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Lich king ADTs in cataclysm?
« on: November 26, 2011, 04:03:48 am »
Has anyone managed to do this, and if so - how? I took a brief look inside the MPQs and it seems the whole maps system has been reworked (as you'd expect from the kind of crazy shit they did with cataclysm) - so now there are four ADT files.

Continent_xx_yy.adt
Continent_xx_yy_obj0.adt
Continent_xx_yy_tex0.adt
Continent_xx_yy_tex1.adt

From the suffixes I'd guess obj0 holds object info while tex0 and tex1 hold texture information? (Would explain why GM island is no longer textured, perhaps it's missing the _tex ADTs?)

I've tried simply replacing the original ADT  and ignoring the extra three just on the offchance that it may work, both in a patch and inside the actual world.MPQ (backing it up, of course) and it didn't seem to work. Has anybody got some kind of converter or is this impossible for now?
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Re: Lich king ADTs in cataclysm?
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2011, 11:05:19 am »
There is a converter in the tools section.
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Re: Lich king ADTs in cataclysm?
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2011, 01:18:21 pm »
Gah! Can't believe I didn't see that... It didn't come up in search results anyway :3 Thanks Lumpy!

/E: Do the output files need to be fixed or edited in any way after conversion? I've copied the path in World.MPQ perfectly in a Patch-D.MPQ (WorldmapsAzerothAzeroth_xx_yy.adt, etc) taking special care to get capitals and stuff right, but still nothing ingame but the boring old blank blizzard ADT that was there.
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Re: Lich king ADTs in cataclysm?
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2011, 02:43:06 pm »
The files shouldn't need any edit after conversion to work on Cata client.

The name "patch-D" may be your problem, see how patches are named in Cata (wow-update-smthg).
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« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2011, 03:29:03 pm »
renamed to wow-update-base-50000 (Because it seems the -base ones have ADTs and the regular wow-updates are for DBCs) and still no luck :3 Have you managed to get any of yours to work?

/E: I noticed the number afterwards is the client's build number... For instance wow-update-base-14545 contains the firelands stuff.. Maybe patching in cata isn't as simple as it was before? I'm going to try packing my ADTs into the 14545 update (Since I'm using that build client) - keeping a backup of course.

//E: Still no luck :// Any more ideas?
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Re: Lich king ADTs in cataclysm?
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2011, 04:42:21 pm »
Yes the files converted through the Adt Converter do work on Cata client.

I don't feel very comfortable about helping people patching on live/ptr, sorry :)
However, if you experience conversion problems, I'll do everything I can to help you and debug the program if necessary.
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Re: Lich king ADTs in cataclysm?
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2011, 05:15:24 pm »
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Yes the files converted through the Adt Converter do work on Cata client.

I don't feel very comfortable about helping people patching on live/ptr, sorry :)
However, if you experience conversion problems, I'll do everything I can to help you and debug the program if necessary.

Oh no, this isn't on live / PTR, I play a private server every now and again and it'd be nice to have my own place to chill :p
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Re: Lich king ADTs in cataclysm?
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2011, 04:32:55 pm »
...Bump? :S
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Re: Lich king ADTs in cataclysm?
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2011, 06:42:33 pm »
Are you using a patched wow.exe? Otherwise it won't work either way
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Re: Lich king ADTs in cataclysm?
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2011, 12:48:56 am »
Of course, I'd always assumed that was required for private servers :} It's just a matter of getting the client to read them is all.
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Re: Lich king ADTs in cataclysm?
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2012, 02:43:17 am »
I've been trying to figure out how to get custom areas working with 4.x for ages - tried the no ssc patch on OwnedCore, to no avail. Not sure if I'm just retarded or if this is a serious limitation that has yet to be properly patched for modders.
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Re: Lich king ADTs in cataclysm?
« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2012, 07:51:08 pm »
Well as Mjollna said, (s?)he wrote a converter for the files; it's most likely just my method of patching them in that's at fault now.

If anyone's got this working I'd love to hear about it! :D
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Re: Lich king ADTs in cataclysm?
« Reply #12 on: February 16, 2012, 08:51:32 pm »
Oh ok I'll answer >.<

Combine :
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the no ssc patch

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renamed to wow-update-base-50000

(no need to have such a high number though, latest +1 is ok)

Apart from that, nothing changes from 3.x.

(and yes it's "she" :p)
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Re: Lich king ADTs in cataclysm?
« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2012, 03:37:10 pm »
I'll give it a go. In terms of patching, I'm using the server I play on's respective launcher, which seems to download or create a separate .exe - I'm not sure if that does the job or not since I've had little experience with Cataclysm client workings up until now. If it's not; could someone link me to the patcher that Akspa420 mentioned? Thank you Modcraft, you're being a HUGE help <3
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