[Gear Swap] How to gear swap with hex editor [4.0.1]

[recklesss]

So how do you change it.. all this showed was how to find your own item

By saying this, it shows you havent read it properly, everyone was able to do it but you.

[Phraun]

So how do you change it.. all this showed was how to find your own item

No, it showed you how to change it as well. Find the code for the target item, find the code for the replacement item, change one with the other in item.adb with a hex editor. Go back and read it again.

[se1fki11er]

So still nobody has found out how to change weapon sheath position?:/

[latrodectus]

So how do you change it.. all this showed was how to find your own item

The info is there at the top.. you just repeat the steps. You simply find the code of the weapon/armor that you wish to change into and write that down. Find the item that you have on and want to change in hex editor, then change the code from what you have on, to what you want to change into. Save...and done.

Note, that some peices of gear appear more than once. I'm assuming because they are outfitted for different races, but I'm not positive. You can change all instances of the displayID, or you can take a few minutes like I did and switch one at a time, log in and see if the change was made. If the change was made then there is no need to alter the other duplicate displayID's..

I also wrote down the address for which the changed displayID's appears.. I'm guessing however that the addresses are not static and may change as the file grows...but it might get me close, making it easier to change back the code without having to delete the whole file.

[JunkyVirus]

A great guide, and I would use it but it takes to long to swap a full armor set :P Hahah
But might use it late on
Thx

[aKILL3S]

Editing Wrathful Gladiator's Dreadplate Shoulders seems not possible, tried everything u said, works on other equipment but it's bigger then the average shoulders so pre-patch you had to change a few things manually in hexeditor, but whenever I search for it's ID now I get that

"---------------------------
Find
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The find field requires a even number of digits for a valid hex string. Please check your search criteria and try again.
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OK
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"


<displayinfo>65579</displayinfo>

Hex code: 1002B

Now.. how to change the numbers there?

Any help is appreciated.

[b0omsmack]

Works=) +rep

[superderp]

I think I've done this right but I guess the item I'm changing what I have to is not in my cache.

Is there a way I can add things to my cache? Is there an addon that does it?

[Mudkip]

As for the sheath positions:
preaviously it was like looking for the nearest 01/02/03/04/05/06/07 field in the wdb cache at the items place.
So if you wanted to swap Seethe to Ashkandi for example, you first want to replace seethe's hexed displayinfo with ashkandi's. Then you want to look around the replaced numbers/letters for the nearest 01/02/03/04/05/06/07 field (look at the list below to check which sheath your weapon has) and also switch it to the fitting one. understood?
I dont remember completely though, there was a specific number of spaces you had to go left / right to find the 01 etc field, but in like 99% of the cases it was the nearest.

that is how it worked in the past. might be complete non-sense, im a retired model editor :P maybe it still works this way

01 - 2H melee weapons (axes, swords, polearms)
02 - Staves
03 - 1H side-hanging weapons
04 - Shields
05 - Guns- It comes out from the back hidden
06 - I am thinking this one is bows or crossbows, it's kind of liek 05.
07 - Hidden (fist weapons)

oh and yeah, i cant seem to find the correct displayinfo for tattered dreadmist robe either, i even looked in glichty's old model swapper as the displayinfo's are always at the left of each item. but it shows the same like allakhazam.com and this hexed displayinfo simply doesnt exist, strangely enough the displayinfo provided by allakhazam for tattered dreadmist mantle works ...

[latrodectus]

Well.. for those of you who are still trying to figure things out, so am I. As Mudkip posted, those sheath positions are correct, they are in the file too, but....they do nothing when you change them. Also, as Mudkips pointed out, Tattered Dreadmist Robe isn't in the file under it's ItemID.. I've checked every site included WoW armory and the ItemID for the robe is the same. However, it is not in my Item.adb file even though I'm wearing it on a character. I imagine that the displayID for the original dreadmist robe and the tattered dreadmist robe are the same, but I can not find it by looking for either the displayID or the ItemID.

I'm nearly finished with a gearswapping program that I've been working on, but it's going to be on hold until I can figure out where these missing puzzle peices are or the only thing the program will do if you enter bad info is screw up your Item.adb file.

For those wondering how to find out items that begin with 100, (Which is 256 in Hex, a step above FF), for example 1002B becomes 2B 00 01 and you'll find it if you've seen it in game. If you are replacing that with a 4 digit hex value turn the last 2 digits into 00.. (add the hex code for your item and turn 01 into 00).

[Neverwhere]

Someone spoke here that the code for the tattered dreadmist mantle did, in fact, work. However, after finding the display ID info of 29798 (7466 in hex code and 66 74 for searching purposes) that string does not exist.

The robe didn't work either with a display ID of 29792 (7460 in hex and 60 74 for searching).

Oddly the Dignified Headmaster's Charge (54947 dec, B37B hex, 7B B3 for search) did at least have a string that was changeable. Logging in now to see if it in fact swapped the item.

Edit: Nope. Must've caught the regular staff drop from Scholo or something. Staff is unchanged upon login. I don't believe heirlooms follow the same set of rules or something. Makes it very challenging. I have to say, I reaaaaaaaaaallly didn't know how much I relied on the very limited model swapping I did. I love leveling toons and part of that was just seeing this tiny toon wrecking stuff in "epic" gear. Seeing them in the same old kind of makes me feel sad.

[Mudkip]

here's a little pic I have uploaded to proof the swapped tattered dreadmist mantle
dunno how it actually works, a friend of mine told me yesterday that he indeed found the string for the tattered dreadmist robe in his .adb but it was incapabable of getting swapped. strange

[Neverwhere]

I wonder how we'd have different adb files, one in which yours actually has the string and one in which mine does not. So very odd.

[Sendako]

I lost my item.adb file due to a mistake I made when I tried to hex edit with my WoW open and now the new item.adb file doesn't have most of the codes no matter how hard I try to get them (mousing over items; using atlasloot, etc). Now I can't model edit because of it.

Could someone upload their own item.adb file (pref someone with a large file)?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[ashabaal]

i got the same problem @sendako. i never deleted the item.adb after changing some itemdisplay id's, but the item.adb data is only 1 kb after logging out. is it possible that blizzard hotfixed this ? there is a hotfix.tbl in the ADB folder (or i didn't noticed it a few days ago)

---------- Post added at 01:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:57 PM ----------

well, only deleting the item.adb data doesn't help. you need to delete the whole cache folder ! problem solved

---------- Post added at 01:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:14 PM ----------

yes, that one in the main wow folder