Hi I'm trying to edit an existing wow model, I want to add some armor/spikes/horns/whatever to the model and keep its textures and animations, for this I have used the M2Mod3 to convert an m2 to m2i and import into Blender, but now I am stuck and don't really know what to do.

I work with blender alot but I am not familiar with the older 2.49 version which is needed for the m2mod to work.

So this is what I got when I imported the m2:



2 untextured models, 1 with the initial pose, and 1 with what seems to be the start of its death animation??

So what do I do here? Do I simply ignore the second model, edit it as I wish, then export and it will work? Or is something wrong? I think it's something wrong, because in this post: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4180, it looks like he is using blender too and his model is perfectly textured and there is no second wierd model, unless he has hidden it...

So yeah, please if someone knows what to do next, then please help me I really want to get into wow model editing, but there are too few tutorials on how to get started.
Thanks in beforehand.

I turned off run as admin but still same error, and what file permissions do you mean? I changed the authority to full for all users, system and administrator for the whole NoggitSDL 1.2 folder, still same error

Edit: Got it to work! I tried not running it in compability mode for windows XP service pack 3 and apparently that did it

Hmm ok Well can you try and add a undo/redo function for 1.3 atleast, if it's possible?

Yeah I have a custom patch with the maps files and dbc file in, and a worldmapsmymap folder in my wow dir with the wdt and adts in.. The maps loads fine in wow and I can port to it and it even has the texture that I added to the adt, but it's just a flat big surface

Edit: I didn't repack the maps files after I edited them though, I'll try that

Edit 2: It seems to be a problem with from where noggit loads the maps, I tried moving the world folder from my wow dir, and noggit still loads the map just the way I left it, so apparently it doesn't load from that folder and I don't even need it at all it seems. Then I checked the MPQ, moved it from the wow dir, but then the map doesn't even show up in the continent menu in noggit, so I need the MPQ to load the map into noggit. And then I found the project folder in the noggit dir, and in it there was a worldmapsmymap folder from which my noggit loads the wdt and adts apparently, so gonna try and pack those files into my MPQ instead.

Edit 3: Yep, apparently when I save the map in noggit, it saves the adts to the project folder, so I just had to pack those into the MPQ and it loads in wow fine too But now there's something else lol, back to the highlight thing, the tiles are actually lighter within wow itself :S So when they were highlighted in noggit they actually changed color... I tried to change the opacity of the texture in noggit but it doesn't work, any ideas?

I've made my own wdt and adts with taliis. Hmm ok so it's nothing to worry about then? Is there any way to turn the graphic off, have tried saving the map and reopening it but everything's still highlighted..