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Orc Slinger

This bundle is marked as useful / simple. Simplicity is bliss, low effort and/or may contain minor bugs.
More orcs! Not a request this time.

What happens to blademasters once they go senile and too old to chop enemies with a giant sword? The orcs give the poor sods a barrel of pebbles and an old sling to twirl and swing like there's no tomorrow.

Intended as a ranged unit.

(Also learned that if the blend between hair and face is super crap, you can hide it with a headband.)

Update 1: Swapped the bag out with an actual sling.

Keywords:
Sling, Orc, Grunt, Blademaster, Terrible, Wrap, I, Just, Want, To, Animate
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Orc Slinger (Model)

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16:37, 21st Aug 2014 MiniMage: It's actually a rather creative use of the blademaster animations. I would suggest you work more on it though. For example, the attack animation, make it bounce more after the attack, to give it more of a sling effect...

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16:37, 21st Aug 2014
MiniMage: It's actually a rather creative use of the blademaster animations. I would suggest you work more on it though. For example, the attack animation, make it bounce more after the attack, to give it more of a sling effect. Also, work a little on the mesh.
 
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Orc logic: this guy is no longer trust worthy with a sword, we will give him a long range weapon that has great potential for throwing rocks in random directions, #whatcouldgowrong?

It looks nice, and it is a neat idea i don't recall seeing allot of
 
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Nice, I think it's the first WC3 slinger I see. Do I have permission to have someone edit him to a human for my Ancient Empires map?
 
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Nice, I think it's the first WC3 slinger I see. Do I have permission to have someone edit him to a human for my Ancient Empires map?

I could rig the human version myself, would you want me to. I've looked at your project, do you have a model that you wish to be edited into a slinger? PM me if such is the case. If you want Fingolfin to do it, he -absoulutely- has my permission, sort of an idol of mine.
 
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Sure you can make it:) Fin's making to many things on many fronts so let's not overload him when we can! I'll pm you the details.
 
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I forgot to mention, but if you're using this model, base it on the grunt and give him a long "attack 1-cooldown time" (2.1 seconds or so), makes the whole twirling animation look much better.

There's also a projectile matching the slinger (since there's none matching in the game files) here.
 
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Kyrbi0

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I have a soft spot in my heart for "missing links"; models that fill in a Theme or Role that Warcraft doesn't. And not only does this fill the "basic Orc ranged unit" box that Trolls try to fill in the in-game Horde, but it also fills the "unit with Sling" box that, so far, is completely nonexistent.

Nice job. Very simple and a bit wonky, but nice job.
 
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