Atraxian

I think it really depends on the kind of work you want to do. Most .m2 models are retroportable using a combination of a customized fork of the multiconverter, m2mod and wow blender studio. here is the copy of the multiconverter https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q7ZBpxGHTDU-Wmxl503LZJAhkYRXJrwA/view?usp=drive_link m2mod can be found here https://bitbucket.org/suncurio/m2mod/downloads/ Here is a link to an old forumpost with some explanation on the two previous softwares. And wow blender studio can be found on the wow blender studio discord. Other very important tools are Amaroth's templates for 010 Editor, especially those for the .m2 files (sometimes the new models will mix up the flying and swimming animations as in WotLK they were one and the same ans also have the Z source of the particles flippe, so they have to be changed by hand) If you are planning on working on .WMO models, things become much more ocmplicated as in mid Dragonflight Blizzard decided to change how materials were coded into the models and sometimes importing them in Blender will scramble the textures AND change the collision into an untextured polygonal model, so for those there is a whole lot of extra work to do and it's beyond my current abilities.

From what I see it looks like you left the "merge vertices" option ticked up in blender when exporting the model. Sometimes it screws up flat parts that have to show textures on both faces. when that happens, only one face per polygon will be shown (and if you rotate the model you will see the missing faces). Try to reopen the original model and re-export it removing the "merge vertices" option and see if it solves the issue. Otherwise you have to re-open your model and either change the rendering flags of the material to add "two-faced" or select each missing face and manually flip its normal

Sorry, but my knowledge stops at WotLK.

I didn't retroport it yet, but I can try later today. EDIT: seems to be working fine seems to be only missing the particles. They are actually there, but retroporting the model messed up the emitters parameters and they do not fly out of the mane of the creature (didn't have time to modify them by hand). Remember that for models with .anim files you have to run those files through the multiconverter too or some of the animations will be messed up. darkhoundmount.zip EDIT2: another thing I noticed is that the light coming from the eyes of the shoulderpads aren't animated. Probably need to look at whar mesh it is and animate it by hand in the .skin files.

What mounts are you trying to retroport? First thing I would try is to load the model with wowmodelviewer and see if the all the animations are broken or if the model animates correctly there. (put the model into an .mpq file and load the file with the WotLK / Pandaria version of wowmodelviewer). A thing I noticed when retroporting flying mounts is that some of the animation lookups get scrambled, probably because the new models have specific animation IDs for flying animations and WotLK models use the swimming animations IDs for flying. When that happens the model will use the idle animation or (sometimes) the swim backwards animation instead of the correct one. Is this what is happening to you? If that's the case, the only way I found to correct the issue is to load the retroported model with wowmodelviewer, look at all the animations, write down the IDs of the animations I'm looking for then load the .ms on 010 editor, pass it through the M2Template and manually fix the IDs and the Lookups of the animations by hand. May be something similar is happening to you.

Only thing I can think about is that you are not importing all of the helm models with the correct name. For example: Stag-Helm of Malorne, item id 29098 has DisplayId 46214 The model in the ItemDisplayId.dbc is "Helm_Leather_RaidDruid_D_01.mdx" But there actually is a model for each race and gender combination for example: helm_leather_raiddruid_d_01_nem.m2 (for Night Elf Male) helm_leather_raiddruid_d_01_nef.m2 (for Night Elf Female) helm_leather_raiddruid_d_01_tam.m2 (for Tauren Male) helm_leather_raiddruid_d_01_taf.m2 (for Tauren Female) Only thing I can think of is that the game is looking for a model for a race/gender combination that is not present in your mpq files.

Might not be the answer you were hoping for but some armor pieces have asymmetrical shoulders, you might want to look at one of them and compare it to other models. One of them is item number 23277, Lieutent Commander's Lamellar Shoulders EDIT: I'm assuming you are talking about WotLK 3.3.5a I took a little time to look at the Item.dbc and ItemDisplayInfo.dbc. In ItemDisplayInfo.dbc you have 2 different columns used for tho different models for right and left shoulder piece, so you can mix and match the models you want to display. Have you tried using only 1 model and leaving the other column empty?

If what you are asking is how to change the path of hardcoded textures in models, it is relatively simple. This is for models for 3.3.5a. I use 010 editor with Alastor's template (link at the end) ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP OF THE MMODEL BEFORE STARTING. I know it's basic stuff, but you don't want to skip this, trust me. Just load the .m2 model with 010, run the template on the file and look at the result. You will find a section named "struct Textures" there you can open the textures you want to change: An important part is the enum E_TEXTURETYPES type value. Depending on it you can make the testure hardcoded (you have to specify the path inside of the model itsel) or being automatically taken fromexternal sources. For example monsters with multiple textures variations have MONSTER_SKIN_1, 2 and/or 3. These textures are taken from the Monster Texture Variation columns in the CreatureDisplayInfo.dbc I'm assuming you want to hardocde a texture or change the path of a hardcoded texture, so let's start with that. Click on the "string texture[xx]", you will notice that the upper part of the editor automatically went to the values of the texture path: You can change the texture path by rewriting the part on the right hand side, but you have to be EXTREMELY CAREFUL about two things: 1) the length of the path 2) the starting position of whatever comes after the texture Let's start with point 1: after you write in the new texture path, count the number of characters and input that number into the FileName_length section. Simple enough, right? Point 2 has 2 cases: SHORTER PATH THAN THE ORIGINAL fill in the path, then click on the hexadecimal part of the editor and start hitting 0 until you restore the next texture to its original position This is because the structure of the file has many many MANY points where it looks up the exact position of informations by using hardcoded offsets. If you change the length of something you run the risk of shifting everything and make the model unusable. LONGER PATH THAN THE ORIGINAL or NEW HARDCODED TEXTURE in this case you don't have enough room in this part of the file than before, but that's where the offset become your friends. You just have to insert the texture path at the end of the file and put the appropriate offset so the model knows where to look for it. First, go to the end of the file and fill in 0 until you start a new row, then put in the new texture path right click on the template result section and select column display format as hex, like this: now change the FileName_offset of your texture to the value on the left had side of the hex editor at the start of yout path row. In the example case it is 2D19C0h Return to showing things as Default or Decimal and change FileName_length to the appropriate number. This way you should have been able to hardcode or change a hardcoded texture with the 010 editor without going crazy. for reference: https://wowdev.wiki/M2#Textures for the template:

Just uploaded to the site: Also added some extra colors for variety. EDIT: forgot to mention that they work better with a 0.4 size scaling set in CreatureDisplayInfo.dbc