Yes, I went out and made a screenshot of a Worgen with
two wolf-headed fist weapons. I did this via the latest iteration of
WoW Model Viewer,
freshly updated this Saturday, September 5th to work for patch 3.2. While it has a posted warning
use it at your own risk which I thought I should mention, I should also mention I've been using it for the past half an hour with no harm and no foul. I've even been able to play with
Trial of the Crusader loot. Go behind the jump to see a Worgen dual-wielding a
Justicebringer and
Reckoning. Not that I'm obsess with Titan's Grip Worgen or anything. Okay, so I totally am. At any rate, so far as I can tell, this version of the Model Viewer is stable and working with all current models.
This update by Chuanhsing even fixed the issue I was having where all my models came out textureless. I have no idea what it was happening in the first place, but I'm glad to see it gone.
So for you aspiring (or even active) machinamists or even just folks like me who like to dress up their future Worgen character with various gear options (sadly, you still can't get them in armor) there's a new toy out there for you to play with. Yay for progress!
Go forth and do great, terrible, or just silly things, for at last you again have a tool to make it easier.
Tags: braking, graphics, machinima, model, mpq, patch-3.2, viewer, wow-model-viewer, wow-mpq
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Machinima, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, News items, Add-Ons
Sep 8th 2009 at 4:00PM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
SeanOr101 Sep 8th 2009 4:06PM
Neat!
I'm going to have fun playing with this later after I get off from work.
Looks like fun, Matt. Thanks a bunch for making this : - D
Endless Sep 8th 2009 4:06PM
Seeing the original, savage, vicious Worgen makes me somewhat sad about new playable Worgen models. From what I've seen thus far, original Worgen are superior. I'll take Duskwood Worgen over Cataclysm Worgen anytime.
Same goes for original Goblins. Did you notice that original Goblins got real toes on their feet, while new playable models have those silly low-polygon "block feet" like all the other races? That's a serious downgrade.
Itanius Sep 8th 2009 4:13PM
I'm sure the models we've seen so far are not final iterations of what we'll see when Cataclysm launches.
Matthew Rossi Sep 8th 2009 5:26PM
Why did this get downrated? He's allowed to not like something.
Superthrust Sep 8th 2009 6:09PM
Matthew, its down rated because something REALLY Has to be done about the people and their down voting posts...its gotten WAY horrible on everything. If no one agrees with the collective or says "amg! i love this!" or something, it gets downvoted. No free speech here, apparently.
swampsquatch Sep 9th 2009 9:53AM
Superthrust your comment there just didn't even make sense which is why you are always downvoted. I know you are complaining because all of your comments suck and get downvoted so you think that the editors here can do something about it. You have free speech, the fact that the majority think what you are saying is stupid and down-vote it (yes it actually takes quite a few people to black out your comments) people can still READ what you have to say even if you have been down-voted. Therefore, free speech didn't go anywhere.
Just throwing this out there, "Matthew, its down rated because something REALLY Has to be done about the people and their down voting posts...its gotten WAY horrible on everything."
Matthew, it's down-rated because something has to be done about down-rating? lol
Komaru Sep 8th 2009 4:11PM
Malygos crashes for me if I view him after any other model, but if I load it up first it works.
Anyone else having this problem?
Zerbe Sep 8th 2009 4:13PM
Crashes right on start-up 'assertion failed' in dbcfile.cpp.
Mike Sep 8th 2009 4:30PM
dbcfile.cpp... that would be a C++ source file. I think you downloaded the source instead of the compiled program.
Zerbe Sep 8th 2009 4:43PM
Nope, I got the exe, I run it, I see the window load up and then the error pops.
Mike Sep 17th 2009 6:03PM
Got the program myself on my dust-collecting Win7-running EeePC, and got the same error. Looks like the program was compiled in debug mode (and thus would know about the source files), which is an even more irresponsible move on the devs part than not saying anything about platform.
Arbitor Sep 8th 2009 4:28PM
Im afraid of using this, what the last version screwing up my WoW and forcing me to reinstall, and not having the discs directly to hand pissed my right off, I'm gonna wait and see how many people get theirs screwed up before I try it again.
JDM Sep 10th 2009 12:36AM
be sure to COPY your data files for use in the model viewer. don't use the ones in your real wow install.
Mike Sep 8th 2009 4:36PM
I click link and hit "Download here (1.8MB)". It downloads a zip file, I extract it... and there's no program here. There's something called "wowmodelview.exe", but that just opens up in TextEdit with a bunch of illegible symbols, except for "This program cannot be run in DOS mode."
(For those who can't tell, I'm being trollish, voicing criticism that not only do they not have a Mac version, they don't even bother telling people that the program is Windows-only.)
Matthew Rossi Sep 8th 2009 4:42PM
To be fair, the original WoW Model Viewer that this is based off of is also a Windows only program. The only Mac version I know of is severely outdated. (The web site it was hosted on, Sailesha.com, doesn't even seem to be there anymore).
Mike Sep 8th 2009 4:52PM
Oh, I'm not complaining that there isn't a Mac version. It's unfortunate, but likely they've not found someone to port it properly (which wouldn't be overly difficult I don't think, I downloaded the source and it uses the cross-platform wxWidgets toolkit). My complaint is that they don't say one way or another, which can totally mislead people (especially since many of the most popular games available for Mac are made by Blizzard).
Chris Sep 8th 2009 4:54PM
No mac :(
Alchemistmerlin Sep 8th 2009 5:38PM
Why do people complain when video game related things don't work on their Mac?
I don't complain that I can't run Half Life on my blender, nor do I complain that my PC can't make smoothies.
Mike Sep 8th 2009 5:44PM
As I said, I'm not complaining about the lack of a Mac version, but the developer's ignorance of other platforms.
Though your comparison of PCs to blenders is apt. The inside of my computer did indeed look like it had been in a blender after I tried running Windows on it :)
theRaptor Sep 8th 2009 6:31PM
It also doesn't say whether it will run on my Amiga or PDP-11. Or if it works in Linux. You can safely default to assuming that software that doesn't say it runs on Macs doesn't run on Macs. Stop being a Martyr about it and use bootcamp.