Extracting Blizzard Interface Code and Art

In order to start moving with building Warcraft AddOns you might want to extract the Blizzard UI Code and Art bundles. A little bit fiddly but…

/Applications/World\ of\ Warcraft/World\ of\ Warcraft.app/Contents/MacOS/World\ of\ Warcraft -console

On the login screen hit /~ to open the console and type

> exportInterfaceFiles code
> exportInterfaceFiles art

You should now have two new directories in your World Of Warcraft (/Applications/World of Warcraft/) BlizzardInterfaceArt and BlizzardInterfaceCode directory.

Rob-Laceys-MacBook-Pro:World of Warcraft roblacey$ ls -la
total 3944
drwxrwxrwx  21 roblacey  admin      714 24 May 08:59 .
drwxrwxr-x+ 71 root      admin     2414 22 May 11:45 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 rl  admin    12292 24 May 08:59 .DS_Store
drwxrwxrwx   3 rl  admin      102  3 May 18:35 Background Downloader.app
drwxrwxrwx   3 rl admin      102  3 May 18:35 Blizzard Updater.app
drwxrwxrwx   3 rl  admin      102 24 May 08:59 BlizzardInterfaceArt
drwxrwxrwx   3 rl  admin      102 24 May 08:59 BlizzardInterfaceCode
drwxrwxrwx   4 rl  admin      136 21 Apr 23:50 Cache
drwxrwxrwx  30 rl  admin     1020 24 May 08:59 Data
drwxrwxrwx   2 rl  admin       68 18 Apr 22:19 Errors
drwxrwxrwx   3 rl  admin      102 22 Apr 00:03 Interface
drwxrwxrwx  11 rl  admin      374 22 May 11:45 Logs
drwxrwxrwx   2 rl  admin       68  3 May 21:02 Movies
-rwxrwxrwx   1 rl  admin    67140 22 May 11:45 Patch.html
drwxrwxrwx  11 rl  admin      374 22 May 11:50 Updates
drwxrwxrwx   5 rl  admin      170 22 May 11:56 WTF
-rwxrwxrwx   1 rl  admin      177 24 May 08:59 WoW.mfil
-rwxrwxrwx   1 rl  admin  1927052 22 May 11:45 WoW.tfil
drwxrwxrwx   3 rl  admin      102  3 May 18:35 World of Warcraft Launcher.app
drwxrwxrwx   3 rl  admin      102  3 May 18:35 World of Warcraft Repair.app
drwxrwxrwx   3 rl  admin      102 22 May 11:45 World of Warcraft.app