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Dark Ancient

A sinister, malevolent Ancient. Includes a Corrupted version.

Feel free to use and/or edit these models, so long as you credit me.
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Corrupted Dark Ancient (Model)

Dark Ancient (Model)

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Kyrbi0

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(Sorry, this'll be more succinct than usual)

I rather like this. I like when the base game is expanded in a way that works, and the NE just don't have enough "alternative Treant Buildings" in the archives.

I really like the 3-head thing; smacks of that one judge in the early Transformers movie. However:

I get it that he is supposed to be a Treant Janus of sorts but it actualy took me a while to notice the side faces of his. Maybe you could find a way to better highlight those artistic features of the model?
This very much so. Bring it out! It's the best part of the model!

I like the mesh & textures (very much fits in-game), I love the SFX (very interesting)... The name is cool ("Ancient of Lies"), and all that.

I have only one issue, and I may be wrong: but it appears like there's a whole lot of green & not a lot of other things. Like, you have the horns & the TC in a few places, and the skull-knee-caps are neat... But there's just so much leafy green (& and especially on the back with the cloak) it's really... bleh.

On that note, maxing out the Janus part might solve this problem. That and/or adding something to the horns or the shoulders/back/top-of-cape might help.

On another note, why is it a "Dark Ancient"? It really doesn't look that evil to me (or is this just more of your naming shenanigans?).
 

RedLord

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RedLord

Another Useful Model for Night Elves and Corrupted Race, Good job!!
 
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It's been a few years. Don't birth animations scale to the actual time it takes to build a thing? Every structure ingame has a 60 second birth animation, and vary from seconds to minutes.
Not sure if it's just me, but in-game it only plays like 8 seconds of the actual birth anim so it appears to be extremely slow and the anim is incomplete. Maybe there's a problem with my WE in this case?
 
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