[QUESTION] Porting over maps from 4.2+

[TheRealDavidTwo]

So I've been wanting to port over a couple things from later WoW patches for a long time now, but lack a know-how to actually port over stuff like.. the Firelands from 4.2 (or Darkmoon Isle from 4.3) over to a 4.0.6a or even a 3.3.5a client by custom patch. I was wondering how this could be possible to attempt for someone like me.

I'm more-so looking to port over Firelands/Darkmoon Isle from 4.2/4.3 over to 4.0.6a/3.3.5a on it's own individual map ID, instead of the usual instance-swapping that a few people seem to like doing these days.

[Dracbane]

I am working on porting Firelands over to 3.3.5a atm.  Not having a huge amount of luck with any of the available ADT converters people have released.

[TheRealDavidTwo]

No help? I'm still looking for help to try and implement maps into a 4.0.6a client from 4.3 and what-not. Of course, the obvious problem would be the client not recognizing the edited DBC file and totally rejecting it, saying it's a version mismatch. If anyone knows a way around this.. by all means, please inform me.

[MR. Farrare]

No help? I'm still looking for help to try and implement maps into a 4.0.6a client from 4.3 and what-not. Of course, the obvious problem would be the client not recognizing the edited DBC file and totally rejecting it, saying it's a version mismatch. If anyone knows a way around this.. by all means, please inform me.

ive heard some1 made it for 406 and did you heared about resnik shamman in youtube he maybe kno somthing

[axel0099]

yes you're right...
i own some of his patches myself btw
just look for the maps on his youtube videos

here's one of patch 4.0.6

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[Shelldon]

here's one of patch 4.0.6

actually it is from cata aplha. It have the same adt format in few builds. In fact, now anyone have recourses to convert maps from 5.x or earlier, u just need to little bit understanding formats' system and know how to use converters.

[axel0099]

yeah

[TheRealDavidTwo]

I hate to necro old topics, but I'm looking into this project again. What tools are now readily available to accomplish this? When I tried it with that old Firelands Dev Map, I ended up swapping the Firelands from 4.3.4a over to 4.0.6a. Forgot some textures, buildings were pink giant-ass cubes (And textures as in I forgot to port over the tilesets and what-not, so kind of an "uh oh" on my part), and portions of the land were definitely missing. But that's probably because I did the old method of "swapping ADTS", which could prove not to work all the time.