Importing same base model into different units

[burnogaming]

Anyone knows how can I use the same base model (texture edited from hero to hero) on several differents heroes ?
I WANT to use the same model everytime, just making different the texture. So since the model is custom, I don't think I can just change their filenames.
What could I do ?

 

[Just_Spectating]

change the model's name in magos (Properties)
and change the skin it uses with the custom one, so that warcraft thinks that the custom skin is "the real skin" for the model

 

[burnogaming]

where can i tell it the skin it should use ?
I have my custommod1.mdx, i want to copy it to custommod2.mdx, but i want each of those to have a different texture, and then import each to a different hero, but i don't know how can i change the 'references' they uses.
sorry if i didn't get you the first time


i mean, my custommod1.mdx already has custommod1.blp as skin, which i modified, but then i want to use AGAIN the same model, with a different texture (and i am editing the models too with Vertex Modify, so basically i don't want to search for 20 similar models and edit them, just want to make all from one only)

 

[burnogaming]

anyone ? i need to solve this please so i can keep going.


thanks in advance

 

[burnogaming]

up up

 

[burnogaming]

ok i found the texture path editing the .mdl file with notepad.
can i change the models FILENAME then ? so i can tell which is the right one to import to each hero.

 

[burnogaming]

nevermind, i changed it with notepad also. now i got a model working and the original one doesn't u.u
trying to solve that
thanks just_spectating

 

[DeadZero]

Burnogaming, please try not to post 2 (or more) things one after another without anything inbetween... you can edit your posts using the

button.

 

[Dr Super Good]

You will need to reimport the model for each skin you want to use with the model using a slightly altered texture path (so the skins do not overwrite each other).

All in all, it was a major short falling in WC3 that you could not use replaceable textures with units like you could with destructables.