not an expert either but i assume the particles in Warcraft and WoW as well, like smoke or enchants on weapons and such are some self illuminated planes with an alpha map in the opacity, and a diffuse ofc, i guess this technique is used in most games today, not only in Warcraft, hope i'm not wrong.
I came here to ask for help,our project Warcraft 3 Rebirth (modification of warcraft 3,in high definition manner) need an artist that is skilled in some image manipulation programs.Precisely,the mod is using world of warcraft,hots (blizzard) models and tilesets that look better than old one and replace them. So the part…