Nightelf Male to Female - need some help

[Elcolombianooo]

First of all, great site. Been scrolling around for a few days and really learned alot. As much as i'd like to contribute, I'm simply too inexperienced to really contribute something to the community.

Well here's the story. Lately I've been getting kinda annoyed by the fact that my nightelf male, looks ugly and just doesn't have any charisma. After all it's what you stare at for hours at a time so it might as well make it look good right?

So what I did, is I changed him into a nightelf female by making a new mpq and using model edit fix. This has worked; the model works and the helms also function almost perfectly. However, 2 problems keep arising for me all the time.

First problem is, The female nightelfs normally have markings on their faces. when i just changed the model from male to female, all things changed correctly except for the facial features; my nightelf female had sideburns, and had no markings on her face. I managed to get rid of the sideburns by replacing the texture "FacialLowerhair02_04" with "FacialLowerHair05_04". My char now has the markings on the lower part of her face instead of sideburns. The problem is, is that the markings aren't just on the lower part of the faces. It's also above their eyes and that's something I just can't figure out myself, I tried for hours on end.

Now what I can tell from looking into the textures, and looking how my "changed" night elf female looks in comparison to a real night elf female, is that it seems that at the uppermost hairline, there's a little more hair then there's supposed to be. My assumptions are that THAT is the texture I should change, but I can't seem to figure out which one to replace with the upper markings texture (FacialUpperHair10_04). Am I right in thinking there may not even be a upper facial texture ? Help with this would be great and no mpq files would have to be made for me; just give me some tips on which textures i'm specifically looking for and I'll figure it out myself since I really want to learn to do this for myself. +Repfor the one(s) who help me ofc

So, that's the first problem. 2nd problem is that the eyebrows of my nightelf are sticking out of the helm; which you can see in the screenshot. Is there a possibility or some way to fix this? again, help would be great but I really would appreciate some tips instead of a pre-fabricated solution, if you know what I mean.

Here are the screenshots explaining the problems.

Facial features: missing the top markings



Facial features: Comparing a real nightelf female with my editted one; pay close attention to what seems to be hair that shouldn't be there; left above their eyes.



Helm problems: Eyebrows protruding from my helmet



I think that should do it eagerly awaiting your answers, thanks in advance.

Elco

[Pullefjun]

About the upper facial features well...
You need the correct ammount of UpperFacialFeatures for the marking that there are options, that's my thought...
About the eyebrows, I'm not sure about the numers or anything but my guess is:
DBFilesClient\HelmetGeosetVisData.dbc

[Elcolombianooo]

so what ur saying is that basically the upper facial features are pretty much decided when creating your char, like they aren't even there when u made a bearded old night elf?

about the helm, i'll check it in the morning but thanks in advance! +rep

some more help would be more then welcome

[Pullefjun]

I don't THINK that they exist on male characters since the only "upper" facial things I can imagine on those are the sideburns, all u can do is look around.
Try stuff out.