a workaround? I was hoping to play a character all the way to 60 using this edit, but if I disconnect every other minute it's kind of a pointless endeavor.