Warcraft III Reforged Art Tools for 3D Studio Max

[Spacebuns]

This is great!

 

[_lycan]

woah, great

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Added a tutorial on my github page from WoW to WC3 Reforged, used the druid bear as an example:

 

[Symphoneum]

Hi @Taylor Mouse, I am trying to export a model using your tool and I am running into the error pictured below:

I have reinstalled the plugin, reinstalled 3Ds Max, and generally exhausted all of my limited capabilities and the knowledge I could glean from google searches trying to fix this issue. Can you help me? I used to be able to run your plugin but the new release, while much improved and I can tell superior to the previous iteration, has absolutely stopped me from progressing. Please help! I'm attaching my Max file and textures below, hopefully that helps. You can find me on Retera's discord if you would like to discuss in that forum or shoot me a DM if you prefer. I am also on the hive regularly.

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Hey man, a big thanks to pointing out this error, it was a global variable that needed to be instanciated but it was referring to the debug variable from my WC3 script, not the reforged one.

This is fixed now and checked in in my main branch in git!

 

[Retera]

Hey, this is in the tools section now! Will we finally end Retera's Reign of Terror when people start to realize that certain parts of the Retera Model Studio UI was directly inspired by the old 2000's War3ArtTools stuff, and that stuff was a 3ds max plugin?

(I will probably always keep using my code because of the sunk cost fallacy and that kind of thing, but it's fun to joke about this because I know a lot of people wish that my, uhh, "tech support" (or lack thereof), was better funded, haha)

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Hey, this is in the tools section now! Will we finally end Retera's Reign of Terror when people start to realize that certain parts of the Retera Model Studio UI was directly inspired by the old 2000's War3ArtTools stuff, and that stuff was a 3ds max plugin?

(I will probably always keep using my code because of the sunk cost fallacy and that kind of thing, but it's fun to joke about this because I know a lot of people wish that my, uhh, "tech support" (or lack thereof), was better funded, haha)

TO be honest, I am a little jealous of the tool you made
but, since I've been doing max since the DOS version ( yes I am that old ) I never abandoned it

And yeah, I did to use the old art tools as a reference ( mixed with what SC2 Art Tools gives you )

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Bug found in the exporter, never noticed, cuz I was just importing and exporting from WC3Ref anyways
it was facing the wrong direction all the time
I made a bugfix which is currently being tested

keep you posted

 

[Taylor Mouse]

@Symphoneum I cannot be more thankfull for the testing and nice coop for bringing my code to a usable tool

 

[Symphoneum]

@Symphoneum I cannot be more thankfull for the testing and nice coop for bringing my code to a usable tool

I was very glad to help! This is a really excellent resource, I highly recommend anyone with access to 3DS Max try it

 

[eejin]

I'm having issues getting textures to load. I've unpacked the CASC somewhere and named the toplevel folder "Assets", yet it does not load in any textures. The shared textures path is "C:\Users\User\Desktop\WC3 1.32 CASC\Assets\textures\".

 

[Taylor Mouse]

lets continue this topic in the discord

 

[lcfklcf]

Your tools will bring this game back to life，I look forward to using you tools to make and transplant excellent models, which will surely attract a large number of people

 

[MrBrown42]

Hello. Amazing thing. Very thx author, but I have problem. Can't open MDX from Reforged.

I using cascview to extract MDX from Reforged. And after, when i try to open it, i see this error.

Spoiler: error img

And Strange. I also have one MDX (HD) from internet. And with that model it works.

 

[Retera]

I using cascview to extract MDX from Reforged.

Hi MrBrown,

The Reforged model format was updated one month ago in the new patch that also added Ladder to the Reforged. Because all models in the game are now in a different format, the 3dx max tool will need a software change to open models from the new version of Reforged. @Taylor Mouse

 

[8Yaron8]

Hi everyone, as Retera wrote in the comment above, some models are cannot be imported into 3DS Max at all, it’s good that I made a backup of the game content. I initially wanted to import the human Arthas model, but I found a defect in his left eye, for some reason it was rigged from the upper eyebrow, and I don’t know how to correct such errors. Perhaps this defect has been fixed in the new version of the game, but it cannot be loaded. Also, textures are not loaded onto the model, but this is not critical since I can look at the model in Retera's Model Studio.

Addition, I found a solution for importing, for this you need to export the model using Model Studio and save where do you want. Unfortunately, even the model from the new version of the game has the same defect with the eye.

 

[8Yaron8]

I have a problem, the new version of the script imports models with a darkened mesh, which makes it difficult for these models to put light in the SFM (Source Filmmaker), the model simply turns it off. The old version of the script did not have this problem (i'm using 3DS max 2017). How can I fix this problem without using an old version of the importer (The GriffonStudios one)?

 

[yxq1122]

This is a Great tool.

 

[SuperBRO]

Hi @Taylor Mouse, I am trying to export a model using your tool and I am running into the error pictured below:

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I have reinstalled the plugin, reinstalled 3Ds Max, and generally exhausted all of my limited capabilities and the knowledge I could glean from google searches trying to fix this issue. Can you help me? I used to be able to run your plugin but the new release, while much improved and I can tell superior to the previous iteration, has absolutely stopped me from progressing. Please help! I'm attaching my Max file and textures below, hopefully that helps. You can find me on Retera's discord if you would like to discuss in that forum or shoot me a DM if you prefer. I am also on the hive regularly.

Where can I download a free working version of this 3D Max software?

 

[Retera]

a free working version of this 3D Max software?

I have a hunch that for legal reasons this is a question Hive probably is not allowed to answer in the way that you have stated it.

If I'm not mistaken, 3DS Max costs several thousand dollars per year in subscription fees, or maybe there was a version for independent creators that costs $250 ish per year if you are not going to be doing commercial work that makes good money and you just want to do personal stuff on a single person license.

It's been a while since I investigated that, and the better place to get the answer would be the Autodesk website.

Edit:
this link includes a "Free" Trial:

https://www.autodesk.com/products/3ds-max/overview?term=1-YEAR&tab=subscription

 

[SuperBRO]

Can you please teach me how to correctly and easily merge Reforged model maps into a single texture for Classic using your tooling, just like the RMS tool does?


RMS is indeed good at merging maps into one texture, but it often adds too many black spots to many model textures. I would really appreciate it if you could guide me on how to achieve this properly.