[SD/Modeling] Broken Beta Assets

[PiesOfNorth]

Hi.

This is in the interest of my War3 RoC Beta Restoration project.

I've got a few assets from the Beta MPQ that i tried to extract import into my maps but they all have different issues.

• Ancient of Wind Portrait: This one has a different camera angle than in retail. When imported into the modern game, it doesn't seem to use the intended camera angle.

RESOLVED ITEMS:

• Graveyard: This one seems to have a few extra large pillars around it compared to retail. Retera's model studio crashes when trying to open it.
• Human Barracks: This one has different flags from retail because its 'Garrison' texture is slightly different. I used blp0to1 to convert the Garrison texture Retera's to update the texture paths, but it crashes in-game.
• Undead UI Console: Retera informed me that the Undead UI has a slightly yellower tint in the beta. I once again used blp0to1 but the converted textures in-game look like a garbled mess.
• Wisp Lumber Harvest Effect: TargetArtLumber.mdx This model also crashes in Retera.

I'd be grateful if anyone would be willing to take a crack at fixing them up, or let me know if these have already been fixed elsewhere.

Thanks.

 

[tillinghast]

use whiteouttex to convert textures instead, it works with blp0
TargetArtLumber has a fixed version in this bundle
Graveyard looks identical to me, but it uses a different GraveMarker.mdx (obelisk instead of gravestone) model (also in the bundle above)

 

[PiesOfNorth]

use whiteouttex to convert textures instead, it works with blp0

Nice!
I tried using it to re-convert the Garrison blp0 texture to dds.

It no longer crashes the game, but instead looks like this in the World Editor.

Are there any particular settings I should be using here?

 

[tillinghast]

i used this (i can't help you if you're on reforged)

as for the Ancient of Wind portraits, both beta and regular use animated translation and rotation for camera, which moves/rotates the camera itself instead of model, some model viewers can't show that, RMS can though, and it shows properly in-game

HumanBarracks beta skin i think uses some orc clan banner there by mistake?

 

[PiesOfNorth]

Thanks! That fixes those.

In the beta, the Ancient of Wind portrait model displays like this. I can't really explain why, but it doesn't look the same in the new war3 client.

In my map , the same model appears like this: