Changing villager texture Help

[SNIper of DARKness]

Hi there,

I was making a new Middle Eastern/Saracen faction for my map when I realised there aren't that many Arabic units on the site.
I tried to alleviate this problem by changing the textures of some of the models I have but I lack any knowledge on that.

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If somebody could help me by changing the texture of these models to the one of the Villager (Male 2) it would help a bunch.
The models that need re-texturing:
MountedVillagerManLight.mdx
VillagerSpearmanFixed.mdx

Some pictures from the map I am working on:

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Any help is appreciated.

 

[grunt]

here you go also here are the steps if you do wanna know how to do it

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- open your model with Warcraft3 Model Editor
- open the MPQ browser (Windows -> MPQ Browser)
- open the mpq that contain the texture (File -> War3.mpq/War3x.mpq (roc and tft resp.))
- find your texture then right clic on it and choose use as texture

- selecet the material to change in (Windows -> Material Manager)
note that you can Ctrl + left click on the mesh so that the material is highlighted on the material manager

- change the texture to the one you added

- sometimes the texture isn't wrapping well (speaking about textures that are the same ofc like recolors .etc in this case go to Windows -> Texture Manager then right clic on the texture and check wrap width and wrap height)
- if the old texture isn't used anymore remove it in the Texture manager by right clicking then Remove

 

[SNIper of DARKness]

Thank you i'll try to do the texture swapping myself.

Thanks to you I managed to change the textures of this model as well.

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But what do you mean by: "if the old texture isn't used anymore remove it in the Texture manager by right clicking then Remove"

 

[grunt]

Thanks to you I managed to change the textures of this model as well.

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But what do you mean by: "if the old texture isn't used anymore remove it in the Texture manager by right clicking then Remove"

oh nice
by that I meant the brown villager texture for exemple that you didn't need anymore

 

[Warseeker]

There is also another method to change a model's texture without modeling :

1 - Convert the Model file to .mdl format
2 - Open the .mdl file with Notepad.
3 - Find the texture you want to replace, it should look like this :

Textures 2 {
    Bitmap {
        Image "units\Critters\VillagerMan\VillagerMale.blp",
    }

4 - Change the path like this :

Textures 2 {
    Bitmap {
        Image "units\Critters\VillagerMan1\VillagerMale1.blp",
    }

5 - Save it.
6 - Convert the new .mdl file back to .mdx format

And, you're done!