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So ... um i dont know if editing ItemDisplayInfo.dbc has helped you or not ... but how i changed appearances of items in legion was by changing the ItemModifiedAppearance.db2 You search in first column for the displayid (look it up on wowhead) and edit the second column which shows the visual ID

I believe everyone knows about the killing machine and vengeance/ divine purpose/ inquisition and numerous other hand glowing effects which have been in the game for the longest time. Now my question is: is there a way to change the color of these effects by editing the m2/skin files or is it possible to e.g. completetly change the current legion versions back to the old particle effects ? I know how to spell swap animations and effects in legion by editing the spellxspellvisual.db2 , but i also wanted to know in general about the changing of color. You may answer if you know how to do it in wotlk ... ill try and see what i can do then. Thx for the help

meanwhile ppl on retail want the old animations back ....

look... the legion models are different ... they have these new .bone files which i think are hindering the model from doing certain movements... in addition to that you might know that the .anim files are connected to the .m2 file .. so we should dig there to fully replace it somehow. I thought about porting forward the wod models to legion might help ... but they are different and i have no clue how to make them usable in legion.

i already tried that.... unfortunatly the model goes crazy and the screen starts flickering...

So. Since i know i am not the only one here looking for a way to get back the old racial attack animations for Humans and BloodElfs ... at least in my case. The problem with those is that the old racial special attacks have either been changed or completely removed. In addition to that we found out that editing SpellxSpellvisual.db2 with barnacles wdbx editor works to change spells back. Nethertheless some old animations cannot be brought back this way since as i have already mentioned they were removed or changed. As I have been messing around with casc the past few days and changing the models of Humans and BloodElfs I was able to find creatures who still posses the old animations. For example: HuM_Garrison_A_Guard & all Arthas models do have the old attack animations for Human male. HuF_Garrison_A_Archer for Human female. FELELFWARRIORMALE for Blood Elf Males. But the problem is not solved yet since using their .m2 files completely changes the look of your character. Armor aswell (except for shoulders... you can see your own shoulders which is strange). As you might have guessed im kinda lost at this point as i am missing further knowledge to "extract" these animations to import them into the normal models. So I hoped that some of you out there who are modding Legion aswell, might help me.

Ok folks. A little update: After consulting with Razmataz I was able to change spell animations back pre wod. For example: Templars Verdict ---> pre Legion spin The db file we were looking for is SpellXSpellvisual.db2 The problem was opening the file with the wdbx editor. To see how to open it read here: www.model-changing.net/forums/topic/430-solved-wod-spellvisualmissile/ PS: thx again to Razmataz. Really ty mate

"my up to date server" heh ... playing on retail .. but ill see what i can do ps: im just reverting the animations to their former glory. and srsly thx dude already it wouldnt have been possible without your fix ... i mean there are so many ppl looking for a way to change the animations back and this just helps soooooo much. I dont even have the words to describe my gratidude lol

would you mind explaining how ?? the converting to adb and back

Alright i see ... it works perfectly. except that it can only be edited once it seems, right ? because i cant open it again after editing some spells. And no i cant parse it either cause its unable to save for whatever reason. but hey i can change the spells i want once ... its something ... ive been searching for a way to do it for ages ! thx a lot mate

waaaait. how did you open spellxspellvisual ?! with barnacles wdbx editor ??? cause i always get an error on this file.

If you are looking for an extraction tool id recommend Casc Explorer. For further Legion modding like editing db2 files I recommend Barnacle´s WDBX editor.

Skarn the point is that everything past 335 is "too dumb" and "too complicated" and "not worth the time" ... and I remember Rangorn defending modding post 335 and I am with him. Wotlk is easy peasy ... but why dont you try and learn modding post 335 like Legion ? Whenever i asked something about legion here i mostly got "i only do wotlk stuff" and cant help you with that .. well what a great wow modding website ... and its fascinating how ppl are still developing tools for wotlk. And at this point my questin is ... why ?! I mean what else could you bring into that pot that is already more than full ?! Move on ! But wait that would require time for you to learn all the new complicated stuff...and then you would be on your own right ? Wrong because there are other ppl like from retail who dislike the new animations and shit which came with legion and ppl want to figure out how to change all that shit back to pre Legion. But appearantly ppl arent even able to answer simple questions because if they dont know the stuff they just say "google it" or "read on wowwiki" ... but spoiler alert: Wiki cant help me either because its all up to date. Sry i digress... To come back to my point. Here we have probably one of the most advanced modders in Legion and what does he get from standing for his cause ? Nothing but either hate because he wants you to move on with him or just questions because ppl want him to tell his methods. And yes. I would like to know aswell some things about modding in legion but i understand that he doesnt want to be like everybody´s bitch who does all the work while the others who are just too lazy to try and find it themselves are feasting upon his knowledge lol. But thats just me and my shitty opinion.

So... after so much struggle i finally found a way to simply change the item appearance. For that I just had to find the Item IDs of both shoulders and then modify the numbers in the following files: - items.db2 - itemModifiedAppearance.db2 - Item-Sparse.db2 After finding the IDs of both shoulder models, I just changed then numbers of the model i wanted to change to the same as the model i wanted to get. Basically changes the look and effects of the item ingame, but for some reason not in the character screen. So there I will have to continue searching. But for now I am really happy that I finally made it... geez.... just used wowdev.wiki and read a lot about the db2 files and their structure. Also if someone out there is looking for a db2 editor. Get the barncastle´s WDBC editor. It works perfectly. EDIT: appearantly it is enough to just modifiy the entries in ItemModifiedAppearance.db2

Is it possible to port the old holy swirl glowing effects from wotlk to legion ? They heavily nerfed the effects in wod to a simple golden mist and id really like to change that. Anyone experienced enough with forward porting or legion modding ?? Rangorn maybe ?

wait so basically what you are saying that even though you are one of the few ppl who are actually working on wod/ legion modding you are too selfish to share your great methods ? i mean i saw what you are able to do lol kalashnikov in legion .. and yet you dont want to share your stuff with the world ? I mean im struggling with changing animations in legion and i would highly appreciate it if you could help me with that lol, but whatever ...

unfortunatly not ... i did change some ids of spells which i found in spellvisualanim with the help of spell.db2. For example i equaled the numbers for Templar´s Verdict and the old version of the spell (yes i found both variations) and yet no change... then i tried changing it to mortal strike or crusader strike yet without any success... so thats probably not the file i am (or we ?) are looking for

ye np mate ^^

Ye jh is still releasing cracked .exe files. http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-warcraft-bots-programs/501200-repost-sig-md5-protection-remover-3.html just search for 5.x.x throughout his post

well ... i guess it cant be helped then. Anyways ty guys for your efforts and your answers. I really appreciate it

Alright. So the expansion is Legion ... i know ugh db2 files... but ill find out what to edit with wowdev.wiki so there is that. Now about the animation: Its the templars verdict animation im looking for and yes i would like to change it to another special attack 2h animation like crusader strike or the pre legion version pirouette (those are still in the game). I tried to find out which are actually still in the game by using tmorph. As it is now i was able to change "spells" with SpellVisualEffectName.db2 (just an example to show you that i know that editing db2 files works). Basically what I would like to find out is which db file contains attack animations or it would be a big help if someone could actually tell me how to find out the location of specific animation data files so that i may just change the names of the files and be done with it. Id be happy either way... changing the db file(s) or swapping the animation files of whichever race since they look something like HumanMale_HD0066-00.anim or BloodElfMale_HD0066-00.anim. I see that the numbers are the same ... but i dont know which animation that is since i cant seem to identify it. I hope that you understand now what i meant.

well Amaroth you say so that questions were being answered and yet i cant seem to get an answer of someone with dbc knowledge like you on my question about animations in db files... new topic.. made about 2 days ago.... 0 answers. I mean im not even asking for someone to actually do something for me ... just want to know which db file(s) contain(s) attack animations that i have to change to get a different animation for my characters spell. I dont even want to know which column i have to edit since i can read that mostly on wowdev.wiki... just want to know which file exactly contains the information i am looking for.

So i am really interested in working with db files since i downloaded barncastle´s wdbx editor and i really want to change some attack animations of my paladin but i just cant seem to find the right db file.... I mean i tried changing the special attack 2h in AnimationData, but unfortunatly without any success. Perhaps im digging in the wrong hole ^^