Texture problem

[H Con]

I created an Air Lord texture (based on firelord, simple recolour) and used Magos' model editor to create and Air lord using this skin. Then I imported it into WE, restarted, and created an air lord hero in object editor. The problem was that the texture was "gone" even if WE didn't show any error messages. So all I saw was team color and glow. What have I done wrong?

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

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Sorry Wolverabid, done your job.

 

[Arab4life]

WOLVERABID, COME QUICK, KAIT IS STEALING YOUR JOB!!

And H-CON, post the skin here and ill see what i can do.

 

[THE_END]

Yea post the skin
Your alpha channels are probably messed up on it

 

[H Con]

The files

Well, here you got the blp, included the tga that the model is using right now. Hope you'll fix it.

 

[SuPa-]

I think Kaitech still wants to be a moderator lol
anyway, it's good that he's trying to help

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

I think Kaitech still wants to be a moderator lol
anyway, it's good that he's trying to help

Yep, still want to be a moderator laugh out loud.

 

[Arab4life]

H Con, whats the path for the firelord? I have no clue what it is.

 

[H Con]

The path is textures\heroavatarofflame (heroavatarofair for this texture) the model can be found in war3patch.mpq, in units/creeps

 

[NiRVaNa_87]

It´s "Textures\HeroAvatarFlame.blp"

 

[Arab4life]

Well i see what you mean by how its invisible.. Its only fire. I think that blizzard made the firelord use fire from another skin, possibly the normal fire skin to add the effect. Its in the model.

So, im not sure..

 

[Herio-san]

It has something to do with the texture Itself, not the model. Im not exactly sure what you did, Im taking a look at it right now.

Edit: Pretty sure I fixed it. Lemme check it in-game

Edit: Yup, it works now. Its a shame the blizzard model has the particles attached to it. Other than that I'd say the skin looks pretty nice.

Edit: Btw, just incase you were wondering what I did to fix it. I CnPd your texture into a new Photoshop document and saved it as a flat image. Then I went into the WC3 viewer and converted it to a .blp knowing that it would be missing the opaque layer and that the WC3 viewer could add it in for me. So I guess I could say I fixed the mistake with a mistake and let the WC3 viewer do the rest lol.

 

[H Con]

Thx.

 

[thisruoy]

how do u check where the path is?

 

[camel's_hump]

thisruoy please don't hijack threads. To check what the path is it is easiest to open up the Wc3viewer, open the model and go to Current files> Show used textures. The viewer is found here.