Ack, what a dangerous post... that'll get people to unnecessarily modify (once could say "unnecessarily corrupt") original files. Needless! (Instead, do what Blizzard does!)
Why would you edit Texture.MPQ, and thereby modify one of the official data files from its original and authentic state, instead of simply creating a new file called Patch-X.MPQ? (Or Patch-AnyOtherCharacter.MPQ if Patch-X.mpq exists.) Let me offer this quick report: This has been working fine in version v1.11 and there is currently no need to modify any of the already existing files Blizzard made!
I'm a person who is perfectly happy with command line programs, and for me the solution was as simple as using MPQ2k to create a new file. (However MPQ2k required the use of a script file for an MPQ with over 1,024 files being added, and in fact there were over 10,000 .blp files being added.)
As for an easy way to do that, one of my tools to automate seems like it may not work in some versions of Windows. Works on my machine, but might not for many others. I'm considering simply replacing it. However, I'm still lacking a good site to distribute the tool from.
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Anyways, there has to be some forum somewhere with a plethora of info where you all can meet and discuss this.
I had once found another forum other than Allakhazam where such discussion is widely welcomed, but I'm not finding it now. Perhaps I just didn't recognize it, or maybe the forum is down, or maybe I just need to spend a little more time trying harder to find it.
My experience in looking at multiple games is that each game that has a modification of this sort will generally have its own website as a centralized place for people who know how to modify the game. It's not like there's (yet) one (public) centralized source that covers all games. For better or for worse, WoW.Allakhazam.com has largely become the forum board for World of WarCraft. Other forums that cover these sort of mods are not ones that as many members of the general WoW playing public have found (and I'm not sure if that is intentional).
In respect to the Allakhazam forum community, I would like to announce a different forum for such topic. (The reason the topic resurfaced was since Blizzard made a change in how things work. They still work, but not the same way they used to.) Even though some of the community greeted me with as much friendliness as a bunch of farmers with pitchforks ready to chase off Frankenstein, I had no interest in trying to attack back by disrupting those who were causing as much torment as possible. I also didn't try to integrate into the community on more friendly terms of other topics since I found that this community had some members that were capable of being so immature and childish that the forum wasn't worth my time to become a further part of. Frankly, Allakhazam's community had shown itself to not be worth my time (although this thread has had a couple of quality comments and I've been this time impressed by those who are not in favor of further discussion of such mods on this board). However, I don't simply want to move the problem from one board to another board who wouldn't welcome the traffic, and I'm not yet sure if I've found a suitable replacement board yet.
Although I'd like to resolve this better for all, and to do so as soon as I can, another project in life, scheduled and announced way before WoW version 1.11's release date was widely known, is a much higher priority for me. I'd like to make further progress on wrapping things up positively (having a patch released, announcing a different board) Monday if I can, or certainly no later than sometime Thursday.
(Still would be happy to find some other good distribution sources like web servers for hosting content, as well as another forum if one would like to announce itself rather than being hunted out.)