[Guide] How to: Fix the white hair of a Tauren

[Mudkip]

Prelude

Hello everyone. This is NOT a part of my " NooBeeGuides " and you need to know basic things like creating a MPQ archive for DBC datas, I don't used pictures for that.

Requirements

• MyWarCraftStudios
• DBC Editor
• ADVANCED! knowledge in Model Editing/DBC editing

Things for Notepad

 Human: 1
Orc: 2
Dwarf: 3
Night Elf: 4
Undead: 5
Tauren: 6
Gnome: 7
Troll: 8
Blood Elf: 10
Draenei: 11
 
Gender
 
Male: 0
Female: 1

Copy that into a Notepadfile


Informations
In this guide you'll learn how to fix the white hair that appears if you changed your character into a tauren. It won't teach you how to change the haircolor or so, only how to fix it in general.
Explanaitons written in another color than this green are refering to the pictures.


Guides that matches with this one

1. How to fix the Bootproblem
2. Change your Haircolor
3. Change your Hairstyle

Combining these 4 ( this too ) guides will result a nearly perfect race to race swap.

The Guide

Step 1) Launch MWCS and open Patch-enGB.mpq which is located in C:\Programs\World of Warcraft\Data\enGB\ ( Replace enGB with your client, deDE = german | enUS = american ). Doubleklick "DBFilesClient" and extract the "CharSections.dbc" file somewhere you remember.


Step 2) Launch DBC Editor and open the extracted CharSections.dbc file. Should look like this:


Step 3) Open your Notepad and look for the number your original char has. I edited my NightElfMale into a TaurenMale, I need to take the 4 for my race and the 0 for my gender. In total, I need to search for 4 and 0
Scroll down until you find the required number in Field1 and Field3 (Field 1 determinate your race and Field 3 your gender)

I need to know where my race/gender is. Red marked is what we need to edit. Sorry, I forgot one.

Step 4) Editing time. We need to alter Field7 since it it determinates your hair. It doesn't matter whether there is something filled in or not, we 'll change it. Now we come to the complicate part : Replace whatever is written in Field7 with that :

Character\Race\Gender\RaceGenderSkin00_00_Extra.blp

The last 0 determinates details like color of your hair, change it to whatever you want to.

You see I filled Field7 with Character\NightElf\Male\NightElfMaleSkin_00_Extra.blp

Step 5) Press enter and save your finished work

Step 6) Create a new .MPQ file with the CharSections.dbc contained. Remember to put DBFilesClient in front of it.

END

So that's it. I hope that guide is understandable, it is not for Noobes. If you still have problems, feel free to ask here or write a PM. I will be glad to help ya.

[Mudkip]

Lowl people, come on... not a single reply? I think guide fixes a very common problem...

[R0w4n]

Love @ Teufel


"HEY COW!! GOT MILK? 6):"

+Rep from me (unlesss i can't give you again before spreading rep )

[merfed]

Nice work man +rep

Gotta spread it around... remind me to

[Mudkip]

Nice work man +rep

Gotta spread it around... remind me to

I'm not allowed to do such things :P but thanks

[Fault]

Never noticed that problem, what is it exactly? but then again, i pick the races i want to be! i dont have to swap lol.

[R0w4n]

Never noticed that problem, what is it exactly? but then again, i pick the races i want to be! i dont have to swap lol.

*Shock*

Well when just regular X race > Cow, your hair tend to turn white ore green because of more / diffrent hair texture on cows

can't really define this, only been cowswaping once

[Pullefjun]

Uhm actually I dont ever get a white hairtexture when I do the swap :/ I do get this when I do the opposite swap, unless I do DBC editing, havnt tried doing that with races yet, think I will try tonight

[booj]

Will doing the opposite of this work on a swap out of a Tauren? My TaM > NiF patch gives me a strange, white hair texture that I can't seem to fix.

http://i14.tinypic.com/7xtdh6w.jpg

[Mudkip]

I don't think so, but you can try if you want to.
BTW: I think that is the normal haircolor xD

[Syest]

I see that you're using a NE to do this change. You also have 8 different boxes that you change the data in.

I tried doing this with an UD Male and they only have 5 boxes. 0,1,2,3,4.

I put Character\Scourge\Male\ScourgeMaleSkin_00_Extra.blp in Field 7 in the 5/0 boxes.

I'm wondering if since I only have 5 places to edit does this prevent me from getting an actual texture on my tauren's hair?

[deefz]

bah i dont understand it without hte pictures lol

Anyone someone can help me make the Gnome Male to Tauren Male hair fix?

thx

sorry for spam =[

-i cant get this tauren hair fix to work

gnome male > tauren male

gives me error

Character\Gnome\Male\GnomeMaleSkin00_00_Extra.blp
is not a valid floating point value

please help

[nams]

could you please explain how to do step 6 ? im having a hard time

[Mudkip]

could you please explain how to do step 6 ? im having a hard time

1. Open MWCS
2. Create a new .mpq data
3. add file to archive
4. navigate it to your edited CharSections.dbc data by pressing the [...] thingy
5. Rename the file to DBFilesClient\CharSections.dbc
6. Save and close

[jamalia]

"Step 4) Editing time. We need to alter Field7 since it it determinates your hair. It doesn't matter whether there is something filled in or not, we 'll change it. Now we come to the complicate part : Replace whatever is written in Field7 with that :

Character\Race\Gender\RaceGenderSkin00_00_Extra.blp"

(Srry don't know how to quote) So when you say this I need to type that into all of the field 7 boxes in the Nightelf male thing? Or just one? Think you could reupload the Step 4 picture again if you still have it because I can't see it.