Simple Question

[RaijinSpark]

Well earlier i was planning to retexture a model and this is what i did

1.Open Wc3 Viewer and open the model i want to retexture

2.Conver the blp file into a Jpeg Image

3.Edit the Jpeg image to make a new texture

4.i convert it again to Blp (so the model's texture will become Different)

Now the model won't work it says the blp is missing.. now the question is how
to attach the new texture to the model??

 

[Revolve]

If i remember right your supposed to convert the .BLP image into a .TGA image.

Edit: Yeah, your supposed to save it as a .TGA file. Skin it, then convert it back to .BLP

 

[RaijinSpark]

that's what i did after converting it.. the skin doesn't work anymore

 

[Revolve]

I don't know, perhaps you should have converted it to .TGA in the first place... Or perhaps your skin is too big/small (pixel-wise)? I dunno, test making a new skin (just draw some black lines) and the convert to .BLP.

 

[RaijinSpark]

well what i was asking is how to attach the texture to the model "?"

 

[Hawkwing]

Make sure the file is in the appropriate location. If the path was, for example, "Textures/Mytexture.blp" you would need to make a folder within the folder that the model is in called "Textures" and place your skin in there.

If you don't want to be making a bunch of folders you can edit the path using a model editing program. A good program to do this in is Magos' War 3 Model Editor. It's in the Tools database somewhere. It's easy to use, so I don't imagine you'll be pulling your hair trying to fix this.

And, for the record, .tga is recommended for skin editing. Jpeg is bad for quality and the fact that it lacks alpha channels. .Bmp isn't much better either. Anyways, convert it to .tga for starters and convert it back to .blp when it's done.

 

[RaijinSpark]

i tried to open the model using wc3 Viewer it says "Can not find Test.blp" even if the blp is just on that the same folder..

 

[Linaze]

If the path is just the texture name, both the model and the texture need to be in the exact same folder. If that is so, perhaps the texture is named wrong?

 

[RaijinSpark]

well what i really need is..

Attach the texture to the model..

After attaching the texture i will now change the paths

 

[Linaze]

Oh.
You'll need Magos Model Editor, open the model in that program and go into the texture manager. Then right click somewhere in the texture manager window and choose Import and import your texture. Once imported, close the texture manager. Now CTRL + Click on the part you want to attach the texture to and go into the material manager, the part you CTRL + clicked on will be highlighted in this window, open this material and then that material's material layer and from there you can set the material's texture to your imported one, done.

 

[RaijinSpark]

can anyone lock this thread? i already know what to do =P