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Walking Dragon

Hello my friends. Been a while since I actually made and posted something that was actually heavily edited in the animation aspects. Today though, I've uploaded something new. Many of you older folks might remember a pack of walking dragons, made by miss Kimberly herself. Really liked them myself too.

Though, I thought that maybe it could be better. So, I sat down for the past few days and tried my hands at it. This is the result. Also fun to note that this is probably my first model I used Warforger on extensivly. Fun and useful program.

But now, the real reason I made this and only this one though, is cause I want to see what all of you can do to. Not everybody has the skills, time, and patients to sit down and do something like this, with the animations, but there are many out there that have the skills and are creative enough to make great looking models.

So consider this an open invitation to take this model and modify to your liking. Make your own dragon. Your own texture, remaped to another one or made one from scratch. Your own mesh, a series of interesting geomerges or a scratch mesh. Your own dragon, and go ahead and submit it to. Spread the love. :)

UPDATE: Fixed a few animations.

Give credit though if used, and ultimatly, have fun with it. :D

Keywords:
dragon, drake, whelp, draco, serpent, lizard, fly, walk, shenlong, ryu, drakos, drakhon, reptile, wings, lol, wut
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Walking Dragon (Model)

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19th August 2010 General Frank: Model works ingame and performs very well. The mashed-up anims are well chosen for this edit. Approved.

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19th August 2010
General Frank:
Model works ingame and performs very well. The mashed-up anims are well chosen for this edit.
Approved.
 
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Does it have variations? Or just this colour?

I'd make a custom ability for this to dragons called "Land". But I need more types.
 
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Nice one, cant you make some more ground walking?, need a green one and a frost wyrm for my rpg, otherwise 5/5 (havnt try it in game yet)
 
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i hope to see it with the frost wyrm skin :D great work ! xD...
because, i am searching a model for a walking frost wyrm, which can turn into ground and flying.
Nice one, cant you make some more ground walking?, need a green one and a frost wyrm for my rpg, otherwise 5/5 (havnt try it in game yet)

for that, I point you two to the model's description.
The model's description said:
So consider this an open invitation to take this model and modify to your liking. Make your own dragon. Your own texture, remaped to another one or made one from scratch. Your own mesh, a series of interesting geomerges or a scratch mesh. Your own dragon, and go ahead and submit it to. Spread the love. :)
 
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well, i had a mac, i am now incapable of such skinning and model editing, my windows is destroyed, and i had no experience in mac at all, so i will be expecting you to light my hopes, of seeing a walking frost wyrm, probably make it as epic as possible! :D, such as more icy steams coming out , and freezing steams from its mouth.
 
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sorry, but how can i make the dragon walk?

Is it just me, or model walks in the air and flies on the ground?

Use a duplicate/copy of the druid of the talon's storm crow ability. Only thing you really got to do though is make sure the ground form has the "alternate" animation tags while the air form doesn't. I set it up that way so people could import the dragon over the ingame model and not have it mess up any units they already have in their maps.

well, i had a mac, i am now incapable of such skinning and model editing, my windows is destroyed, and i had no experience in mac at all, so i will be expecting you to light my hopes, of seeing a walking frost wyrm, probably make it as epic as possible! :D, such as more icy steams coming out , and freezing steams from its mouth.

I wouldn't expect to much if I were you.
 
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Where to tick alternate tags?

Not a check box, as that would be to easy. >.<
It's just a bit under where you change the model in the object editor, around where you set the scale of the model. It's three or four settings that are labled "animations tags" or something similar. Just look at the Druid of the Talon Crow Form unit and check out where it says alternate and alternateex
 
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Wait, this one has ...proper walking animations? :D
Noone did that, ever. Great!
 
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(Bump I guess, just want to point this out)

Are the morph animations supposed to be so wierd? The one includes it spazzing as flames and guts fly everywhere while the other is a mix of the walk and spell slam spell

indeed it looks weird, working on that. Also, the flames and guts shouldn't be showing up, I'll get that fixed right away.
 
hey i was jus wondering b4 i downloads this what path do i extract it too because it doesnt say

Since your obviously new to the site, I'll tell you.

Import the model into your map and set the path to for the .mdx file to whatever you want it to be. (Example: units\Creep\Dragon\Dragon.mdx)
Before even thinking about using your freshly imported model, save your map and exit the World Editor. This is a precautionary measure to ensure that it is functioning properly. If it isn't working after all of this, the problem is most likely in the model itself since this one contains no custom textures.
 
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its a very useful model, but please, fix the morph animation (not the morph alternate), it looks very weird
 
this would be alot more useful if the morph animations worked, tho i geuss u could get around them with triggers. the size is really small too so thats a bonus

aside from bad morph animations this is pretty useful by eny body making intense maps that need intense mounts

7 or 8/10 could be a 9 if the animations wer more epic
 
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