Animated Scenery in WC3

[HappyCockroach]

Pretty self explanatory :>
The idea occured to me and i started doing it, and eventually going further.

I gotta say wc3 atmosphere is much better with those. they will cost your map 262KB if you use all of them.

If you have a map in progress and wants to get the doodads moving download the "animated scenery.zip" package below and WinMPQ and follow the instructions.

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Previews:

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Changelog:

Updates

Nov 20, 2013
- Outland Plant 1 shakes with the wind and does some other stuff too.
- Outland Plant 2 shakes with the wind and does some other stuff too.
- Outland Plant 3 shakes with the wind and does some other stuff too.
- Outland Plant 4 shakes with the wind and does some other stuff too.
- Outland Plant 5 shakes with the wind and does some other stuff too.
- Outland Plant 6 shakes with the wind and does some other stuff too.
- Outland Plant 7 shakes with the wind and does some other stuff too.
- Outland Plant 8 shakes with the wind and does some other stuff too.
- Lordaeron Summer Corn shakes with the wind. :>
- Felwood Lily Pad floats as it should.
- Updated map and package with that and added some instructions on how to import all the doodads at once to any map.

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Nov 19, 2013
- Ruins Viny Plant 1 shake with the wind.
- Ruins Viny Plant 2 shake with the wind.
- Ruins Viny Plant 3 shake with the wind.
- Ruins Viny Plant 4 shake with the wind.
- Updated map with all current doodads
- Updated package with all current doodads. They are in the correct pathes, so if you import the whole "Doodads" folder to your map through some MPQ browser tool, it will replace the static doodads as you open your map again.
- Just figured out that AshenCanopyTree animations apply to all canopy trees. So: Barrens, Sunken Ruins, Northrend, Icecrown Glacier and Felwood Canopy Trees are all animated as you import the Ashenvale one.

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Aug 20, 2011
- Felwood Thorns 1 grow and shrink overtime
- Felwood Thorns 2 grow and shrink overtime
- Felwood Thorns 3 grow and shrink overtime
- Felwood Thorns 4 grow and shrink overtime
- Felwood Thorns 5 grow and shrink overtime
- Felwood Thorns 6 grow and shrink overtime
- Felwood Thorns 7 grow and shrink overtime

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Jul 12, 2011
- Felwood Cattail shakes with the wind
- Ruins Cattail 1 shakes with the wind (Named as Ruins_Rush0 in MPQ)
- Ruins Cattail 2 shakes with the wind (Named as Ruins_Rush1 in MPQ)
- Ashenvale Mushrooms 1 randomly grow and die overtime emmitting spores

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Oct 12, 2010
- Added the doodads compressed to a package
- Created a map with the scenery imported to it

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Oct 09, 2010
- River Rushes 1 shake with the wind
- River Rushes 2 shake with the wind
- River Rushes 3 shake with the wind
- River Rushes 4 shake with the wind
- Ruins Flower 1 shakes with the wind
- Ruins Flower 2 shakes with the wind
- Ruins Flower 3 shakes with the wind
- Ruins Flower 4 shakes with the wind
- Ruins Flower 5 shakes with the wind

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Oct 04, 2010
- Ruins Shrub 1 shakes with the wind
- Ruins Shrub 2 shakes with the wind
- Ruins Shrub 3 shakes with the wind
- Ashenvale Canopy Tree 1 moves slower
- Ashenvale Canopy Tree 2 moves slower
- Ashenvale Canopy Tree 3 moves slower
- Ashenvale Bush fixed

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Oct 03, 2010
- Ashenvale Bush shakes with the wind
-Ashenvale Canopy Tree 1 shakes with the wind
- Ashenvale Canopy Tree 2 shakes with the wind
- Ashenvale Canopy Tree 3 shakes with the wind
- Barrens Canopy Tree 1 shakes with the wind
- Barrens Canopy Tree 2 shakes with the wind
- Barrens Canopy Tree 3 shakes with the wind
- Felwood Canopy Tree 1 shakes with the wind
- Felwood Canopy Tree 2 shakes with the wind
- Felwood Canopy Tree 3 shakes with the wind
- Icecrown Glacier Canopy Tree 1 shakes with the wind
- Icecrown Glacier Canopy Tree 2 shakes with the wind
- Icecrown Glacier Canopy Tree 3 shakes with the wind
- Northrend Canopy Tree 1 shakes with the wind
- Northrend Canopy Tree 2 shakes with the wind
- Northrend Canopy Tree 3 shakes with the wind
- Ruins Canopy Tree 1 shakes with the wind
- Ruins Canopy Tree 2 shakes with the wind
- Ruins Canopy Tree 3 shakes with the wind
- Ashenvale Cattail shakes with the wind

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Download a package with all the doodads:

View attachment animated scenery.zip

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Download map with imported doodads:

View attachment Animated Scenery in WC3.w3x

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Oh, and I didn't mention you should credit me for my work before because I think that's simply a matter of common sense and respect. But I saw my doodads somewheres and I'll reinforce that it is nice of you to recognize I've done them, through your maps credits and stuff. and let me know of your projects with it, i like to see stuff i made being used :>

 

[Azurot]

You're my hero Mister.

 

[rcshaggy]

Pretty good with effects man.

 

[Vosty]

This is an idea that had existed for a while now, but the fact that you're actually doing it is sweet. The only problem is that now several score files just got a lot bigger.

 

[HappyCockroach]

This is an idea that had existed for a while now, but the fact that you're actually doing it is sweet. The only problem is that now several score files just got a lot bigger.

What do you mean by that?
I believe that all the animated models will take up around 500KB or so of raw filesize... compressed in the map it might be like 300KB...

 

[xrouge]

Have yourself a goddamn cookie, sir !

 

[Gekigengar]

is there the snowy icecrown tree version? (Canopy and normal ones) xD, my map is all icy...or i could replace the texture? how?

i would like to use it on my map, so, i hope it is there in the package

 

[Deolrin]

Good job making those. Just wanted to point out, you're not using an in-game texture on the Ashenvale Bush.

I suggest a raccoon running up a tree, a bird landing on a tree and flying off and a frog jumping on a lillypad as 'critter animations'.

 

[Gekigengar]

that would best come separate, as sometimes, i don't want a zombie map with racoons and birds flying in, or some ghost town maps..i prefer trees and doadads to be for general/any purpose,so all games could use it, if you want racoons, or birds, making several doadads effect attachment would be nice

 

[HappyCockroach]

@Debode: that's exactly what I had in mind

that would best come separate, as sometimes, i don't want a zombie map with racoons and birds flying in, or some ghost town maps..i prefer trees and doadads to be for general/any purpose,so all games could use it, if you want racoons, or birds, making several doadads effect attachment would be nice

Every model import in WC3 comes separate. And there would be a Felwood variant for the racoons that's rather a spider hanging down on a tree by its silk and then climbing it up, or a bat flying from tree to tree (a small group of trees with custom pathing).

Updated!
Added 3 shrubs and fixed the bush and the 3 trees.
The ruin shrubs is the only shrub that exists. It's used in the Ashenvale tileset also. I'm gonna finish Ashenvale, then move on to another one.

If you were using the previous ones download them again, except the cattail.

@razor21, I'll do the snowy ones too, very soon, you can count on them.

 

[Sheephunter]

I love you!

 

[Gekigengar]

thx! gonna be Waiting

 

[Celaquil]

The sad part is that you are animating horrible doodads >.>
(No offense)

If I were you,
I'd take a look at what doodads most terrainers use.

 

[Deolrin]

I'm pretty sure that's why he said:

Give me suggestions of doodads/destructibles that can be animated in a creative and efficient way and I shall do it!

 

[Sheephunter]

Well, some pillars need a death animation... Those from dalaran n stuff.

 

[HappyCockroach]

The sad part is that you are animating horrible doodads >.>
(No offense)

If I were you,
I'd take a look at what doodads most terrainers use.

I don't plan to recreate WC3 doodads, I'm just animating everything that is in the Doodads folder in the MPQ, not the UTM.
If you want specific doodads to be animated, tell me which.
Most terrainers use some trees that imo don't fit WC3, with plain textures and too many polies...
several polies + animation + mass quantity = lag.
I don't think that the standard doodads are all that horrible.

About the pillars, I'll do them.

 

[Celaquil]

Well, thats a matter of taste.

In any case, personally I would love to see the "Shrub: Bush 4" doodad from UTM animated, and probably some tree models too. For instance the three green elven trees that also can be found in the UTM. Probably also the "Fern" doodad from UTM, the green one.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Wow, that's an awesome and considerate gesture, thanks =)

 

[supertoinkz]

You could add an animation to the trees where they fall leaves.

 

[HappyCockroach]

Well, thats a matter of taste.

In any case, personally I would love to see the "Shrub: Bush 4" doodad from UTM animated, and probably some tree models too. For instance the three green elven trees that also can be found in the UTM. Probably also the "Fern" doodad from UTM, the green one.

Ok, I'll have a look at them.
I need the permission from the author first, right?

Wow, that's an awesome and considerate gesture, thanks =)

You're welcome.

You could add an animation to the trees where they fall leaves.

That's a pretty nice idea. maybe with a rarity of 3 or 4, and some animal jumping off of it, under that category of 'doodads including interacting critters'. Fall trees are gonna have a handful of leaves falling every minute constantly, I guess.

 

[Celaquil]

If you CAN find out who the authors of the models are then sure.

I pretty much doubt it though.

 

[HappyCockroach]

If you CAN find out who the authors of the models are then sure.

I pretty much doubt it though.

It's gonna be quite painful to discover who exactly did each of the models...since the credits are all together. And so it will be difficult to contact the author... most of those are inactive afaik.
What if I just animate it and give full credits to the authors of the meshes in a general way by showing a link to the UTM?

 

[Adiktuz]

awesome and really helpful

 

[Celaquil]

It's gonna be quite painful to discover who exactly did each of the models...since the credits are all together. And so it will be difficult to contact the author... most of those are inactive afaik.
What if I just animate it and give full credits to the authors of the meshes in a general way by showing a link to the UTM?

Works for me.

 

[Sephalo]

If I were you,
I'd take a look at what doodads most terrainers use.

Most of the terrainers don't need animated doodads since they only use their terrain for 1 screenshot and that's it. For a game's terrain you won't need those high res doodads to move around.. That would totally crash your game if you have them in large numbers.

What about doodads like River Rushes and Wheat and Grain (Scorched)?

 

[HappyCockroach]

UPDATED!!

Added the Flowers that are used in the Ashenvale Tileset and belong the Ruins folder. Next comes the Ruins cattail, Ruins viny plant, the ruins indestructible trees and the ruins lily pads.

Most of the terrainers don't need animated doodads since they only use their terrain for 1 screenshot and that's it. For a game's terrain you won't need those high res doodads to move around.. That would totally crash your game if you have them in large numbers.

What about doodads like River Rushes and Wheat and Grain (Scorched)?

I'll go through these, let me finish the plants in the Ruins\Plants folder first.
And I think exactly the same as you about the terrain doodads, thanks for supporting.
(I'll animate some of them nevertheless)

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yet again, updated - river rushes 1, 2, 3 and 4 are animated

 

[Adiktuz]

just one observation, if your camera is locked into a unit and then you constantly move, the animations of the doodads are not really that visible... ^^

 

[thedeathunterxx]

this is fantastic idea.

Doesnt this cause lag though?

 

[HappyCockroach]

this is fantastic idea.

Doesnt this cause lag though?

Thanks.

Most doodads have twice as many polies as the unanimated one, since I need to create edges there in order to make it distort with the wind. And the animation isn't linear, cos linear would look really bad (linear anims = I'd rather have unanimated)

All that summed up make it produce some lag to slow computers like mine, in case you place animated doodads as if they were normal ones. But mine really sucks. Nowadays most computers can run very smoothly even with animated doodads spam. And you can avoid spamming shrubs and such, what is frequently done with unanimated doodads.

It's an option. If you want to spam animated doodads, it can become laggy.

(Oh, don't forget to set the 'Animates in Fog' to FALSE. If you check it TRUE, the lag will be painful.)

just one observation, if your camera is locked into a unit and then you constantly move, the animations of the doodads are not really that visible... ^^

That's true... depending on the camera you use, these doodads might not be worth the little lag they might cause.

 

[Cihparg]

A little hint to you, Roach.
When you finish animating a specific model set, could you possibly assign the editions to the main .mdx which then handles the "variations"?

Also, use the official paths for easier replacing.

 

[Adiktuz]

currently I dont notice any lag... I dont put a lot of them together anyways... ^^

 

[JFAMAP]

Oh shit ! it looks wonderful 1 i'm trying to using those things in my map but i can't do. How can i use all of them ?

 

[HappyCockroach]

Oh shit ! it looks wonderful 1 i'm trying to using those things in my map but i can't do. How can i use all of them ?

I'll make a test map with all of them quick and you upload it here
you should replace the original ones with their pathes

 

[JFAMAP]

Ok i'll give a credit to you for that when done. Check the my map from my signature. I'm waiting for the news because i really want to use animated models

 

[baassee]

give me a f*cking ZIP FILE! with all models (A)

These are not awesome, they are beyond awesome.

 

[HappyCockroach]

Ok i'll give a credit to you for that when done. Check the my map from my signature. I'm waiting for the news because i really want to use animated models

give me a f*cking ZIP FILE! with all models (A)

These are not awesome, they are beyond awesome.

There you go.

 

[baassee]

There you go.

Great! Thanks alot

 

[JFAMAP]

Oh man thanks. Now i have a animated river rushes and tree but i can't do other things. Can you give me an example ? There's no problem about Tree and Rushes but i can't to others (example bush)

 

[Tha Flamestorm]

Can you give us an example? as in do the models not work or you cant find ways to use them because they are too...awesome?
Fareeking nice models btw, especialy the anims, i demand you put this as a pack up in the downloads department--once done or mostly done 'corse.

 

[HappyCockroach]

Oh man thanks. Now i have a animated river rushes and tree but i can't do other things. Can you give me an example ? There's no problem about Tree and Rushes but i can't to others (example bush)

Can you give us an example? as in do the models not work or you cant find ways to use them because they are too...awesome?
Fareeking nice models btw, especialy the anims, i demand you put this as a pack up in the downloads department--once done or mostly done 'corse.

There you have it
I didn't have any problems uploading the doodads myself...

 

[lolreported]

Woah... This is awesome! +rep right away. Anyway, you don't mind give the Ashenvale Tree Wall (not the Canopy Tree) an animation?

 

[Brombie]

Will you do similar to other enviromental doodads, or trees?

 

[HappyCockroach]

Woah... This is awesome! +rep right away. Anyway, you don't mind give the Ashenvale Tree Wall (not the Canopy Tree) an animation?

Just checked the tree walls... they have variation models for Animating (being hit/getting born/dying), Standing (unanimated) and Dead (unanimated)... That might cause them to be quite stiff and jumpy when being hit, since one model gets replaced by another when they need to animate.
I think it'll be better to make a custom path to the Tree Walls, so it'll be just 1 model and won't snap/etc.
But yeah, I'll do it.

Will you do similar to other enviromental doodads, or trees?

I plan to.

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btw guys, just checked the doodads folder and found the cliff models and their variations. I believe I can add more variations to the cliffs! So I'd do some animated cliff with an insect den in it, or something else
I'll try it.

 

[lolreported]

Just checked the tree walls... they have variation models for Animating (being hit/getting born/dying), Standing (unanimated) and Dead (unanimated)... That might cause them to be quite stiff and jumpy when being hit, since one model gets replaced by another when they need to animate.
I think it'll be better to make a custom path to the Tree Walls, so it'll be just 1 model and won't snap/etc.
But yeah, I'll do it.

Thanks. I think it's no problem with the "jumpy" thing. In my map trees will won't be harvested, only get killed instantly by a spell or something. So there's no problem there.

 

[yeohxin]

Good idea man(corkroach?)

 

[Belgarath]

to really make an actualy difference you'd have to use grass textured units, since otherwise they'll just be kind of like, oh, hey, moving stuff, oh well, i can still see the units really well though, right? they mostly can, but if they have grass textures in spots/all over, it'd be kind of like, oh hey, a moving bush, they're all moving, who gives a shit!

 

[Brombie]

to really make an actualy difference you'd have to use grass textured units, since otherwise they'll just be kind of like, oh, hey, moving stuff, oh well, i can still see the units really well though, right? they mostly can, but if they have grass textures in spots/all over, it'd be kind of like, oh hey, a moving bush, they're all moving, who gives a shit!

The concept is more of nature gone natural.

 

[JFAMAP]

5/5
model has added to Justice For All (JFA)
credits has been gived http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/maps-564/jfa-v4-8-a-149707/ (i will glad if you rate to my map)

(lol i forgot i wanted to give 5/5 to this work )

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

Whoever makes an underwater terrain such waving corals and plants are amust have. Water waves plants and whatever's under

 

[Gekigengar]

I hope you are also doing Ashenvale Tree Wall xD