Blue Blood Mage fire (works in Patch 1.33!)

[Ardenaso]

Don't forget to download this one, courtesy of @poisoNDealer

Hello. I restored color of your pkb files, it works at 1.33 patch now.
Btw the flame effect during spell cast still have the original color. I think it use another popcornfx file.
But I only found and used two pkbs from first attachment of this post Blue Blood Mage fire

 

[Ardenaso]

made a slight "hotfix" today

 

[Fugrim]

Really nice! Played dodgeball with both versions
Everything looks and feels solid

 

[DepRa]

does not work. Models are invisible, they just don't exist. In the program they open, but they are not. Fire popcorn doesn't work either.

 

[Fugrim]

does not work. Models are invisible, they just don't exist. In the program they open, but they are not. Fire popcorn doesn't work either.

You must have not set something well. I worked for me...

 

[Ardenaso]

does not work. Models are invisible, they just don't exist. In the program they open, but they are not. Fire popcorn doesn't work either.

have you also downloaded the pkb files?

 

[DepRa]

Вы наверное что-то не так установили. Я работал на меня...

 

[Fugrim]

I can show you the steps I did but not right now. Got some issues I need to fix first then I will add a detail step by step guide that might help you have them

 

[Ardenaso]

have you also set the mode from SD -> HD?

 

[DepRa]

have you also set the mode from SD -> HD?

yes

 

[Fugrim]

Hello friend!
Sorry it took a while.
So first these are all the files you will need to have for this to work & High Elf Mage
I added all the files together in the .zips
Now to make them work these are the steps I did
1.Set the models I wanted to have the blue spheres

• Open World Editor and import everything / remember these will ONLY work for Blood Mages and Kael'thas
• In Object Editor -> Copy & paste the new custom units for Blood mage or Kael depending on what you want
• Add the high elf model that you want to them

2.Set the spheres

• Object Editor -> Abilities -> Human -> Units -> find Sphere -> copy & paste (change name) -> find Art - Missile Art -> delete old model and add imported model
• Do the same for Art - Target

• Object Editor -> Units -> go to the new custom units(or the original Kael or blood mage if you want) -> change the Combat - Attack 1 - Projectile Art to the blue missile (this will only change the attack)

• Different from the other models the Blood Mage and Kael have a second option in the Abilities - Normal & Abilities - Normal Skin -> you need to delete the old sphere and add the new custom one you added

• Do this for both Abilities - Normal & Abilities - Normal Skin then open save and open map

Results!

 

[Ardenaso]

High Elf Mage

you don't actually need this to work actually; I tried my assets on a different test map without the High Elf Mage assets and they worked fine

@DimaRussia here's a different tip from he: save your map as a "Warcraft III Scenario Folder", that will cause the map file to be a folder (but still appears as .w3n in the World Editor) then close the World Editor

Then on the folder, there should be an HD folder or something, if there's none you can create that folder with the exact name instead:

Then just simply copy-paste the downloaded files:

Then open the World Editor again and the map you're on; it should work

 

[Fugrim]

you don't actually need this to work actually; I tried my assets on a different test map without the High Elf Mage assets and they worked fine

Sorry I did not mean that it really needs the High Elf Mage. In my case I just used it for them
I added all the files from your work there to make it easy for anyone else to use your assets

 

[Fugrim]

спасибо, шары теперь работают. А вот тайный огонь ПКБ - нет. Почему? Я хочу, чтобы таким голубым огнём горел стандартный маг крови.

I understand the picture ,but not what you said English please
Also mine use blue flame on hands too you must have missed something

 

[Ardenaso]

спасибо, шары теперь работают. А вот тайный огонь ПКБ - нет. Почему? Я хочу, чтобы таким голубым огнём горел стандартный маг крови.

that popcorn there is embedded on the model itself; I can make a quick simple edit

 

[Ardenaso]

since this is most likely going to the shitter in patch 1.33 I'd like to request mods to put this in Restricted or something until it gets resolved

 

[wiselen]

Hello. I restored color of your pkb files, it works at 1.33 patch now.
Btw the flame effect during spell cast still have the original color. I think it use another popcornfx file.
But I only found and used two pkbs from first attachment of this post Blue Blood Mage fire

 

[Ardenaso]

Hello. I restored color of your pkb files, it works at 1.33 patch now.
Btw the flame effect during spell cast still have the original color. I think it use another popcornfx file.
But I only found and used two pkbs from first attachment of this post Blue Blood Mage fire

ah yeah, the model was supposed to showcase only the projectiles and the sphere effects; the model proper with different hand effect color would've been updated here were it not for 1.33; but thank you so much !

edit: btw, may I ask how you were able to do it?

 

[wiselen]

edit: btw, may I ask how you were able to do it?

Nothing special, just simple hex editing. The byte blocks that store color information are easy to find.

 

[fran bel]

Hello. I restored color of your pkb files, it works at 1.33 patch now.
Btw the flame effect during spell cast still have the original color. I think it use another popcornfx file.
But I only found and used two pkbs from first attachment of this post Blue Blood Mage fire

how did you modify the pkb to make it work in 1.33?

 

[Retera]

how did you modify the pkb

He did the "simple hex editing". When he says that, he is referring to changing the color of the pkb using an editor that can edit any arbitrary binary file on the computer.

 

[fran bel]

He did the "simple hex editing". When he says that, he is referring to changing the color of the pkb using an editor that can edit any arbitrary binary file on the computer.

So in theory he didn't use the pkb blaster?

 

[Ardenaso]

He did the "simple hex editing". When he says that, he is referring to changing the color of the pkb using an editor that can edit any arbitrary binary file on the computer.

do we still need the PKBlaster for this or no?

 

[Retera]

do we still need the PKBlaster for this or no?

you never needed it. it was merely a convenience

 

[Ardenaso]

you never needed it. it was merely a convenience

perhaps a tutorial for this one would be nice on your channel

 

[Retera]

yeah this is getting super off topic but here's a video of me using a hex editor on my channel, maybe that'll be what you need:

 

[Ardenaso]

yeah this is getting super off topic but here's a video of me using a hex editor on my channel, maybe that'll be what you need:

yikes I hope you could make a PKBlaster 2.0 with that one

 

[oilio]

Very good! I successfully used this effect in the game! Great!