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NightelfOwlRanger

This bundle is marked as useful / simple. Simplicity is bliss, low effort and/or may contain minor bugs.
Just figuered out that i've no good Night Elf model so far, so i decided to make a new airborne one. I've made already a medium air units for Blood Elves and Undead, so i thought i should make one for Night Elves as well. This is the result: the Nightelf Owl Ranger!

Owl Rangers are medium, fast moving air units, mainly used for escorting heavier assault airbornes like Chimeras and for recognaissance, scouting and spying. Unlike the previously mentioned airbones, the Owl Rangers can perfectly hide themselves, sneak up unaware targets and put them down, as long as they aren't to strong. The major weakness of these aerial flight artists is that they're not armored. This fact makes them easy pray to huge creatures like Frost Wyrms and Dragons, except if they come in huge numbers. The main use is scouting and patrolling the own territory and fly back to the base for giving alert if something's wrong. They're also wonderfull messengers, due to their stealthy abilities and fast movement. Their damage is rather average, not realy something to get excited about.

I've also made a custom missile for it, as the original ballista missile from Reing of Chaos differs a bit.

Feel free to use it in any way you want! Have fun with it! :wink:

EDIT 1: changed the sitting style and fixed a little odd movement issue on the mount's head. :wink:

EDIT 2: fixed some minor flaws and removed the unnecessary helper objects. :wink:

Keywords:
Night elf, night elf, nightelf, nightelf air unit, nightelf airborne, air unit, owl, ranger, air cavalry, flying cavalry
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NightelfOwlRanger (Model)

NightelfOwlRanger (Model)

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13:12, 2nd Apr 2013 Misha: thought to put a 'needs update' tag on this one, while you tend to those rigging issues in the posts :) okay her crotch/hip area looks deformed, you already made the legs too long, and that owl.. i dunno, you should...

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13:12, 2nd Apr 2013
Misha: thought to put a 'needs update' tag on this one, while you tend to those rigging issues in the posts :)

okay her crotch/hip area looks deformed, you already made the legs too long, and that owl.. i dunno, you should probably try this anew.. did you try combining that upper part with an actual owl? combining animations with this http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/modeling-animation-276/modeling-resource-customized-vertex-editor-220240/ might have a learning curve of a few trials and errors
 

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Interesting. The rider & mount seem a tad incongruous (giant, low-poly/texture owl, reasonably-higher-poly/texture rider), but it reminds me of the old Beta "flying Priestess of the Moon", so that's cool.

Does she throw it, like the Wyvern Rider?
 
Interesting. The rider & mount seem a tad incongruous (giant, low-poly/texture owl, reasonably-higher-poly/texture rider), but it reminds me of the old Beta "flying Priestess of the Moon", so that's cool.

Does she throw it, like the Wyvern Rider?
yes, she throws and handles the spear exactly like the wyvern rider. :wink: You can download and try it out, if you want :wink:

Ican use it to add Night Elf ranged unit. This is good.
thx a lot, dear neffew. :ogre_hurrhurr:

Unbelivble ! But If You Make A The Owl Eyes Little . It Could Be Better :) 5/5
Ty dear neffew. :ogre_hurrhurr:
 
Lol that is a little creepy. :3
But I like your models!!:)

Very cool, but shouldn't you wait to upload more until the others get approved?
You're still great at making models, approved or not. 5/5
Why wait? There's no rule that says you can't have too many pending models.... :wink: Thx for your feedback :ogre_haosis:
 
Well, there's nothing stopping you, but if these all get rejected.. it would have been a waste of time. D:

Not that you really have to worry tho, these shouldn't be rejected:)
that's true, but it's better to have many models around. Even if most of them are for rejection, the one or other will still pass. :wink:
 
S: now her hip/crotch/thigh area gets distorted in some anims.. and in unanimated.. well, you just can't have the crotch that far in front

sides of the bird distort in spell anim..
Hm, i didn't notice any ''real'' flow after testing the updated version ingames, but if you want, i can try to apply one more update/edit to her. :vw_unimpressed:
 
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