Lost my character's underpants (really)Follow

Wow compliments to Ahriana Scholar. Compared to what I'm doing with this, you are a ******* master.


Alright so I know how to do most of this stuff however, I want to make clothing invisible. I tried it on one of my usual characters: a male orc. I tried to change the Talbard Upper to a 1x1 TGA and it worked, but the game still rendered the loin cloth model so I ended up with a loin cloth with no texture and it was green just like my body. Can you edit the models so that the talbard model isn't rendered while wearing it??

Also, I tried the same thing on my other orc with leather shoulder pads. Same thing. Now I have lime green shoulder pad models floating above my character untextured. Or is there a texture that is "invisible"?

Yeah. It doesn't work for ALL armor though. Only for female specific armor items (items that are graphically different when females wear them then when males wear them). It doesn't work as much on the Pelvis area because the graphic for most of these armor pieces is usually identical for males and females. If the patch were to make these items transparent then they would also be transparent on the males which believe me you don't want. lol. An example of a legging that will be transparent is Black Mageweave Leggings.

REGARDING THE TRANSPARENCY ISSUE;


The data for transparency is in the TGA files that can be extracted by MyWarcraftStudio. For those of you with Photoshop, do the following;

1) Open the MPQ file in MyWarcraftStudio
2) Save the file as a TGA to whatever folder you choose
3) Open the TGA file in Photoshop
4) Click on the "Channels" Tab

Within the Channels, you can see there is an extra channel devoted to masking out whatever pixels are not actually used. These are used on Creature models (preserving hair effects, like on the Boar and Gnolls), to masking out clothing, for low cut shirts (for example.)

You can edit this channel by using the brush tool in Photoshop, and delete or add to the channel mask.


NOW, HERE'S THE HARD PART.....

How do we get this channel to remain a part of the TGA file as it's transferred to BLP? This is what I'm wondering. Right now, whenever I reskin my boar, his hair appears in solid chunks instead of being masked out, sadly. Same goes for the clothing thing, and that's why a few posters have ended up with the "turtleneck" effect on their characters, because the areas that SHOULD be masked out aren't getting masked out when they're being brought back into WoW's graphics renderer.

So, in conclusion, it isn't a specific color that is acting as a mask, rather it is a separate channel that isn't translating BACK to WoW's BLP format. Someone (a programmer) needs to take this into mind when creating a TGA->BLP converter, something I'm not handy with. If anyone can take this task upon them, that should be the last hurdle to many skinning issues.

If perhaps the author of the BMP->BLP converter could make a version that supports 24bit or 32bit with Alpha channels, then we'd have problem solved! =)

nevermind i got it :D
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v650/Dr_faustus/DoctorFaustus.jpg[/IMG]
now someone make a good naked succubus!

...or just make a plugin to let Photoshop open and save blp's directly without the conversion....

I just wanted to know if these modifications will be affected by any new patch updates in the future?

Edited, Tue Aug 9 10:02:51 2005 by desima

If a future patch changes a texture by simply dropping folders into Data, it might overwrite any custom files you have in there on the same path and filename. There could even be a command in the patch installer to delete the Data folder... So far, when they have changed art, the MPQ gets changed, and regular folders aren't used.

Oh, um, sorry for the confusion.. that was a joke. She doesn't have any gear. So "wearing all her gear" is completely nude. I'll hafta make sure to specify that in my update.

Awsome work guys, I went on my girlfriends laptop, and made the mods to make NE females naked, and i whispered her when i got home, and told her to strip down her character, and she started screaming, "Thats never happened before, OMG shes naked naked!!!" Ahahaha....


Anyways, the next step for you guys is to make all class sets( beaststalker, devout, etc) into sexy see-through lingere with the transparent mods ;)

It seems some people are leaning away from what Zetan calls "Type 2" patches due to some systems having problems with transparency. For systems that don't like transparent textures, could someone please do the following? (And then post whether this has helped, as I'm curious.)

Underneath the directory where WoW should be an already-existing DATA directory, which is what I refer to in these directions.

First, rename (or backup if desired, and completely erase/remove) the DATA\Item directory and DATA\Characters directories if they exist. (They will only exist if you've been using other patches.) On my system, these directories don't cause any problems, and they aren't incompatible with this patch. If you're having problems with the transparencies, though, do this.

MyWarCraftStudio: Extract DBFilesClient\CharSections.dbc from DBC.MPQ
Charsect.exe: Run this patch in the same place where CharSections.dbc is.
If all goes well after running CharSect.exe, you'll have two files: OrgCharSections.dbc (which is the original file that you extracted from DBC.MPQ), and CharSections.dbc (which is the newly modified version).
If you have OrgCharSections.dbc created, then CharSections.dbc is probably modified the way it should be. Place the resulting modified file into DATA\DBFilesClient\CharSections.dbc

You should now be able to remove anything your character is wearing and see the basic textures underneath, without needing to use any transparency graphics, so hopefully this will help those systems that had such problems. See if this works. Then, before trying anything else and messing something else up and getting discouraged, come visit this site and make sure that someone, possibly yourself, has posted the results of these steps so far have been posted.

Then, if you like, you can rename-back the Data\Character directory or install other patches. Note that anything named (RaceName)FemaleNakedPelvisSkin00_0?.blp or (RaceName)FemaleNakedTorsoSkin00_0?.blp will not have any effect as long as the modified DATA\DBFilesClient\CharSections.dbc file exists. That's okay, though, because this "patch" is one more reason for people to be using the patches that use the (RaceName)FemaleSkin00_0?.blp name/format instead.

Credit for this implementation goes to stormfrog for his post on page 10, although I suspect his idea was largely overlooked due to inaccuracies in the directions (should look for "Naked", not "Nude"), and that it seems many here aren't very comfortable with hex editing (which is why I made the CharSect.exe). So, I thought I'd make it easier for people and point out that this may be a solution for those with transparency struggles.



ShadySnake did! Hmm, I can't quickly find his actual post to the zip file, but Zetan links to it in his giant post at the top of page 13.

(Edit: I originally posted saying Zetan's post was at the top of page 12. It's page 13.)

Edited, Tue Aug 9 15:39:00 2005 by TOOGAM

What I'm saying is, making blank .BLP files is alot different than actually editing a texture. Alot of people throughout this thread (including myself) tried all the TGA to BLP converters around... none of them worked until Ahriana posted Taktaal's BMP to BLP converter. In all honesty I don't believe the transparent .BLP's you've been making are even being read by WoW as being transparent but invalid; but they work apparently so it's irrelevant.

For load screens and static graphics, yes, the TGA converter will work. But for any texture that needs to be wrapped around a model; usually all you'll get is distortion of some kind.

Cloth_C_05Black_Pant_LU_F.blp is the upper part of female Black Mageweave Leggings, if you pull it from MyWCstudio; if you convert to TGA and then back to BLP alone you'll see what I mean.