Blender 2.8 WC3 Exporter does not create Bitmap / Texture path missing in MDL (Warcraft 3 1.26)

[Suspected]

Hello.
I am having a serious issue exporting a model from Blender 2.8 to Warcraft 3 (Classic 1.26).
Previously everything worked fine, but now the exporter does not create a Bitmap block in the MDL file. The model exports, the material exists, but there is no Textures {} section and no path to the texture.

Setup:​

• Warcraft 3 version: 1.26 (Classic)
• Blender version: 2.8
• WC3 MDL exporter addon (2.8 compatible)
• Retera Model Studio 0.04.5 (for testing)

What happens:​

After export, the MDL contains:

Materials 1 {
Material {
ConstantColor,
Layer {
FilterMode None,
static TextureID 0,
static Alpha 1,

But there is NO:

Textures {
Bitmap {
Image "..."
}
}

So TextureID 0 points to nothing.

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What I already checked:​

• Image Texture node is connected directly to Principled BSDF → Base Color
• Only one material assigned
• UV map exists and is properly unwrapped
• Render engine is Eevee
• Texture file name uses only Latin characters
• Texture file is saved to disk (not generated)
• Texture is unpacked (not packed inside blend)
• Model and textures are placed in a simple folder like: D:\WC3\Test\
• Tested in a completely new Blender file with a cube

Still no Bitmap block is generated.

 

[Suspected]

Turns out I completely overlooked the small MDL Texture panel in the addon where the texture path must be specified manually. The exporter wasn’t reading the Blender shader node like I assumed.
After setting the texture path there, the Bitmap block was generated correctly.
For safety, I also converted the MDL to MDX and everything works fine now.
Sorry for the confusion — this one was on me.