[TUTORIAL]How to create a Loginscreen with Lua & XML editing

[Alastor]

[Domminust]

Lol sorry, I am new to it
But if someone could answer my question of how to do a simple login screen edit to a still image. That would be awesome

Udate: I've figured out how to change the Logo, I guess I have to change every little Square for the background and can't just put one big BLP?

[Psojed]

Hello,

I was also trying to do the same as Domminust, except that I'm trying it with 1.12.1 version, so the files provided in this topic cannot be used. I started to slowly discover stuff myself, step by step.

I successfully swapped the background image behind the Dark Portal, but now I got stuck with editing the .xml files. I extracted the 1.12.1 files from patch-2.mpq of 1.12.1 and for starters I tried to move the Blizzard logo from the bottom to the top of the screen (inside AccountLogin.xml).
Sadly, everytime I make ANY change to the .xml file and pack it into a patch-i.MPQ file, the game gives an error (Interface files are corrupt, plz reinstall the game). I thought maybe those are not the correct interface files, so I extracted the default files from patch-2.MPQ again and packed them into a new patch-i.MPQ file without any changes inside + I swapped login screen music. The game works with different music, so my patch file also works.

Can you tell me why it won't allow me to do any changes in the XML file?

Thx in advance.

[stan84]

It's because you haven't disabled frame xml checking in your wow.exe. Unfortunatley i only know how to disable lua checking in 1.12.

[Psojed]

Thank you very much!
Your bit of info was all I needed. Google gave me a topic on this forum with your own post viewtopic.php?p=21288#p21288 that actually sent me the right way, I made my own executable and now I have succesfully moved the blizzard logo to the top of the screen. Yay!

PS: A quick one out of one of the default classic loadscreens:
[attachment=0:2vhhrtvc]LoginScreen1.jpg[/attachment:2vhhrtvc]

PS2: Later I discovered that my executable works for xml edits, but when I actually log onto a server and try to log out from the game world, the game will crash on me, so a non-crashing modified file would still be appreciated

[edwardszj93]

Does it still work for Legion 7.1?