Item recoloring issues on a Ruse (necrotic) client

[honorspren 1]

Hello all, I've been trying to mess around with changing item colors on the necrotic client but i can't seem to get anything to actually change. I followed a quick tutorial just to test and that item also did not change, i copied the black santa hat knowing that the original item color id was correct (because obviously it worked for black)
and tried many other colors (even ones already referenced for other items) but it always defaults back to red.. I have the feeling I'm missing something very fundamental here but I'm all out of ideas. 

Here's is the whip from the tutorial, again I've copy/pasted also the black santa hat with other modifiedmodelcolors and that also didn't work
 

 

 case 22068:
                itemDef.actions = new String[5];
                itemDef.originalModelColors = new int[1];
                itemDef.modifiedModelColors = new int[1];
                itemDef.actions[1] = "Wield";
                itemDef.modelID = 5412;
                itemDef.maleWearId = 5409;
                itemDef.femaleWearId = 5409;
                itemDef.modelZoom = 840;
                itemDef.modelRotation1 = 280;
                itemDef.modelRotation2 = 0;
                itemDef.modelOffset1 = -2;
                itemDef.modelOffsetY = 56;
                itemDef.name = "Lime Whip";
                itemDef.description = "A Lime Abyssal Whip".getBytes();
                itemDef.modifiedModelColors[0] = 13860;
                itemDef.originalModelColors[0] =  528;
                
                break;

 

on a side note: Does anyone know of a good working cache tool so i can extract models from the cache? im having issues finding one that works, closest so far was Toms but it couldnt view all the models and would not export ;/

thank you in Advance!

Edited February 2, 2023 by honorspren