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Wrath of the Lich King Modding => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Craigiea on July 02, 2015, 10:27:43 pm

Title: Extracting interface files?
Post by: Craigiea on July 02, 2015, 10:27:43 pm

Hey everyone ive been trying to access my LUA files and ive heard i do this by extracting my interface via the console. I have the console working but its not accepting Extract as a command.


Anyone help me do what i need.

Many thanks =)

Title: Re: Extracting interface files?
Post by: Daweo on July 02, 2015, 11:17:15 pm

Quote from: "Craigiea"

Hey everyone ive been trying to access my LUA files and ive heard i do this by extracting my interface via the console. I have the console working but its not accepting Extract as a command.


Anyone help me do what i need.

Many thanks =)

Dont know about console, but you can use the Wow Model Viever to extract the specific LUA files...

Title: Re: Extracting interface files?
Post by: Milly on July 03, 2015, 03:56:57 am

What is this? .MPQ is a proprietary file format so there's no way the console is going to extract it for you.

Just open up your locale archives in data/xxXX/ with Ladik's MPQ Editor and extract them..?

Edit: My bad, I never knew this "console" thing existed.

Title: Re: Extracting interface files?
Post by: Chase on July 03, 2015, 04:02:20 am

exportInterfaceFiles code

Title: Re: Extracting interface files?
Post by: schlumpf on July 03, 2015, 08:37:08 am

Quote from: "Chase"

exportInterfaceFiles code

Or art, to get the other half.

Title: Re: Extracting interface files?
Post by: Skarn on July 03, 2015, 09:05:51 am

Why is this thread in Getting started tutorial section? You could have asked in Miscellaneous or somewhere else at least.

Title: Re: Extracting interface files?
Post by: schlumpf on July 03, 2015, 09:13:56 am

Can you guys please stop blabbering off topic and unfriendly stuff to people who just joined and asked the first question? He had previous knowledge, posed a perfectly valid and easy to answer question, and picking a forum called "getting started" does honestly not sound like the worst choice.

Title: Re: Extracting interface files?
Post by: Skarn on July 03, 2015, 12:53:09 pm

Can you guys please start moderating the forum? That was more a  tip for admins/moderators rather than for the guy. Moreover, If I were that guy, I would ask myself a question if I should post in a board without any user-created posts.

Title: Re: Extracting interface files?
Post by: schlumpf on July 03, 2015, 12:57:45 pm

Report the post then, which is only visible to moderators.

Title: Re: Extracting interface files?
Post by: stoneharry on July 03, 2015, 03:17:17 pm

If you open all of the locale MPQ's (DataenGB*.mpq for example) in MPQ Editor in 'Merged' mode, it will open them all automatically in read-only with priorities correctly set. Basically, duplicate files exist throughout the MPQ's and WoW loads them in order, with the last to be loaded being the one used. So opening in merged mode loads the latest file and thus you can extract them from there.

Other options to obtain these files are already in other replies, I am just posting this method as it is useful for all files and not just the interface stuff.

Title: Re: Extracting interface files?
Post by: Steff on July 25, 2015, 07:42:58 am

If you just do the tutorial Part 2 in chapter

Extracting the MPQs

I explain how to extract all wow files to exactly have the possibility to direct access all files you need for modding.
Including the full interface folder.