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Bats (Doodad)

This bundle is marked as useful / simple. Simplicity is bliss, low effort and/or may contain minor bugs.
On my Seagulls skin, Deepstraz recommended experimenting with other textures to fit the bird doodad. I did play around a bit more, and ended up making not a bird skin based on any other Warcraft creature, but a bat texture! A more realistic one. Since the birds doodad and bats doodad use the same texture, you can also use the birds as bats, they'll have visible legs and move a bit differently but still look like bat. However, the way the bats doodad works is that it's darkened by a geoset animation. I've included an edited model of the bats that has the geoset animation colour set to white so that you can see the texture. That is the doodad that I have used to provide the screenshots.

The skin is almost all freehand but I copied and edited the wing from a drawing I found online, and I based the colours of the rest of the bat on that art. I was not able to find an author, but here is a link to the art online.

Credit is appreciated but not required.
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Bats (Doodad) (Texture)

Bats (Non-darkened) (Model)

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Footman16
Could be useful for some as a variation for bats, the texture itself is 50% CnP so approved as Useful/Simple.
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Pretty neat actually. Reminds a bit of flying foxes.

Would be a good idea to credit the non-original images used with a link or something.

Also, thanks for going on with this.
The picture I used is a drawing of a flying fox/fruit bat, idk what the exact difference is but I searched 'fruit bat drawing' to find it and modelled my texture mostly after photos that came up when I searched fruit bat. I did provide a link to the art I used in my description. I only used that one as far as non original works go.

And I do plan to see what else I can do with these doodads and maybe some critter unit textures. It's quite fun making them
 
It seems you also missed some of the description. I CnP'd the wing, which I then stretched and adapted to fit the shape of the original texture - but I freehanded the rest.
The CnP requirement for approved as recommended is >75% freehand.
 
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The CnP requirement for approved as recommended is >75% freehand.
I'm not objecting to the rating, but your wording. You said 'the texture itself is CnP'. That implies the whole thing was CnP with no freehand. As I noted in my description, it is not. If you follow the link to the artwork I got the wing from (which I modified) you can see that it would've been impossible to make this skin just by copying and pasting from it. My Harpy Young skin is almost entirely CnP, but with that one you said it was mostly CnP, so I don't know why you didn't note the same nuance here.
 
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