Weakauras is showing rectangles instead of proper textures

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Near the end of legion I did a complete overhaul of my UI and made custom weakauras for all my characters for buff timers/cds/etc.

I bought bfa but didn’t play it when it dropped, and am just now returning. I look at my weakauras all the textures I set up are replaced with rectangles (see below). Any idea what’s causing this?

pic:gyazo.com/6deb80383d5f6febd605e2d78983ceb6

EDIT: For anyone having the same issue, apparently as of 8.2 the texture has to be named by ID instead of file path, and must be manually replaced. wow.tools should have the IDs.

2

The bright green squares are the games way of telling you that:

  • It couldn’t find the texture files where you said they were
  • The textures don’t match the specified criteria for game textures
  • You placed the game textures under the Interface folder and tried to use them while the game was running (the game won’t recognise any new files after it has started).
3

that’s what I figured, but I haven’t changed any settings or moved any files, so why would it suddenly not be able to locate them?

4

Did you take into account the game addon folders being moved down one under the corresponding folder for the game version:

_retail_\Interface\AddOns\...
_classic_\Interface\AddOns\...
_ptr_\Interface\AddOns\...
5

This is the most likely culprit, but I’m not sure how I am supposed to tell weakauras to look in the right folder. It can load its own textures fine, just not any that are supposed to come from the game files.

6

To WA (inside the game), the folder structure will be the same as it used to be, the additional folder is not needed.

It’s just where the physical files outside the game have been moved to.

Which “game” textures are you using? path\texture names used.

7

Well I think I found the issue. From a similar reddit thread:

"Since 8.2 you need to use the File ID instead of the path. There is no more API to convert path sadly, so you need to use an external source to find it.

The website wow.tools can help find that information."

Looks like I have the grueling task ahead of finding the ID for every in game aura I use.
Thanks for all the help and suggestions though!

8

That’s really strange. I use WA and kgPanels both with custom artwork and I haven’t had to make any changes from paths to IDs. Maybe it happened in an update and I was unaware.