This is my 4th cattail and my 10th plant ward, being tired of the same plant styles over and over as my cattail and flowers began to become, I decided on a new theme of cattail. when I saw the UV wrap of the white coral, and how good it looked on the Cattail, I began an ''Unhealthy'' ''Dead'' or ''Dying'' theme of cattail inspired by World of Warcrafts ''Eastern Plaguelands''. the problem was without side bushes It looked plain and ugly, and without a good texture to use I eventually abandoned it, as you may see way back in my other screen shots as it is quite old. So when I accidentally saw the Northrend tree I realized that was the bush texture I had been looking for. The problem was creating a particle texture to work with it very well. sadly, none looked very good, so I stuck to my normal grass particle, and then built 8 pieces of branches that use animated bones instead, to fly off for the death animation.
this is a basic ward, its animations include:
Birth -- grows to full size in 10 seconds.
Stand Port. --acts as both the stand animation and the camera portrait.
death -- the plant vigorously shakes back and fourth as white, light grey, and brown blades of grass emit while 8 sets of sticks flail off in all directions spinning as white grayish dust poofs out.
I suggest 1.240 death time seconds so the death is all nice and smooth.
I recommend a model size between 0.9 and 1.7 so particles fit.
I also Suggest very low health if not a land mine ability with 0 damage so it dies when you walk on it to look even more fragile.
you are free to edit any of my resources and models just give me credit/do not distribute them to other sites.
Keywords:
Plant, Ward, Doodad, Destructible, Nature, Cattail, with reality twisted and time bent, on and on the egg man went.