Displaying World of Warcraft/WC 3 special effects (projectiles, explosions, spells etc.) in Blender?

[Xandrad]

Hello community,

i just would like to ask if there is some way of importing special effects from World of Warcraft/WC 3 into Blender, displaying them there, and then their shape (or model) convert into static shape or mesh. For example fire glowing fel orbs of Kaelthas.

 

[PurgeandFire]

I haven't personally tested the importer with effects, but AFAIK the most well-maintained version of a blender importer for wc3 is outlined here:

[3D Art] - Importing War3 (SD and HD) models into Blender

Hey there, this post's task is to outline the simplest way to get a model straight from the game into Blender. Required programs: CascView Blender (latest is probably the best, 4+ at the time of writing, subject to update when the plugin updates) Importer plugin: Tw1lac's maintained version of...

www.hiveworkshop.com

As for WoW, it is a bit of a hot mess at the moment iirc because WoW model viewer isn't being maintained anymore. I think the old versions of WoW model viewer had some FBX export options (which could then be imported into Blender), and with some online research you can find download links to older WoW clients so you can use legacy versions of WoW model viewer. But I remember trying that about a year ago and I ran into too many issues getting it to work. But for a more native approach, people usually use wow.export and then you could try using an importer like this one: GitHub - ThatAsherGuy/WoWbjectImporter: A World of Warcraft Model Importer for Blender

 

[Xandrad]

I haven't personally tested the importer with effects, but AFAIK the most well-maintained version of a blender importer for wc3 is outlined here:

[3D Art] - Importing War3 (SD and HD) models into Blender

Hey there, this post's task is to outline the simplest way to get a model straight from the game into Blender. Required programs: CascView Blender (latest is probably the best, 4+ at the time of writing, subject to update when the plugin updates) Importer plugin: Tw1lac's maintained version of...

www.hiveworkshop.com

As for WoW, it is a bit of a hot mess at the moment iirc because WoW model viewer isn't being maintained anymore. I think the old versions of WoW model viewer had some FBX export options (which could then be imported into Blender), and with some online research you can find download links to older WoW clients so you can use legacy versions of WoW model viewer. But I remember trying that about a year ago and I ran into too many issues getting it to work. But for a more native approach, people usually use wow.export and then you could try using an importer like this one: GitHub - ThatAsherGuy/WoWbjectImporter: A World of Warcraft Model Importer for Blender

Thank you i will try the one with wow.export. I found also some addon connected with WMV called Wow Blender Studio that can to some extent display spells and some effects but still wow particle effects not. It seems that Blender is not able to display wow spells only by importing them.