This tool makes it really easy to edit/add datetimes in Holidays.dbc.  I know it works for 3.3.5, unsure about other versions.  some of the dates use the year, some don't.  Some use the day of week, some don't.

Example of it working with Sept 19th (Pirate day)
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Besides, just increasing the polycount of the race models won't help you get anywhere. The textures and animations will also need refining if it is going to look anything close to good.

In most cases (especially in wow) the level of texture quality can make a bigger difference than the polygon count.


Using 15k polygons for a race is 3 times as many polygons as the revamped models of Warlords of Draenor. Now that makes the demand to quality really really high.

if it's not the same level, no point in adding extra polygons, as game design is all about undercutting the polycount to make the game smoother yet beautiful.

I'll be retexturing as well.  I should note that I'm not really doing this in a game design sort of way.  I'm just seeing what I can do with the models, not that hey are something one should actually use in a game.  With the camera at a normal playing distance the differences are not noticeable.

In most cases (especially in wow) the level of texture quality can make a bigger difference than the polygon count.

I completely agree.

So I was working on a player model, smoothing it out, and everything was going good, until this;

I don't know what happened, but I lost my body mesh.  I mean, it's there, but it doesn't show up in the m2.

Any ideas what might have caused this? maybe something got detached somehow?  This happened after I went through and touched up all the hair.  Is there a poly limit?

Unless I downloaded them with WoWmodding folder Steff put together, I dont have any deDE client or any german language pack.

If it's not a deDE client, then it's very possible that you have a custom patch that has a Map.dbc that is from the german client.  Noggit itself, as schlumpf said, doesnt even have those strings.  That menu is generated from your wow files.

Pertinent code found here, if you understand C++.

This is Noggit, I tweaked it a bit to show the wireframe topology.


This is WoW, my friend modified WoW to show the wireframe topology.

I may be wrong here, but it would seem Noggit may be missing vertices, or wow is adding them.  I don't quite understand the format so I was hoping to get some info on what's happening to cause this issue.

Today, I'm going to show you my method for creating accurate minimap images, using noggit and photoshop.

the first thing you want to do is open up the map you're working on in noggit, then press U to get to the 2d paint mode.  Make sure to hit F7 so you can see the grid, this is the key to the whole operation.

Using Q and E, get as many squares on the screen as you can, while making sure that your squares are at least 256 pixels in size, each. I'm talking about the green lines here, not the red.

Now you want to take a screenshot, on windows, use Win+PrtScr;  This takes a pictures of your entire desktop and places it in the screenshots folder in your pictures library.


Now Hit F7 and take another screen shot, this time without the lines.


Repeat for other sections of the map.




Now, you want to find all your images, and open them in photoshop.


PROTIP.  Have all your images in windows in photoshop, that way you can shift+drag the layer from the image with the grid, to the corresponding no-grid image.  Holding shift auto-aligns the layers.


Now you should have your image with 2 layers, the top layer having the grid.


Now, you need to create guides, if you have the ruler showing, you can click and drag on it to make one.  If not, you can go to the view menu and click new guide.  Use the selector tool to align it with one of your green lines.  Repeat as needed so you have one guide for each green line.


Now, that you have your guides in place, click the slice tool.  It's the one that looks like a little knife.  If you don't see it, click the crop tool and hold down, it should let you choose the  slice tool from there.  On my screen, it is right below the magic wand.

you now need to find this button  and click it.

This slices up your image.  If you want, you can go to the properties of each slice and name them, or do it to the files later.

From here, you simply turn off the visibility on the first layer so your grid lines are gone, the choose save for web and devices in the file menu. make sure to save as whatever format your BLP converter can handle.  
You will end up with some extra images that you can't use, just delete them.

After that, you can either resize each image individually to 256x256, or use a batch processing tool, like XnView.

At this point you should have a series of map tiles that are aligned with the ADTs  You may want to go and paint on the WMO's and M2s, I didn't, but I probably should have.

Now do this.
http://modcraft.io/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=188

i have a little question can you help me i know how to compile the noggit but where i have to put the boostht? i am really angry with the shit of the cmake

What revision are you trying to compile?

I had to put the boost include directory in manually.


I woke up this morning and realized that while an interesting excursion, doing the win32 stuff really is pointless.  not much to be achieved there.

So I'm currently compiling the latest qt revision, hoping for good things.

***Compile is done, now which of the qt dlls should I copy over?  <-- Nevermind.

Hmm, having a bit of a issue on startup, I hope its not due to debug version.