Animated Scenery in WC3

[88WaRCraFT3]

I have got a an cool idea about this, how much i know, if you make a folder in wc3 and if it has specific name, the game will load it, so if call it example : Units/Human/GyroCopter/And put a texture in here called GyroCopter.blp the game will load it, no worries about other players...
So this can be awesome for much players to get awesome performances ingame without messing up a size of map
BTW. GJ!!!!

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Yes, I wrote a tutorial on such, but it was graveyarded due to the fact that you need to edit your registry in order to do it, which the average pc user shouldn't be encouraged to do. Which is fair enough, I'm not complaining, merely saying I doubt the above will ever be used openly.

 

[88WaRCraFT3]

Grey Nightmare, if you're talking to me, no you don't need it, try it, it worked for me, idk yet about models, but textures works, so, just try it with an gyrocopter texture, or anything, create folder in Warcraft3 the name it Units, in it create folder Human, in Human folder create GyroCopter folder, and in it put Gyrocopter Texture, but call it GyroCopter.blp !!!!
If somebody can find out how to do this with models, i would be glad to make the packet with HD Textures and Models

 

[Goolygot]

Can you animate some custom trees to? I need animations for them. And I don't use the blizzard ones since they don't look really good.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Grey Nightmare, if you're talking to me, no you don't need it, try it, it worked for me, idk yet about models, but textures works, so, just try it with an gyrocopter texture, or anything, create folder in Warcraft3 the name it Units, in it create folder Human, in Human folder create GyroCopter folder, and in it put Gyrocopter Texture, but call it GyroCopter.blp !!!!
If somebody can find out how to do this with models, i would be glad to make the packet with HD Textures and Models

It works with models perfectly fine, I wasn't aware it worked without a registry edit though, I will have to try that.

 

[88WaRCraFT3]

okey, but i don't know about what registry are you talking about :$

 

[Grey Nightmare]

If you don't know about it, I'm not going to tell you.
Purely for the fact that ignorance in this case can cause serious problems, it's safer for you not to know mate =) (hence why no tutorial for this exists).


**Tested it, if you do it with models (without the register edit) it causes a fatal error probably because war3 doesn't have permission :/
With the edit it works fine though... you can have 10 (or theoretically any number) models + textures all outside map and play over BNet (assuming everyone has it) but yeah... no idea how your doing it without the edit... =/ meh OT anyways.


EDIT: If you want to continue this conversation at all, feel free to pm/vm me but we better not clog this thread up - this is kinda off-topic

 

[88WaRCraFT3]

Okey, it works for me fine, maybe it have changed registry for it self, cause i used an tool

 

[Dr. House]

i supose you know what a cookie means? xD

 

[88WaRCraFT3]

yeaaa, that thing that he eats in the signature :d :d :d

 

[Gekigengar]

can you compile the canopy tree like the blizzard model? they are in one model, but three variations, so that you could use it as a destructible, and only needs 1 destructible to handle the 3 variations.

 

[HappyCockroach]

can you compile the canopy tree like the blizzard model? they are in one model, but three variations, so that you could use it as a destructible, and only needs 1 destructible to handle the 3 variations.

Just overwrite the original Canopy Tree pathes. Download the test map or the package if you want to see what they are.
I didn't manage to make a custom doodad of variations, but I believe it's like this: If you have wc3mapimported\Doodad0.mdx, wc3mapimported\Doodad1.mdx, wc3mapimported\Doodad2.mdx, and so on, the path of the doodad's model sould be: wc3mapimported\Doodad.mdx, even if this model doesn't exist actually.

 

[Zealon]

Do you take specific requests for animated scenery?

 

[Zpider]

If you do - I would love to have a animated "Ashenvale Tree Wall"

 

[Cihparg]

You know roach, you haven't updated the change-log.
Also you could add a how-to-import box/link on the "description".

EDIT: I would like to give you personal request.
Take the death explosion out of Night Elf Fishing Village, it's a great explosion, but never gets to be used due the house is in teh way!

 

[WorldEdit]

Good Job HappyCockroach!

 

[phoenixfire]

Thank god for cockroaches.

So are they pests or best?

 

[Gausslander]

You should do the village tree, winter tree, snowy tree, etc.

 

[Citatus Nim Totren]

I am stunned by your total awe.

 

[Silverfish423]

Wow, thanks a lot. This will really improve the quality of my map!
+rep

 

[aider]

Great idea with animated doodads! Really takes the WC3 graphics to a new level

 

[Orcnet]

wow! I didn't notice this one.. good job!

 

[paolo123600]

men animate now th flowing water

 

[frostloh]

Cool, but would those doodads cause lag if too many were on-screen at the same time?

 

[Adiktuz]

depends on what is too many for you... but anything if you put too many of them will lag...

 

[HappyCockroach]

NEW UPDATE!!!!!

lol, after 1 year
added felwood cattail, and 2 ruins rushes that are cattails also
if you want to see them you should download them in the attachments cos the package isn't updated yet, ill update it in the next update, next year (lol jk)

EDIT: theres a weird mushroom also. dunno how that is going to look in-game... it grows up and then dies emmitting spore clouds... very slowly

 

[_lycan]

nice i bookmarked your post so when i finish with my current map i can use these in an Orpg or Rpg

 

[Monkeyladboy]

EPIC! Thx

 

[Black Crown]

I love these! Add as many more if you get a chance! An example of two are the wheat and corn.

 

[mnadeau1992]

awesome
Wanna see the result of your work when you'll be done with some more critter animations like bees on their hive on a tree
or a shark that eat some fish

nice job.

 

[phoenixfire]

awesome
Wanna see the result of your work when you'll be done with some more critter animations like bees on their hive on a tree
or a shark that eat some fish

nice job.

I'm pretty sure hes just animating in-game environment doodads.

 

[HappyCockroach]

I'm pretty sure hes just animating in-game environment doodads.

then you're way too sure of stuff

 

[mnadeau1992]

Which mean :O

!!

 

[HappyCockroach]

Which mean :O

btw, NEW UPDATE!!!11!!1

added 7 felwood thorny plants that grow bigger and then shrinks a little bit to give it a more "alive" feeling and to give a swamp more of a spooky feel

 

[mnadeau1992]

YAY!
Want tiger critters that hunt for rabbits!!!!
or all hostile monster havin camps and actually, exploitin their mine and woods? won't attack you until you approach them to close, and would block roads!!!!

 

[Deolrin]

What does that actually have to do with animated scenery in WC3?, mnadeau?

 

[fladdermasken]

Mnadeau1992 has a point.

 

[HappyCockroach]

YAY!
Want tiger critters that hunt for rabbits!!!!
or all hostile monster havin camps and actually, exploitin their mine and woods? won't attack you until you approach them to close, and would block roads!!!!

The idea is cool
but this is about mapping as well, something that I don't want to get too much into

I plan (to those interactive elements scenery) to make periodic stuff with 2 or 3 action variations, I mean...

lizard + 2 rocks = the lizard climbs the rock, then walks around, goes to the other, etc
monkey and 3 nearby trees: jumps around, shake a tree, gets a banana, etc

all those as a single doodad with multiple elements

 

[mnadeau1992]

That's interesting. Will the monkey banana tree be cutable?
will cuting this tree gives an Banana Grape

BANANAS!!!!!

And if the Monkey Bananas Tress doodads have 3 trees with it, it should have 3 time the normal trees HP.

Some more cool advices I've just pointed out huh?

... but the more I give and the closer to a whole new GAME I'm goin.
Which would be quite nice and intresting wouldn'T it? Maybe you should try it out, we never knows

 

[HappyCockroach]

That's interesting. Will the monkey banana tree be cutable?
will cuting this tree gives an Banana Grape

BANANAS!!!!!

And if the Monkey Bananas Tress doodads have 3 trees with it, it should have 3 time the normal trees HP.

Some more cool advices I've just pointed out huh?

well... it's all about scenery... not mapping. I'll make the doodads and you guys deal with the pathing blockers and stuff.. most likely those doodads wont be destructable.. unless someone makes a system and asks me the specific stuff to do so...

... but the more I give and the closer to a whole new GAME I'm goin.
Which would be quite nice and intresting wouldn'T it? Maybe you should try it out, we never knows

yay

 

[Deolrin]

@mnadeau1992, HappyCockroach is just making models, what mappers do with that is not exactly his business, I guess.

 

[HappyCockroach]

@mnadeau1992, HappyCockroach is just making models, what mappers do with that is not exactly his business, I guess.

THANK YOU SIR THAT WAS HELPFUL

caps

 

[keko4321]

good job m8
im not map maker but i'd love to see those in every map
+rep

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

I have to ask, are there going to be basic Ashenvale Trees?

 

[HappyCockroach]

I have to ask, are there going to be basic Ashenvale Trees?

the ashenvale trees are unanimated by default... I gave some tries to make animated cliffs and animated trees, but they didn't work and I didn't keep trying since then.... the next update I make I'll try to animate those basic doodads like the ashen tree wall

 

[PheoniX_VII]

Looks awesome

 

[Verhalthur]

Hoho, very nicely done.

Care to give the Outland Plants a go?
Outland is a generally windy place and it looks odd when they just sit there.

 

[eubz]

Woah, cool innovation.

 

[LovG]

You are right and this is very usefull. And nice work with all the animated scenery

 

[A]mun]

Very nice so far, still working on this?