Is world of Warcraft nude mod detectable?

"Aboo" <jhemphill.RemoveThis@gmail.com> writes:
>If you alter the models on your own PC it would have no effect on how
>others view the game world (I.E. - You couldn't make your own character
>invisible to anyone/thing buy yourself.) nor would it change how you
>interact with the game world. (I.E. - You can't change a skin and
>suddenly be able to jump over a mountain, gate, etc...) If that were
>possible in the past, I can gaurantee that someone got fired and they
>changed it ASAP.

In the past, invisible skins were done another way - by translating the
character's location into the ground. Scenery collision detection is done
in the client, so the stuff I described CAN happen if you swap models
around. One trick I heard farmers used was to replace all the herb models
with ragnaros - dead easy to see from a distance.

>I'm not saying it's right, or it's legal or anything of the kind. Just
>changing graphical appearance on your own machine will have absolutely
>no effect on the game world for anyone else but you.

You are incorrect. It all depends on what the client does with the
information. Go ahead and mess with it, but it's going to get detected. *
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jes.t.er.DeleteThis@hexduxhmp.org writes:
>Tha'ts not necessarily true. This isn't from WoW, but I remember
>another game where people figured out that if they hid under
>the eaves of buildings at a certain angle that they could not be
>targetted (as you had to specifically click on someone to target them),
>and thus they were essentially invincible.

This periodically happens in warcraft too. Flag exploits in WSG, and
untargetable people on the roofs of gadgetzan who could still shoot you,
come to mind. *
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Aboo wrote:
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> On Jan 22, 9:46 am, pv+use...@pobox.com (PV) wrote:
>>> Even if it were detectable, I think Bliz looks for bots more than skin
>>> changes, no?There have been a number of exploits related to model alteration -
>> invisible players, gates replaced with something that can be jumped over,
>> etc. Therefore, any alteration of the games models and internal files (and
>> I have to imagine a nude mod would incude that - what a waste of time!) is
>> grounds for a permanent ban. Don't do it. *
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>> like corkscrews.
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> If you alter the models on your own PC it would have no effect on how
> others view the game world (I.E. - You couldn't make your own character
> invisible to anyone/thing buy yourself.) nor would it change how you
> interact with the game world. (I.E. - You can't change a skin and
> suddenly be able to jump over a mountain, gate, etc...) If that were
> possible in the past, I can gaurantee that someone got fired and they
> changed it ASAP.

This is not true. The client does different stuff depending on your
"skin" or model. For example, if you're playing a Tauren or Night-Elf,
the two tallest races pre-TBC (are draenei and/or blood-elves taller?)
and if you were for example wearing a big weapon, you quite often could
get into troubles entering some doors without hanging a bit in the
doorframe. This never happens to smaller chars. So there is one
difference here already. There are others and they are clearly exploits,
so I won't go into that.

You must know that in WoW, the client does a huge amount of work.
Changig certain stuff on the client does influence what can happen and
this is depending on the result, outright cheating and exploiting.
Therefor, it isn't allowed. And the client can very well hash (checksum)
the files in use and detect when you do this. It is grounds for banning,
temporary or permanent.

Don't do it if you value your account.

CU

René
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"Aboo" <jhemphill DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:

> If you alter the models on your own PC it would have no effect on how
> others view the game world (I.E. - You couldn't make your own character
> invisible to anyone/thing buy yourself.) nor would it change how you
> interact with the game world. (I.E. - You can't change a skin and
> suddenly be able to jump over a mountain, gate, etc...) If that were
> possible in the past, I can gaurantee that someone got fired and they
> changed it ASAP.

Movement happens on the client, and as far as I know is not validated
by the server at all. That's why speed- and teleporthacks can work,
although happily they seem to be rare (I never found someone who used
it, probably they're almost exclusively used by farmers in instances).

Chris

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