Importing, Tried Everything...

[chrisbidy]

Hi
I've been trying to import various skins, but for me, they just won't apply to the unit it used. I've searched through the forum and tried everything each importing post said. Maybe I'm doing something wrong..

Import the blp (have tried both downloaded and my own), name the custom path in the import manager to the unit's path (ex. units/NightElf/Archer/Archer.blp), and have also tried naming the blp file to what it was saved as (ex. units/NightElf/Archer/Differentname.blp). Also tried Textures/Archer.blp or Textures/Differentname.blp. I've even tried different capitalizations. Have tried to apply skins to units other than Archer too.

Restarted world editor. Placed a few of the unit I tried to apply the skin to, with no luck of course.

I've even tried reinstalling world editor, of course that didn't work. Any help to fix this would be great...

 

[Rui]

It's actually Units/Nightelf/Archer/archer.blp -.-'
You should download Wc3Viewer in the Tools Section. So that you can view a list of paths. <.<

-Rui

 

[chrisbidy]

Yeah, like I said, I've tried that path too. Also, I have WC3 Viewer, that's how I've been testing out how the skins look before I import them.

One thing I noticed is on a sorceress skin, nothing will be applied unless its named BloodElfSorceress.blp. Any other name, including sorceress.blp, doesn't work.

 

[Rui]

That depends. There is an option named "extra version" or something like that. Remember that high elven priests and sorceress had white capes in reign of chaos? And in The Frozen Throne the priest has a grey/black cape for example. If you apply bloodelfsorceress, the skin will be applied on the sorceress of TFT. And so on.

-Rui

 

[chrisbidy]

Ah, well that makes sense about the sorceress. But any ideas about any other unit?

 

[helixic]

i've been having the same problem when importing. i downloaded a grunt skin, imported, put the correct path from wc3viewer, restarted, and it isnt applying

 

[Novairo]

hi

look at myy post just 1 bellow yours

""R u stuck and cant get skins to work""

 

[chrisbidy]

Eh, just tried what you said, both RoC and TFT, neither did the trick. Any other ideas, anyone?

 

[Novairo]

hi

can u show me wat skin u got and ill try to do it

 

[chrisbidy]

Well... thats the thing. I just found out ghoul skins will work with the usual procedure, sorceress skins need to be named bloodelfsorceres.blp, but other than that, nothing else works. I've tried many archer skins, none working, tried abom skins, none work, so I highly doubt over 10 skins are corrupted...

 

[Novairo]

hi

sorceress dont need to b called bloodelf

i made a sorc skin and did this

units\human\sorceress\sorceress.blp

and changed modeltype too RoC

just wondering do u have

WE unlimited

 

[chrisbidy]

Well I don't mind using bloodelfsorceress as the file name for sorceress skins, I just want to be able to use a skin for units other than ghouls and sorceresses, and no, I don't use unlimited.

 

[Novairo]

hi

go to tools and download we unlimited it helps bigtime