Help a noob pls!!

I dont understand how to get models from war3 tft into my modeler program i downloaded gmax,wings 3d,and milkshape 3d.
how get them in there and thne like change how they look like give a footman a horce to ride on or something how do i make a new unit like the shadowknight i saw on the forum it was a completly new unit pls help me or atleast give me a web link to a tutorial for this

get an mpq extractor and extract the data out of the war3x.mpq the files have a ".mdx" extention to it extract those...

...though you will need to create a new skin if you modify the model.

dont ask me how coz i dont know.

hope this helps.

edit- to get them lookin like the shadow knight, you mod it by adding adding spheres and boxes to them. and edit the vertexs... i learned mostly by playing around...

hope the administrator can help you out more.