Please Help Here - Skinning Question ?

Hey Everyone !

Making Maps Very Easy !
Using triggers fairly Easy !
Changing skins for existing models Very easy !

Need some help with skinning models ?

So here is the question, I have found it is possible to copy a existing model lets say HeroDemonHunter.mdx and rename it to HeroDemonBunny.mdx and you can import that model and it works, my problem is that I want to change the skin that new model uses, the Default path for that skin on the model is (Textures\HeroDemonHunter.Blp) I want to change that path to read (Textures\HeroDemonBunny.Blp) but I am unable to find a way is there a way to change the skin path a model uses and rename it or copy it or what 3d program will I have to use and how would I do it ? o_O

hi !

first, download Yobgul converter

then, install it, run it, load the HeroDemonBunny.mdx and convert this one to HeroDemonBunny.mdl

then, open the mdl with the... argh damned, how do you say this word in english ? :\ not wordpad... the... the "blocnote" in french ^_^

then, first, quit Yobgul (you will open it later), and search in the mdl the bitmap who contains "Textures\HeroDemonHunter.Blp" and replace it by "Textures\HeroDemonBunny.Blp"

save the mdl (not "save as") and reopen Yobgul

load the new HeroDemonBunny.mdl and convert this one to HeroDemonBunny.mdx

if I haven't done mistakes, it should works :D

Salut ! Notepad is the proper English word for French bloc-notes.

lol, merci bien ! ^_^

Cool Kinda got it working but I foudn that the converter only works with ROC and not with TFT also doesnt work if you patch ROC only works with ROC strait install ! Thanks again guys ! :D

What do you mean ? Yogbul's file converter works fine for me for any version of ROC or TFT, in fact the converter works on extracted mdx models, not directly on the game data, so what's exactly your problem ?
(If you mean that the program you use to extract models only has the ROC models, this must be because you have loaded the default mpq (war3.mpq). To access the TFT models, load the war3x.mpq (all mpq's are in your WarcraftIII directory), there is also an mpq for patches).

Yeah for some reason i get .DLL and War.exe Problems but its fine sorted a way out to do it ! Thx anyways ! Wanna say great thanx skinning Copied models is cheese now so once i have a good library of models and skins for import and skin only will be sure to make a plan to post em somewhere for download. I will include all the good skins available on the net as i download em to make it easier for youngster to work with ! :D Again thx for that bit o info !