Blood Elven Voyager

Vinz · Feb 8, 2019

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Credits

I'd like to thank:

Retera for the invaluable Matrix Eater
Magos for his Model Editor
Alexey of xgm.ru for Mdlvis
The Blender team and Fingolfin for his exporter
Guessed for the MDL/X Converter
Hayate and Stefan K. for advice
Team Kek and Pep for feedback

Testmap

Requirement for the Model Contest

SonsOfSami · Feb 8, 2019

This looks really great, but animations are quite fast, especially the alternate ones, maybe consider slowing them down a bit?
Also, nice use of ingame textures!

Vinz · Feb 9, 2019

Update: Fixed the right ribbons not appearing... everywhere? Still buggy with the Hive viewer, though.
This was my first time finalizing a unit model, and I didn't know that Magos' Editor didn't save ribbons properly sometimes. I hope I won't get penalized for updating after 2/8/19.

Veritas 117 · Feb 9, 2019

I wish I had a use for this model in my current project just because it is so awesome. You really went all out with the animations and it's really impressive. The idea is super unique too. That death animation is something special too. Great work.

Vinz · Feb 9, 2019

Thank you so much, guys.

As for the animation speed, I made the attacks quick to feign force, and spells for mobility. I might consider slowing some if I decide to revisit the model.

Lt_Hawkeye · Feb 9, 2019

This looks too great for me not to think of a way to use it.

SNIper of DARKness · Feb 10, 2019

Very well made.

Cherrymage · Feb 10, 2019

Excellent! Lovin' all the animations, and the design is awesome overall!

P.S. I can't help but feel some of the animations are... uhhhhh... naughty lol...

WhiteFang · Feb 11, 2019

You absolutely nailed it with the animations.SO many of them,and they all look good
The model itself is a interesting idea as well,and not only that,it's a very unique way of fitting the theme
This looks very good and it's clear to see a lot of effort went into this

Gluma · Feb 11, 2019

Damn man those anims are hypnotizing

Vinz · Feb 13, 2019

Update - fixed premature appearances in the Birth Anim and added scaffolding.

Seems I broke the preview.

Panda · Feb 13, 2019

This is really cool i like all the animations!

Vinz · Feb 14, 2019

Update said:
2/15/19

Trimmed down on some of the scaffolding, saving on ~600 triangles and 40 kb. Added glows to weapon fire. Fixed testmap button placement.

Update said:
Up to 2/18/19

Set Spell Slam Base to Non-Looping. Updated previews. Raised Spell Two Base max ribbon height. Added more detail to the dome and gold linings. Segregated Stand and Walk anims to allow thruster particles to indicate movement. Fixed Ribbon visibility in them.

brized · Feb 19, 2019

I don't have a use for it, but it's absolutely amazing. 5/5

BoatyMcBoatface300 · Feb 25, 2019

Based on the gifs and hive viewer....

The idea and execution is great, but I think if you have the time you can tweak the timing of the animation (i think that some animation has too many frames, but thats just me) and give it some more slow in and slow outs (check out the 12 principles of animation) to really make it great (i think that just doing this would make a lot of these animations even better).

E.g. the barrelroll, you can make the beginning and the end slower, and the middle section faster.
These slow ins and slow outs are mostly because things move by accelerating and decelerating, and not linearly.
My comments here arent that the animations are not 'realistic', but the goal is for it to he convincing.

As a rule of thumb, exagerate your animations, especially in wc3 where every single unit is so smol, like some attacks can still be exagerated more to really sell the strength of it. (E.g. make the attack quickly go from attack to recoil to show that its a fast strong attack, then give the animation a slower recovery from recoil to attack ready to show tht it needs time to get back into action after that strong attack)

Conflate · Mar 5, 2019

This is truly majestic... I can't imagine how many hours of pure effort have gone into this.

emperor_d3st · Mar 5, 2019

Lookin' good.

Olorin · Apr 23, 2019

Hey, your model is great but I can't find the way to use your Alternate Stand animation (for an airship), how do I do that ?

Vinz · Apr 23, 2019

Olorin said:
Hey, your model is great but I can't find the way to use your Alternate Stand animation (for an airship), how do I do that ?

Have you put 'Alternate' in required animation names?

Olorin · Apr 23, 2019

Nope, no idea I had to do that, I usually use much simpler models :d
Thanks anyways, great job !

General Frank · Jul 8, 2019

Works in-game, performs appropriately and is a good addition to the model section.

Henry_AC · Jul 23, 2019

Archian · Jul 25, 2019

Added to Contest Entries! Congratulations on the win!

Noctiss_Season2 · Jul 26, 2019

This is great, looks very technical

Prathamesh Railkar · Aug 25, 2020

Magnificent! :infl_thumbs_up:

Regent_Artiman · Sep 11, 2020

why I cant open it in War3 model editor?

is my warcraft too old for this? xD
1.21b

Superfrycook · Jun 22, 2021

Does it work in Reforged for this unit?

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