[TUTORIAL] How to get WoD Player models working in WotLK.

[Laduguer]

EDIT: Sorry, I misunderstood your post! You've converted all those baked textures to 512x512? That's pretty incredible! I'll have a look in the .dbc files.

[phantomx]

EDIT: Sorry, I misunderstood your post! You've converted all those baked textures to 512x512? That's pretty incredible! I'll have a look in the .dbc files.

I did took me about 4-7 hours...

I lost track...

[Laduguer]

EDIT: Sorry, I misunderstood your post! You've converted all those baked textures to 512x512? That's pretty incredible! I'll have a look in the .dbc files.

I did took me about 4-7 hours...

I lost track...

Okay, figured some shit out:

As mentioned in the other thread, all baked texture info is now stored in Filedata.dbc. Column 22 in CreatureDisplayInfoExtra.dbc now refers to an ID of a row in Filedata.dbc in hexadecimal format.

Which is kind of a pain, because that means getting the baked texture names from Filedata.dbc in the right order to import them into WotLK CreatureDisplayInfoExtra.dbc is gonna be a real headache.

[Shodoman]

EDIT: Sorry, I misunderstood your post! You've converted all those baked textures to 512x512? That's pretty incredible! I'll have a look in the .dbc files.

I did took me about 4-7 hours...

I lost track...

You used phothosop's batch function?

[phantomx]

EDIT: Sorry, I misunderstood your post! You've converted all those baked textures to 512x512? That's pretty incredible! I'll have a look in the .dbc files.

I did took me about 4-7 hours...

I lost track...

You used phothosop's batch function?

I did saves loads of time still had to hold down enter.... for that long.

Rewatched all the Matrix movies while doing it.

[Shodoman]

EDIT: Sorry, I misunderstood your post! You've converted all those baked textures to 512x512? That's pretty incredible! I'll have a look in the .dbc files.

I did took me about 4-7 hours...

I lost track...

You used phothosop's batch function?

I did saves loads of time still had to hold down enter.... for that long.

Rewatched all the Matrix movies while doing it.

) I can imagine.
I'll place a shoe on the enter key and go to sleep....see how that goes. Else good old enter smashing all weekend.
This has been a good day.

[phantomx]

EDIT: Sorry, I misunderstood your post! You've converted all those baked textures to 512x512? That's pretty incredible! I'll have a look in the .dbc files.

I did took me about 4-7 hours...

I lost track...

You used phothosop's batch function?

I did saves loads of time still had to hold down enter.... for that long.

Rewatched all the Matrix movies while doing it.

) I can imagine.
I'll place a shoe on the enter key and go to sleep....see how that goes. Else good old enter smashing all weekend.
This has been a good day.

I just put some 1 cut of transparent tape on it to hold it down while I watched the movies.

[Shodoman]

Okay, figured some shit out:

As mentioned in the other thread, all baked texture info is now stored in Filedata.dbc. Column 22 in CreatureDisplayInfoExtra.dbc now refers to an ID of a row in Filedata.dbc in hexadecimal format.

Which is kind of a pain, because that means getting the baked texture names from Filedata.dbc in the right order to import them into WotLK CreatureDisplayInfoExtra.dbc is gonna be a real headache.

No it isn't. You open excel you copy both dbc info in columns next to each other, then use =vlookup(value you are looking for, table array you are looking into, number of column reported back, False for exact matches)
Prosper!

That's how i see it now...tell me if i'm off or if you need more details.

[phantomx]

Okay, figured some shit out:

As mentioned in the other thread, all baked texture info is now stored in Filedata.dbc. Column 22 in CreatureDisplayInfoExtra.dbc now refers to an ID of a row in Filedata.dbc in hexadecimal format.

Which is kind of a pain, because that means getting the baked texture names from Filedata.dbc in the right order to import them into WotLK CreatureDisplayInfoExtra.dbc is gonna be a real headache.

No it isn't. You open excel you copy both dbc info in columns next to each other, then use =vlookup(value you are looking for, table array you are looking into, number of column reported back, False for exact matches)
Prosper!

That's how i see it now...tell me if i'm off or if you need more details.

That's not how I see it in filedata not all bakedtextures are in 1 straight column they are spit apart from each other but hey if you're willing to do it and upload it I'd be most grateful for it.

[Laduguer]

Yeah, they're all out of order so it's not too simple. I'm making good progress sorting them though.

[Shodoman]

I don't get it...i see them like this:

[phantomx]

I don't get it...i see them like this:

Yes we see them like that too but if you scroll down a bit you will see that they stop being bakedtextuers then start again after a few other items so it's annoying...

[Laduguer]

Could you send me the fixed textures Phantom? I think I fixed up the DBC file.

EDIT: Or if you'd prefer I can send you the dbc file.

EDIT EDIT: Hold that thought... looks like I fixed it for humans but bollocksed it up for the other races. Gonna need some work.

[Shodoman]

Yes we see them like that too but if you scroll down a bit you will see that they stop being bakedtextuers then start again after a few other items so it's annoying...

In excel you can sort them by address in column 3 or filter them by the address in column 3 or filter them by containing "character" in column 2. But vlookup doesn't care, if it doesn't find a value on the row it just shows N/A. When i'll have a bit of time i will try and make and give it to you. Now i'm off to work, have a nice day.

[Laduguer]

Yes we see them like that too but if you scroll down a bit you will see that they stop being bakedtextuers then start again after a few other items so it's annoying...

In excel you can sort them by address in column 3 or filter them by the address in column 3 or filter them by containing "character" in column 2. But vlookup doesn't care, if it doesn't find a value on the row it just shows N/A. When i'll have a bit of time i will try and make and give it to you. Now i'm off to work, have a nice day.

You sound like you know what you're talking about so it'll be cool to see what results you turn up. I tried for quite a long time yesterday using a csv editor that wasn't Excel and didn't yield many results. There seem to be more baked textures listed in FileData that there are entries in WoD CreatureDisplayInfoExtra which is weird. Furthermore many entries present in WotLK CreatureDisplayInfoExtra are deleted in the WoD version.