Modding your own GW

The game generates a new compass file from a reference image when you move. Therefore it's impossible to mod.

ah thats... interesting. whats this reference image taken from?

I'm not 100% sure, but it's definitely in the dat file somewhere.

The only issue is, because TexEdit works by intercepting DirectX calls, we won't be able to edit that source file (with TexEdit at least), since it never actually gets sent to the graphics card.

I've done quite a bit of modding and mapping, and have always loved it. I feel GW should be one of those games, especially with ONE data file, that should have a third party archive explorer.

About the Unreal Tournament sounds, I thought that was legit because the mod was a .dll file accessed outside GW, and not a modification to the Gw.dat file itself.

An idea...somebody take references from old screenshots of the Prophecies interface and remake it!

Of course there will be some complications, namely things implemented after its "termination" such as the hero portraits.

All the mods really should be "stored" somewhere. I mean that there should be place where is links for all mods.

I've done some modding on my own, but it's really amateur and nothing good looking, but fun to do

Check this out...

EDIT: Removed Image to save bandwith. Can still be found on this thread.

MrPanda at GWO is working on it already, imho

(not only prohecies are problems, quest dependant spawns too.)

I just can't get the radar transparency to stay. I'm saving them as png but no go. any clues?

Hmm... Cartho is easy now i think... ;(
Tried out some think and get this:


And it Works great...

hey I tried this mod for exploring Cantha but now I'm at 99% and no idea of where to go.
made a little mod of my own using the same concept as zweinstein, but with all the objects on the map invisible.
I was hoping someone here with 100% could try it out and take a screen, comparing both maps should be much easier now, giving the exact places left to explore using photoshop tools.

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/9098/gw107ca7.jpg

The mod is here, make sure you got GW to a 1024x768 resolution:
http://web.tagus.ist.utl.pt/~pedro.duarte/RedCantha.tpf

texmod.exe is packed with nspack and some (retarded) antivir programs blacklist packers, this is why it shows false detection

I'm creating a mod with chest spawn locations for Old Ascalon as ppl use that area quite a bit to raise their lucky title.

we used to play that on vent when we won halls , lol

@Ailia

where is a link to the latest version of your Mod?

EDIT: Thanks Pharell

here:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:AT/Mods

i modded all my heros to look like the shadow army - omg all the dark grey/black heroes with glowing red eyes this is so much fun - btw the wing kick ass as black for the paragon

Could you please host that mod somewhere? I am trying to get my heroes look like the shadow army, but I cannot get it done.

It's still a work in progress and i'll be more than happy to share my work when i'm ready. there are a few tweaks I want to do. I've been the targa format and have been having no issues whatsoever - thank god you can work with it in photoshop

it's a pain to get a good screen cap with general morgan to show off his wings any one got any tips to get a good one with him?

We got a download section at wiki :
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guide..._modifications