This is literally amazing and must be used!
If you think a spell effect model from 2001-2002 is amazing, somebody ought to upload a pack with a port of all of the unused spells from back then. There seemed to be a lot of them, especially in the orc folder. Many were not particularly challenging to make today with our modern modding tech, but they are made by the same team and in the same style as our Classic Graphics and I guess are just the "rejects" so having them in the repertoire of anybody modding seems useful.
I could've sworn I'd seen this individually publicly uploaded before...?
How recently, do you think? I showed some images of it in the last 12 or so months somewhere on discord, but also literally anybody on Warcraft 3 modding could have posted this model for the last 20 years so it's
super possible that someone did upload it like you're saying. But I don't know. They would have had to have reversed the model's format -- in the state the model was in on the old beta files from Hallfiry's archive, the model would not have opened in any version of World Editor ever released, nor in Magos, nor in Mdlvis, nor in any version of Retera Model Studio ever released, nor in Ghostwolf's viewer. The binary data was a different length, but unlike Reforged models which also declare themselves as a different
version of file (so that we can make computer programs that "open both Reforged or legacy format" of models), this model was in a different format with the same version information on it.
So to have a program to open these old RoC beta models of this certain category, you have to have a program tailored for that specifically, basically, because it's not physically possible to publish a duplex program that loads either this old format or the Reign of Chaos release format... unless the program did random guessing or something.