[QUESTION] DBCs to Patch

[deep6ixed]

Hello everyone, I'm new to client side editing and DBC modding in general but I'm pretty familiar with modding the Server side of things.  The question I can't find the answer to is what would be the best way to make custom MPQ patches.

I have a copy of a 3.3.5 client that I modify with a custom MPQ, and since I have to extract the DBC files for the server (trinity), would it make more sense to make a MPQ file that contains all the DBC's that way I don't miss anything or would this not work.

For example have a item.dbc in the custom patch that is for all the items rather than just my custom ones?

[Steff]

Perhaps by reading tutorials

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[deep6ixed]

The Tutorials would be a great start my friend and I should have looked there first.  I shall read them again.

The question was along the lines of the a "best practice" method.  I understand that if I make a custom item patch for my server, all I really need to include in the MPQ is the items.dbc for just the custom items, but could if I start to make more and more changes could I simply make a MPQ patch of all the DBCs and have that for end users to use?

Basically here is the steps I plan to use:

1.) Make changes to my test client 3.3.5 with a custom patch (or several, If I have multiple separate changes I'm making, Like patch-4.MPQ with Items, patch-5.MPQ for taxis etc...)
2.) When everything works the way I want, I will extract the combined DBC's with the trinitycore tools.
3.) Copy the DBC's to the server folder
4.) Make a finalized MPQ from the server DBC files (All of them)
5.) Push that patch out to all my players...

Is this a bad idea or the wrong way to do it?

[Steff]

You will normaly have 2 MPQs if you only support 1 language.
1 patch-4.MPQ in data folder for all world data.
2 patch-LOCAL-4.MPQ for Interface and all DBCs in.

Also you should do the tutorials because people get frustrated explaining such basic stuff again and again. Thats why tutorials are here

You will have 2 folders on you HDpatch and patch local. You have to creat all the subfolders inside them. Like DBFilesCleint for the dbcs and pack this folders direct to patches.

[deep6ixed]

I started doing the tutorials step by step.  

Had the get out of the mindset of doing things the way I did them using the trinity core database.  I thought that the database was real modding...  Nope, this is where it's at.

[Steff]

For full modding you have to edit both. Server and client.