Hardest Spell edit request you'll likely receive

[griste]

So I'm capable of doing regular spell swaps; not really that difficult of a task. But, every once and a while, there is a task that is out of your reach.
I want to use the old animation of fan of knives (from patch 3.1) and apply it to patch 3.3.5. Could anybody poke me in the right direction towards achieving this?
Or possibly, the god of spell swaps could emerge from under his rock to do magic that has never been accomplished before..

[Wavesong]

Get the model from Patch 3.1, and put it in a custom MPQ and load it for your 3.3.5.

[griste]

I was dreading the idea of having to do that, but it has to be done, so be it

[Wavesong]

It literally takes 10 seconds if you have the clients. Or you were expecting someone to download 3.1 client, extract the model, load it into a new mpq and give it to you? Yeah doesn't seem unnecessary at all.

[griste]

No need to be negative about it, I wasn't 100% sure if that was necessary or not. Downloading 2.4.3 patch to 3.0.2 patch right now. We figured out how to get it working half way serverside on 3.3.5 without any need to transfer clients so there was a shred of hope that it was possible without a separate spell.dbc

[griste]

It literally takes 10 seconds if you have the clients. Or you were expecting someone to download 3.1 client, extract the model, load it into a new mpq and give it to you? Yeah doesn't seem unnecessary at all.

Well, it didn't work for me. But, if you're willing to give it a try, I've uploaded the 3.0.8a spell.dbc.
https://www.mediafire.com/?ae79b42jbapda84

[Wavesong]

Did I say spell.dbc? Pretty sure I didn't O.o
Ty for uploading something completely irrelevant to what you want to do tho.

[griste]

So you're telling me that it isn't a spell edit at all, otherwise you'd be changing spell visuals from the dbc, like usual. Can you explain in a bit more depth what I have to do with a model?

[Wavesong]

Extract the model, a model is a .m2 file just to clarify. Then you get that model and place it in a custom mpq which you load into your 3.3.5, your model now overwrites the 3.3.5 one and uses the animation of that Fan of Knives and if you want to be on the sure side, you could copy the information from the old spell.dbc

[griste]

Thank you, I'll be looking into trying to figure this out as it's definitely much different. Found files, threw them in an Mpq, not working. when including spell.dbc fok no longer has any visual effect at all