portrait on another body

[Floooooby]

I want to make a unit (in the editor) where the portrait is different form the actual unit. I have the unt, and the separate portrait. I dont know if it is possible, so im just asking​

 

[Prometheus]

It's posible (if i thiink i know what you mean)

if you mean to make a unit look different and not meaning attaching a custom skin then in world editor chose the unit and change the things that say what the unit is to what you waht it to be one of these is "model file" thats what the unit will look when you get him in the game, hope this helps

 

[Myzteryz]

under object editor>unit...find the unit U want and change art-icon

 

[Darg]

when you say "portrait", do you mean the icon in the bottom-right corner of the game screen? or do you mean the 3d animated model that you see just left of centre?

 

[Floooooby]

i mean the little moving picture on the bottem left.

 

[Darg]

yes that's a 3d model, and its left of centre, not bottom left - the minimap is bottom left!

the only way to do it is to open either war3.mpq or war3x.mpq and search for the 3d portrait model of the unit portrait you want to use. All portraits have the same model path as the unit itself, with a "_portrait" added to it.

e.g.

if the footman model path is units\human\footman.mdx
the footman's portrait model path is units\human\footman_portrait.mdx

so extract the one you want, and import it into your map using the import manager, changing the model name to whatever you want.

e.g. if you want the archer to have the footman's portrait, extract the footman portrait from the mpq files and change its model name to

units\human\archer_portrait.mdx

and before you ask me where the mpq files are or how to open them, they are in your warcraft 3 folder, and you open them using WinMPQ, which is linked on our links page

<====== click "Tools and Utils" over there