[Dragow]

Hello, i am currently looking for a guide to explain me, how can export items (like armor or weapon) from wow into blender and, after editing, export it back. Is it possible? I would like to target Dreanor extension. I have tried to google it and look through this forum, but unfortunately haven't found anything valid.

[Amaroth]

First of all, you need to know that there are 2 types of items - texture ones, and model ones.

Texture items are only textures applied on character model, they can bear some information about how should character model change when they are equipped (for example gloves, boots), but in fact, they are only textures. So there is no actual way of opening such items in Blender, but what you can do is opening character model there and placing textures of such items on it.

Having said that, there is the second kind of items - model ones. Headpieces, shoulderpads, weapons, shields (hand-held stuff in general) and in some cases belts on MoP+ have all models, and yes, in that case, you can open them in Blender.

 

In case you want to edit textures, you need to get their BLP files - thats usually done by using WoW Model Viewer (WMV). There is BLP plugin for Photoshop, and there is also PNGtoBLP (and vice versa) converter, so you can also turn them to PNGs, edit them in that format and then convert them back.

In case you want to edit models, there are two ways. You can convert models to m2i and open them in Blender m2i plugin (I've personaly never done this), edit them there and then convert them from m2i back, or you can export them from WMV as OBJ (or different standart 3D format), edit them in Blender and then go through standart OBJtoM2 conversion process, which may be way more tedious than m2i way afaik.

 

If you have no idea what am I talking about, use Google :P. And check beginner tutorials, here, on Modcraft, on my YT channel, whenever, to get some decent idea about how things in game client work and how to do such things.