[Смердокрыл]

Hey!

Could anyone make a tool, or just a simple script, that would allow you to input any skin, face, etc. like here:

And then calculate playerBytes and playerBytes2 for the "characters" sql table.

The calculation itself is described here, I think, but I don't understand anything in php.

[Kaev]

If anyone wants to do this, here's the calculation (also backwards, schlumpf didn't want to explain it) in PHP.

 

	$b1 = 17367552; // PlayerBytes in Character table 

	$b2 = 33554436; // PlayerBytes2 in Character table

	// Set Character Features

	$hc = ($b1>>24)%256; // Hairs color

	$ha = ($b1>>16)%256; // Hairs

	$fa = ($b1>>8)%256; // Face

	$sk = $b1%256; // Skin

	$fh = $b2%256; // Facial / Others

	echo "Hairs : ".$ha."<br>";

	echo "Hair Color : ".$hc."<br>";

	echo "Face : ".$fa."<br>";

	echo "Skin : ".$sk."<br>";

	echo "Facial/Other : ".$fh."<br>";

	$a= $hc&0xff; // Hairs color

	$b= $ha&0xff; // Hairs

	$c= $fa&0xff; // Face

	$d= $sk&0xff; // Skin

	$z =  ($a<<24) | ($b<<16) |  ($c<<8) |  ($d<<0); // PlayerBytes

	echo "PlayerBytes: ".$z."<br>";

	$pb2 = (256 * ($b2/256));

	echo "PlayerBytes2: ".$pb2."<br>";

[Amaroth]

Consider this to be just a test version. It definitely works for getting IDs from bytes, but conversion of IDs to bytes gives quite often different values than alghoritm used in core does. This doesn't mean that bytes produced by my calculator don't give the same results when being again searched for separate IDs - they do. I am just not 100% sure if this will work for client or server without any possible issues.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cfe7ybs9ha8rbnc/PlayerBytesCalculator.exe?dl=0
src (C#):

        private void BytetoIDbutton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            skinColor.Value = playerBytes.Value % 256;
            faceStyle.Value = ((int)playerBytes.Value >> 8) % 256;
            hairStyle.Value = ((int)playerBytes.Value >> 16) % 256;
            hairColor.Value = ((int)playerBytes.Value >> 24) % 256;
            facialFeature.Value = playerBytes2.Value % 256;
        }

        private void IDtoByteButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            playerBytes.Value = skinColor.Value + ((int)faceStyle.Value << 8) + ((int)hairStyle.Value << 16) + ((int)hairColor.Value << 24);
            playerBytes2.Value = facialFeature.Value + 33554432;
        }

EDIT: Now, seriously, for example, why the hell are all values for playerBytes2 33554432(256^3 * 2) and higher, while they all could be just = facialFeature ID. WHY?!

[wungasaurus]

Because there is obviously more in it that that one field?

[Amaroth]

https://trinitycore.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2129969#characters(table)-playerBytes2
I wish I knew what.

[barncastle]

2 hours ago, Amaroth said:

https://trinitycore.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2129969#characters(table)-playerBytes2
I wish I knew what.

Back in the alpha the player bytes 2 used to be the player flags (was a byte instead of int32 before beta), facial hair, bank slot amount and a padding byte. The structure was changed to store the character appearance when the beta was released.

So to me it looks like they just ignored the original use of this field and just incremented the base instead of rewriting the whole structure properly? Maybe for legacy reasons from alpha to beta then never changed it?

[Amaroth]

Anyway, just let me know if what I made works for you.

[Смердокрыл]

5 hours ago, Amaroth said:

Anyway, just let me know if what I made works for you.

It works, but when I try to set an npc skin (e.g. Wildhammer dwarf), he has a different face than if I put that skin in WMV

[Смердокрыл]

3 minutes ago, Смердокрыл said:

It works, but when I try to set an npc skin (e.g. Wildhammer dwarf), he has a different face than if I put that skin in WMV

Oh, no, turns out it was my fucked-up CharSections.dbc. Fixed now.

So, it works perfectly, thanks! It could be a very useful tool (e.g. npc skins for *special* players, etc.), so I'd release it if I was you.

[Amaroth]

OK, released, I don't find this particulary usefull and I am from RP server, but hey, someone might like to use this.

[Смердокрыл]

7 hours ago, Amaroth said:

OK, released, I don't find this particulary usefull and I am from RP server, but hey, someone might like to use this.

I am from an RP server as well. For example, I used this tool to make a dwarf have the wildhammer skin. Can also be used for mag'nar orcs, etc.

[Amaroth]

Wait, wait, wait... Which dwarf. Player character? Is that possible? I didn't even expect this :D. Great news indeed.

[Смердокрыл]

18 minutes ago, Amaroth said:

Wait, wait, wait... Which dwarf. Player character? Is that possible? I didn't even expect this :D. Great news indeed.

Many races have such skins. E.g. wildhammer dwarfs, stone dwarfs, blackrock dwarfs, human and gnome Twilight Hammer cultists, mag'nar and dragonmaw orks, forest/ice trolls, and some more.

My dwarf (the outfit is included in the skin, so he's basically naked)

[Amaroth]

I know that very well. I just didn't know that its so easy to get it on player character.

[Смердокрыл]

Hey!

I want to add the eredar skins for players to use (not select them freely, but through the same method as I used for wildhammer dwarves), so I placed the texture in Characters/Draenei/Male and added following line to CharSections.dbc:

And it works perfectly in WMV:

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But ingame I get this:

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What's wrong?

[Смердокрыл]

Anyone?

[Смердокрыл]

Nvm, fixed. Turns out I had to make the entry in CharSections.dbc to have 8 (npc skin) in the 8th column, else the game looks for separate face textures.

[Смердокрыл]

But I now have another problem: the skin works perfectly when I log on this char, but if I run another wow client and log on another char there (different accounts, obviously), this char appears to have default skin:

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When you log on the eredar char:

When a different char looks at him:

 

 

[Смердокрыл]

Anyone?

[Смердокрыл]

...

Anyone?