[Guide] Model Injection Guide

[qweertyu]

As the MES just exports the vertices, you wont need any changes but an fix of stupid 8 bytes.

Could any of you experts perform that small fix or create something standalone to convert m2 to 3ds/obj and back then ? Or tell us a work around for it ? Im willing to p*ypal/mb some irl gold as reward if that motivates..

[schlumpf]

Well, it should be enough to

• open the file in a hex editor,
• get to 0x30,
• insert 8 bytes (01 23 45 67 89 AB CD EF),
• save it,
• open it in the application and use it the way you did,
• open the file again,
• delete the (01 23 45 67 89 AB CD EF),
• save it,
• ???,
• PROFIT!

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[qweertyu]

Im a nub when it comes to programming but i think i managed to do what you adviced, the result is still the same tho. The .obj i get from .m2 through MES is like 400 bytes and contains coords of 6 verts or something :<

[jungeye]

So i was using model editing before patch 3.0.2 now last night i remodeled a character just to come hopme today to find my WOWME.exe was out of date again...ugh. So what im asking is usually how long is it till a an up to date version of wowme is realeased and is there an easy way to find them.( a specific website) i have just been googling to find a direct download
thanks

[ninjamig112]

do every 3D program work? or just 3D max's? ... anyway to not only have the 30das trail

[m4dm4n101]

Awesome guide! Helped a lot. thx.

[RohanDX]

So is this guide good for the new patch, or no?

[BlightRaptor]

Am I right in assuming this method of injecting is not working at the moment since wotlk? I've had the same problems with getting the .obj to import. I follow the steps word for word and I'm using the most up to date versions (as found on these threads.)

1. I extract the character model via MWCS
2. I use MES to convert it to .OBJ
3. I open up 3dsmax 9 and use the import feature with the same fields as the tutorials.

The result. Well nothing shows up. No model, not even an error message. I also tried importing into Milk Shake, and still the .obj doesn't show up. I live in the US so I don't think the language settings fix is relevant to me (though I tried for the heck of it.) Has anyone solved similar problems since the latest patch, or should I just remain patient for some updates?

[pepepacu]

I use the EU version. If that works on any other version of the game, please reply

Well, it should be enough to

• open the file in a hex editor,
• get to 0x30,
• insert 8 bytes (01 23 45 67 89 AB CD EF),
• save it,
• open it in the application and use it the way you did,
• open the file again,
• delete the (01 23 45 67 89 AB CD EF),
• save it

It only allows the Injector to finish the process, but it creates a bad .obj file, making all the vertices in one line (z only)

v 0 0 0.1177871
v 0 0 0.08789734
v 0 0 0.01497959
v 0 0 -0.0554725
<more>

and with no faces (only 4 faces in a character model? xD) (a triangle with verts 1, 1, and 1 is impossible and crashes any import action)

f 1 1 1
f 1 30025 24942
f 18031 28006 27746
f 102 1 1

It should have at least 1k faces and should look like this

f 983 982 990
f 982 989 990
f 1005 1023 1003
f 1003 1004 1005
<more>

i dont know what the "vn" strings mean but they are crashed too

vn 3.573311E-43 2.802597E-44 -0.868755
vn 3.573311E-43 2.802597E-44 -0.8482338
vn 3.573311E-43 2.802597E-44 0.8852493
vn 3.573311E-43 2.802597E-44 0.8926021
<more>

e-43 and e-44 are extremely tiny values (almost 0, it means to divide by 10^43 if someone dont know)

Of course having no faces for a lot of vertices do the program to crash

We need a stronger solution

[schlumpf]

Just look at the differences in the header in M2 - WoW.Dev Wiki and M2/WotLK - WoW.Dev Wiki. The MES will most likely read the vertices and maybe the views.

[pepepacu]

If you add 8 bytes, you have to del 8 bytes somewhere in the header to keep the pointed things right placed (this is the reason why i obtained yesterday vertices with only 1 data of the 3 needed)

I tried this, first deleting 8 times "00" at 0x48, and adding 8 times "00" at 0x2C
and i obtained a "better" but bad list of vertices

<more v up>
v 0,07276421 -0,00558514 1,754823
v 0,06958175 0,07457583 1,754399
v 0,07276422 0,004986676 1,754823
v 0,08664487 0,004372518 1,83065
v 0,08346251 -0,07578841 1,830226
v 0,06958185 -0,0751743 1,754399
vn 0,9868729 1,822409E-07 -0,1614988
vn 0,7405158 -0,6714511 -0,0281031
vn -0,00951999 -0,9739528 0,2265509
vn -0,8711385 -0,4848497 0,07770782
vn -0,9997691 -1,854998E-07 0,02148904
vn -0,8711386 0,4848495 0,07770748
<more vn down>

now it has 3 coords, but crashes when building faces.

tried again "moving" (adding/deleting way) the "boundingtriangles/vert/normals" to the TBC locations and continues crashing

[schlumpf]

Faces are in the "Views" in M2s. Therefore you will need to get the .skin file into the .M2 one and point to the right structure.

[BlightRaptor]

The other day I tried the export model feature in the fan update of Model Viewer. Lo and behold it was the first .obj I could successfully import into 3ds Max.

However, the exporter saves the model in the same pose as in the viewer (i.e. if it's a character in an idle stance, then it'll show up in the idle stance in 3ds Max.) My guess is that's not a good thing if you want to edit and inject it, not being a neutral symmetrical pose (probably gonna mess up animations.)

I don't know if anyone's fiddled with that yet, but maybe you programmer guys can make some use of that info. Wish I knew how to do something with this. All I know how to do is move vertices around. :/

[Achilleon]

Great tutorial mate thank you very much!

[thesixth]

great man, you made this look so easy =) !!
I just gotta try this!

questions:-
I trust this won't mess up the animations (giving me a stiff model without animations) ?
if not, is there some way to edit the animations too ? (assuming they are integrated with the model?)
no hard feelings on the forehead-bear but, do you have any serious model-improovements released somewhere?

I'd love to see something

thanks for this guide!!
peace out!