Texture paths changing from MPQs to CASC

[tillinghast]

From the beginning to patch 1.20-whatever wc3 used MPQ archives. Said archives sometimes had duplicate textures in them.
Example: Units\Orc\Grunt\Grunt.blp in war3.mpq and Units\Other\OrcCar\Grunt.blp in war3patch.mpq

After 1.20-whatever nu-blizzard switched from MPQs to CASC and, in their infinite wisdom, decided to prune the duplicate textures. In doing so they sometimes didn't keep textures at their original place and instead put them at completely new filepath.
Example: my limited testing shown that Grunt.blp is now at Textures\Grunt.blp instead of old paths mentioned above

My question is: does there exist a comprehensive list of these new changed texture filepaths somewhere on hive?

 

[BogdanW3]

The change to casc was in 1.30.0, and to preserve map compatibility they created a file called filealiases.json in the casc itself to hold all the mappings. Referencing that file should answer all your questions

 

[tillinghast]

how do i do that while being on patch 1.26 myself

 

[BogdanW3]

Downloading a newer version? Or getting the file from someone else's copy or an online upload if one exists, idk.

 

[deepstrasz]

From the latest 2.0.4.