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death is a lill funky.. and 'shredder buzzsaw' might not be the best sound for the work anim
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Gnomish Field Engineer
- Author(s)
- AndrewOverload519
- Tags
- Unit, World of Warcraft, Dwarf, Human, Mechanical
- Size
- 103.4 KB
- Rating
- Downloads
- 3342
- Created
- Jul 7, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 8, 2013
- Resources
- 1
- State
Approved
This bundle is marked as recommended. It works and satisfies the submission rules.
"Eager to support the Alliance on the front lines, the gnomish Field Engineers are a daring breed amongst their kind despite the fact that they do not excel in combat. Mounted on swift mechanostriders and equipped with a variety of egineering tools, they make up for this shortcoming due to their ability to quickly give aid to the war machines of their Dwarven bretheren or the defensive structures of the Alliance when they are needed most, whether it is repairing damaged parts or improving their potency in battle.
However, their innate talents do not end here as the Field Engineers can also set up contemporary defensive structures. Even though they are not as sturdy as the towers that defend most Alliance bases, these structures can be built on the fly and are cost effective, providing excellent makeshift defenses as well as effective weaponry."
Okay, now onto something completely different... a female gnome engineer on a mechanostrider. That's got to be a first for WCIII, right?
The idea behind this girl is to give the Alliance a support unit that is meant to repair structures and other mechanical units in the heat of battle, as well as quickly building cheap,contemporary structures such as turrets. She can further support these by using augmentive abilities, such as perhaps an ability to give friendly mechanical units or structures increased attack damage in a similar manner to Bloodlust. If you do give her abilities, be sure to use Stand Work as the animation names. The reason that she is mounted on a mechanostrider is because... well, she would have to catch up to them somehow!
As for the model itself, the rider was heavily edited from the Villager Child as a base, with the head mesh being remapped and edited to look more feminine. In addition, the rest of her body was also heavily edited, retextured and remapped, while parts from various other models (some of which that you might recognise from my earlier Dwarven Demolition Squad) are also used to make her look more the part for an engineer. The Field Engineer's trusty mchanostrider, minus the lighting around the eyes, is also 100% fully made from scratch. No, I am not kidding on that one, it's a first for me.
This model uses ingame textures, so no need to worry about texture paths. Just simply import both the model and the portrait into your custom map! However, there might be a few issues with the model if not taken into context, the main problem being that there is no talking portrait. This is because there are no suitable voices for a female gnome in WCIII, nor even any gnomish voices in general as the gnomes seem to have only officially re-emerged in the lore during the post-WCIII/WoW era. By taking that into account, I thought that the safest bet would be to make the portrait work in a similar manner to the Goblin Shredder. By that, I mean that the rider's face is actually made visible in the portrait, but will not actually talk as the 'strider would be the one that is making all the noise.
If you want to use this model then feel free to do that, provided that you'll give credit to me in return.
RECOMMENDED WORLD EDITOR VALUES:
Scaling Value: 0.90
Voice Set: Clockwerk Goblin (or some other mechanical-sounding voiceset)
Unit Name: Field Engineer
UPDATE 1:
Recalculated extents and removed the sound from the Stand Work imation as I can't think of a suitable replacement.
UPDATE 1.5:
Recalculated extents.
UPDATE 2:
Adjusted the portrait background and recalculated extents. Hopefully that should finally eliminate the issues regarding the health bar being displayed too high up above the model.
Keywords:
gnome, female, engineer, mechanic, WoW, robot, bird, ostrich, emu, roadrunner, chocobo
However, their innate talents do not end here as the Field Engineers can also set up contemporary defensive structures. Even though they are not as sturdy as the towers that defend most Alliance bases, these structures can be built on the fly and are cost effective, providing excellent makeshift defenses as well as effective weaponry."
Okay, now onto something completely different... a female gnome engineer on a mechanostrider. That's got to be a first for WCIII, right?
The idea behind this girl is to give the Alliance a support unit that is meant to repair structures and other mechanical units in the heat of battle, as well as quickly building cheap,contemporary structures such as turrets. She can further support these by using augmentive abilities, such as perhaps an ability to give friendly mechanical units or structures increased attack damage in a similar manner to Bloodlust. If you do give her abilities, be sure to use Stand Work as the animation names. The reason that she is mounted on a mechanostrider is because... well, she would have to catch up to them somehow!
As for the model itself, the rider was heavily edited from the Villager Child as a base, with the head mesh being remapped and edited to look more feminine. In addition, the rest of her body was also heavily edited, retextured and remapped, while parts from various other models (some of which that you might recognise from my earlier Dwarven Demolition Squad) are also used to make her look more the part for an engineer. The Field Engineer's trusty mchanostrider, minus the lighting around the eyes, is also 100% fully made from scratch. No, I am not kidding on that one, it's a first for me.
This model uses ingame textures, so no need to worry about texture paths. Just simply import both the model and the portrait into your custom map! However, there might be a few issues with the model if not taken into context, the main problem being that there is no talking portrait. This is because there are no suitable voices for a female gnome in WCIII, nor even any gnomish voices in general as the gnomes seem to have only officially re-emerged in the lore during the post-WCIII/WoW era. By taking that into account, I thought that the safest bet would be to make the portrait work in a similar manner to the Goblin Shredder. By that, I mean that the rider's face is actually made visible in the portrait, but will not actually talk as the 'strider would be the one that is making all the noise.
If you want to use this model then feel free to do that, provided that you'll give credit to me in return.
RECOMMENDED WORLD EDITOR VALUES:
Scaling Value: 0.90
Voice Set: Clockwerk Goblin (or some other mechanical-sounding voiceset)
Unit Name: Field Engineer
UPDATE 1:
Recalculated extents and removed the sound from the Stand Work imation as I can't think of a suitable replacement.
UPDATE 1.5:
Recalculated extents.
UPDATE 2:
Adjusted the portrait background and recalculated extents. Hopefully that should finally eliminate the issues regarding the health bar being displayed too high up above the model.
Keywords:
gnome, female, engineer, mechanic, WoW, robot, bird, ostrich, emu, roadrunner, chocobo
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death is a lill funky.. and 'shredder buzzsaw' might not be the best sound for the work anim
Finally, this one is bug-free
Approved
- Joined
- Aug 20, 2011
- Messages
- 4,141
Looks awzum, great work!
- Joined
- May 7, 2010
- Messages
- 9,277
Great job!
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- Joined
- Jun 29, 2011
- Messages
- 45
damn original and lookin superb
great work
great work
- Joined
- Dec 9, 2012
- Messages
- 46
Awesome!!! Very useful for a lot of map devs...
- Joined
- Sep 8, 2011
- Messages
- 560
Looks awzum, great work!
thumbnail on awzum
Anyways, little men riding on robot chocobos. Awesome. 5/5.
Roland
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Roland
This is such a Funky model. 30 over 30.
Arena Moderator
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2008
- Messages
- 9,495
As aforementioned, this is a unique and creative, an excellent & useful model for any Gnomish/Dwarf/Alliance/Techno faction. Great to see you expanding your horizons with scratch modelling; look forward to whatever is next.
- Joined
- Apr 5, 2012
- Messages
- 1,841
Really nice
- Joined
- Dec 8, 2008
- Messages
- 4,358
Really really awesome. My biggest respect for creating the best wc3 fitting model till yet. Clean mesh, textures are perfectly chosen.
Although you could try out the technique I used at my goblin gunslinger model to give her teamcoloured hair, might suit pretty well.
Although you could try out the technique I used at my goblin gunslinger model to give her teamcoloured hair, might suit pretty well.
- Joined
- Nov 11, 2006
- Messages
- 7,518
Very nice. I think the eyes could be slightly closer together though--she looks sort of like a chameleon at the moment. I really like how this was executed, though.
Also, what about a spell animation?
Also, what about a spell animation?
- Joined
- Nov 4, 2011
- Messages
- 9
Its cooooooooooooooool
- Joined
- Feb 17, 2008
- Messages
- 925
Tested your new version ingame, Iam glad the trick with portrait really worked, I suggest you do it will all your models that uses only portrait animation from main model, this should fix it perfectly. I vote for approval!
- Joined
- Apr 2, 2013
- Messages
- 3,954
They look like kids. Gnomes are small, but are they really that young looking in WoW? Sry don't own WoW
EDIT: looking at this 10 years later, wtf
EDIT: looking at this 10 years later, wtf
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- Joined
- Nov 28, 2009
- Messages
- 920
I always despised of mechano striders.... ugliest mount ever.
cute model though. works quite well in warcraft 3, and the human villager child morphed into a girl gnome was quite clever.
6/10
cute model though. works quite well in warcraft 3, and the human villager child morphed into a girl gnome was quite clever.
6/10
- Joined
- Mar 18, 2009
- Messages
- 788
Very original and nice to see more stuff for the Gnomes, they really needed this one.
4/5 + rep.
4/5 + rep.
- Joined
- Aug 7, 2013
- Messages
- 106
Cool......5/5 what else to say?
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2013
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- 78
We really needed MOAR gnomes!
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2010
- Messages
- 471
I must say the part I was most impressed by was team colored hair, like how has no one thought of that before now,
I salute you sir.
I salute you sir.
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2015
- Messages
- 2,678
This model looks good.
I might use it!
I might use it!
- Joined
- Aug 20, 2014
- Messages
- 263
What's love? this model of course! great work! <3
- Joined
- Feb 2, 2006
- Messages
- 1,686
Really useful for a Gnome race.
