Spell art help

Once you make a new spell, how do you make it so you can give it to a unit with the map editor?
How do you change the art/make new art?

New art's hard. Very hard. If you're not already a fairly advanced mapper, don't bother creating your own new art. If you're a glutton for punishment, I'd suggest downloading Yobgul's mdx <---> mdl converter, converting a few special effect models into mdl files (which you can open in notepad) and "reverse engineering" them to figure out how they work. In general, there's usually at least a few people here who can answer questions about the guts of an mdl file.

In the trigger repository, I have a post which provides a link to mine and Rod's "effect browser" maps, as well a link to a database of "static" effect pics. You can use any of these to look for special effect models:

http://www.wc3campaigns.com/forums/s...&threadid=8243

well, that answers some of my questions, but not the most important one, how do I attach these new spells to a map?

all the spells in those special effex browsers are already there , in the MPQ you just need to type in the path/filename to where you want to use them

URG!!! I mean, if I make a new spell, how do I attach it to the map?

make a folder in ur wc3 folder called "units". put ur abilitydata.slk and <race>abilitystrings/<race>abilityfuncs in that folder. that makes them show up in map editor. then, go to map editor and give ur heroes the spells u want and save the map. then use winmpq and choose open. select the map that u want he custom spells in. once the map is open, choose add folder. go into ur wc3 folder and select the units folder u just made with the custom spells. select ok with teh units folder highlighted. and box will come up, type in the box "units\" without the ". that should add all the stuff needed for ur spells to work online and in single player.


sry if itz confusing, im kinda ina hurry.. ill come back lata and clean it up

I have a small problem with that too... when I open the map, all the hero spells are listed as "______" and things like that varying in lenght. Please help me!

I might have done something wrong, if I did can sum1 please give me a link to an easy-to-use tutorial?

I re-did it, and it worked better. I gave a hero the spell, and it all worked until I opened the map. I opened the thing to give my hero the spell, and it had a picture of sammy the cube's icon and said "tooltip missing." I gave him this spell, and it just disapeared. Any ideas?

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can't any1 help me?