Importing models from other games

Hello everyone!

First of all, I just wanted to say that I'm really sorry for writing in English on a Russian-speaking forum, but I think this is the best place to present my project (and I won't use a machine translator, that wouldn't be effective).

I want to import creature models from other games, I know some guys already do that, but it's not "enough" for me (right now I have World of Warcraft and Wizard101 in mind, but who knows?)
I'm not a good modder, especially when it comes to models, skeletons, geometries, and animations; however, I can't properly ask any of you to do this task for me, I know it represents a very exhausting amount of work...
So I'll do my best to do it myself, and here's why I'm writing this post: I would really appreciate any help, like tips, manuals, or download links (working cracked versions of Maya, model viewers, etc.)

Obviously, if anyone wants to work with me, their help will be gratefully accepted!

Anyway, thanks in advance!

Bonjour, Sylannh! Et bienvenue!

Exactly for your needs we have the manual from zahar0z how to import models to HoMMV. Although question of how to export models from other games before it is an another topic...
Another problem -- zahar0z manuals are in russian. But I hope they still will be useful for you.

I must also warn you that this forum section is for finished mods only. So I will move your topic to this section instead after you read the answer.

Wish you success in your endeavors.

Thanks, it will be helpful. And sorry for the misplaced topic

So Zahar's manual don't really fit for Warcraft models imports, since Zahar uses the ActorXImporter plugin... I'm not a good model modder, so I really need help. Did anyone succeeded in importing game models with 3DS and Maya (other games than H7) ? If so, could they explain me how to properly do it, and how to avoid known issues ?

That manual fit for any model that you can import into 3ds max. I just used model from h7 as a example, because its relatively easy to extract models from h7. If you need to import model from other game just skip first part that is specific for h7 model. Other parts of the tutorial would be perfectly good for you, no matter what model do you import.

I'm pretty sure you can import warcraft models into max. But you will need to search information about that yourself.