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Furion Reforged Beta

This is an unmodified Furion model from Reforged Beta build 13769.

If you check my user profile you will see that there is another similar model that I had uploaded. That other model is a fan-made one where I manually tried to dismount MalFurion from his stag, and give him the Druid of the Talon animations.

This model is different. I did not modify this, it is just actually the original Blizzard model for the Furion hero that was later removed from the game. This has another interesting thing about it: This model has leaves on his cloak, rather than a bear skin. In this way, it was made by the Reforged artists to accurately match the old "Furion" model in the game from Reign of Chaos (as opposed to the bear-skin wearing model that was titled "Mal'Furion" in the Frozen Throne).

So, for map developers who want to use Reforged style assets but try to make their map as identical to its non-Reforged counterpart as possible, this model might have a unique appeal, since it stylistically matches the old "Furion" hero from Reign of Chaos rather than all the versions we got in the Reforged release where all versions of Furion were just united/overwritten with the one "MalFurion" hero.
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Furion Reforged Beta (Model)

Furion Reforged Beta Portrait (Model)

You can't use this model without the skin files, which it won't really let me upload because of Hive Workshop bugs, so here are the original skin files that are needed.
You must put them at `Units\NightElf\Furion\<nameOfFile>` in the Asset Manager.
 

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Thanks for uploading this

I don’t understand, why they would remove it in the first place. I mean they dropped Furion’s variations from three models to just one. Just so weird.
 
As it says in the model description @fran bel
I did not modify this, it is just actually the original Blizzard model for the Furion hero that was later removed from the game.
So, I can't tell you where the animations are from! I did not make it! It is a model from the actual Reforged Beta that was made by Blizzard Entertainment!
Blizzard Classic Games Team made this, then they deleted it from the game. So I just found it in my backup!
 
As it says in the model description @fran bel

So, I can't tell you where the animations are from! I did not make it! It is a model from the actual Reforged Beta that was made by Blizzard Entertainment!
Blizzard Classic Games Team made this, then they deleted it from the game. So I just found it in my backup!
Sorry, I had not understood since I speak Spanish and the google translation was not very good, sorry for the inconvenience
 
I updated this bundle to include the textures now that the Hive Workshop website has been fixed and allows me to upload them included as a part of the bundle itself.

However, the Hive wanted me to upload the facefx files for this model, which I did not seem to have in my Reforged Beta backups. I believe it is possible that Blizzard did not include the facefx files for this model in the Reforged Beta client, and so that was always a dead link.

So, to appease the hive, I uploaded some random crap as the facefx file for this model that is probably not actually compatible with the model. You do not need to import the facefx files from this bundle into your map.
 
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I updated this bundle to include the textures now that the Hive Workshop website has been fixed and allows me to upload them included as a part of the bundle itself.

However, the Hive wanted me to upload the facefx files for this model, which I did not seem to have in my Reforged Beta backups. I believe it is possible that Blizzard did not include the facefx files for this model in the Reforged Beta client, and so that was always a dead link.

So, to appease the hive, I uploaded some random crap as the facefx file for this model that is probably not actually compatible with the model. You do not need to import the facefx files from this bundle into your map.

Does this mean there is no way to use the in-game sound files as voice for this unit?
Or is there a workaround?
 
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Hello @Retera.
Another diamond lost but not forgotten. Thank you for this model.
Can you add a little update to it?
It seems that stand 2 and 3 are talking animation which collide with stand 1 (the talking animation end and he does some weird hand movements easy to see in world editor)
I think the best thing to do it either import the stands from the druid of the talon(careful with the hair it might collide like you did for Malfurion (Without Stag) Reforged ) or just delete stand 2 and 3.
They are more like talking animation that might be good for cinematics maby
 
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