Guide on adding a new model, animation, and creature to HoMMV

Guys, I need your help. I want to finally learn how to modify creatures – change their models and textures, that is, simply change existing creatures as it was done in NCF. Please show me a guide, or maybe there's something similar in another topic? Because no matter how much I search the forum, I can't find anything useful – even though the guys who made NCF created many creatures this way. Share the secret; heroes need fresh blood. Besides, it’s very important for my Heroes project.

You're welcome.

A guide on how to quickly modify a creature, change its model, including changing it to a recolored version of some original model from Heroes 5:
/topic/at/1173731/

A guide on how to add a model from Heroes 7 into Heroes 5:
/topic/at/1173219/

This is all in the topic you are currently in, by the way)).
If something is unclear, ask questions; I think either I or someone else here will help you. But before asking a question, try to think and figure things out yourself so as not to ask about obvious things, and I advise you to formulate your questions very precisely. You understand that no one will want to help you if you ask something obvious like "how do I install Photoshop?" or abstractly like "how do I make awesome textures?". But if you encounter a truly difficult problem, especially for a beginner, or a task that you cannot solve, describe it accurately and ask for advice; I think people will be happy to help you. As you rightly noted, "fresh blood" is really needed.
Good luck with modding!

That is, you suggest THEORETICALLY rewriting a plugin from a company that sells its products for more than $10,000? and which likes to use encryption to protect copyrights (and the export plugin is no exception)? I can say one thing: good luck. And that's why I thought you were suggesting Blender as a replacement in both cases.

I think you don’t understand the meaning of the word “theoretically” in this context.
I am saying that it is possible in principle, not that it should or is worth doing. And if you read carefully what I write, you will see that I am not even suggesting using Blender for anything, let alone converting to gr2.
Hence the question: why are you popping up again with an "expert" opinion out of nowhere? And another question for me: why do I answer these nonsense posts?

zahar0z, in this case, the plugin is not in text form but in the form of a binary file, i.e., compiled – disassembling it is not an option; I have already tried and involved knowledgeable comrades! There is no decompiler... but I think that an analogue may be recreated...

Well, I said that I didn't go into detail on the issue. Yes, what you say would greatly complicate an already difficult task. But, as you yourself noted, theoretically, it is possible.