IW3 Weapon Porting

Requirements:

• Clean Modern Warfare 2 game files
• Clean Modern Warfare (1.7) game files
• Latest version of IW4x
• Zonebuilder (will be explained in the Instructions, later on.)
• IW3-Xport
• Notepad++
• Winrar or 7-Zip

1. At first we need to find the weaponnames to dump correctly. The following path shows you the .iwd-file with weaponnames inside, open the .iwd-file with Winrar.

📁 Your Modern Warfare Installation

 └📁 main

    └📚 iw_11.iwd

    └📁 weapons

    └📁 mp

2. In our case we use the mp5_mp as example.

3. Open the iw3xport.exe, a console will open, type there: “dumpweapon mp5_mp“ and hit „ENTER“ 

Console-Output after successful dumping

Your dumped weaponfiles will appear in the „iw3xport_out“ folder

📁 Your Modern Warfare Installation

 └📁 iw3xport_out

 └📁 default

4. Copy the contents of the default folder to a new folder called mod and place it to your IW4x Installation inside the mods-folder.

5. Inside your IW4x Installation, create a “zone_source“ folder if it not already exists. Create a “mod.csv“ inside of the “zone_source“ folder and open the .csv.

Type the following: “weapon,iw3_mp5_mp“ 

((OPTIONAL))

To see and change file extentions you have to disable a windows function which disables it.

Go to Control Panel use the View By drop-down list near the upper-right corner of the screen. When you click on it, you'll see that you have three choices: Category, Large Icons, and Small Icons. Choose Small or Large icons and Click on Explorer- or Folder-Options. Untick the following:

6. Now we need to set up the Zonebuilder. Create a Shortcut of the iw4x.exe, rightclick it and add as startparameter: “-zonebuilder” 

Open the Shortcut you created (you can rename it to whatever you want and you can change the icon for that shortcut as well). 

7. If all went correctly, a console should open. Now we need to load the mod-folder we created before, with: “fs_game mods/mod“ after that we type: “buildzone mod“ The Console Output should look like this: 

The 2nd last line in the Conosle gives information about the output location of your fastfile. Navigate to zonebuilder_out and copy or cut the mod.ff to your mods/mod folder. Delete all folders except of images or leave them as they are for future adjustments 

8. Start your game and open the console with “^“ or “~“ type:“fs_game mods/mod;devmap mp_rust“. Once oyu are ingame Choose a Team and a class and type in console: “ give iw3_mp5_mp“. If you did all correct you should have now have the MP5 of CoD4 in your hands.

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