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HerrDave
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    (Bundle) Amazing work on the American soldiers packs. By the way, this pack doesn't include the President, contrary to the description. Maybe you meant "Coming Soon"?
    D
    I assume you play War of the Ring. How did you get it to run? Even with a patch I got from moddb, it still won't launch.
    HerrDave
    HerrDave
    Myself I got it to run through compatibility mode
    - Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
    - Administrator mode (so the game can write save-files)

    Oddly enough after the first few launches it didn't need the compatibility mode enabled.
    I'm running it on Windows 10
    D
    Deleted member 238589
    No luck. Maybe it's a windows 8 thing? I can't find anything about it online either. They always redirect me to war in the north.
    Hey, can I have the permission to edit your models? I only want to change the crest on the gondor troops shields ( I need a hammer ).
    Maybe you can do it yourself, if it's not that hard.
    Sorry for bothering.
    Hey Dave, I noticed in a thread a bit ago you were having problems with MiscData.txt and steep slopes in the new World Editor. I'm in the same boat. Have you been able to figure out how to get things working since then?
    Thanks.
    HerrDave
    HerrDave
    I have figured it out, but not in a satisfying way

    - Create a folder called "UI" (no quotations) in C > Program Files (x86) > Warcraft III

    - Paste the modified MiscData.txt in that folder

    For some reason, when I got the Wc3 update, it didn't work.
    When I took it out and put it back in, it did.

    I think the WC3 updates scratch out the custom line in the Regedit that allows WC3 to read 3rd party code
    Reesespieces
    Reesespieces
    Hey, I'll give it a shot. Thanks a bunch for that!
    Apologies for the delay but none the less Happy Birthday!
    Ragnar9
    Ragnar9
    I wholehearted concur good sir. Heil HerrDave !
    Are you able to bring any icons back?
    You've been through quite a bit recently. It's nice to know that things have (at least here) turned out somewhat ok. Best of luck to you, Dave.
    (Oh, and happy belated birthday!)
    Happy birthday mate!
    Wayshan
    Wayshan
    Joining the line - Happy B-day, man! May all of the modeler's patrons be with you during your work - at any time! :)
    Okie-dokie, Ralle has un-deleted my models, so the next few days will be spent updating the descriptions to credit the authors of the base skins - God I hope Blizzard fixes the editor soon ;_;
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    (Bundle) How did this very old model manage to come back? Same for a lot of models, like the French, and packed models (e.g Infantry packs) now have the old, separate versions o_O
    Hi, Herrdave, what are you working next, the Bunch 'o Yankees or the Haradrim forces? :)
    HerrDave
    HerrDave
    Lately I've reworked all of the Rohan units (improved texture, better hair, and pauldrons on Theoden)

    I've been avoiding working on the Gondorian Knight because-- it's a boring model that makes me sad xD

    Mostly I've been waiting around for Blizzard to fix the World Editor, or at least re-break it so I can use my sharp cliffs again - been using that time playing GTA V: Online, LotrO, and Medieval II: Total War

    I /want/ to work on the Haradrim, but I need to crack out some concept art for the culture and armour first - also I need to decide if I'm going to use custom textures for their faces (given that there are like-- no black people in Warcraft by default x_x) or if I'm going to use the Bandit's face, like the existing Haradrim models here
    Galadgod
    Galadgod
    I think I've seen at least one in-game texture that looks somewhat black? Or at least darker than most other faces in W3, and I believe it's the campaign screen human footman, though I'm not sure if it really looks good. I think there was one model that used that face on a warrior with an open helmet, don't remember how was it called nor how it really looked like.
    Ether
    Ether
    @HerrDave - Have you ever come up to the idea of using multiple or single skin from the skin repository? I am really super sure that there a plenty of faces and armor textures you can use there. Well if omniskin isn't in the table anymore, maybe this... combo skins or multi-skins can help you.

    The culture of Haradrims are like Medieval Middle East with bandity themes. I even saw your list of planned haradrims somewhere deep in one of your profile comments.
    Hello! So I've noticed that you have some pretty sweet Warhammer Fantasy models done by you, mainly Empire (Reikland, Brettonia, etc). But I would like to ask you something and if you don't mind leave a suggestion or two. So I see you are a big fan of the Warhammer theme and War of the Ring, so here is the first suggestion, did you ever thought in give some love to the Ruinous Powers (Chaos) and Beastmen (Chaos aswell), I would like to see some well known units by fans an people that are all about Warhammer Fantasy units made by your hand (Daemons, Warriors, etc). And there's the second suggestion, have a chat with Gluma maybe you could work in something Warhammer related together. By the way HerrDave, I'm a big fan of your work! Keep it up! Take care dude!
    HerrDave
    HerrDave
    I'm interested in making more Chaos Knights, that's for sure - but when it comes to lighter armoured or even bestial monsters (Barbarians/Beastmen), that's where my skill dries up

    I'll be making Chaos Knights, Archaon, possibly Throgg, and I'll be rounding off the Empire with some basic swordsmen

    I tried my hand at the greenskins, but I can't make them look right ;_;
    Ether
    Ether
    It's beautiful to have throggs in your mind. :)
    Helloooooo!
    I feel sorry for you. Please, try do not have any stress. A "little vacation" will be very useful and pretty good for you.
    Thank you for revive some "dead games" and bring than to Warcraft III.
    Unfortunally, this website do not allow upload rips.
    Its sad and bad, of course, but is the law. We must follow that, because Is to a just cause.

    You works are so incredible! You have a great talent!
    Please,restore your mana in a Fountain. You are too tired, boy..

    I will pray for you!
    Good night!
    Astonishing news has reached me, changes are going to be made in the near future to allow me and others like me to bring in recreations from other games (Like War of the Ring)
    Hazop
    Hazop
    Phew, I was getting worried there...
    Wayshan
    Wayshan
    Great news! Thanks for your patience and resilience! I also feel Hive staff deserves some credit. I don't know the details but everyone that contributed to the final solution - thank you too! :)
    SonsOfSami
    SonsOfSami
    Very good news, I was really worried that you were going to leave, man.
    I believe the Herrdave won't easily surrender as I believe the admins will not let those models and us down. :)
    HerrDave
    HerrDave
    I've been talking directly with Ralle on Discord over the last two days

    Due to timezone differences, I only get about 30 minutes to talk to him before he has to sleep, or I do

    Solutions are being discussed, and according to him I do not have as many enemies in the Staff as I think I do

    (Still don't know who is with/against me)

    The good news - it's being talked about.
    The bad news - I'm not part of the full conversation.
    Ether
    Ether
    Glad they are in the talks and I will be gladder if they make a rightful and fair, decision. Well you are talking to the owner, I do hope things will get well since you two are having good conversaton bout this.

    Well, who the hell would want an enemy with a good modeller anyway? I presume they could be just trolls or miserable people who love to bash and criticize rather than make models to supply the hive.

    Yeah, like drones, who do nothing in the hive but buzz buzz buzz 'against' others. Well, people like me, will have no reason to be an enemy to people like you, Gluma, and some great modellers out here. People should love their suppliers on hive and keep them warm. :)
    deepstrasz
    deepstrasz
    @Battleborn stop this destructive paranoia against our staff. This has not happened before and it's all in the site's interest we solve it as legal as possible. We've not been approving ripped content for a long period of times except as resources in maps. It's much easier to take down maps if the site gets complaints from original authors than whole resources threads from various authors.
    For rips, or in this case, partial rips, there are other means of uploading which can be done here on the site, mind you.
    I always knew the site staff were a bit clonky but attacking the work of arguably their best contributor for some legal-loop-hole-mumbo-jumbo? Preposterous!
    Archian
    Archian
    “Attacking the work”... What are you talking about? As if the staff are deliberately looking for legal reasons to “attack” members of the site. What kind of people do you think we are? You my friend have a misguided view on how you perceive things. Quite a misconception indeed.
    Ether
    Ether
    Herrdave was not attacked. There were some paranoid events that trigger some unnamed admins to enforce rules and thought that hive will be destroyed by bigger companies like Activision and Sierra. Anyways, if Herrdave does not monetize and wants stuff for fun only, I don't think there must be a problem or resource locking event should happen.
    I've received word from Ralle, it seems that under pressure from some of the admins - I was mistaken about the nature of the punishment I was to be given and performed my own before it could be formally issued by the Staff
    deepstrasz
    deepstrasz
    I hope you had Kevlar boots on.
    Ether
    Ether
    Ralle will save you as Archian will. We can port ourselves to moddb and connect it to hiveworkshop muahahaha
    "Acting under orders from Hive Staff" This is simply NOT true. I do not understand why you would say that? Pleae refrain from misleading the public, sir.
    We never told you to remove your resources. We simply asked you to cooperate with us, while we check with Blizzard Entertainment that we are allowed to host rips from other games other than Blizzard games.
    We are currently in contact with Blizzard regarding this issue. So keep your cool while we find a solution dude ;)
    My condolences.
    This is a disgusting and sad situation.
    I do not understand the reasons why the administration of the site believes that these models and textures can make any problems.
    You don't monetize your amazing works, and the original game has been open for modding for a long time and, actually not so popular and... kinda unfairly forgotten.

    P.S.
    Do you thinking about publish such resources on sites with softer rules?
    Ether
    Ether
    As long as you don't want to monetize your stuff and project, I don't think anyone would have problem with that. Anyways, who would play that abandonware Sierra game anyway? I'd rather play yours and as also for sticking with WC3.
    HerrDave
    HerrDave
    Precisely

    Myself, I wouldn't take money for my models even if it were mailed to my doorstep

    I model as a hobby, for fun (sometimes), and to preserve old games I've a fondness for

    I care for the elderly, and I kneel in the dirt and tend to gardens and pools for my bread.
    Ether
    Ether
    I agree, so that admins must quickly decide to leave things normal as it should be. If it's for fun only and no ads, paypal and crap, then we can all forget this happened. I wonder if when they would fix this issue and hammer the last decision of keeping the models. :)
    mr dave, sorry to disturb your grievins, but any chance you be upload more files in the future, i know its hard time to lose it all but there's always a new beginning to start with.
    try to keep it up in liveswork to your repitation and hope the best you get more support in the community.
    I feel sorry for what happened to you, man... It's a shame to see these models being taken down, I love them all very much... I hope you can bear through this storm, homie.
    From the whole Russian community of fans of the world of Middle-earth, we want to support you in difficult times. We love your work, great models. Stay strong! I hope with the help of other sites it will be possible to save your resources. As I do in my Russian community. You are the best! Remember this.
    Just heard the news a bit ago; thoughts & prayers go out to you, man, that you'll be able to get this all resolved. You are one of the more prolific & talented modelers on the site, and it would be a shame to see you go.

    Keep on keeping on!
    I believe it would be for the best if it would be possible to edit those textures and see these models re-uploaded. Though I am aware that would be a ****load of work, maybe you can call up some backups - there are so many talented people around here. I don't want to pick sides here, and I understand both your frustration and the admin's reasoning. But I am sure of one thing - if those models will remain taken down & if it discourages you from making more, Hive just lost one of its most active members. And it will be just ****** up. Howgh!
    P.S. I wish you all the strength and patience in the world to bear through this storm, mate.
    Having read the various strings of comments, in regards of your WOTK models, couldn't you (or someone else) just remake the face textures?
    HerrDave
    HerrDave
    I can

    But I have far, far less enthusiasm for Wrath of the Kaiser now that WotR is dead.

    The Russians and the Americans are the ones who need to be remade - which annoys me to no end because the packs for them are huge.
    Ragnar9
    Ragnar9
    WotR dead? please say it isnt so...
    Despite the harsh stance some of the staff of this website has taken against you recently, I can guarantee that the majority of the users harbor nothing but feelings of gratitude and appreciation towards your extensive and continued work, the fruits of which you always shared for free with everyone else on the net.
    As others have pointed out, the fact that your content isn't compliant with the rules of this particular platform doesn't need to spell death on your entire project. There's bound to be other host-websites that can support you.
    Cheers
    Cuore
    Cuore
    Hey Ralle thanks for clarifying. Of course what you write here can't be denied. I just happened to read a comment from part of the staff which, summarizing, stated that even if theforced removal of many of his published resources killed herrdave's project they didn't really care.
    On the spot I thought that it was kind of rude/harsh and wanted to make sure the man knew that there are people out here who are genuinely grateful to him for all the assets he made and released over time.
    I hope that in light of this explanation you won't misunderstand my first post here as some kind of criticism directed to the staff and its behaviour as a whole, cause it isn't. It was meant merely as a show of support to dave. That's all.
    Ether
    Ether
    I, too, did not went against the staff, but did against the rules with reason of defending the Herrdave. And glad, he was absolved, :)
    Ralle
    Ralle
    Thanks for clarifying that @Cuore. We are in fact changing the rules to allow these kinds of resources and working with HerrDave.
    Hive doesn't deserve you. However, Hive desperately needs passionate creators like you, so don't let your spirit down, don't pass on your modeling enthusiasm and I'm expecting you to come back stronger than ever and continue your projects.
    Dude if you wish you can upload your models to wcunderground, I'm an admin there I can assure we got nothing against rips\edits...
    HerrDave
    HerrDave
    I actually had an Underground account years and years ago, but I'm rogered if I can remember what it was x_x

    How's the community over there these days?
    YourArthas
    YourArthas
    We have moved the website, the community is still there but sadly most of them are demanders instead of content creators
    Ether
    Ether
    @YourArthas - We will all welcome your merging and alliance with hive.

    I would be happy to see to have hivetunnel or a special set of sections with contents of rips from other games that are useful to Reforged and HD maps. :)
    Crazy. At first I thought it was something related to the tags I was telling you about, that you got mad or something.
    But, we've been approving maps with ripped resources for a long time. So, nothing stops you to upload them somewhere else than the resource sections.
    HerrDave
    HerrDave
    Oh God no, I'm not that petty xD

    I was fixing to go through and fix the tags when I got an alert from Ralle that I was in some serious trouble.

    I appreciate you checking me on my tags, no worries
    deepstrasz
    deepstrasz
    The only thing to do so you can get them back in Resources is to Request for skins which might or not happen. If it does, it'll take a lot of time. Anyway, as I already wrote, we still approve maps with ripped models/resources if proper credits are given but we'll take them down if we are asked to by the original owners of those ripped files (which still didn't happen until now).
    D
    Sorry to hear about this. You're the one of very few people making models worth using.
    Hazop
    Hazop
    Agreed
    HerrDave
    HerrDave
    Thank you very much, guys :)

    You're the reasons why I've stuck with modeling and animating for so long
    -highfive-
    Jaina Proudless
    Jaina Proudless
    That's true because of the hard work with the custom animations, the warcraft 3 style which fits in very well, and the abundance of portraits/decay animations which are lacking in many other models. Top notch stuff.
    You are one of the most productive Modellers on this Site. It is an absolute, utter Shame to see your work taken down. Surely the Rip of Skins can't have been *that* extensive? Most of your Models had already been reworked multiple times.
    Without knowing everything, anything really, it feels alot like people accusing Star Citizen of "ripping" the UnReal Engine.
    Are you planning on re-working the Skins?
    Acting under orders from Hive Staff, 44 - 107 of my models will be taken down permanently. I'm sorry if you couldn't download them in time for your project
    HerrDave
    HerrDave
    Is there a way to make the thread public so anyone can see it?

    I can't fit my response in here, but I think people would be quite interested in seeing it there in-context.
    KILLCIDE
    KILLCIDE
    What benefit is there to making it public? There's a reason why the thread is hidden. I had only made a comment because you're painting such a wrong image about how the whole situation is being handled.
    Ralle
    Ralle
    I will respond in the thread after work or during if I can’t focus on work because of this unfortunate situation.
    I've been rightfully accused of uploading ripped icons, so if my account goes dead-- well now you know why. I'm sorry guys :(
    Stefan.K
    Stefan.K
    Rightfully?
    Wayshan
    Wayshan
    I hope not :( You are one of the reasons why I keep returning to Hive. Any updates about this, mate?
    HerrDave
    HerrDave
    Aye, I'm actually guilty this time - I've been accused of ripping things 2-3 times before, but this time it's true.

    As you read this, I'm facing the consequences in a conversation with the Hive Staff.
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