0.3.2

🚀 0.3.2 — 2026-06-23

This release brings major improvements to Retail 12.x support, character customization, Armory importing, performance, stability, and compatibility with the latest WoW builds.

✨ Added

• 64-bit build with wxWidgets 3.2, removing the old memory limitations and improving stability with modern WoW data.
• Automatic listfile updates, keeping model and texture paths current without manual maintenance.
• Client Choice launcher to select WoW installation, product (wow / wow_beta), and data profile before loading.
• Loading Client progress window with smooth progress updates during startup and file parsing.
• Direct NPC import from URL from the Character menu.
• Retail 12.x WMO support, including:
  • GFID group files
  • FileDataID textures
  • MODI doodads
  • Large (>256 material) WMOs
  • Correct orientation and camera framing
• Support for newly-added and encrypted game content, including automatic TACT key updates.
• Loaded model path displayed in the window title bar.

🚀 Performance

• Startup is dramatically faster through optimized CASC enumeration.
• Character loading no longer performs dozens of redundant refreshes.
• Character customization and Randomise operations are significantly faster.
• Item searching and equipping are much more responsive.
• Database queries have been optimized with additional indexes.
• File List search now updates as you type.
• Models with large animation sets no longer stall the application.
• Texture compositing and character assembly have been heavily optimized.
• Zoom and pan controls now scale naturally with camera distance.

🐛 Fixed

Character Customization

• Full customization lists now appear correctly for all races and forms, including:
  • Dracthyr visage forms
  • Dragonriding drakes
  • Allied races
  • Haranir and other recent races
• Characters once again load with their complete appearance, including hair, tattoos, jewelry, horns, markings, and race-specific features.
• Ear customization now works correctly.
• Race-specific customization options no longer appear on unrelated races.
• Placeholder "Transmog" customization entries are now hidden.
• Eye colours that depend on Eye Style now load correctly.
• Eye colour and Eyesight glow now render together.
• Underclothes textures now load completely.

Character Rendering

• Helmets, shoulders, weapons, and off-hand items render correctly again.
• Creature textures load correctly on Retail 12.x clients.
• Mechagnome cybernetic parts now:
  • Render correctly
  • Use proper paint textures
  • Hide replaced limbs correctly
  • Maintain proper reflections
  • No longer shimmer or flicker during animation

Armory & Imports

• Armory import works out of the box.
• Imported characters now correctly apply skin and hair colours.
• Dragonriding mount customizations no longer overwrite character appearances.
• Wowhead NPC and item import works again.
• Importing NPCs from newer game builds no longer crashes the viewer.

Compatibility

• New client builds automatically fall back to compatible data profiles.
• DB2 layouts are detected automatically from file structure fingerprints.
• PTR and Beta installations now load their own game data instead of Retail.
• New races, forms, models, and future patch content load correctly.

Stability

• Fixed multiple WMO-related crashes, including heap corruption issues.
• Fixed startup crashes caused by DB2 layout mismatches.
• Hardened animation-track loading and bounds checking.
• Missing or unavailable encrypted models now fail gracefully.
• Dropdown controls no longer collapse under scaling.
• Removed an unnecessary image-decoding popup dialog.

🗑️ Removed

• In-app lighting controls have been removed.
• Models are now lit automatically using a default light source.

0.2.2

🚀 Version 0.2.2 — 2026-06-17

🐛 Fixed

• Character models Patch 12.0.7
  • Character models render correctly again. 0.2.0 loaded characters untextured (white) or with scrambled customization (missing hair/face, black bands). Two causes: a "nearest known build" schema fallback that mis-read tables (reverted), and ChrCustomizationReq — which gates which customization choices apply per race — changed layout in 12.0.7, so its race mask read garbage and wrong choices (e.g. horns on a Blood Elf) leaked onto every character. Positions corrected.

0.2

Changelog

🚀 Version 0.2.0 — 2026-06-17

✨ Added

• Startup "Client Choice" launcher

  • Choose a WoW folder via Browse.
  • Detect available clients from .build.info.
  • Select Product (wow / wow_beta) and data Profile before loading.
  • CLI/headless launches continue to auto-load without prompting.

• Loading Client progress window

  • Displays loading stages with a percentage progress bar.
  • Progress advances smoothly through long operations such as file enumeration and listfile parsing.

• Import NPC from URL

  • Added directly to the Character menu.
  • No more View → View NPC → Import URL → Display.

• Retail (12.x) WMO support

  • Buildings and world objects now load and render correctly.
  • Support for GFID group files, FileDataID textures, MODI doodads, >256 material WMOs, correct Z-up orientation, and automatic camera framing.
  • Group and LOD files are hidden from the file list.
  • Selecting group/LOD files no longer crashes.
  • Classic WMO support remains unchanged.

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⚡ Improved

• Customization and Randomise operations are dramatically faster and no longer freeze the UI.
• Armory import now works out of the box using a bundled proxy.
• Startup is significantly faster:
  • Single CASC enumeration replaces ~2.1 million file probes.
  • Removed the 1-second splash delay.
• Database queries during loading are much faster thanks to additional SQLite indexes.
• Opening a character now refreshes once instead of ~45 times.
• Item equipping and searching are considerably faster.
• File List search updates as you type.
• DB field layouts automatically adapt to newer client builds.
• Zoom and pan now scale naturally with camera distance.

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🐛 Fixed

• Creature textures missing on Retail 12.0.x

  • Corrected CreatureDisplayInfo.TextureVariationFileDataID field mapping.
  • Improved indexing of remote-only files for streaming installs.

• WMO heap-corruption crash

  • Removed an off-by-one bug.
  • Added bounds checking throughout WMO group parsing and rendering.

• Wowhead NPC and item import

  • Plugin is now included in releases.
  • Improved handling of missing https:// prefixes and redirects.

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🗑️ Removed

• In-app lighting controls
  • Models are now lit automatically using a default light.
  • Lighting configuration UI has been removed.

0.1.5

Update readme.md

WMW Midnight 0.1

WMW Midnight Version 0.1

✨ Highlights

• Runs on current retail WoW (patch 12.x). Reads the modern game database
  format end-to-end, so today's races, models, items and customizations load.
• Import your character from the Armory. Paste a character link and the viewer
  rebuilds its race, appearance and gear — no account login or manual setup.
• Correct multi-texture rendering. Cosmic capes, glowing orbs and other layered
  materials now display properly instead of rendering solid white.
• One-click installer and a new "Midnight" identity (name, icon, splash).

Added

• Armory character import — load a character's race, appearance and equipment
  straight from a Battle.net Armory link.
• Windows installer — guided setup with Start-menu and optional desktop
  shortcuts and a clean uninstaller; no administrator rights required.

Changed / Improved

• Current retail WoW support (12.x) via the modern WDC5 database format with
  schema-driven loading.
• Character customization — skin tones, faces, hair, geosets, equipment, and
  colour swatches shown directly in the picker.
• Rendering — M2 multi-texture combiner shaders for correct layered materials
  (capes, orbs, glow effects), while keeping the classic lighting pipeline.
• Model loading — better resolution of non-standard model paths; animation
  names are now populated.
• Rebranded to "WoW Model Viewer Midnight" — new application name, icon and
  splash screen.
• Removed the old built-in auto-updater.

Fixed

• Blank or missing character faces.
• Crashes while changing character customization across several races.
• A memory leak that could exhaust memory and crash after switching between many
  models in one session.
• Assorted stability fixes around model switching, animation and particles.

Notes

• On first run, point the viewer at your World of Warcraft Data folder
  (Settings → General → Game Folder).
• 32-bit build for Windows.