[goroth]

Hi folks! Pretty new to the community. So here it goes. i need to create a custom ground texture for WoW Legion (latest client preferably). I've read some of the guides here, but most of them have either missing links or the software is simply out of date (3.3.5 etc). If I understand correctly, it should be enough to convert blp to png and replace an existing ground texture with the same name with the new texture, so that the game thinks it's the actual texture that should be loading, but will load my custom instead. Is that right? How can you replace game files within a MPQ?

[Amaroth]

AFAIK WoW doesn't use MPQs since WoD - things are being changed inside directories. Someone may correct me though.

 

Note that not starting to learn basics on WotLK is possible, but making your life way harder. You will get lower amount of tools, lower amount of tutorials, and much more is simply not known at all about newer client versions (especially about WoD+). And what is known isn't always documented very well, at least not as well as on WotLK. There are some tutorials here already:

http://www.modcraft.io/index.php?action=forum
There is whole WoD section. Apart from these tuts, you might be mostly on your own. Which is obviously even more dauting if you don't have basics, but thats up to you.

 

Now, to address your question, when you overwrite original file or put your new version of file into some place from which WoW reads later than from file's original source - yes, your version of file gets loaded. About BLPs, you can either use BLP plugin for Photoshop (which is overall recommended) or BLPtoPNG (and back) conversion. For the latter, I recommend BLiPster, which turn this task into something UI-based and thus much more comfortable and in this case, perhaps even quicker and more effective.

[goroth]

 

10 hours ago, Amaroth said:

AFAIK WoW doesn't use MPQs since WoD - things are being changed inside directories. Someone may correct me though.

 

Note that not starting to learn basics on WotLK is possible, but making your life way harder. You will get lower amount of tools, lower amount of tutorials, and much more is simply not known at all about newer client versions (especially about WoD+). And what is known isn't always documented very well, at least not as well as on WotLK. There are some tutorials here already:

http://www.modcraft.io/index.php?action=forum
There is whole WoD section. Apart from these tuts, you might be mostly on your own. Which is obviously even more dauting if you don't have basics, but thats up to you.

 

Now, to address your question, when you overwrite original file or put your new version of file into some place from which WoW reads later than from file's original source - yes, your version of file gets loaded. About BLPs, you can either use BLP plugin for Photoshop (which is overall recommended) or BLPtoPNG (and back) conversion. For the latter, I recommend BLiPster, which turn this task into something UI-based and thus much more comfortable and in this case, perhaps even quicker and more effective.

Thank you very much! I got the BLP ready using BLiPster. The only problem now is how do I replace it? All the tools allow me to only extract in-game files, not replace / overwrite or add custom files for formats like BLP. Ladik's Viewer didn't help in this regard.

[Amaroth]

Roughly around the middle of this tut:
http://www.modcraft.io/index.php?topic=11182.0

You may need to slightly change WoW.exe:
http://www.modcraft.io/index.php?topic=11145.0

Note that I'm just searching for stuff which seems to be what you are looking for, I'm purely WotLK modder myself.

[barncastle]

At the moment there are no CASC editing tools; everything is done by replicating the folder structure in the WoW client folder.

For a pre-patched Legion executable see this forum thread - just make sure you get the same build as what you're working on.