Mdlvis 1.41

[Moderator]

20:10, 9th Nov 2013
Ralle:

 

[-JohnrheyCastor-]

HEY!can i make models with this tool?

 

[moshimashi]

This tool is already posted.

 

[Roland]

Sorry, but this tool is already posted in the site.

 

[Kwaliti]

This tool is already posted.

Sorry, but this tool is already posted in the site.

Can any of you two link towards it?

 

[Statharas]

This tool is already posted.

Sorry, but this tool is already posted in the site.

Uuugh, nope.

 

[CreatorD3292]

I saw someone i know in the picture :">

 

[xorkatoss]

hmm this is weird, hive didn't have mdlvis all this time?
also which version is it? there is a version that's buggy in the preview...too bad i can't test now...

 

[Munich]

Great!

 

[PratamaJr]

Crash?? Help me

 

[masterbielski]

What is better in this tool than w3 model editor?

 

[Kallineon]

can someone help me with UV map editor. can i somehow change .blp tiles in UV map editor, for example blizzard have ice.blp, and I want put some another .blp like flame4.blp?

 

[Kyrbi0]

I was about to be all "HEY GUYS, I FINALLY FOUND THE CREATOR!", but I just checked the topic and hey, it's right there at the top in the Credits. Guess I just never thought to look. :<

Anyway, it's still a cool read (hard to do so with the Google Translate, but...). Original text here.

 

[Alok]

Can someone explain to me why this tool has (outdated) Warcraft 3 game files in its folder? The tool (only the .exe) is supposed to go into the Warcraft III directory (to use the game files). There is a possibility that these old-patch game files create an incompatibility which affects the models edited with this tool on the new patches (some of these old-patch files are even differently named than the new ones and one of them doesn't exist any more in the new patches).
On the other hand, when I downloaded the tool from xgm.ru (there, only the .exe is provided) and put it into the Warcraft 3 directory, MdlVis was really unstable and shaking all the time, which draws me to the conclusion that MdlVis is maybe incompatible with the new patches, and that's why it needs old Warcraft 3 game files to function properly.

Edit: If you tick "Workplane" on the right, there is no more shaking and unstableness with the new-patch files. You can use the new-patch files without any problem instead of using the provided old-patch files. The shaking exists with the old-patch files too when "Workplane" isn't ticked, it's just that the Hive download has a pre-set setup with it ticked. You can also copy the new-patch files from the Warcraft 3 folder into another folder which contains MdlVis.exe for MdlVis to use them separately from the game.

 

[Kyrbi0]

That's a strange set of issues... Not sure I've had it, myself (either the shaking or the incompatibility)...

 

[Alok]

That's a strange set of issues... Not sure I've had it, myself (either the shaking or the incompatibility)...

Untick the "Workplane" on the right and it will shake anyway. And for incompatibility, I'm not sure, but it's possible that those old outdated files create some kind of an incompatibility.

 

[EdwardElric]

Alerts: "It has been a while since you downloaded Mdlvis. Please consider leaving feedback and a rating."
Well, wanted to answer following question anyway, since there still is no info in the description:

also which version is it?

- It's Mdlvis1.40Eng [2007_03_06] (Alexey2005) & i think it's still the latest...

my feedback:
- bad: annoying bug: you cannot open MDL files with any comments inside (= "//...")
- good: strong in MDX/MDL conversion: for converting i would prefer mdlvis, because it could convert the human cannon tower (the one with 3rd upgrade) while Magos just gave error msg!

 

[Toaster]

Well...Use this can crash model's normals...So any other tools can be use??

 

[Hookpuc]

Nice work I like it!!!

 

[loktar]

Since 1.29 I get the error "Can't unpack BLPs" and textures won't load.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

[Lt_Hawkeye]

You can fix it by having copies of the mpqs in the same folder as the mdllvis program.

 

[loktar]

Doesn't work with 1.29 files
edit: I copied the MPQs from a 1.27 installer I still had on my computer

 

[HerrDave]

This seems like a fairly roundabout solution

Can you tell me where you found your old .MPQs, please?

*Edit
Catastrophic grammatical error on my part

 

[Kyrbi0]

"Roundabout"?

I don't know about him, but I simply copy-pasted the MPQs from my standard Wc3 install folder a long time ago, when it was readily available (v1.26 maybe?). Since the MPQs are now 'hidden', all these old programs that directly utilize them will need a copy to continue doing so (& will probably miss out on anything new added (as unlikely as that is)).

It's worked pretty well for me so far.

 

[HerrDave]

What I mean is, I can't find the original .MPQs and I'm wondering if I've gone and overwritten them by accident.

If this is the case, this update effectively ended my modeling and animating for Wc3.

 

[Kyrbi0]

What I mean is, I can't find the original .MPQs and I'm wondering if I've gone and overwritten them by accident.

I don't know about 'overwritten', but from what I have learned (don't quote me on this), one of the newer updates to Warcraft 3 changed it's back-end in a number of substantial ways; most pertinently, it 'removed' or rather 'hid' the MPQs 'behind the scenes' so they are not readily accessible anymore. This has caused some frustration to folks like me who depend on custom MPQs for my stuff, and for people using those 3rd-party modeling tools (also like me) that depend on them as well.

If this is the case, this update effectively ended my modeling and animating for Wc3.

Oh come now, no need to be hyperbolic. : ) I'm 100% sure you can get a copy of the older MPQs from somebody here (if it isn't already uploaded somewhere on the Hive). Heck I'd do it if I could figure out how.

 

[loktar]

I used to have the Mdlvis .exe in the WC3 folder, that's why I didn't have any copies of the MPQs.
I still had a 1.27 installer for both ROC and TFT downloaded from battle.net on my computer so I just copied the MPQs from that (they're in the Installer Tome.mpq).

I also have the War3ModelEditor .exe in the WC3 folder, which still works fine.

 

[HerrDave]

Could I persuade you to upload your 1.27 MPQs in pastebin?

 

[loktar]

MPQs aren't allowed in pastebin

 

[HerrDave]

Ach, my .MPQs straight off the disks didn't work

*Edit 4 years later
Yes they do!
You have to put them in the same folder as the executable, not Warcraft 3's installation directory.

 

[Rolo]

I also seem to have the same problem. And I really need Mdlvis up and running again smoothly. Are 1.27 MPQ's somewhere to be found on the Hive?

 

[loktar]

You could try torrenting the game. I found a 1.26 portable version (no install required so can run side-by-side with your real install) on TPB (which I needed to get JNPG to work). It's not illegal if you already own the game.

 

[Lt_Hawkeye]

having a problem with mdlvis causing the model to crash during loading of the map even without using any of the optimizer features when saving some models in it.

 

[Rolo]

Maybe this thread can help you: I edited a model with mldvis but when i put it in the game crashes

 

[Retera]

Is this tool open source? I might like to play with the code.

If you need old style MPQs, here's a quick fix: download build 3 from this MiniWc3 link, it's 100 MB and contains ultracompressed MPQs from before the new patches:

https://www.hiveworkshop.com/attachments/build3-zip.259156/

When MdlVis loads the ultracompressed textures they're going to look low-resolution, but I think it should get the program working again if you were stuck and don't like torrenting.

 

[Rolo]

Hey, that works! I don't mind the low-resolution, I can at least see what I am doing now without having to open up my model in magos model editor the whole time. Thanks a lot!

 

[Kyrbi0]

Honestly, Magos does a few things that MDLvis doesn't/can't so gosh-darn well that I end up keeping both open all the time anyway. :< But yeah, glad you got that fixed.

 

[NelsonLaJe]

this program have any improvement for the 1.30?

 

[Retera]

I am not aware of whether the developers of Mdlvis or Magos are still active at all. If they are active, I should talk to them about merging codebases with the Matrix Eater and building one single tool. So, if there is somebody updating Mdlvis out there, please message me.

 

[FlameStarter1-0]

Couldnt get it to work

 

[carcanosc]

Hello I want to know how put birth animation with this program thanks step to step

 

[loktar]

I found a newer version: [TOOL] MDLVIS 1.41 (Eng)
Attaching it to this post in case the download link goes down.

@eejin Maybe update the bundle with it?

 

[Rasamayu]

Great

 

[Kyrbi0]

I found a newer version: [TOOL] MDLVIS 1.41 (Eng)
Attaching it to this post in case the download link goes down.

@eejin Maybe update the bundle with it?

Newer?? Like, someone's updated it?

 

[HolyWolf]

good tool. love it. 5/5

 

[planetleathers]

The perfect editing program for old WAR 3 models.
Easy to use even for beginners.

 

[RanchBurner]

Hey, when I try to open a Reforged model, I get a "range check error".

 

[Astalid]

Bug After Upgrading to Windows 11
Unable to turn off visibility.
T_T

 

[Bleeq]

Bug After Upgrading to Windows 11
Unable to turn off visibility.
T_T

Having the same prob with one of my geosets; it was giving me an error message before, now just doesn't change it as seen in the gif.
I'm on win7 though... so probably not an OS issue XD