Lost my character's underpants (really)Follow

>>> How to modify game skins! <<<

1.) Open the texture.MPQ using MyWarCraftStudio (http://www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=657)
a.) find texture you want to edit. right click on texture you want and export, save it as name.blp

2.) Convert the .blp to a .bmp using the java converter (http://members.cox.net/bajabob78/converter.zip) extract the converter and simply double click on the wowimage.jar (you need to install java runtime) the program is self explanatory once you run it ;)

3.) Make a backup of the .bmp file. Edit the copy only!

4.) Make your changes to the texture using a photo editor of choice, I use PS. When you save it it is important to save it as a 256 color (8bit) indexed color .bmp. If you want to use photoshops advanced features be sure to use change the image to an rgb instead of indexed, by clicking Image > Mode > RGB Color. When your ready to save put it back to indexed.

5.) Once you have finished editing the file you must edit the bmp header info using a hexideciamal editor or the converter will not get it back into a blp. (Note: Everytime you save it you must fix the header!)

6. open the original bmp file in a hex editor (http://www.download.com/Hackman-Hex-Editor-Lite/3000-2352_4-10354867.html?tag=lst-0-1)
and copy the entire 3rd row, or offset 0000:0020 it might look like this:

0000:0020 00 00 02 20 00 00 12 0B 00 00 12 0B 00 00 00 00

7. Open the edited bmp with the hex editor and paste the 3rd row from the original into the edited bmp.

8. Now you can convert the bmp to blp using the same converter file.

9. place this image in your data folder replicating the tree, so if you made changes to a human model for instance you would place it here: World of Warcraft\Data\Character\Human\Female\HumanFemaleNakedTorsoSkin00_00.blp

I did not create the converter. This was done by taktaal, but I could not get edited bmps converted into blps so I devised the workaround using a hex editor :)

This works, I have modified human textures, and within an hour should have a rough nudepatch for human females :p

Here are my human skins, along with the night elf skins:

http://members.cox.net/bajabob78/wownude.zip

And these are some samples:
http://members.cox.net/bajabob78/WoW/humannude.jpg
http://members.cox.net/bajabob78/WoW/nightelfnude.jpg

I wrote this all up on a lil site here:
http://members.cox.net/bajabob78/WoW/wowskinning.html



Edited, Sun Jul 31 03:28:49 2005 by Ahriana

Ahriana, you are a god among us mere rabbits <3

They're invisible now after what?? what did you do?

Cant help ya unless you say what you did, if you placed the files were you were supposed to you should be fine.

Yeah, nevermind that :p It's fixed.

Anyway, the error message for the converter is 'RLE-compressed BMPs are not supported'

you cant have compressed bmps, and I dont know how to prevent that using paint, I would get photoshop or some other editor.

good stuff in here... i made a nudie for kicks for my character. i'm trying to play around with some armor textures tho, and i can't figure out how to edit texture files with transparencies in them... trying to trick out some of my armor a bit. the transparency doesn't seem to carry over in the bmp from photoshop... any ideas?

I also tried it in Paint Shop Pro 9, is there a setting I'm missing?

ok, so just taking the blp's out of the character/etc folders and throwing em in the Data folder works

Full Nude Patch, I just got done with all 10 human skin colors.

http://members.cox.net/bajabob78/humannudepatch_full.zip

just place the character folder in you world of warcraft data folder and your set.

Okay, ignore my stuff, I've given up on creating skins. I'll enjoy every else's, though :D

So, anyone planning to better the NE skins? ;p I'm bored is all.

Im working on improving the NE ones now.

do a NE nude patch yum yum lol