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i don't know if you use mdlvis but this can happen with it, it clears the visibility of attachments, so you'd have to add birth attachments and such last, without saving your model in mdlvis after
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Dalaran Buildings
Credits:
Potential Issues:
I recently made a Patreon account it is still in the early stages of being set up but if you want please
consider being a supporter it will help immensely or consider supporting me via the links below:
Patreon: patreon.com/bakr_WC3
PayPal: PayPal.Me/bakrKev12
Discord: sirkd_
Updates:
- Another building pack brought to you by Manastorm who helped
making the concept and design of this pack.
- Building models for the City-state of Dalaran.
- The idea behind the design of the pack is to have a mage type worker unit that will
use magic to construct these buildings. (That said unit will be part of my peasants pack)
 Mage Hall - equivalent of a townhall that trains worker units. Also serves as a drop off point for harvested resources. Can be upgraded into Spire and then Citadel to unlock other buildings and units. |  Spire - 2nd tier upgrade of the Mage Hall.  Citadel - 3rd tier upgrade of the Mage Hall. |
 Altar of Mages - primary structure for training and reviving heroes. |  Guard Quarters- a structure that serves as a barracks for troops. Also contains upgrades for each units that it trains. |
 Arcane Academy - trains spellcaster units and contains upgrades for each units that it trains.  Arcane Sanctum - (Alternative) trains spellcaster units and contains upgrades for each units that it trains. |  Manufactorium - workshop building where siege weapons, magical machines, and arcane golems are made and contains their corresponding upgrades |
 Aviary - trains flying units and contains their upgrades. |  Mill Forge- contains all the armor, weapon, lumber and masonry upgrades. Also serves as a drop off point for harvested lumber. |
 Arcane Mine - Mages prefers to work smart not hard that is why they utilizes magic to get the resources they needed. |  Arcane Vault - shop with purchasable items. |
 Scout Tower - basic defensive tower, can be upgraded into Guard, Boulder or Arcane Towers. |  House - a building that provides and stores food to enable the training of more units.  Arcane Generator - a building that provides and stores food to enable the training of more units. Also have the replenish mana ability. |
 Guard Tower - basic defensive tower.  Boulder Tower - defensive tower that can damage units in an area.  Arcane Tower - magic tower effective against spellcasters and heroes. Can be upgraded into Fire and Frost towers. |  Fire Tower - advance magical tower that adds fire damage to each attacks.  Frost Tower - advance magical tower that adds frost damage to each attack and slows enemies. |
Potential Issues:
- In my last test of the models, the external birth attached animation
sometimes fail to load or show during the upgrade phase. I am not
sure if the problem is in the model or because of the game itself but the
visibility are all in proper order so i'm not sure why this sometimes happens. - The mage hall, spire and citadel have varied health bar height. I modified
the extents on the sequences to achieve this. But when upgrading the height
of the health bar got stuck on the lowest z value. If you know how to fix
this please help me.
- the buildings uses an external birth animation that is linked to the model.
- the altar uses a recolored skin for the statue, just import it the usual way.
- This pack will be updated with additional models from time to time.
- Use the "Abilities\Weapons\RockBoltMissile\RockBoltMissile.mdl" model
for the projectile of the Boulder Tower. - Give proper credits to Manastorm whenever you use these models.
- Notify me for any issues in each models.
- Please give proper credits when using any models from this pack.
- Please do not upload any part of this pack to other website/s.
I recently made a Patreon account it is still in the early stages of being set up but if you want please
consider being a supporter it will help immensely or consider supporting me via the links below:
Patreon: patreon.com/bakr_WC3
PayPal: PayPal.Me/bakrKev12
Discord: sirkd_
Just message me here on Hive or on Discord.
Updates:
- arcane sanctum portrait fixed, the planetarium is now visible during portrait animation.
- arcane mine portrait camera changed
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it doesn't remove the attachment itself, it only resets the visibility to "0: 1"
i just find it more convenient to add it last, otherwise birth will show up in every animation while i'm testing it in sanity checker and such
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i mean the visibility is not the problem since i checked it again before importing. but for some reason the birth animation sometimes does not show. for example upgrading two towers of the same unit. one will show it the other wont.
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it must be something else then, i don't know what
you should also make sure that the filter is "none"
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maybe the problem is in the game itself, but i'll wait for the others to test the models. thanks a lot!
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I have been waiting for this moment for many years.
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Alas, these Dalaran buildings rely too much on team colors to distinguish them. I think while having team colors, there can also be purple or pink.I hope that when you create Blood Elf buildings, they can have both team colors and red.
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So bakr did this again! He nailed with awesome pack of buildings, this time with mages.
What can I else say except as usual, 5/5 + like from me!
What can I else say except as usual, 5/5 + like from me!
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He's not oblivious to the possibility, but busy bees like bakr will probably need a good long break.
Making ruined versions especially for canon is a whole new overhaul, just like how the sculptors designed the Master Chief Memorial for HALO 3. It's a different genre, but it shows that any artist would build a nice building first and then whittle it down so it looks all torn up.
I'm saying that he's got a lot of packs, which for now you should appreciate.
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regarding ruins doodads sometime in the future i guess or maybe someone else will since there's a lot of great modelers recently so maybe one of them can. But my initial idea right now is to have some generic ruins that can be assembled to resemble basic buildings in ruined form lets see how it will turn out.
regarding my projects.. my personal projects are all geared towards the completion of my Azeroth recreation map. It's just fortunate that Manastorm's projects are in line with mine that made it possible to make these packs. So it is all thanks to him.
regarding my projects.. my personal projects are all geared towards the completion of my Azeroth recreation map. It's just fortunate that Manastorm's projects are in line with mine that made it possible to make these packs. So it is all thanks to him.
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Another great pack for a complete faction. Nice!
I'd love to hear more about your process for this, as I'm trying to figure out how to make that happen for my own custom faction projects, except I have a bunch of different custom building assets from different authors. Is there anything one needs to do with them to make this happen/easier? Can I just have someone make a (custom) external birth animation (model) & find a way to 'link it' correctly to all my various other assets?
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Hurray! This set has finally been released!
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Great! Will the units pack in the same series come soon ?
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Very nice models, maybe we'll see them in future campaigns.
Archimonde: I dislike these buildings.
Archimonde: I dislike these buildings.
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Exodus - Campaign Series
You mean, ruined versions of existing buildings? You'll find some of them among Ujimasa's resources, e.g.:
Barracks (Human) and Derivatives
Barracks (Human) and Derivatives Edited by Ujimasa Hojo Barracks (Human, Optimized) Info: Polished some texture wrapping around meshes especially among the Birth ones. Uploaded. Barracks (Dalaran) Info: Created a Barracks which meshes well with the Arcane Observatory. Cleaned...
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Workshop and Derivatives
Workshop and Derivatives Edited by Ujimasa Hojo Workshop (Optimized) Info: Deleted some of the redundant meshes. Fixed up the texture wrapping of the base. Uploaded. Workshop (Dalaran) Info: Created a Workshop which meshes well with the Arcane Observatory. Redid the texture...
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Thank you, but I have been using these models.You mean, ruined versions of existing buildings? You'll find some of them among Ujimasa's resources, e.g.:
Barracks (Human) and Derivatives
Barracks (Human) and Derivatives Edited by Ujimasa Hojo Barracks (Human, Optimized) Info: Polished some texture wrapping around meshes especially among the Birth ones. Uploaded. Barracks (Dalaran) Info: Created a Barracks which meshes well with the Arcane Observatory. Cleaned...Search "<your building> and derivatives" for more.Workshop and Derivatives
Workshop and Derivatives Edited by Ujimasa Hojo Workshop (Optimized) Info: Deleted some of the redundant meshes. Fixed up the texture wrapping of the base. Uploaded. Workshop (Dalaran) Info: Created a Workshop which meshes well with the Arcane Observatory. Redid the texture...
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Exactly my plan too.
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there is no need to insert other colors in these buildings i believe. inserting red in the blood elves for example will contradicts the team color if the player is using other colors than red. another example is for dalaran if I insert permanent purple/violet colors in them and the player's team color is red or green then the overall appearance of the model in game will be a contrast of different colors that does not blends well with each other.
the design, shapes and little details of these buildings are already based on WoW and easily distinguishable to determine what faction they represents. the decision to lessen the iconography and specific faction heraldry except for the barracks is also intentional to make the buildings flexible to use for other maps that is not dalaran.
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The reason why we don't rely on team colors is because they can be used on neutral buildings. If you are concerned about conflicting with the color of the building and the team color, you can adjust the team color to match the color of the building.
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there is no need for that i guess. structure wise the models already represents the intended factions.
and people usually find ways to make the models work the way they want it in their maps.
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its a concept that requires a specific unit that is not yet made. the idea is to have a mage worker unit that will build the structures using spells. so the animation will be him waving a wand while constructing buildings (stand work animation)
the building animations are built in or linked in the models' birth animations. just import it along side the building models.
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I understood the worker part. not too different form an acolyte and that is waht I would use as a base for such a unit. I was wondering about the birth animation specifically. Now if I understood what you said right there should be nothing to worry as there is some modeling magic I do not undestand linking the bulding to the animation as long as I have properly imported both?
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Stunning, as always.
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Excellent!
