I'll go direct to the point.

I want to learn model swapping in WoW Vanilla, I have this idea of trying to swap my Druid's bear form into something else, but don't know how to do it.

I need guides and as much help as I can get.

In my previous post I've been given guides about Noggit and map editing, which is NOT what I asked for.

So please, can someone guide me through this? I can't find any detailed vanilla guide about model editing / swap even after an hour of search, I barely know where to search. You guys are the experts here, not me.

I'm sorry for being blunt about it, I just am a little tired of running in circles...  :|

https://wowdev.wiki/DB/SpellShapeshiftForm
Change displayIDs used by forms you want to change and you are basically done. You may want to create a new displayID in case you can't find appropriate one (for example with correct scale or... whatever), if you don't know how to do it, simply let me know.

If you could guide me through this step by step it would be very much appreciated, since I have little to no experience in how to do these. Thanks.

Hmm... I think if you are trying to replace just the normal arrows themselves, then I think you need to look for the model of the arrow and replace it with the frostbolt model. That should work, however I think it will make everyone who shoots arrows, shoot frostbolts instead.

That I don't mind. I will try that. Thanks

Open the DBC file using the editor in the link. Find the spell ID of your Hunter's spell. Find the spell visual row. You'll see that every row has a number or some kind of text attached to it. In the case of spell visuals, you are looking for a number (just like the ID of a spell's name, but this time it's the  ID of the visual animation).

How am I supposed to find the spell visual row?? All I see are numbers on the top line. Do you have any clue how to find it!?

So, I'm kind of new in this modding stuff for World of Warcraft. I presently am fooling around with the Vanilla version of the game, trying models swap etc and succeeded to swap some stuff.

But right now I would really like to learn how to swap spell visuals. For exemple, for the Hunter class, when the bow shoots an arrow, instead of seeing the arrow shot, you would see a frost bolt being shot instead.

Unfortunately, I found very little to no guide that gave enough detail to do something like this.  

In a nutshell, I want to change the visual/appearance of some spells, with the one of other spells.

I already know how to use the WoW model viewer and open MPQ files and stuff, but that's about it. DBC modifying was quite complex to learn.


Can anyone help me with this Please?  :|