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Arcane Familar/The Archivist

Scrapped concept for a previous Modelling Contest.

Feel free to use and/or edit these models, so long as you credit me.
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Arcane Familiar/The Archivist (Model)

Reviews
HappyCockroach
Very interesting familiar concept, and well done. And performs correctly in-game. Approved.

Kyrbi0

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Level 45
Joined
Jul 29, 2008
Messages
9,495
Oh man, what the heck? This guy? I like this thing waaaaay better than the ghoul-thing you posted for the actual Contest!

This guy just oozes coolness. It's like a floating owl-man, which I've definitely not seen before. He's got cool clothes & a cool staff & a sick head & team-color eyebrows. I repeat, Team-Color Eyebrows.

His animations are Just Fine; I'll admit a weakness for "floating dudes", but you've done a great job with them. His SFX... ooh baby, I think I got a case of the vapors. Sometimes I'll see a custom model's SFX & think "hey, one of those is pretty cool; maybe I'll open Magos & see how they did it". For this guy, that's like every SFX. Slam, Spell, Spell Two... Geez, man. Love what you've done. And then Death! This guy is too good for death, so he just apparates into another dimension. Just, y'know, Portal into the Nether, that's all.

Very cool, man. I hope I can find a place for this.



P.S. TEAM COLOR EYEBROWS
 
Level 4
Joined
Jan 16, 2018
Messages
92
Pls add it a history, this model really deserves it. One of the best model i had seen.
 
Level 13
Joined
Jul 12, 2018
Messages
510
Really interesting model, gonna try it out. Looks great in the model viewer.

edit. Can't get this model to load on a unit. I have 30+ other working imported models in the map so i don't think i'm making some basic mistake, but i am new at this so possibly.
 
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Level 12
Joined
Jun 12, 2010
Messages
413
Yeah, I can confirm this model no longer works as of the newest patch. I loaded the same map that had the model on two different versions of WC3, 1.29 and the newest patch, and it only worked on the former. Really unfortunate =/

It is likely due to some skin that was deprecated and is no longer included in the game files.

Edit: For anyone interested, the broken textures were the Water Textures and the Frostbolt texture. I have attached a version of the model that is compatible with 1.30
 

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