Compress into a mdx

[Eric_Man]

This may be a dumb question, but is there any way to take a modified model, skin, and portrait and just smash them all together into one mdx file?

 

[Hawkwing]

No, because singular things can't be put together. That would require multiple things.

 

[Eric_Man]

I'm not sure...exactly what you mean there.. and if it isn't possible then how do some completely custom models have textures and portraits in one file?

 

[Technomancer]

It's highly likely that those custom models will be using textures already located in the games MPQ, hence they don't need to be re-imported. As to the portraits, they've probably added a camera to the in game model, which is used as a portrait in the absence of an additional portrait file.

 

[Eric_Man]

That helps a lot, thanks

 

[Dr Super Good]

This may be a dumb question, but is there any way to take a modified model, skin, and portrait and just smash them all together into one mdx file?

Yes that is possiable and simply requires rewriting the .mdx format to support both image data and model data in one. Ofcourse this is impractile though as no existing program (including WC3) will recognise the new .mdx file as a valid .mdx model and so it will not load.

 

[Linaze]

And why would you even want to do this?
It's not like the file size will get smaller, as the new .mdx will have a lot more shit in it.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Exactly, it would only save a few bytes in headers. It would lose efficency of shaired textures so in the end its best the way it currently is.