| 08-17-2005, 01:27 AM | #1 |
I used to have an older copy of WC3 Image Extractor that worked with the beta MPQs but unfortunately I lost it in a hard drive crash :( So right now I am looking for some way to convert the War 3 beta BLP0 files into TGAs. Does anyone have a link to or copy of that old version of the Image Extractor or know of any other program? |
| 08-19-2005, 05:49 PM | #2 |
Nevermind, I found this: http://www.geocities.com/djbnjack/ Which is almost as good. I can convert them all to standard BLP1 format and then convert them to TGAs :P Edit: well.. not the best program.. it's extremely slow as I have to do each file individually :( |
| 08-19-2005, 07:01 PM | #3 |
Nevermind again.. I just tried that program and it didn't work :( The output files are unreadable :( |
| 08-19-2005, 07:48 PM | #4 |
someone should make the specifications of war3 beta blps and wow blps |
| 08-20-2005, 02:52 PM | #5 | |
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There is one I think: http://www.wc3campaigns.com/thread_view.php?t=19616 But I have no idea what to do with that :P |
| 08-20-2005, 05:22 PM | #6 |
Those are the specs for the after beta blps, Blackdick just mentioned blp0 so we are aware that it is the beta version. Do you have any of these beta blp files at hand? you can send me one and I try to see what to do with it. |
| 08-21-2005, 03:53 AM | #7 | |
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Sure, I uploaded the first one I have: http://www.scrollsoflore.com/warlock/BTNAbomination.blp http://www.scrollsoflore.com/warlock/BTNAbomination.b00 http://www.scrollsoflore.com/warlock/BTNAbomination.b01 http://www.scrollsoflore.com/warlock/BTNAbomination.b02 http://www.scrollsoflore.com/warlock/BTNAbomination.b03 http://www.scrollsoflore.com/warlock/BTNAbomination.b04 http://www.scrollsoflore.com/warlock/BTNAbomination.b05 http://www.scrollsoflore.com/warlock/BTNAbomination.b06 Each BLP0 has 7 files like that. |
| 08-22-2005, 12:59 PM | #8 |
Yeah, I figured that specification talked about that, I think I can make a very simple blp0 to blp1 convertor. let me see |
| 08-23-2005, 05:05 AM | #9 | |
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Awesome :D I don't care how simple it is, as long as it can batch convert stuff. I spent at least an hour writting up a *.bat file with commands for each blp filename with that other converter I mentioned earlier only to find out it didn't work -_- I would rather not have to do that again :D haha |
| 08-26-2005, 06:55 PM | #10 |
Here it is, it can convert blp0 files to blp1, just make sure all the b00,b01,b02,... files of each blp are in the same folder as the .blp It can batch convert stuff, well it is just a batch file that uses the FOR %%i in (*.blp) do stuff of dos batch files. The only thing I ask in exchange is that you release the icons that are not found in retail version. http://vexorian.wc3campaigns.com/BLP0TO1.RAR |
| 08-31-2005, 06:12 PM | #11 |
Hey, sorry for the late reply (forgot to check back here). The program works great. I've converted all the beta icons and zipped em up: http://www.scrollsoflore.com/warlock/betaicons.zip This doesn't include the icons from the beta patches but I think all (or almost all) of those are present in the retail version anyways. Edit: http://www.scrollsoflore.com/warlock/betaicons_tga.zip TGA versions of the above icons (rather than BLP1s) |
| 08-31-2005, 08:49 PM | #12 |
That's great, |
| 09-01-2005, 01:36 AM | #13 |
Ah, I managed to find a couple of the beta patches floating around the net. When I get a chance I'll see if I can install the beta and apply them to see if there are any more icons and stuff :P I do specifically remember one that was in a realllly early patch of the beta and taken out fast. It used to be a Kodo Beast aura icon (when they had like 3 different auras) but it was taken out before anyone even thought about making a BLP viewer for the game :) I'm hoping this patch I downloaded has it. |
| 09-01-2005, 08:38 PM | #14 |
I think I managed to separate the icons and leave only the ones that aren't present on the current mpqs. http://vexorian.wc3campaigns.com/RocBetaIcons.zip Some of them may already be in the mpq, I didn't have the time to check heavily |
| 09-06-2005, 10:45 AM | #15 |
http://www.scrollsoflore.com/warlock...cons_patch.zip Here are the icons from the patch. I just grouped the TGAs and BLP1s together since there aren't many anyways. From what I could tell, there are two new ones (all related to Kodo Drums). The patch was tricky in that the Kodo Drum BLPs only contained BL0-BL6 and no BLP file. This is probably why I could not find these icons in future patches after WC3 Image Extractor was eventually released. But extracting the BLPs from the normal War3beta.mpq worked perfectly. Basically, the new icons are for the normal drums (I imagine a similar effect of what Kodos have now, though I don't remember for sure) and healing drums. While the icons for these are in the normal MPQ, there are specific Off/On icons that are exclusive to War3BetaPatch.mpq. The "on" version of normal drums shows a hand over the drum while the "off" version of healing drums has no hand (just the drum). So yeah, like I said I'm pretty sure the rest of the icons are at least in the retail version, even if some of them (like the Shadowmeld icon) are not used. I'll try applying some more patches and see if I come across any new icons. Edit: As I suspected, not really anything else not already found in retail. |