as much as i play on the non-reforged, this one is a beaut!
if only someone can make one too for the original wc3

JLeonard said:

as much as i play on the non-reforged, this one is a beaut!
if only someone can make one too for the original wc3

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I'm glad you like it
It's actually kind of suprising that a skin like this doesn't already exist for the original wc3.

Looks awesome!

A Warden is prepared even in Death!

(still don't know why she still sides with Sylvanas in Shadowlands)

Stormvarsel29 said:

I'm glad you like it
It's actually kind of suprising that a skin like this doesn't already exist for the original wc3.

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coz the dark warden or the risen NE wardens are just new in WoW. Undead NE Wardens doesnt exist or at least known in wc3 even wc1 i assume? anyways nice skin for the wardens, good for Dark Elves!

Nice work !

JLeonard said:

coz the dark warden or the risen NE wardens are just new in WoW. Undead NE Wardens doesnt exist or at least known in wc3 even wc1 i assume? anyways nice skin for the wardens, good for Dark Elves!

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they made Cata Thrall, BFA Jaina, Legion Cenarius and Alternate Arthas, they have reasons to publish Forsaken Warden as a skin

Can you do High Elf, Blood Elf and Void Elf Wardens?

Ken Lenard Navarro said:

Can you do High Elf, Blood Elf and Void Elf Wardens?

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Perhaps sometime in the future.

That's some legit Sith vibes there my dude... Looks very nice!

I love skins that are imported from wow, well done!

Moonman said:

That's some legit Sith vibes there my dude... Looks very nice!

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Hahah true, and thanks

Looks splendid. But is it maybe possible to reduce the file size of this? 12MB seems a steep opportunity cost for “just” a re-texture.

maybe some of the less visible parts can be reduced in quality to have a smaller file?

The emissive and probably the cloth texture can be downsized to reduce size without giving much visual difference.

Malmgrev said:

The emissive and probably the cloth texture can be downsized to reduce size without giving much visual difference.

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Exactly, while I recently started saving all Diffuse in DXT5 (alpha looks better, and the quality is overall slightly better), I would suggest reducing the image size of Emissive by 50% (propbably from 2048x2048 to 1024x1024), as well as saving it as DXT1A, the file size will be very small.
You also might want to do it to the DDS file, not your master file with layers, if you ever want to make changes.

I attempted to reduce the file sizes of the various textures to a more appealing 4 mb in total, and didn't notice any quality loss in-game, so I see this as an absolute win!
Thanks for the feedback and advice

Perfect - thank you

I don't know why but I'm having a hard time importing this skin. It's been a long time since I imported any skins in WC3 so I may have just forgotten how to do it .-. or it just seems different to me, idk.

Acolite333 said:

I don't know why but I'm having a hard time importing this skin. It's been a long time since I imported any skins in WC3 so I may have just forgotten how to do it .-. or it just seems different to me, idk.

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You just gotta import each of the textures with the import manager and then re-name their file paths with those of my textures.
For example:
war3mapImported\nightelf_herowarden_main_diffuse.dds --> units\nightelf\herowarden\nightelf_herowarden_main_diffuse.dds
After doing that for each of the textures, you're done!

I hope that helped.

Dank. It's lovely that reforged is getting this treatment too.

hiphop4eva said:

Dank. It's lovely that reforged is getting this treatment too.

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Thanks and yeah, it's nice to see reforged is still receving community content.

Thanks a lot, looks very cool

Appreciated!

Maybe next Fel Warden?

Maybe.

Can we get an .mdx for the model and portrait for this to be used at the same time with the original 1 please?

Fireaxe64 said:

Can we get an .mdx for the model and portrait for this to be used at the same time with the original 1 please?

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you can easily do it yourself by opening Retera Model studio, opening the Warden, and then applying the textures, and then saving the new custom model

Hello again!
For those that are like me and want to have both warden in the same map here is the .mdx files for model and portrait
Add them directly in the import manager with the .dds files

Any way to repair this?

Fireaxe64 said:

Any way to repair this?

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Hmm, I might be able to fix this. It's been a hot minute since I've edited any skins, but I'll give it a go.

Stay tuned!

Here's a fix for the cloth.


Before and after.

OH thank you so much my friend!