[Guide] How to: Change your Race into another

[Mudkip]

Tools needed

• MyWarCraftStudio
• BatchRenamer or XNview

(Please download them from the sticky thread in the Guides & Programs section)
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Yo, there are some guides about it, I know, but they are all outdated and might be too complicated for some people. Meh, this guide might be complicated too but up to date... and many people don't know how to make it

I use a NightElfMale to TrollMale swap in this guide!



Extracting

1. Open Patch.MPQ and search for the .M2 file for the Troll male
   
2. Extract the .M2 file to your desktop
3. Go to common.MPQ and search for the right textures, you need the folder of your desired race. ( under CHARACTER or Character )
4. Extract the folder to your desktop with the textures contained. called like the race in general ( Troll in my example )
   

Renaming & preparing for the swap

1. Rename TrollMale.M2 into NightElfMale
2. Rename the Troll folder to NightElf
3. Delete the Female sup-folder
   
4. Move the NightElfMale.M2 into the Male folder
5. Open the Male folder in a Batchrenaming program and replace " TrollMale" with " NightElfMale "
6. Create a new folder called " CHARACTER " on your Desktop
7. Drop the Troll folder in the CHARACTER folder
8. Copy any file from the Troll folder and paste it into the CHARACTER folder

Create the .MPQ archive

1. Open MyWarCraftStuios and create a new archive
2. Rightclick on the white thingy on the left side
3. "Import folder..."
4. Import the file you copied into the CHARACTER folder
5. The CHARACTER folder should appear there
6. Delete the imported file
7. Save and close archive

[Fault]

Theres like 45 of these guides, but ill be nice...

[Mudkip]

thanks for approving fault, and I know there are many guides about it^^ but as I said, they are outdated and many people still don't know how to ...

[Pullefjun]

You have a very weird and perhaps a bit slow way of doing this :/

[Mudkip]

IMO it's the best way... you only need to create 1 .MPQ data and it's quite fast

[Pullefjun]

Using IrfanView and well... the extracting all char data to a specific place of choice, and instead of moving around the .m2 file u just use irfanview to rename everything in your folder, or have a destination folder that u then import to MWCS, 1 .mpq, takes 5minutes. How do you think I even bothered to make like 60 of these last weekend :P

I'm not saying it's not a good guide. It's an excellent guide. Just pointing this out, you can go with the same way as u do your helmet fixes rly.

[Mudkip]

Using that guide takes me something around 3-5 minutes to change my race...
and 10 helmfixes take me 2 minutes (preparing and having a good technique is all)

[nightprey]

how do you open patch.MPQ for .1?

[Pullefjun]

how do you open patch.MPQ for .1?

This is not a thread about questions.

[galataii]

how do i change from a gnome to a nightelf?

[galataii]

actually i play many class's like can i change the way i look for just one account or does it change it for all of them?

[Mudkip]

you need to do all changes, but you can combine them into 1 file.

[merfed]

All of them.

[galataii]

huh lol im still confused lol

[seanminion]

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/model-...race-race.html

This guide isn't out dated and it worked 100% perfectly for me =)