Hey!  I was playing around with altering models today and ran into a weird issue that I was hoping someone had an idea what's going on.

I was toying around with the PandarenYeti model.  I used the CatatoLKM2 tool on the original model to verify that it works fine.  And it does.  The model has 3 meshes with mesh 1 and 3 using the first skin texture and mesh 2 (the horns and teeth) using a different texture.

I modified the teeth a bit.  Converted the model.  And it was still fine.  So I continued.

Next I modified the horns.  I lowered their size, moved them forward, and moved them down (basically just resized and repositioned on the head).  I converted the model and suddenly all the meshes are using the first texture.  I didn't do any DBC edits or anything.  All I did was resize and reposition...

In toying around I backed up a few steps to where the model was working (after modifying the teeth).  I moved the horns to the 3rd mesh (as I wasn't actually using the 3rd mesh since I removed the eyebrow fluff).  I tried it this way and, weirdly, the 2nd mesh for teeth was using the first skin.  But the 3rd mesh, which is supposed to use the 1st skin (the primary model texture), it was actually using the 2nd texture... which is the one for the horns.  It's not supposed to use that one!

I did some more toying around and it gets really buggy with what mesh is using what texture.  Anyone have an idea what's causing that or how to stop it?

Does anyone know how to modify the default factions your face starts with?  What I mean is that when I make a Tauren I start with Darkspeare, Orgrimmar, Silvermoon, Thunderbluff, and Undercity by default.  Is it possible to remove some of those from your default faction, but not the Horde group?

For example, I create a Tauren and start with Thunderbluff only.  I then go out to Orgrimmar and discover that faction rather than start with it immediately.

If it's possible, how is it done?  Thanks!

[Edit] Nevermind I figured it out!

When I hit "Load Textures" this is all that shows up.  Does anyone know why I can't load all the textures?  They're in the game client and not missing, but I can't search through to use any other than what's available in the zone I'm currently in.

http://i.imgur.com/xUxKF9L.png

Does anyone know how to fix this?  The whole leveling terrain thing doesn't do anything and I can't find anything else regarding these leftover shadows when deleting an object in Noggit.

I've been trying to remove a few classes (I know I know unusual) by using the two class and one race tutorials as a kind of guide.  I would've thought it'd be fairly simple lua and xml editing and it might be.  I just can't get it to work.

Using Khira's tutorial as a guide (since it's closest) here's what I've done.  I'm using the existing player races.  I still haven't decided which ones will be used in the final edit.  For now I just want 4.  Two horde and two alliance.  Let's say human, night elf, orc, and tauren.  They're all playable races already so no need to edit the chrRaces.dbc or the charBaseInfo.dbc as I'm fine with the class combinations for now.  Hence why it should all be lua/xml editing.

Don't need to worry about the gluestrings.lua since it's already filled in.  Only the charactercreate lua and xml should need editing according to the tutorial.

So first is charactercreate.lua.  Made the max_races = 4.  The portraits are fine so that should be all the editing necessary there.

Now on to the charactercreate.xml.  I want humans (#1), night elves (#3), orcs (#6), and tauren (#8).  So those are the buttons I'd still want to keep I presume.  So my charactercreateracebuttons are as follows:

<CheckButton name="CharacterCreateRaceButton1" inherits="CharacterCreateRaceButtonTemplate" id="1">
                        <Anchors>
                           <Anchor point="TOP" relativePoint="TOP" x="-50" y="-61"/>
                        </Anchors>
                     </CheckButton>
                     <CheckButton name="CharacterCreateRaceButton3" inherits="CharacterCreateRaceButtonTemplate" id="3">
                        <Anchors>
                           <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="CharacterCreateRaceButton1" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT" x="0" y="-21"/>
                        </Anchors>
                     </CheckButton>
                     <CheckButton name="CharacterCreateRaceButton6" inherits="CharacterCreateRaceButtonTemplate" id="6">
                        <Anchors>
                           <Anchor point="TOP" relativePoint="TOP" x="50" y="-61"/>
                        </Anchors>
                     </CheckButton>
                     <CheckButton name="CharacterCreateRaceButton8" inherits="CharacterCreateRaceButtonTemplate" id="8">
                        <Anchors>
                           <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="CharacterCreateRaceButton6" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT" x="0" y="-21"/>
                        </Anchors>
                     </CheckButton>

The result:

There's only the two race buttons, which is good.  I guess from the error that there's an issue with the other race buttons still being referenced, but I don't have a clue where that might be in the lua or xml to edit out.  Hope someone can help.  Thanks!