Long time listener first time skinner.

Yesterday I downloaded Wc3 Image Extractor II. To start off I decided to play with the grunt's skin. So I altered the head of the grunt tested it in the world editor and voila it worked.

So then I decided to go a little further and now it won't work at all. The only thing I can think of is there is a detail I did the first time I am simply overlooking now.

So here is what I am doing:

I open up Wc3 Image Extractor II and it lists all the WC3 vanilla units. I follow the tree to the grunt and click save as Grunt.tga. Then I fire up my photoshop 6.0 and Edit the picture. When I am done I save as Grunt.tga. Then I go back to Wc3 Image Extractor II and click open image. I find the Grunt.tga file and select it, I then use Wc3 Image Extractor II to save it as grunt.blp.

I check it in Wc3 Image Extractor II and it shows the altered picture. So far so good it would appear. Now I open up the world editor and it comes up with the standard blank layout. I open up the Import Manager and right click the background and select import file. I find the Grunt.BLP and add it to the window. I double click the line to open up the imported file properties. I checkmark the "Use custom path" and change the full path to Units\orc\grunt\grunt.blp. Then I create the unit in the editor and voila...****...it doesn't have my skin. So I save the map and look again. Nope that isn't it. So then I decide to save the map and actually try to play it thinking maybe it'll appear in game.... nope.

Now I have been messing with this quite a while, re-reading tutorials and I can't get this to work. So if anyone has run into similar problems or can see what I am doing wrong let me know.

Thanks in advance.

To get your new skin to show up in WorldEdit, you need to put it in the proper directory, i.e. C:\...\Warcraft III\Units\Orc\Grunt\Grunt.blp

I don't know what's wrong with your editing, other than maybe you made a typo and didn't notice. Attach the skin and I'll see if it's a problem with the skin itself.

The first time when I was working with the import manager all I put in was units\orc\grunt\grunt.blp. I didn't put in a drive letter or anything before the units.

In fact I didn't even have the skin in the same directory as war3, would that even matter? The first time, the time it did work for me, I just had the skin in my war3 image extractor II directory. It worked that time so I don't see the flaw being there.

Perhaps elaborate that part. As for typos I am trying it in identically to what I have posted except for case, I did make all the case uppercase for the first letter of each word, lowercase for the rest, but I didn't think this was anything where case was relative.

As for the skin I have deleted it and tried others over and over already.

I'm having the same trouble. I did exactly what the other guy did, and i cant get the skin to show up, whats a matter?

If you have it in the Warcraft III directory in the right folder (like the path I posted above) it will show up in World Edit. Strangely, World Edit won't look at imported files, so you need to do this to see it in world edit.

So will typing in for the model, C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\Units\Grunt.blp

work?

its: C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\Units\Orc\Grunt\Grunt.blp

You don't type that, you actually create those folders and then place your skin it it.

That worked out fine, I could import the unit and look at it and everything. I really have no idea how I got that to work the first time without actually creating those folders. Odd.

On a second note, now when I save my map I get an error pertaining to the creation of a directory during save.

here is the error:

Unable to create directory 'C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\maps\XRTS\test.w3mTemp\C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\Units\Orc\Grunt\'

System Error: The filename. directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

I was putting the actual "c:\.....etc" in the import manager as well. When that was changed back to what the utorial had said I got no error, that makes sense from what the error said now that I think about it.


Well thanks guys, you are simply amazing with all this knowledge you carry around.

One last question. When I make a skin like this, and then I save the map and play on bnet, I don't need to send them anything but the map and they will be able to see the units correct?

as long as the skin is in the map (via import using tft we)

Thanks again.

A similar problem is now back.

I don't know why it does it but it did it earlier today once too.

I skinned my grunt and opened it into the editor. Cool, so my next step was to change it a little which I did and then open it up into my editor. Again good. Now I wanted to look at the original grunt so I closed out the map and opened a new one and ... my skinned grunt is there without being imported.

So then I close out the editor and reopen it, the grunt is still skinned. I look in the import manager and it is still empty. Weird.

So then I think, I'll just reload the old skin like I would a new one, so I take the original skin and save over my blp file, reimport it and .... huh? still the old skin shows. So I delete the blp, close the editor, open the editor back up and.... STILL the skinned grunt. What the hell. :-P

Now he won't take his new skin off! Heh. I can't help but find humor in this since I couldn't get it on first and now I can't get it off!

is the new skin still in the units\orc\grunt\ folder?

if it is, that the problem. Just move it to another folder.

It will always display whatever file is in the local folders.