Thank you guys so very much for all the feedback.

It took me a bit to figure out how to access the SpellShapeshiftForm.dbc, and where it was, but I finally was able to pull it from the locale-enUS.mpq. I tried changing both columns 24 and 25 to 0 and -1 and neither worked. I then even tried to change them in the patch-enUS.mpq, -enUS-2.mpq, and so on, and still had negative results.

At one point, I got frustrated and changed literally every column to -1. The result? I changed into moonkin, looked like a moonkin, but my action bar (no addons btw) went completely empty, it wouldn't let me drag any spells to said action bar, nor was I able to click off my moonkin buff or change forms.

I did not try changing the column to 59, for the generic tauren ID. I would assume this would be just a run-of-the-mill looking tauren? Which wouldn't look anything like my original?

Is there any other way about going through with this? Or am I doing something wrong?

Hi guys! First time poster! Please bear with me. (pun not intended.)

I would've posted this in the Modelling & Animation thread, however, I noticed it said 'No Model Swaps', which I'm sure this would technically be.

If in case this community isn't here for model swaps at all and I've come to the wrong place, I am terribly sorry.

But here it goes:

Does anyone know if it's possible to swap druid models back to the original caster's form, and actually work properly, with attack animations and armor, etc?

So, for example, a tauren druid in moonkin form, but still visually shows the tauren? Or in cat form, actually swinging a melee weapon?

I'm not asking for someone to do the model swap, but if it's even possible. Please and thank you.

The reason I ask is because I've always wanted to play a druid, however, I really dislike the moonkin form, and not speccing/using it while playing would just be gimping myself/the group. The idea of this lead to me thinking of the same usage for feral, being able to actually fight in 'human' form, but with all the feral abilities/buffs/etc. The cherry on top of this is that I'd be using a tauren that's model swapped to a Blood Elf, as well.

Again, I'm not asking for someone to do this for me, but if it's even possible, and maybe a point in the right direction?

I'm completely new to this sort of thing, as far as WoW goes. I play on a 3.3.5a private server, so I wouldn't think it'd technicall be a mod, just a model swap, so again - I'm terribly sorry if this is the wrong place to look for this help. However, this community seems like the most active, at least while I'm in pursuit of this.