Changing your character model

Sunchips · 06/05/07, 11:13 AM

so in Last Resort's Kael'thas video, Kerp, is shown as a female undead mage....

If you look up the armory though, he is a male troll.

I know I've heard of this sort of thing where you edit some of the game files and it only shows up for you.

Anyone have any information or a link about how to do this?

It'd be nice if I didn't have to carry around so many noggenfogger just because I rolled the wrong faction.

Apate · 06/05/07, 11:51 AM

The information is "Don't do it." It's asked almost daily (sometime more than daily) on the official UI forums. It has always been against the TOS and it is currently deliberately difficult to do (and potentially detectable by warden). The same method that would allow model changing can also be used to exploit the game.

Kilim · 06/05/07, 11:52 AM

The question asked on Blizzard forums

The blue response:

It's very much not allowed.

Sunchips · 06/05/07, 11:53 AM

i was afraid of that

subscience · 06/05/07, 11:57 AM

I believe the Area 52 / Toshley Station Transporters (from Engineering) cause you to appear as a different race when they "backfire" after use.

laforce · 06/05/07, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by subscience

I believe the Area 52 / Toshley Station Transporters (from Engineering) cause you to appear as a different race when they "backfire" after use.

That's very much true. We have a tauren hunter (Hoff) who always shows up as Draenei, hehe.

Sokkou · 06/05/07, 12:15 PM

It used to be extremely easy, finding the file you wanted to look like, finding the file to replace, replacing it with your desired model, and poof. Blizzard has changed the rules of how to do it many times, and now you are actually required to run a third-party program to get it to work, which is something I will not personally do, not with Blizzard's little spyware-bot Warden watching me.

Long and short of it, if you like playing your character, just don't.

Shadowed · 06/05/07, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by Sokkou

It used to be extremely easy, finding the file you wanted to look like, finding the file to replace, replacing it with your desired model, and poof. Blizzard has changed the rules of how to do it many times, and now you are actually required to run a third-party program to get it to work, which is something I will not personally do, not with Blizzard's little spyware-bot Warden watching me.

Long and short of it, if you like playing your character, just don't.

If I remember right, it was always against the ToS the only thing that changed is they made it harder for you to do it and less of a gray area on if it'll get you banned.

Nuke · 06/05/07, 1:39 PM

The information is "Don't do it." It's asked almost daily (sometime more than daily) on the official UI forums. It has always been against the TOS and it is currently deliberately difficult to do (and potentially detectable by warden). The same method that would allow model changing can also be used to exploit the game.

This never was used to exploit the game afaik. And as well,yea it is harder now then before,but still doable. And as well - warden doesnt detect this. Or they do not consider this as important issue.

Apate · 06/05/07, 1:58 PM

Originally Posted by Nuke

This never was used to exploit the game afaik. And as well,yea it is harder now then before,but still doable. And as well - warden doesnt detect this. Or they do not consider this as important issue.

I didn't say warden did detect it, merely that it has the potential to do so. Also, you are wrong about it not being used to exploit the game; collision detection is client-side, and people replaced the simple campfire (created by cooking) with a giant staircase. Voila, floating players.

Seriously, though, this topic is brought up almost daily in the official UI forums for the past year or more.

• Shalas · 06/05/07, 2:08 PM

Originally Posted by Nuke

This never was used to exploit the game afaik. And as well,yea it is harder now then before,but still doable. And as well - warden doesnt detect this. Or they do not consider this as important issue.

Did you somehow miss all of Overrated getting banned for skipping to C'Thun with a model swap?

Cel · 06/05/07, 2:44 PM

Originally Posted by Shalas

Did you somehow miss all of Overrated getting banned for skipping to C'Thun with a model swap?

They actually loaded a patch into the game files, though... was that simply a model swap?

Kazanir · 06/05/07, 2:47 PM

It's certainly still possible without the use of 3rd party programs, but it involves editing MPQ files, which is also forbidden, easily detectable by Warden (if they so choose) and will crash the game depending on which MPQ file you decide to modify.

• Shalas · 06/05/07, 2:49 PM

Originally Posted by Cel

They actually loaded a patch into the game files, though... was that simply a model swap?

They replaced the model for the temple with a much smaller model, and then fell through the area where the temple normally would be.

syeren · 06/05/07, 2:58 PM

I've never actually seen Blizzard take action on anyone who does any form of model changing unless it has been on stupid things (Like making the AB gates at the beginning just a set of stairs...)

The Overrated case was more than obvious to track, and was pure exploiting, where as someone who wants to be a different race doesn't exactly cause much harm to the game (at all.)

Either way, if Gurg and so on think it is okay for me to post it, I will put up a full guide here with the applications needed to do it :P