[Guide] Changing your face!

[Jinaya]

Hey there, I've never seen a guide on how to do this, and I managed to figure out how to do it last night, so I figured I'd write a guide on it. This is my guide on changing the face of a Draenei, or any race you please!

What you'll need:
-My Warcraft Studio
-Wowmodelviewer
-2.4 MEfix (Can't provide a link for this I don't think, sorry. :[)

First off, go ahead and open My Warcraft Studios. Then click File > Open. Browse to your data folder, and open Common.mpq.



Once, there, click on CHARACTER, and expand the folder of the race you are. You should see something like this.



Scroll down, and find the gender folder of your character, you should then see files like this.



Open wowmodelviewer, and find the face you have. You also need to figure out what skin tone you have. I've not figured out a better way to figure this out but just eyeing it, and giving it a shot. Wowmodelviewer may help you figure this out, but with the lighting, it's sometimes hard to tell what color it really is. For this guide, I had face (, and skintone (7). Jot this down in notepad, or somewhere you can look, if you're a forgetful person like myself. :P



Continue looking through Wowmodelviewer for the face that you want. I decided on face (0). Again, write this down if you feel like you may forget.



Open MWCS, and open Common.mpq again. Expand CHARACTER, go to your race, then your gender. It should look something like this:



This is the kinda tricky part, but not really. Here you should see files named like "DRAENEIFEMALEFACELOWER00_01.BLP." What this is, is face number (0), and skintone (1). You need to find the face you have now. This means in this guide I'm looking for "DRAENEIFEMALEFACELOWER08_07.BLP For this guide. Once it's found, just right click on it, and copy treepath and paste it in a notepad so you don't forget. Then you have the find the upper portion of the face. This is accomplished in the same method, only scrolling down a bit more and finding it. Once again, for me, it was "DRAENEIFEMALEFACEUPPER08_07.BLP". Once again, right click, copy treepath, and paste it in notepad.



Now you need to find the face that you would like. For me, this is face number (0), and skintone (7). Once you find the upper-portion, right click on it, and extract the file. You can extract this anywhere you'd like, just make sure that you don't lose it. Do the same for the lower one. File > Close the MPQ once you're done with this.





In MWCS go Pack > Create MPQ Archive. Save this MPQ as patch-# (# would be either 4-9, a-z, I think >.>) in your World of Warcraft/data directory. I'm saving it as patch-4.mpq in this guide.



Then go Pack > Add File to Archive. Click the ... , and browse to where you extracted the textures earlier. Add the

lower one first. THIS IS IMPORTANT DON'T SKIP THIS STEP! Go back into notepad, and look for the pathtree of the

lower one, and paste it into the box that pops up when you add the file to the mpq. Then click Ok, and repeat the process for the upper portion.



Your MPQ should now look like this, and if it does, Pack > Save and close archive.



Load WoW using the MEfix for 2.4, and if all went well, you character should have your new face.

Original!


New!



This is also possible to do to change your model changed character's face. It's the same process, except when you extract the files, extract the face files of the race and gender you changed into, instead of your original. If you can follow this guide, you should still be able to accomplish this, though, some things are slightly different.

This is the first guide I've ever written before, and I tried to make it as easy to follow as possible. Be gentle on me! I also hope you enjoy.

[lothlogan]

Lost where I have to add the treepath in the box, just don't understand, when I do that, i dont get folders like you did in the SS...do i add it before or after the .bpl

[khaled1994]

i am orc with face gnome Great guide +rep

[fingers]

the "Mywarcraftstudio" i download opens with world of warcraft..
do you know what it's really spose to open with?

[Æiden]

Undead with Human Face

[Ilasper]

thanks, this will come in handy

[Rhynoz]

Nice Guide!

[Jinaya]

Lost where I have to add the treepath in the box, just don't understand, when I do that, i dont get folders like you did in the SS...do i add it before or after the .bpl

Go to pack > Add file to archive, click the ... and browse to the file. Select it, and you it prompts you to what the path is, enter what you're supposed to.

the "Mywarcraftstudio" i download opens with world of warcraft..
do you know what it's really spose to open with?

I'm not sure I understand what you're having troule with.

Thanks for the kind words, Rhynoz, Æiden, khaled1994!

Also, sorry I've not been around lately to help people out about this guide.

[daser]

hy .. if anyone please help me ... i need to make world of warcraft model viewer to work
here is my config file

[Locale]
LanguageID=1
Language=English
[Settings]
Path=E:WoW BcDataenUSlocale-enUS.MPQ
UseLocalFiles=0
SSCounter=100
DefaultFormat=0
MPQFiles=E:WoW BcDataPatch.MPQ;E:WoW BcDataExpansion.MPQ;E:WoW BcDataCommon.MPQ;
[Session]
Layout=layout2|name=canvas;caption=OpenGL Canvas;state=768;dir=5;layer=0;row=0;pos=0;prop=100000;bestw=20;besth=20;minw=-1;minh=-1;maxw=-1;maxh=-1;floatx=-1;floaty=-1;floatw=-1;floath=-1|name=fileTree;caption=File List;state=2099196;dir=4;layer=2;row=0;pos=0;prop=100000;bestw=170;besth=700;min w=-1;minh=-1;maxw=-1;maxh=-1;floatx=-1;floaty=-1;floatw=-1;floath=-1|name=animControl;caption=Animation;state=2099196;dir=3;layer=1;row=0;pos=0;pro p=100000;bestw=700;besth=90;minw=-1;minh=-1;maxw=-1;maxh=-1;floatx=-1;floaty=-1;floatw=-1;floath=-1|name=charControl;caption=Character;state=2099198;dir=2;layer=2;row=0;pos=0;pro p=100000;bestw=170;besth=700;minw=-1;minh=-1;maxw=-1;maxh=-1;floatx=-1;floaty=-1;floatw=-1;floath=-1|name=Lighting;caption=Lighting;state=2098943;dir=4;layer=0;row=0;pos=0;prop=10 0000;bestw=160;besth=430;minw=-1;minh=-1;maxw=-1;maxh=-1;floatx=-1;floaty=-1;floatw=170;floath=430|name=Models;caption=Models;state=2099199;dir=4;layer=0;r ow=0;pos=0;prop=100000;bestw=160;besth=460;minw=-1;minh=-1;maxw=-1;maxh=-1;floatx=-1;floaty=-1;floatw=160;floath=460|name=ModelBank;caption=ModelBank;state=2099199;dir=4;lay er=0;row=0;pos=0;prop=100000;bestw=20;besth=20;minw=-1;minh=-1;maxw=-1;maxh=-1;floatx=-1;floaty=-1;floatw=300;floath=320|name=Settings;caption=Settings;state=2099139;dir=4;layer =0;row=0;pos=0;prop=100000;bestw=405;besth=440;minw=-1;minh=-1;maxw=-1;maxh=-1;floatx=-1;floaty=-1;floatw=400;floath=440|dock_size(5,0,0)=22|dock_size(4,2,0)=172|dock_size(3,1,0 )=109|
bgR=0.1
bgG=0.2
bgB=0.4
RandomLooks=1
DBackground=0
BackgroundImage=
[Graphics]
FSAA=0
AccumulationBuffer=0
AlphaBits=8
ColourBits=32
DoubleBuffer=1
HWAcceleration=8231
SampleBuffer=0
StencilBuffer=8
ZBuffer=24

my wow path is

E:WoW Bc

Please help +Rep

[Smoochy]

Seeing as Draenei have more/different type of hair styles then most other alliance races, the race you change into keeps a weird version of the draenei hair. Any thoughts on how to fix this? I've been trying to fix it for my draenei female -> Dwarf Male, but no luck so far.

[Arrei]

Go to pack > Add file to archive, click the ... and browse to the file. Select it, and you it prompts you to what the path is, enter what you're supposed to.

Excuse me, could you elaborate on this? Do I select the extracted file, Open it, then paste over the file name in the path box with the file I copied into Notepad? That's what I've been trying, and I've had no success thus far.

[Jinaya]

Seeing as Draenei have more/different type of hair styles then most other alliance races, the race you change into keeps a weird version of the draenei hair. Any thoughts on how to fix this? I've been trying to fix it for my draenei female -> Dwarf Male, but no luck so far.

Search the forums for the thread that teaches you how to change hair styles. That's how I learned.

Excuse me, could you elaborate on this? Do I select the extracted file, Open it, then paste over the file name in the path box with the file I copied into Notepad? That's what I've been trying, and I've had no success thus far.

Make sure the path you're pasting in is the path to the original face/skin color combo you have, and that the files you extracted is the face/skin color you would like to have.

[Arrei]

Make sure the path you're pasting in is the path to the original face/skin color combo you have, and that the files you extracted is the face/skin color you would like to have.

It doesn't appear to be working for me, so can you tell me if I'm doing it right?

First I copied the treepaths of my current face into notepad, say, human female face 6 and skintone 3.
Next I extracted the face files I wanted, human female face 11 and skintone 3.
I close the archive and create a new one called patch-5.mpq.
I select Add File, click the "...", and Open the lower face file I extracted for human female face 11 and skintone 3. Then I go into notepad, copy the treepath for the lower portion of face 6, then go back into MWCS, highlight the filename for face 11 which is in the adding box, then replace the name with the treepath I copied.
I repeat for the upper portions, then Save and Close Archive and make sure the patch-5.mpq is inside my Data folder.
I run WoWME to start.


These are the steps I'm taking, and I'm unable to produce any results.

[Hazzie]

Just to make sure I got the right skin tone, I changed every single skintone and face to my desired one. I did it perfectly, straight down to the letter and it's still not working for me.

[ganders]

Bump, good guide. Testing it right now.

Though I also was confused at the step where you add the pathname. We navigate to the extracted file, but change the pathname to the original BLP, correct?

EDIT: Yup, I was right, got it to work. +Rep thanks for the guide!