Hey guys, First a question then a guide on how to redo 400 faces in 10 minutes, with one hand.I've done the tauren male but i can't seem to get the horns to display textures. The mesh suggest you need the TAURENHORN blp but there is no such address in the DBC. Renaming the texture to ScalpLowerHair will show the texture on my lower face, but the horns are green, which suggests i'm not calling them in the dbc.Any suggestions?Now for mass crop, resize, recolor faces. 1. Get all HD face files and set them to always run with the BLPConverter6.exe (Open with > Browse > select the BLPConverter6.exe ; check Always run using....)2. Select 15 files and hit enter, then repeat untill all are done (15 is the limit on my Windows 7). It helps if you view files as a list and sort them by type. All this would be much easier if we could use BLPCovenerter8 instead of 6. I don't know why we do that.3. This was the long part, now open Irfanview and press B (or access File > Batch conversion/rename). And be amazed. 4. First we are going to resize and recolor the faces. Select the Batch conversion, Outpout format to PNG, tick use advanced options, click advanced, tick re-size, width: 256 height: 192, un-tick preserve aspect ration (have only use Resample option ticked in this section). Tick Change Color Depth, select 256 (8 BPP), tick Use best color quality. Tick overwrite existing files, even if we aren't going to do that. You can save these settings for later use. Click ok. 5. Chose an output directory, maybe a Rev folder, as PhantomX has shown in the video tutorial. 6. Pick in which directory to look in for the face_HD.png's, select Files of type > PNG, and then Add all or select the files and Add. Then hit Start batch and open up a beer. It helps if you don't have the destination directory opened. 7. Now we have to split the files in Upper and Lower, as in the guide. We open another Batch Conversion window in Irfanview (or we don't close the previous one) and this time we pick Batch conversion - Rename result files. Batch rename setting is available now, click options write $N in Name Pattern and at Replace text (1) write Upper to Lower (all my face_HD are named Upper, and i have to create Upper and Lower - this may differ according to what you are changing). 8. Go into Output format Advanced, un-tick Resize and Color depth, tick Crop, corner Left bottom, width 256, height 128. Click ok and then Start Batch. Now you have the lower_face_HD.9. Now we make the Upper face. Select Batch Conversion option (no rename needed). We already have our files named Upper so we will have to overwrite them, so make sure it is ticked in Advanced > Output Format. Also in the Crop section change the corner to Let Top and width 256, height 64. Click ok and then Start Batch. Now you have the upper_face_HD.10. Now you you need to convert them all with BLPConverter8.exe. Edit the shortcut as PahntomX has shown in the video and add /M. You get something like: C:BlpConverterBLPConverter8.exe /M /H. That's it. Now don't forget about my horns...Shodoman
I tried your method and some of the pictures were kinda badly converted I liked the job that Photoshop did better so I looked up to see if photoshop also has a batch option and it turned out that it does.It's a little bit slower than irfanview but at least you know they are done properly
I'm glad i could help, but what do you mean badly converted?
Okay, so, using your very handy guide, I managed to get a Night Elf Female model into the Wrath of the Lich King (3.3.5a) Client. Howeeeever, the process of travelling back in time melted my Night Elf's face and have nooo clue how to fix it: I removed the '_HD' from the BLPs, put them back again when that failed, tried mixing stuff around a bit but to no avail. Send help.
