[Guide] Race to Race for patch 3.0.2

[Mudkip]

„Oh noes, not another ‚how to change your race’ thread please, we already got more than one million of 'em!“

This way how to change your race into another is updated for patch 3.0.2
Changing races still isn’t hard and the techniqe didn’t really change.
Well, as long as Glitchy’s MES isn’t updated, I think this will help some people out

Tools needed:
MyWarCraftStudios
Any Batch renaming programm, I’ll use “batch renamer” in this guide, just google it

in this guide we'll do gnome female -> undead male



Step 1.

Open common.mpq in MWCS and search for your race you want your char edited to under the “character” folder.



Step 2.


leftklick the SCOURGE folder and then rightclick it to extract the WHOLE folder to your desktop, named SCOURGE





Step 3.


Open the SCOURGE folder on your desktop and delete the female sub-folder (if you want to be a female undead, you'd have to delete the male sub-folder)





Step 4.


go in the male sub-folder, there should all over be such files like "ScourgeMaleFaceLower..." and so on. now we are going to make the real edit





Step 5


open the male sub-folder in your batch renaming programm, i use batch renamer, because it's simple and works perfect. replace "ScourgeMale" with "GnomeFemale" (if you change human male to troll male, you'd have to replace "TrollMale" with "HumanMale", just as an example if you're asking urself what you need to replace if you don't make a GnomeFemale -> UndeadMale change) Let the Programm rename everything. After the work is done, it should look like this






Step 6.


After everything being renamed, create a new folder on your desktop called " CHARACTER " (caps!!). Dropp the SCOURGE folder in the CHARACTER folder and copy any file from the SCOURGE folder in the CHARACTER folder. should look like this





Step 6 b)

Rename the SCOURGE folder to Gnome



Step 7.


go back to MWCS and select under "Pack(P)" Create MPQ archive

name the file patch-#.MPQ (# = a-z | 3-9) and save it to your desktop or wherever you like to save it.





Step 8.


rightclick the white (left) fielf on MWCS and select "Import Folder...".
Select the file you copied into the CHARACTER folder you've copied out of the SCOURGE folder in a previous step.
in the picture below you can see a folder called " SCOURGE ". I forgot to rename it to Gnome, sorry for that!






Step 9.


Save and close achieve, you're done.

[Spiff4]

Very nice guide. I just got finished renaming everything manually >.<

This should help in the future though.

+Rep

[flan]

Is there any way to resize models or are do we just wait for glitchy's MES to get an update

[noEvilnoGod]

Somehow only the hairstyle and facial changed for me

[Relock]

Hmm i did everything like you wrote in this guide but i was still unable to chance my HuF -> HuM. The problem is that the model looks still like a female character. I also tryed to make an edit whit glitchy's program but got the same result. Nvm managed to do it myself

[noEvilnoGod]

I did couple male to male changes, they worked well.
But I cant seem to get male to female changes.
It doesnt work for me.

[UNREST]

does the MES still work?

[kingkanarvin]

So i've tried this technique but it doesn't change anything, i want my NightElf to look like a BloodElf.

[madbw]

i made averything as writen , but when trying to login i have errore #131 . errore in file TaurenMale.m2 , i tryed to do it several times with different races but errore is same. Mb this is becouse im using rus version of wow, but i cant find rusian sites about this problem so posting here.

[metharon]

[quote=Mudkip;1151502]„Oh noes, not another ‚how to change your race’ thread please, we already got more than one million of 'em!“[quote]

German quotes are weird <.<

Great guide though, thanks!

[ezzzey]

i cant get this to work... not sure if im doing something wrong but i treid different approaches.

And im not sure how this guide will work if all i do is extract the Scourge folder? And just renaming it to whatever i want it to be... ugh...

Edit: can someone help me w/ a female tauren ->> gnome female or be female...

[white_plains]

Didn't work for me. :<

[asdfre]

Much thanks for the guide. I have a problem with it, everything goes ok but what am I supposed to do when i create the mpq file?

I think I´ll have to put it somewhere because if i dont im just changing names of some files out of wow, just the files in my desktop.
So, what the hell do I have to do with the patch-5.mpq file? (it´s patch-5 in my case :P).

I´ve put the file.MPQ in the data folder and now the hair is diferent but still isnt an undead. I´ve noticed that the males have also changed. Do you know what i did bad?
If i try changing an orc to a tauren, i get the error commented before, something like orcmale2 can´t be opened.

[asdfre]

could someone help me please? Only the hair changes, dont know why

[Mudkip]

I'm sorry for not answering to your questions. I was busy the last time.


Only my characters hair changed!
I noticed the same problem as I tryed to make a [race]-male to [race]-female .mpq
To be honest, I don't know why it isn't working. I'm working on a solution, but I cannot spend that much effort on it, because I really don't have enough time to, sorry.


Nothing changed at all
you made a mistake somewhere in the guide. Try again!




On the whole, the guide is a bit fail^^, sorry for that, but I don't have the time I had before to modelchange, I think I got worse in M/E