\Interface\MINIMAP\OBJECTICONS.BLP
\Interface\RAIDFRAME\Raid-Bar-Resource-Fill.blp
\Interface\RAIDFRAME\Raid-FrameHighlights.blp
\Interface\TALENTFRAME\PetTalent-PetBG.blp
\Interface\TALENTFRAME\TALENTFRAME-PARTS.BLP

and some other files, let me know if you need to know what they are

They're viewable, but I think the patches don't get applied.
And for example the CREATURE\AvengingAngel\AvengingAngel.m2 model from wow-update-12759.mpq is not listed, even though it is a real .m2 file and no patch.

Is MPQ support in WoWModelViewer based on StormLib ?

Yep.
As far as I understand the code all archives are opened at the beginning. To open a file the code goes through all of them and tries to open the file, storing the content and returning if successful.

I'll change it so when an MPQ is open for read only, it can be open multiple times.
Edit: it should be possible - MPQs are open with FILE_SHARE_READ, and GENERIC_READ if MPQ_OPEN_READ_ONLY is specified in SFileOpenArchive.

Ladik every time you update the StormLib - chuanshing, wowmodelviewer's developer, updates the modelviewer so that it utilizes it.

Fresh update:
http://code.google.com/p/wowmodelvie...e/detail?r=368

http://code.google.com/p/wowmodelviewer/updates/list

Ah right, he sends me e-mails from time to time. Hi, Chuanshing :-)

It's very much there, Borlox, take a look again.

http://i38.tinypic.com/vigti9.jpg

Quokka are you really sure you're doing right? The BLP files are perfectly fine:

http://i37.tinypic.com/jauq0p.jpg

Currently I use :

http://www.devklog.net/2007/02/09/mpq-extractor-10/

I am correct in saying the MPQ format has changed ?

Does this mean come Cata I will need to find a different tool to extract the MPQ files ?

Extracting yes. I used the normal & patch funktion both do the same. with the list files from his site. the have a size 1kb minimal upto nearly 150kb depending on the texture.

What do you use to convert the the images.
I use blp2png.exe that might be the problem

Use MPQEditor, from zezula.net. MPQ Extractor hasn't been updated in years.

No. There is just new type of file, which is an incremental patch file. That kind of file is useless alone, and needs to be used with the base file.

There is another new feature planned for Cataclysm MPQs. In current BETA releases of WoW.exe, there is a code that reads a data structure that will replace current hash+block table.

Here is a minimal test case.
Executed in Cataclysm\Data it always gives me
Error code 32 is ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."

All MPQs are opened with MPQ_OPEN_READ_ONLY.

Ah, I see the problem now. Even if the base MPQs are open for read only, the patches are still opened for writing. It's a bug in StormLib, I'll fix that soon.

Also, I am going to change the patch interface a bit, I believe that it will be easier to use and more flexible. The point is that I remove SFileSetPatchPathPrefix, and the patch prefix will be parameter to SFileOpenPatchArchive instead. This will allow to have different patch prefix for each patch MPQ (perhaps this will be needed for future MPQs).

I believe it's better to do it now, when it's still early released (and BETA after all), than later, when loads of application will have to be recompiled.

Great news :banana:

I use MPQ extractor as it is the only reliable piece of software for OS X for extracting them that I have been able to find.

It's okay. Spoken to the author on the #macstorm IRC channel on freenode.net and he's hard at work on getting it all updated.

I'm using blp2png.exe as well! The problem is if the extracted file is 1kb then something is wrong. How are you using the "patch function"? You need to chain the files in the right order or you'll get nothing but crap.

I start with
Open MPQ -> expansion3-MPQ
Open MPQ (Patch Mode) -> patch-base-12694.MPQ
Open MPQ (Patch Mode) -> wow-update-12694.MPQ
Open MPQ (Patch Mode) -> wow-update-12759.MPQ
Open MPQ (Patch Mode) -> wow-update-12803.MPQ


goto enGB right click on Interface Extract.

I hope this is the right way to do it

This doesn't look correct. You have to select "Open MPQs (Patch Mode), then select primary MPQ and all patches. Then MPQ Editor shows a dialor whre primary MPQ and all patches are displayed. Check if that is correct, then press OK.

Alternative way: run MPQ Editor with "/patch" command line parameter like this:
MPQEditor /patch expansion3.MPQ wow-update-12694.MPQ wow-update-12759.MPQ wow-update-12803.MPQ

As far as I know does patch-base-12694.MPQ not contain incremental patch files, but normal files, which can be extracted on their own.

StormLib updates:

- Removed SFileSetPatchPathPrefix
- Patch MPQs are now open in read-only mode. This should fix the problem in WoW Modeller. I hereby ask Chuanshing to let me know if the problem still persists.
- Removed UNREFERENCED_PARAMETERS so it should now be buildable under Linux.
- Web documentation updated to reflect changes in patch APIs

Ye I see you're doing it wrong Quokka.

1. Copy locale-enGB.MPQ or locale-enUS.MPQ (whichever you use, they are identical) one step up to the Data folder. All files must be in the same folder (NOTE to you Ladik, this is slightly impractical)

2. Open in patch mode the locale-enXX.MPQ file + the patch files by making sure that you first click on locale-enXX.MPQ then Ctrl + click "wow-update-12694.MPQ" and the Ctrl + Shift + Click on the other patch files to select them.

3. If you did it right, the locale-enXX.MPQ file will be chosen as primary.

4. Reorder the patches so that the latest patch comes first, the one before that second, etc.

Easiest way is to use this bat:
Wouldn't you agree? ;)

Tested this an got an error

Failed to open File in mpq "interface\Worldmap\Scholomance\Scholomance4_6.blp".

So that seemed to fail, It runs good until there.

But If I'm not mistaken this would give ma all files that are there at this point. Not just the once from the latest patch.

I's there a way to only extract the new files in that curent patch

"%dir%\%locale%\patch-%locale%-12694.MPQ" isn't an incremental patch file. All files except the first one must be of the "wow-update-*.MPQ" type.

I am aware of that. So far, I haven't found any better solution than the command line. Or gather all MPQs in one folder, at least that will make users to create copy of the MPQs and they won't directly modify the game files. When I get a good idea how to implement this, I'll improve the GUI. Perhaps a better version of the patch arrangement window.

Actually, the order of the patches in the dialog must be that the latest patch comes last. I.e. the default order that is offered by MPQ Editor. Ok, I will make a note on the dialog to make it clear.

The idea of the order is this:
1) locale-enUS.MPQ is the primary MPQ
2) wow-update-12694.MPQ is the first patch applied
3) wow-update-12759.MPQ is the second patch applied
4) wow-update-12803.MPQ is the third patch applied

If you choose a wrong order, StormLib's patcher will report an error, because each extracted file is checked by MD5 both before and after appliyng a patch. If there are more patches,
this check is being made for each patch.

I've never gotten an error with that order, Ladi =PP

Hey Ladik

Just a few more bug reports
- In patch mode, Verify files spams "Open error"
- Ctrl-F4 doesn't work (*please*, rebind it or add a binding to ctrl-w)
- "Close MPQ" closes all currently opened mpqs, instead of currently selected one (normal mode).

Feature requests, random ideas:
- Unify the "merged mode" and "patch mode" UI. Taking example on current merged mode window: Single window, "mode" tickbox (choose between "normal", "merged" and "patch").
Tricky: Change "additional options" dynamically when ticking a different mode. The file list to the right stays the same.
- Add an "Add MPQ" button next to Remove MPQ. This should solve the copy-in-same-folder issue :)
- Add a "close MPQ" context option on MPQ->right click.
- Add a file count somewhere - in the statusbar maybe. "25 files (12688 total)"
- Add the MPQ name behind the path in the status bar (eg: "art.MPQ\Character\Taunka\Male")
- Add the ability to add another mpq to the opened ones, and/or to view the currently open ones (maybe by reopening the original Open With Options dialog).


Also, this might be a wine bug, but I'm not able to use quotes around my arguments. such as ... wine mpqeditor "z:/program files/foo.mpq". Since it's much easier for my script to do that than escape spaces with backslashes, a fix would be appreciated.

Could you provide which MPQs did you open ?
I'll check that. Any special reason why you want Ctrl+W ?
Hmmm. It is actually meant "Close All MPQs". It will be easy to close one MPQ in multi-MPQ mode, where all open MPQ is on its own, but closing a MPQ in merged an patch mode is fairly complicated.

Yeah, the current GUI for that is indeed crap, I am not very happy with it.
I'll try to figure something out, but that will take a while.

As for other features, some of them are easy and good idea, some of them are good idea but more difficult to do. For example, when you open multiple MPQs in merged mode, MPQ Editor builds a combined tree, containing all files and subdirectories, and then shows it in the GUI. Removing one of the MPQs would need to parse the tree and remove all nodes that belong to a specific MPQ. I don't promise I implement all suggestions, but I'll at least try and see if it's worth it.

I am afraid there is not much I can do - quotes work well in Windows. The best I can do is to make a build that will show parameters given, so we can confirm it's a WINE bug.

No. You can only search for patched files, using "Tools\Search Files" and checking the "incremental patch" attribute.
If you want to see what files changed, just open the patch MPQ as standalone. If a file is there, means it has been changed.

>> Could you provide which MPQs did you open ?

local-enus.mpq + wow-update-*.mpq

>> I'll check that. Any special reason why you want Ctrl+W ?

Ctrl-W is more standard, and a hell lot more easy to hit with one hand =)

>> Hmmm. It is actually meant "Close All MPQs". It will be easy to close one MPQ in multi-MPQ mode, where all open MPQ is on its own, but closing a MPQ in merged an patch mode is fairly complicated.

Yeah, I don't think closing a single MPQ in merged mode is important; if anything that should be done by modifying/reopening opened MPQs like i suggested.

>> I am afraid there is not much I can do - quotes work well in Windows. The best I can do is to make a build that will show parameters given, so we can confirm it's a WINE bug.

It's probably a wine bug, I'll check this on my end; cheers.

Works for me thanks m8.

I'm glad it's working for you now ^^!

Fixed in StormLib.
Not true. It works, perhaps another WINE bug ? Anyway, I added Ctrl+W just to make you happy :-)
Changed title in the menu, and here comes the infamous "Working as itended".
As for the rest of your suggestions, I'll implement some of them, namely the unified UI for opening multiple MPQs.

Also:

I added the "op" command to the script interpreter for opening MPQs in patch mode:

op speech-enGB.MPQ wow-update-12694.MPQ wow-update-12759.MPQ
e <current> DBFilesClient\* .

All the good stuff :) Hurray!

I'll check out the ctrl-f4 bug. Cheers.

*Add an option to extract files ignoring folder structure. It's annoying when I wanna extract 1 blp file and I get it in 4 folders ;)
*You could change the "Open patch mode" GUI so that you 1) first pick the Primary file (locale-en**.mpq) and then click Next -> and 2) pick the patch files.

Good idea. Added to TODO list.
I plan to remake the entire open dialog. Adys' idea to unify the GUI for all three types of open seems good to me, I think I do it that way. Also, there will be "Add MPQ" and "Remove MPQ" buttons, so your suggestion will sort-of be there too.

We love you Ladik, do you know that? :D

Any chance you are a tall girl, with nice eyes and long legs (hair color doesn't matter) ?

Anyway - new build of MPQ Editor is up, and the new UI for opening MPQs is implemented. I will see how handy it will be. Also, the option for ignoring path in MPQ was added to the extract dialog.

Sweet! I like.
Patched mode seems.. odd though, now. If i open all mpqs in my Data/ folder in patch mode for example, it says the opened MPQ is "wow-update-12694.MPQ (patched)"

Edit: Ah, the dialog didn't re-sort the MPQs after selecting different open mode. The order in the dialog deserves re-thinking too. I quick-fixed it for now.

Edit2: Ok, I changed the sorting order, so that now it always tries to sort it

1) base MPQs first (locale-enGB.MPQ)
2) older patches next (wow-update-12694.MPQ)
3) newer patches last (wow-update-12759.MPQ)

Also for merged mode, it now orders MPQs by date, so the desired order is:

common.MPQ
expansion.MPQ (considered patch of "common.MPQ")
lichking.MPQ (considered patch of "expansion.MPQ")

In short, MPQ Editor always suggests proper ordering of the MPQs. Perhaps not 100%, but should work for most of the cases.

Actually that shouldn't be a problem. common/expansion/lichking rarely (if ever?) have collisions as the latter ones are split off common to avoid having expansion-less players with a huge amount of data to download/install.

IIRC, merged mode was useful for the old (currently live) way of handling patches: patch-1.mpq, patch-2.mpq, so on.

Finally ignore folder structure! Boy have I waited for this feature I have no idea why didn't mail you earlier ;)))) THANKS

Understandable, but it ain't a rule. You said Ladik should follow the rules, what he did.

Perhaps you might want to look here? /forums/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=684

No need to create a drama just because of this :-)
I have my webpage in my profile, and it's not actually hard to find downloads there. Just let it be - rules are set, I am not gonna mess with them :-)

Well, after some more reading. Most of my theorys were correct to an extent. Heh.
http://www.zezula.net/en/mpq/main.html Has a MPQ reader that can properly handle the patch files and all that jazz. (it even reads SC2 encrypted mpqs :) )