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Rowboat with Moving Oars

This bundle is marked as useful / simple. Simplicity is bliss, low effort and/or may contain minor bugs.
I thought I should make the common doodad into a worthwhile unit.
This comes in with oars that move on their own during the "Walk" animation. Its texture also changes when it "dies," so you know it's sunk.
I used the Human Transport Ship from the Retail TFT MPQ for the base model. I used the planes from the Rowboat Doodad and fleshed them out--part of it is because they "apparently shrink" when I try rotating them while animating those.

Credits ado to Blizzard for both the mesh and texture.

UPDATE:

I have gone with Villagerino's idea that the boat should sink and not just disappear above water during the Death sequence. The model is fixed.
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Rowboat with Moving Oars (Model)

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General Frank
A very simple model edit. Probably useful as a doodad or auxiliary unit.
This is a must-be boat with a good execution of animations and texture transition, although I see some glitches in the geoset connection that could be improved, like at the stern of a boat. It would also be nice if you made it actually drown and go underwater during the 'Death' sequence and not just dissapear above the waterline 👌
 
Personally, I have always loved dark red and dark blue. And white to replace gray for Lordaeron hehe. I really love all your work
Thank you! Reforged did come out with Maroon and Navy Blue, but given issues we've had I will gladly do it.

Giving the unit a custom "White/Snow" team color is fairly easy. All you do is go into Magos, open the Texture Manager, look for Replaceable ID 1, and type 3 before 1 so it reads "Replaceable ID 31," but I digress.

As for the Team Glow, I am sure I have already made one. I will look into this.

If you have any more Team Colors I should make, feel free to spill the beans! :D
 
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