[TUTORIAL] [VIDEO] How to Convert Cata/MoP WMOs to WoTLK

[PhilipTNG]

I personally do not do it by hand, I have made my own script and batch file to do this for me.


But it's so simple, you'll be wondering why no one has figured it out yet, or if they have, no one has said anything about it yet.

[youtube:1979xc82]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT-WwK4_xno[/youtube:1979xc82]

Youtube Link:

Tutorial starts at 8:00 minutes.  It's so simple you'll wonder why no one has figured it out yet.


Tools You'll need:
♠♠010 Editor: http://www.sweetscape.com/
♠♠010 Editor Templates: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=828
---Account needed to download templates.
♠♠My Content Patch(1.63Gb): http://anthonys-toolbox.org/downloads/patch-N.MPQ
---Does not contain everything, just most, up to patch 5.2.0 I think.
♠♠Video on how to open MoP MPQ files:
♠♠WMO Wiki: http://www.wowdev.wiki/index.php ... MODD_chunk

Thanks goes to: The guys over at pxr.dk , My Subscribers/Followers, Indirect Inspiration and motivation from steff, soldan, vlad, will, fearless_wind, Gamh, Mjollna, BanzBoyz77, ToxicDev, Vynlendus, and more, too many to list!

Images of my converted wmos:

---It's Red because I pulled it from 5.4.0, 5.2.0 and back has yellow lights.



---Scrolls on fire because of 5.4.0 pull I think.







--After talking with Nupper. I did two real quick, and I think you can get these off the Alpha build but meh.. no need to anymore. ^_^.  The transparency effect on the windows doesn't exist for WMO's in WoTLK, however you can fake it with M2's.  I mean I could just disable that particular mesh from loading, but it would mean you'd just fall through. lol, and since it's a portal, the interior dissapears when viewed from the outside.









Pulled and Converted from Mist of Pandaria 5.2.0 installation.

[sakuranobushi]

Thank you SO much! I've been able to convert some small raids from cataclysm/pandaria succesfully. On the other hand, some models like stormwind keep seep to crash even after doing this, so may be there's something more, or maybe I failed so bad.

Now I have to find out how to make something like your tag team converter for M2, i'm not very confident about this, but will try!

[ProfVice]

Easy and working

here a screen:



THANKS a Lot again you hlped me Anthony, excellent work!

[PhilipTNG]

Thank you SO much! I've been able to convert some small raids from cataclysm/pandaria succesfully. On the other hand, some models like stormwind keep seep to crash even after doing this, so may be there's something more, or maybe I failed so bad.

Now I have to find out how to make something like your tag team converter for M2, i'm not very confident about this, but will try!

Wanna show off your screenshots?  ^_^

Easy and working

here a screen:



THANKS a Lot again you hlped me Anthony, excellent work!

Woot!!!  Nice job. ^^

[gimli]

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thanks alot for your absolutely awesome tutorials and for your hard work to figure it out how to make this all working.

thanks  

[sakuranobushi]

Well, the screens I have aren't as impressing as yours and there aren't so many of them, but here you have ^^

In addition to some of the models you showed up in the first post I only have the alliance battleship and the grim batol raid.

I have been trying to see why some of the models don't work for me even if I delete SBOM, and the only common trait between these wmos i've found so far is that they all have only the SBOM header, without content.

[PhilipTNG]

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thanks alot for your absolutely awesome tutorials and for your hard work to figure it out how to make this all working.

thanks  

Nicely done mate!  Cheers ^_^.

Well, the screens I have aren't as impressing as yours and there aren't so many of them, but here you have ^^

In addition to some of the models you showed up in the first post I only have the alliance battleship and the grim batol raid.

I have been trying to see why some of the models don't work for me even if I delete SBOM, and the only common trait between these wmos i've found so far is that they all have only the SBOM header, without content.

I've had similar troubles too, when I tried doing some buildings from the goblin starting zone.  that background wall of unused buildings crash me when I try to view it.  So when possible, I disable a group from loading in through the root file, may not be the best way to do it, but most of the times, the groups that is causing the issue doesn't have any 3D geometry inside of it anyway.


Well I guess I'll post some images too:

From Siege of Orgrimmar, Throne of Thunder, and my Mad Scientist Building. And Lost Isles (Not from Cata Beta... ^_^.. XD):

[ayahne]

incredible Work Anthony Good Job

[Pan21]

So following a few hours of trial and error i manged to convert the Tower from the BG goldrush



I found that just setting all the flags to 1 works just as fine.

[fearless_wind]

Sakuranobushi, do you have cata water in worlk? HOW?  :shock:

[hyakkimaru]

I am very stupid but my english is very bad...

I watched your video and it's very interesting but, I don't understand, if I want to copy a wmo from mop to tlk, I just need to remove ALL SMOB in my wmo ?

I'm very sorry but it's not very clear for me...

[sakuranobushi]

Well, it's not exactly the water from Cataclysm+, but in the dbc there are the remains of procedural water tests. You just have to use that liquid type and add the missing blp from cataclysm for it to work.

But it doesn't really reflect, it doesn't have ripples nor shorelines...

Edit: Exactly hyakkymaru, for most wmo you just need to remove sbom for every wmo group and make sure there are no materials with flag 0x08 in the wmo.

[detonatorss]

i change every 0x10 flag into ox1 and if doesn't have flag i set it to 0x1 with this things have to work i think now i am converting Stormwind.wmo the Both and tonight i test it if works

[PhilipTNG]

I am very stupid but my english is very bad...

I watched your video and it's very interesting but, I don't understand, if I want to copy a wmo from mop to tlk, I just need to remove ALL SMOB in my wmo ?

I'm very sorry but it's not very clear for me...

Not sure how much clearer it can get.  I did it from start to finish with no edits except the part of me looking for the wmo I wanted to do.  All you need to do is remove the sbom section, this will work on most wmo's. not all of them, but a good majority of them, the otheres will require you to think and do some of your own trial and error.

i change every 0x10 flag into ox1 and if doesn't have flag i set it to 0x1 with this things have to work i think now i am converting Stormwind.wmo the Both and tonight i test it if works

Um, Stormwind.wmo is the 3.3.5a stormwind and that is still in the v17 format, the stormwind2 is a beta test version that was never used I think.  Cataclysm and MoP's stormwind is in a bunch of different pieces starting with the letters SW_ so like SW_Cathedral and stuff like that....I wish you all the best man.  The SW_Keep can be a problem, atleast it was for me.  >.<,

I got converted 5.4.0's Azeroth ADT and WMO files because well..... I wanted to see what  the filesize would be LOL....



But I keep old trees, ^_^.. I love 3.3.5a trees more than new trees.   This also means I have Vashj'ir ^_^ and it's not from Alpha Cata.







I'm sorry for spamming so many images but, it's better than making a vlog everytime I do something. ^_^.

[fearless_wind]

Nice job, Anthony and other guys posted screenshots here. Can you tell me what is the model with a big tree with mop houses in it?