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Crusader

It's been a long time since I have been openig up a modeling program.

Decided to fix this little fella up and upload it finally.

It could be that I have forgotten to do something, feel free to tell me and have fun with it.

Special thanks to JesusHipster for fixing the animations (again) ♥

Update:

Great news. Blinkyboy offered himself to fix some issues and flaws of the model. I'll just copy his list here:

I did the following:
* Optimize your model bone hierarchy by removing unnecessary bones.
* Optimize the keys.
* Remade the glows and applied billboarding to the glows on weapon so they look nice in-game.
* tweaked a bit dissipate animation so it feels more normal.
* Optimized the mesh a bit.
* Fixed some bone positions.
* Recalculated extents using NeoDex.

Things I forgot:
* to squish the model.
* to set the particle emitter to XY Quad.

Big thanks to him.

I also fixed some flaws in the portrait, redid some normals and other stuff.

Keywords:
Hero, Crusader, Paladin, Knight, Human,
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Crusader (Model)

Crusader (Model)

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16:24, 9th Dec 2014 MiniMage: Neat.

Kyrbi0

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Wow. Really great to see this thing come to final fruition.

I really like the craftsmanship & detail that went into this model. Simple (DK?) animations don't detract from the care that went into this. I especially like the armor-plates on the horse, the cool sword, the nice use of glows, and the glowing runes.

New/custom/added animations would hurt this guy... And I kinda feel like some of his proportions are wonky. Maybe. Finally, I still kinda wonder at just how many crazy nurnies he's got all over him; I mean the book-glyph-sword pauldron thing is neat, but that & the glyphs & the armor & the wings... Ah dannae.

Anyway, lookin' great!

PROXY said:
It's been a long time since I have been openig up a modeling program.
Glad to have you back, boy-o. ; )
 
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And he uploaded it, an awesome made, :D
will test it:

Edit: Here's what I found out,
Almost nothing, its has clean meshes and wrappings
And its animations are also as well (though when attack, he's blade
hits his helmet horns and his upper part helmet, But I doubt that anyone
can notice that in-game), :D 5/5
 
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The Model has high detail and great uses it's disappointing that such a Great model uses just Death knight animations but still it is like a WC3 + WoW model speaking of was the shoulderpad based off a World of warcraft item? it looks like one and Good job 3.6/5
 
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