WotLK with WoD character models
First of all thank you Warmane for making these available in your new WotLK client. I believe this is a great feature and I do not say it lightly. However, the current state of this client is incomplete and not working properly, which in a nutshell is far from being ready to be released. Many related posts plus the original announcement [now deleted] detail the issues with the client, so I will not talk about it here.
I honestly could not find a complete alternative out there, aside of the guideline DIY by phantomx, which requires a lot of work to implement and makes no sense if we all have to go trough it, reinventing the wheel in every instance.
In case anyone of you want to try an alternative to Warmane's client, which is already implemented, I found this one; the video description is in Spanish, but the procedure is so simple that it does not matter if you can understand it or not, you just need to copy the compressed 3x files and that's it [or delete them to revert the patching]. I scanned them with several AV/Malware and they seem clean. The patch works, for all character models I tried [including Draenei and Blood Elfs], but it seems to have some issues as well, from which I noticed:
1. Goblin NPCs do not show textures and appear in solid green color.
2. Some NPCs in Dalaran have scrambled facial textures.
In case you want to try it and share your experience in the thread, go ahead. The author seems keen on updating the file with fixes according to his comments in YouTube; so post there as well if you find something worth sharing/reporting.
@Warmane: Are you still working on the new WotLK client with WoD character models? Would you share an ETA [+- ballpark/rough estimate at the least] for a reasonable release version of it? Thanks!
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Note: according to FC the compressed 3x files listed above two are no more than the same Wow.exe from the 3.3.5a [old] client and Patch-J.mpq from Clockworkapple23. The third one is not binary the same, but could be a [newer] variant of Patch-V.mpq from chaos1921. Does anyone know if the patched file/s of the 3.3.5a [new] client are developed in-house or are also based on the same file/s from Modcraft?
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WoD Models for WotLK [Patch-J.mpq]
Have you tried using a WotLK client with only Patch-J.mpq from Clockworkapple23? The patching is done on the WotLK [old] 3.3.5a client by simply 'copy+paste' the .mpq file on its data folder [and 'delete' the .mpq file to undo the patching]. If you are skilled with modding, you could try to fix OP's listed .mpq files further; let us know if you come up with better versions of these files.
WoD Models for CATA [Reloaded]
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Originally Posted by
Brigan
The one I'm using it's from manupa14, He released several ones,
here. Since Konattchi doesn't have belfs and undead nor draenei.
Thank you for the nice feedback. Your post is related to a previous one from another thread; unfortunately, it was moved to Support & Q/A, which is a synonym of 'scheduled for deletion' [I don't know why they do that; I mean I don't mind if they move it, but don't delete it]. I guess it is in the end much more useful for the CATA community that you posted here, even when this one is exclusively talking about the WotLK client. In seek of completeness for all the other readers of the current thread, the patch by Konattchi for CATA clients is located here. Best wishes!
WoD Models for WotLK [Request]
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Originally Posted by
1337
To fix the issues one has to extract all the new baked npc textures and convert them to wotlk then import it.
Excellent. Could you do it and share the resulting patch files [link to download + patching guideline]? Sadly, I have no clue about modding or time to learn how to do it myself at the moment. I'm sure it would be very much appreciated by the entire WotLK community to have a complete/working client with the WoD models. Thanks a lot in advance!
PS: no confirmation is understood as you are not making it and the task is still open for someone else up to the challenge. =/