Skinning on Mac

I've ntoiced a lot of people who are on Mac complaining that they can't skin. Thats rubbish, I'm on Mac and I skin. Although most Mac users should be aware of this by now, it seems that there are plenty who aren't.
Well, basically to those poor souls who are like me stuck with a Mac. This is what you need.

- Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro or any similar program.
- Mac MPQ2K
- Mac BLP Tools (you'll need to regsiter before you can download anything).
- Paths list

And thats all you need to download. The rest should be self-explanatory, but I'll give you a brief walkthrough anyways.

EXPORTING
Open the MQ2K and click on o, now a window of the Finder should pop up. Go to your Warcraft folder, now depending on wether you want to skin Reign of Chaos models, or the Frozen Throne models, go to War3.mpq if you wish to reskin Reign Of Chaos models, or choose War3x.mpq to reskin Frozen Throne models. Once you've selected one of them, press enter.
Now, Open the two files with all the path list and find the model that you want to skin. Once you've found it, copy(apple+c) it, and go back to the MPQ2K. Once back there, hit e and paste (apple+v) the selected model path. Now press Enter. A new window will pop up and ask you where you want to save it. I recommend creating a file called Skins or Textures

CONVERTING
Right now, its a blp, so you can't do anything with it. You need to transform it into a tga. To do that, you'll need the BLP Tools.
Open them, and now there should be 2 windows opened, a big one and a smaller one. The smaller of the two, should say:
Drag Targa textures on this window to convert them to BLP and BLP textures to convert them to Targa
Drag and drop your blp file into this box and then open the file where you saved it. Now you should have two files, one BLP and on TGA. Now open photoshop or whatever you use and into photoshop, open the targa file, and get skinning. Now, I'm no skinning expert so don't ask me anything about it.

IMPORTING
Now to use it in a map. Make sure that you don't have more than one layer on your skin. Otherwise Photoshop will save it as a PSD, and you don't want that. I don't know about other graphic programs, though. If you happen to have more than one layer. Then make sure you go to, before saving the TGA:
Layers > Merge Layers
BUT make sure that you won't need to get th layers back because once you've done it. You can't get your layers back. So, I suggest making a copy of the TGA file with the layers, before merging the layers, just as a protection in case something goes wrong.
Now, when the skin is done, save it as a TGA and go to the BLP tools, now convert it to a blp. At this point, everything should work like a PC.

I hope that this will be useful for the Mac users. If you have any questions then feel free to ask me by PM or in this post.

-Archean

Thank you i've been looking everywhere for this stuff

I cant save the file as a tga in photoshop and jpeg doesn't work pls help or send me in the right direction

Try saving as whatever you can, opening it in Graphic Converter and then export it to tga format using Save As...

never mind i 've figured it out

dude!!!

you are awesome...

Thanks for the help... the paths are what I needed... I had the rest.

icbm1987