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Put same folder structure into folder, that has highter read priority and you can change any sound, texture or voice. When Repair.exe does not detect anything, because NOTHING CHANGED in MPQ archives!
As example. Folder LibertyMulti.SC2Mod has highter priority, than Liberty.SC2Mod. Then put into this folder enGB.SC2Assets (MPQ file from folder Liberty.SC2Mod, that has lower read priority), recreate all folders structure, put new files, and play with new voices, sounds or textures without editing any MPQ!
MPQ Editing is bannable, but adding files into folder, that has highter read priority is not described anywhere in the license agreement
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Wow, this is very interesting. "Replacing" Starcraft II Zerg musics by the Starcraft ones would be cool.
EDIT : I did it.
Here is the .rar if you want. Just unrar it in the Starcraft II folder, then launch Starcraft II.
DOWNLOAD Link
Important : There are only 3 Zerg musics in Starcraft/Broodwar (afaik), and 9 in Starcraft II. The game randomly choose one of the 9 musics, 3 of them are now Starcraft I Zerg tracks (the 01, 04, 07).
If you only want the SC1 ones , copy several times the 3 tracks and rename them ZergSC2-01.ogg to ZergSC2-09.ogg.
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I think I might actually use this. Hrmm.
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LMAO @ blizz for the blatant rip-off of the way .PK3 files work xD
Wait... Does that mean you can actually start "model hacking" now ? Doesn't take a genius to import a model into 3DSMAX and add a giant circle around it saying "zergling zergling zergling" or "stargate stargate stargate"...
First I thought that could be fun... but seeing the applications... meh, not so damn much...
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lol..... the way some people think..... if you change textures, in any way and get caught.... you will get banned. Just because it doesn't cover it in the TOS specifically doens't mean you can just do it. If you changed textures you could remove the stealth textures, cheating, plain and simple.... you will get banned if caught.
Also, posting this work around will only highlight it, so blizz will shut the loophole down anyways and doubtless think about implementing something like punkbuster has, that scans ur game files to check they are legit, if it finds files that aren't supposed to be there.... you can get banned.
Thinking that it wouldn't get you banned just because its not explicitely stated is like arguing that putting milk in your coffee instead of cream isn't covered by your right to freedom of choice, because that specific freedom isn't in your countries constitution..... it is covered, by proxy.
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On April 15 2011 22:40 emythrel wrote:
lol..... the way some people think..... if you change textures, in any way and get caught.... you will get banned. Just because it doesn't cover it in the TOS specifically doens't mean you can just do it. If you changed textures you could remove the stealth textures, cheating, plain and simple.... you will get banned if caught.
Also, posting this work around will only highlight it, so blizz will shut the loophole down anyways and doubtless think about implementing something like punkbuster has, that scans ur game files to check they are legit, if it finds files that aren't supposed to be there.... you can get banned.
Thinking that it wouldn't get you banned just because its not explicitely stated is like arguing that putting milk in your coffee instead of cream isn't covered by your right to freedom of choice, because that specific freedom isn't in your countries constitution..... it is covered, by proxy.
You can still .MPQ edit in other Blizzard games without getting banned (I've done it myself multiple times) and they haven't "Fixed" it.
I agree, with you when you say that you CAN get banned for this of course, although it may not be stated in the TOS now I'm sure they'll add it in, or it could be hidden in there somewhere. All I'm saying is that it'd be hard to get caught for this, editing/replacing the stealth texture though, now that's just an interesting idea.
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On April 15 2011 20:35 ShadeOfDraG wrote:Wow, this is very interesting. "Replacing" Starcraft II Zerg musics by the Starcraft ones would be cool. EDIT : I did it. Here is the .rar if you want. Just unrar it in the Starcraft II folder, then launch Starcraft II. DOWNLOAD LinkImportant : There are only 3 Zerg musics in Starcraft/Broodwar (afaik), and 9 in Starcraft II. The game randomly choose one of the 9 musics, 3 of them are now Starcraft I Zerg tracks (the 01, 04, 07). If you only want the SC1 ones , copy several times the 3 tracks and rename them ZergSC2-01.ogg to ZergSC2-09.ogg.
Do you by any chance have the Terran and Protoss music from Broodwar? It's about to get all nostalgic in here.
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Hmmmm i dont have any asset folders in my "Liberty.SC2Mod" folder or "LibertyMulti.SC2Mod" folder.....seems weird to me.
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On April 15 2011 22:21 C5Five wrote:
LMAO @ blizz for the blatant rip-off of the way .PK3 files work xD
Wait... Does that mean you can actually start "model hacking" now ? Doesn't take a genius to import a model into 3DSMAX and add a giant circle around it saying "zergling zergling zergling" or "stargate stargate stargate"...
First I thought that could be fun... but seeing the applications... meh, not so damn much...
This is the way it worked for quite some time for MPQ. Used to be doable in WoW but they removed the ability to override MPQ data due to hacking - you put in different version of a zone that changed doors/paths and got to bypass content you didn't want. This lead to no more model hacking also, or at least a lot harder to do.
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I suppose this is related to how you used to be able to use custom hotkeys by creating a hotkeys folder in the sc2 user directory. Now, custom hotkeys are stored locally in the same folder.
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On April 15 2011 22:21 C5Five wrote:
LMAO @ blizz for the blatant rip-off of the way .PK3 files work xD
Yeah it's not like other companies do the same for their games......
Also PK3 is simply a Zip archive.
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Someone should do this to put all the zerg sc1 unit sounds in, and put up the download for it.
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lol..... the way some people think..... if you change textures, in any way and get caught.... you will get banned. Just because it doesn't cover it in the TOS specifically doens't mean you can just do it. If you changed textures you could remove the stealth textures, cheating, plain and simple.... you will get banned if caught.
1) You can't UNstealth texture. It will be pink or not, no reason. All time it will be covered with same stealth texture. only when it's unstealthed, it will have changed texture.
2) Give me examples about cheating by replacing textures, sounds, etc
3) Only things, that gives advatange to players, will cause BAN. If there are no advatange, and PLUS NO MPQ EDITING, so 2 reasons to no ban.
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On April 16 2011 03:31 Existor wrote:Show nested quote +lol..... the way some people think..... if you change textures, in any way and get caught.... you will get banned. Just because it doesn't cover it in the TOS specifically doens't mean you can just do it. If you changed textures you could remove the stealth textures, cheating, plain and simple.... you will get banned if caught. 1) You can't UNstealth texture. It will be pink or not, no reason. All time it will be covered with same stealth texture. only when it's unstealthed, it will have changed texture. 2) Give me examples about cheating by replacing textures, sounds, etc 3) Only things, that gives advatange to players, will cause BAN. If there are no advatange, and PLUS NO MPQ EDITING, so 2 reasons to no ban.
2) Replace the nydus worm sounds with a sound of you screaming "NYDUS WORM MOTHERFUCKER" lol. That should give you a nice advantage^^
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On April 16 2011 03:31 Existor wrote:Show nested quote +lol..... the way some people think..... if you change textures, in any way and get caught.... you will get banned. Just because it doesn't cover it in the TOS specifically doens't mean you can just do it. If you changed textures you could remove the stealth textures, cheating, plain and simple.... you will get banned if caught. 1) You can't UNstealth texture. It will be pink or not, no reason. All time it will be covered with same stealth texture. only when it's unstealthed, it will have changed texture. 2) Give me examples about cheating by replacing textures, sounds, etc 3) Only things, that gives advatange to players, will cause BAN. If there are no advatange, and PLUS NO MPQ EDITING, so 2 reasons to no ban.
Couldn't you just replace the stealth texture with something that's a solid color instead of clear?
Edit: also, what about replacing the tiny nuke dot with the big circle that the nuke-user sees?
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On April 16 2011 03:35 cYaN wrote:Show nested quote +On April 16 2011 03:31 Existor wrote:lol..... the way some people think..... if you change textures, in any way and get caught.... you will get banned. Just because it doesn't cover it in the TOS specifically doens't mean you can just do it. If you changed textures you could remove the stealth textures, cheating, plain and simple.... you will get banned if caught. 1) You can't UNstealth texture. It will be pink or not, no reason. All time it will be covered with same stealth texture. only when it's unstealthed, it will have changed texture. 2) Give me examples about cheating by replacing textures, sounds, etc 3) Only things, that gives advatange to players, will cause BAN. If there are no advatange, and PLUS NO MPQ EDITING, so 2 reasons to no ban. 2) Replace the nydus worm sounds with a sound of you screaming "NYDUS WORM MOTHERFUCKER" lol. That should give you a nice advantage^^
with the voice of Steven Bonell, that would be great.
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I shall now replace all music for every race with Terran music from SC1. It will be amazing!!!
In reality, this won't really make any difference for me as I don't really have any reason to modify anything. I listen to my own music while I play and whatnot.
Though it would be cool to see someone replace the ghost's shooting sound with someone saying "pew pew".
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so is there a way to make it where in a custom map game I can have a scv become like a baneling unit instead (still with the scv unit properties)?
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Hmm I am tempted to change sc2 pewpew tank sounds to original kraaaawoooom tank sounds... is it safe..hmm
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I tried this, by adding a sound for nydus birth. That worked!!
But it also overwrote everything else, all textures sounds ... everything. and it overwrote it with nothing, since i hadnt put any other files in it, so everything was just placeholders.
How do i fix so it only replaces what i actually try to replace?
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2) Replace the nydus worm sounds with a sound of you screaming "NYDUS WORM MOTHERFUCKER" lol. That should give you a nice advantage^^
It's not my fault. If you will do it, so u will be bad guy. Now Blizzard maybe closes eyes to this thing, that allow ADD files instead replacing original.
Couldn't you just replace the stealth texture with something that's a solid color instead of clear?
There are only unit body/model texture. No reason, it's pink or got increased brightness or red dots around. Unit model with stealth cannot be seen by player, no reason, what texture it has.
Holy crap EXPLOITABLE
Why? We don't change game client. We don't modify MPQ.
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I tried this, by adding a sound for nydus birth. That worked!!
But it also overwrote everything else, all textures sounds ... everything. and it overwrote it with nothing, since i hadnt put any other files in it, so everything was just placeholders.
How do i fix so it only replaces what i actually try to replace?
Put files into highter priority folder.
Example.
Liberty.SC2Mod contains zergling sound. Then put new zergling sounds into LibertyMulti, because last one has bigger read priority
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Can this be used to change the background of the main SC2 bnet screen without violating the TOS?
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Can this be used to change the background of the main SC2 bnet screen without violating the TOS?
I don't know, where bnet screen placed in game resourses and don't want to change it. It's ok now 
TOS = modifying MPQ. Did you see here any MPQ editing?
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On April 16 2011 04:13 Existor wrote:Show nested quote +I tried this, by adding a sound for nydus birth. That worked!!
But it also overwrote everything else, all textures sounds ... everything. and it overwrote it with nothing, since i hadnt put any other files in it, so everything was just placeholders.
How do i fix so it only replaces what i actually try to replace? Put files into highter priority folder. Example. Liberty.SC2Mod contains zergling sound. Then put new zergling sounds into LibertyMulti, because last one has bigger read priority
I'm not sure you read my question
It worked! it replaced the sound as intended.
But it also removed all other textures / sounds / everything.
How do i make it so that it doesnt replace everything else?
( i did put it in libertymulti folder as you said)
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Does this mean i can change all my zerg units to sound like BW units? i rly want the old overlord & zergling sounds back :D
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It worked! it replaced the sound as intended.
But it also removed all other textures / sounds / everything.
How do i make it so that it doesnt replace everything else?
( i did put it in libertymulti folder as you said)
Did you created other folders? You must have ONLY that foldera, that contains new files.
This one is for Zerg Advisor file adding
\ StarCraft II \ Mods \ LibertyMulti.SC2Mod \ enGB.SC2Assets \ LocalizedData \ Sounds \ ZergUnitVO \ Queen \ *placenewfileshere*
Does this mean i can change all my zerg units to sound like BW units? i rly want the old overlord & zergling sounds back :D
Yes, you can.
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This is pretty cool, I may try this out with the sounds.
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On April 16 2011 04:25 Existor wrote:Show nested quote +It worked! it replaced the sound as intended.
But it also removed all other textures / sounds / everything.
How do i make it so that it doesnt replace everything else?
( i did put it in libertymulti folder as you said) Did you created other folders? You must have ONLY that foldera, that contains new files. This one is for Zerg Advisor file adding \ StarCraft II \ Mods \ LibertyMulti.SC2Mod \ enGB.SC2Assets \ LocalizedData \ Sounds \ ZergUnitVO \ Queen \ *placenewfileshere* Show nested quote +Does this mean i can change all my zerg units to sound like BW units? i rly want the old overlord & zergling sounds back :D Yes, you can.
I only created the folders leading into the nydus sound:
"StarCraft II\Mods\LibertyMulti.SC2Mod\base.SC2Assets\Assets\Sounds\Zerg\NydusWorm\NydusWorm_Birth0.wav"
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this is how things used to work with WoW
eventually they patched it so the game only loaded files from the MPQs, so use it while you can~
edit: the ToS most likely covers this as a bannable offense (as the ToS basically says they can ban you for anything), but after doing it for years with WoW, nothing ever happened. they'll probably patch it pretty quickly though.
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So if i want my scv in nexus wars to roll around like a upgrade speed baneling would this allow me to do that somehow? Or is that something that would have to be included in the published map version?
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On April 16 2011 04:04 purecarnagge wrote:
so is there a way to make it where in a custom map game I can have a scv become like a baneling unit instead (still with the scv unit properties)?
it's called the map editor.
On April 16 2011 04:37 purecarnagge wrote:
So if i want my scv in nexus wars to roll around like a upgrade speed baneling would this allow me to do that somehow? Or is that something that would have to be included in the published map version?
Not sure if it's possible, but I'd guess it is. Even if it was though, you would have issues with the animations, possibly even resulting in de-sync.
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On April 16 2011 05:19 Xapti wrote:Show nested quote +On April 16 2011 04:04 purecarnagge wrote:
so is there a way to make it where in a custom map game I can have a scv become like a baneling unit instead (still with the scv unit properties)? it's called the map editor. Show nested quote +On April 16 2011 04:37 purecarnagge wrote:
So if i want my scv in nexus wars to roll around like a upgrade speed baneling would this allow me to do that somehow? Or is that something that would have to be included in the published map version? Not sure if it's possible, but I'd guess it is. Even if it was though, you would have issues with the animations, possibly even resulting in de-sync.
map editor would only effect me if I made the map...which I did not...
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I don't know, why it's not works in NA.
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can you have it play a mapwide sound whenever a building is placed or spawns? or change the models of buildings to be larger than they actually are so you can see them without entering the base (ie a single plane that extends south and is coloured to indicate that building)
stuff like this sets a bad precendent, i hope blizzard comes down on it
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On April 16 2011 04:16 Existor wrote:Show nested quote +Can this be used to change the background of the main SC2 bnet screen without violating the TOS? I don't know, where bnet screen placed in game resourses and don't want to change it. It's ok now TOS = modifying MPQ. Did you see here any MPQ editing?
I quote: "2.7 modify or cause to be modified any files that are a part of any Game or the Service in any way not expressly authorized by Blizzard;" Just because you are not modifying any MPQ files directly, you are still changing the game with its content by exploiting the behavior of Blizzards MPQ library.
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This is definitely against the ToS.
Also, it has been known that this works for quite some time. The same system works in WoW for certain things (they've blocked most of it). You can change the WoW background music, for instance.
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So it doesn't work for NA? That's a shame, I wanted the nostalgic Broodwar unit responses on my Marines 
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The ToS is wide enough that they can close any loopholes through the utter vagueness of its language. You will get banned for this.
It's nothing new, it's not a loophole or legal workaround, it's just another way you can tinker with the files to get yourself banned...and Americans evidently can't do it.
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Just because you are not modifying any MPQ files directly, you are still changing the game with its content by exploiting the behavior of Blizzards MPQ library.
I phoned into tech support, and they're said, that changes are bannable only, if they give you advatange in multiplayer
You will get banned for this.
Who's banned for that? I saw only bans for using things, that gives advatange.
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Can one use this to switch to the Korean zerg voice?
Or is there another way to do that, I want it:D
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Forgive the bump, I just thought with the recent ban that perhaps some people could comment on how this has worked out for them. I'd love to replace Zerg unit sounds...All of them. But I was wondering if anyone has had any success with that and if they have been banned.
Cheers
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I changed SC2 Zerg musics for the Starcraft 1 ones (first response in this thread @ page 1). I didn't get banned or anything. It's fine.
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On April 27 2011 08:49 ShadeOfDraG wrote:
I changed SC2 Zerg musics for the Starcraft 1 ones (first response in this thread @ page 1). I didn't get banned or anything. It's fine.
Awesome! Now for my next question: I heard some people could only get this working with euro client. Anyone got it to work with the na client?
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On April 27 2011 09:13 Mohdoo wrote:Show nested quote +On April 27 2011 08:49 ShadeOfDraG wrote:
I changed SC2 Zerg musics for the Starcraft 1 ones (first response in this thread @ page 1). I didn't get banned or anything. It's fine. Awesome! Now for my next question: I heard some people could only get this working with euro client. Anyone got it to work with the na client?
I'm playing on Europe I can't test it out to answer you. It would be strange.
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I think, can't. But if you will find folders (I mean, create them), that will overwrite folders from MPQ, so then you will can
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I can't believe some people are willing to risk a ban just to change the in-game music o_0 Why don't you turn it off and play SC1 music on WMP or whatever player you use??
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This folder prioritising seems to have been removed in the latest patch. Can anyone get it working?
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The mod prioritizing still exists but it appears that with 1.3.3 SC2 no longer treats subdirectories as MPQs. If you use a tool to create a new MPQ in the libertymulti directory with the name "base.SC2Assets" you can still override the files from the liberty "base.SC2Assets". I just used ladik's mpq editor to test this.
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On May 12 2011 01:45 artanis2 wrote:
The mod prioritizing still exists but it appears that with 1.3.3 SC2 no longer treats subdirectories as MPQs. If you use a tool to create a new MPQ in the libertymulti directory with the name "base.SC2Assets" you can still override the files from the liberty "base.SC2Assets". I just used ladik's mpq editor to test this.
Confirmed this, both the inability to read a folder and the fix with a MPQ file.
It seems however that StarCraft is very picky about certain files when overriding like this (music is quite the work to get in).
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On May 12 2011 01:45 artanis2 wrote:
The mod prioritizing still exists but it appears that with 1.3.3 SC2 no longer treats subdirectories as MPQs. If you use a tool to create a new MPQ in the libertymulti directory with the name "base.SC2Assets" you can still override the files from the liberty "base.SC2Assets". I just used ladik's mpq editor to test this.
Heh, thank you
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On April 16 2011 03:35 cYaN wrote:Show nested quote +On April 16 2011 03:31 Existor wrote:lol..... the way some people think..... if you change textures, in any way and get caught.... you will get banned. Just because it doesn't cover it in the TOS specifically doens't mean you can just do it. If you changed textures you could remove the stealth textures, cheating, plain and simple.... you will get banned if caught. 1) You can't UNstealth texture. It will be pink or not, no reason. All time it will be covered with same stealth texture. only when it's unstealthed, it will have changed texture. 2) Give me examples about cheating by replacing textures, sounds, etc 3) Only things, that gives advatange to players, will cause BAN. If there are no advatange, and PLUS NO MPQ EDITING, so 2 reasons to no ban. 2) Replace the nydus worm sounds with a sound of you screaming "NYDUS WORM MOTHERFUCKER" lol. That should give you a nice advantage^^
But the default nydus worm sound already does that...
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Nice Only thing I did with MPQs is use original sc2 sounds for my phone
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How can you get that M3H extension for music files?
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On April 16 2011 04:04 purecarnagge wrote:
so is there a way to make it where in a custom map game I can have a scv become like a baneling unit instead (still with the scv unit properties)?
...what does that have to do w/ anything
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Hmm, I have searched as far as google will take me and there seems none solution, anyone knows whether it ought to be M3H or it may be some other format? Does changing .ext help?
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On July 12 2011 03:22 Jakalo wrote:
Hmm, I have searched as far as google will take me and there seems none solution, anyone knows whether it ought to be M3H or it may be some other format? Does changing .ext help?
Have you tried a media file analyser on the M3H files to know exactly which kind of media it is ? Then you either find an encoder (which doesn't exist if I understand your posts) or just encode your audio files in the same format then rename then.
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On July 12 2011 04:03 MrCon wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2011 03:22 Jakalo wrote:
Hmm, I have searched as far as google will take me and there seems none solution, anyone knows whether it ought to be M3H or it may be some other format? Does changing .ext help? Have you tried a media file analyser on the M3H files to know exactly which kind of media it is ? Then you either find an encoder (which doesn't exist if I understand your posts) or just encode your audio files in the same format then rename then.
No I havent, thanks. Will try that.
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On July 12 2011 02:58 Jakalo wrote:
How can you get that M3H extension for music files?
I'm pretty sure M3H is an animation format for models, not music. If you're looking to open them, you need software called Autodesk 3Ds Max.
On July 13 2011 04:34 DualScreen wrote:and is it possible to use with this stuff? http://elusive-teliko.blogspot.com/if it is, then please someone make help doing it without actually editing MPQ <3
This folder structure method is outdated, and the recent MPQ replacement someone was mentioning won't work with that mpq.
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