Cataclysm Login Screen...

[wolverine79936]

Has anyone figured out how to change the bloody thing? The dragon is annoying and I have other plans for my copy of Cataclysm Client.

I have me a login background, but cannot figure out how to change it in the Cataclysm client. I tried the northrend directory in the mpq and the wotlk directory but they are all the wrong backgrounds.

When I finally found a login screen directory that had stuff that looked right, I noticed that the whole screen is tiled. How the devil do you change the newer login screens? Old directions don't work and I am starting get frustrated. Please, help?

[Mirai Dematro]

Dear Wolverine,

Have you tried this tutorial by mordred?
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1652&hilit=mordred%27s

I  have personally never tested this tutorial to be working above patch 3.3.5a,
but you could give it a go, i guess.

-MD

[wolverine79936]

My apologies for actually conveying my frustrations last night. It was late and I was totally stumped on the login screen thing and had been at it a lot longer than I should have been.

As for the link to the tutorial, Mirai, thank you. I will give it a try today.

Perhaps I can finally make some headway.

[wolverine79936]

I don't have login music yet and don't want any models on the screen at this time, so I recycled some old buttons and made a background image. Even download mordred's rar file and used that and got nowhere in 4.3.4.

It just came back up with the dumb dragon.

Since login screen changing does not appear to work after version 3.3.5a (WoTLK), how do the cataclysm models look if you backport them from 4.3.4 to 3.3.5?

Just curious at the moment.

Back on topic, I'm thinking about just taking all the tilesets and images from the login screen directory on 4.3.4 and making them transparent, slapping them in a patch and then seeing if I can get a clear screen. If I can, then maybe I can just replace some of those files with images that I want to use. *shrug*

I can't even find lua references to images in the 4.3.4 login screen xml and lua files.

[wolverine79936]

Alright. I made a smidge of progress here. I finally managed to change out the blizzard logo at the center bottom of the login screen for something of my own.

But doing it this way is going to take forever. I made a Patch-B.mpq for my own stuff, and so far, everything in there was coming out the way it should. Except for the WoW/Interface/GLUES/MainMenu/Glues-BlizzardLogo.blp.

If I put it straight into the directory structure of my WoW game, on the hard drive, no mpq or patch, then it works fine. But if I try to implement the logo change via my Patch-B.MPQ, it never takes and I get the standard Blizzard Logo. Anyone have any clue what is up with that? Design flaw? Design intention and there is nothing I can do about it except keep playing with the LUA codes untiL I get it or leave it in the directory structure outside of a patch?

UPDATE: Got some light learning done so far today. You can change the Cataclysm login screen via the filestructure on the hard drive, not in patches. Unless someone can send me a hacked 32-bit 4.3.4 wow.exe for win...? (hint hint)

I finally found the dragon in the interface directory in the mpq file. It's a .m2 file. Hrm. And if I delete anything from locale-enGB.MPQ wow crashes. I'm almost tempted to go back to WoTLK just so I can do what I need to do. But I like the idea of DX11 support in Cataclysm. Slighty difficult call for me. Functionality or prettiness.

[Mirai Dematro]

Dear Wolverine,

The blizzard logo on the bottom of the login-screen should be changed easily by creating a patch.
Maybe make sure this is your path:

Interface/GLUES/MainMenu/Glues-BlizzardLogo.blp

Try to create an new empty patch with just this logo and this structure.
Make sure the logo is 128x128 pixels large.

If you still have the standard blizzard logo poping up, then there is probably a higher patch, changing the logo.
Try copying your patch from the WoW/Data folder, and then also paste it in the WoW/Data/enUS folder.
(Mine is enUS, but it depends on your install language)
Then change the name of the patch to: patch-enUS-x.MPQ
With enUS being your language and X being the highest digit in the list. so 1-9.

Now you are sure to have your logo on the bottom.
IF not, you probably did something wrong...

About going back to WoTLK, it really depends on what you want for your server.
Are you going Blizzlike or fun-server?
If your going fun-server, then you don't really need Cata, and your fine with WoTLK.

How much work is there into your server as of now? Going back to WoTLK, your going to need to re-do stuff you already did. Is the login-screen worth this? Howmuch of your server is already done?

Hoped to be of any help,
-MD

[Mirai Dematro]

how do the cataclysm models look if you backport them from 4.3.4 to 3.3.5?

They'll look good.  You'll probably have some slight texture glitches at first (WMO's),
but don't ask me how to solve those XD

Some screenies of wroking Cata models in 3.3.5:

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I'm not allowed to post links yet, so you'll have to delete the space on the first link.

-MD

EDIT: Try this tutorial for converting the models viewtopic.php?f=22&t=5457
         I'm also able to paste links now, so the image's are fixed