need help with adding weapon

[wolfman]

i made a cool weapon wit an emmiter and i wanna make a blademaster use it instead of his current weapon. can any1 help me by giving me a tutorial on how 2 switch a units weapon???
the programs i have are: vertexmodify, Wc3_Image_Extracor_II (doesnt rly work...), and War3ModelEditor

 

[Velmarshal]

Try first to attach it over ability, if it looks bad and probably will, continue.

 

[konerboy]

Check my tutorial out

use search next time , to remove the weapon you either need to do it with a model program (other tutorial somewhere) or use a image ediing program that can save/edit tga.

you can find the blademasters weapon in some of the Wc3 weapon packs

 

[NhazUl]

There is another way to do it, by attaching the weapon to the very model, out of game.

Run Oinkerwinkle's Geoset Merger. The tutorial is right here.

Note that the emitters will be gone. Then you gotta make them again in the new model, attached to the same bone that has the sword geoset attached.

 

[konerboy]

are you insane?!

why would he import a model?

when a skin is only 100kb and by the skin he can choose betwen different weapons without importing more, my adding a model he need a new model for each weapon.

 

[wolfman]

are you insane?!

why would he import a model?

when a skin is only 100kb and by the skin he can choose betwen different weapons without importing more, my adding a model he need a new model for each weapon.

konerboy, i dont rly see what ur trying to say.... what NhazUl told me made sense and worked. i dont understand wat ur trying to tell me to do

 

[konerboy]

it's just that it takes so much more space

 

[NhazUl]

Yyyyup, you're right about the size. But as a single-player-map-making-guy I pay no attention to that. Well, wolfman, everything depends on your current needs.

If you want to have, say, a grunt and a blademaster both armed with a hammer, then import the weapon model only and attach it as an item ability to the left/right hand of the units. But in this case you will have to import also weaponless Grunt and Blademaster models.

If your only concern is a single model, you'd better geomerge it. Choice is yours to make.