So things where surprisingly easier than i had anticipated, i simply copy pasted the model file of the Dominion marine 5 portrait over that of the regular marine, replace the old marine portrait file on Blizzard's base.mpq and that did it:
I still plan to change the texture from red to orange and replace the dominion logo to something more generic, seeing as this was so simple i have to wonder if it's possible to change the Ghost's in-game model and portrait to that of the Spectre's while changing the voice to that of Tosh... Hmmm...
Ok i think i get it, well what i'll try to do is simply open the basic marine portrait in 3ds max, and then opening the smiley marine portrait in 3ds max too then i'll simply save the smiley marine portrait over the basic marine portrait model thus overwriting it, then fiddle with the textures because, well i'm not a fan of the basic blue color or the Dominion basic red color, Orange+Black is the way to go for Marines in SC2, then i will simply repack the entire SC2Assets.mpq file(i think that's what it's called) and replace the default one with the one i made.
If everything goes well then the game shouldn't notice at all and the Marine's basic portrait will be Smiley Dominion Marine but in Orange instead of Red.
I'm not good at making introductions but this is the best SC II editor related forum i've found on the internet so i figured that if someone could help me i would find him here. Anyway, i have a very simple question and looking at the editor and some of it's functionality it appears that it isn't possible(but who knows? i'm just a noob with this thing) is it possible to change the portrait of the marine to that of the Dominion marine(5 i think) with a smiley face on his helmet and bullet holes and still be able to play SC II's ranked game? I think my main question is can this be done using the Galaxy editor? 'cause if isn't possible i figure you can just extract the files from the .mpq open the portrait models in 3ds max and simply replacing default marine with smiley marine and then repacking the mpq file and replacing it.
And another 2 questions would be, is it possible to make the "dark grey" color selectable in-game, i remember the game only having red, pink, green etc selectable but dark grey(ie black) is in the editor, and is it possible to make the portrait's models change with team color? ie make the marine's armor be red if you select red as a color etc, etc?
It's just that, well, i despise the default portrait of the marine, doesn't look like a marine should look imo, besides smiley marine is just golden.
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So things where surprisingly easier than i had anticipated, i simply copy pasted the model file of the Dominion marine 5 portrait over that of the regular marine, replace the old marine portrait file on Blizzard's base.mpq and that did it:
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x51/Shuma22/SC22010-08-0309-19-38-00.jpg
I still plan to change the texture from red to orange and replace the dominion logo to something more generic, seeing as this was so simple i have to wonder if it's possible to change the Ghost's in-game model and portrait to that of the Spectre's while changing the voice to that of Tosh... Hmmm...
Ok i think i get it, well what i'll try to do is simply open the basic marine portrait in 3ds max, and then opening the smiley marine portrait in 3ds max too then i'll simply save the smiley marine portrait over the basic marine portrait model thus overwriting it, then fiddle with the textures because, well i'm not a fan of the basic blue color or the Dominion basic red color, Orange+Black is the way to go for Marines in SC2, then i will simply repack the entire SC2Assets.mpq file(i think that's what it's called) and replace the default one with the one i made.
If everything goes well then the game shouldn't notice at all and the Marine's basic portrait will be Smiley Dominion Marine but in Orange instead of Red.
I'm not good at making introductions but this is the best SC II editor related forum i've found on the internet so i figured that if someone could help me i would find him here. Anyway, i have a very simple question and looking at the editor and some of it's functionality it appears that it isn't possible(but who knows? i'm just a noob with this thing) is it possible to change the portrait of the marine to that of the Dominion marine(5 i think) with a smiley face on his helmet and bullet holes and still be able to play SC II's ranked game? I think my main question is can this be done using the Galaxy editor? 'cause if isn't possible i figure you can just extract the files from the .mpq open the portrait models in 3ds max and simply replacing default marine with smiley marine and then repacking the mpq file and replacing it.
And another 2 questions would be, is it possible to make the "dark grey" color selectable in-game, i remember the game only having red, pink, green etc selectable but dark grey(ie black) is in the editor, and is it possible to make the portrait's models change with team color? ie make the marine's armor be red if you select red as a color etc, etc?
It's just that, well, i despise the default portrait of the marine, doesn't look like a marine should look imo, besides smiley marine is just golden.