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1) Oh really? Pray tell, could you perchance find the Beta "Minotaur" model? I'd really be interested in collecting it, and I'm sure others would as well.Indeed the steam tank had a wrecking ball, I even had the model somewhere on my pc along with other beta models, such as the tauren with ball and chain.
Also, Blizzard hid some model animations by naming the sequences "bla". The Infernal Cannon is one example (blaSpell), while the pandaren elementals have their death and dissipate animations (need confirmation, don't have War3x.mpq at the moment) renames just "bla" and thus not displayed ingame.
Abilities\Spells\Orc\Berserker\Berserkertarget.mdx is a bugged model which cannot open in most model editors. I have examined it in MDLVis though, and I think I even managed to display it in-game.
Some "theories":
Archmage was on foot with a sword (his skin still contains a sword as a possble proof), no screenshot evidence so that was probably just an idea
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Revenant was an undead unit called "death knight"
there are many screenshots on scrollsoflore.com
just a theory, since it says "Revenant (previously Death Knight)"
and another one
before lich there was a "Cold Wraith" (I guess because it's "cold")
model
art
screenshot in model editor
his death and decay spell-can't find it...cold wraith is floating in air with some red circles on ground
1) Oh really? Pray tell, could you perchance find the Beta "Minotaur" model? I'd really be interested in collecting it, and I'm sure others would as well.
2) Definitely. Actually, that would make for some easy modding; just go into Magos and rename the animations and voila, usable units.
3) So what did it look like!?
The Dread Lord also still uses the original pissed sound files. The result is some of them making no sense at all.The Dread Lord skin still has his original dress in it.
1) The model, along with the War3 beta and other alpha models (they were not in the beta) was on my old HDD which died. I can request them from the guy who fund and collected them in the first place.
I like the icon borders more in this screenshot:
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btw, alpha (not beta) necros and skeletons are not available.
I just saw that there is no actual wood. It is 'health stone'?
I guess each race has different food and lumber icons. Blizz should have kept it that was. I think it would have been cooler.
I just saw that there is no actual wood. It is 'health stone'?
September 1999 : Gold & Units/Supply(?)
Jan 00 - Sep 00: Gold
Oct?00 - Feb?01: Gold & Units/Supply
Mar 00 - Sep 01: Gold & Units/Supply & Mana Stones
Oct 00 - Dec?01: Gold & Units/Supply & Mana Stones & Lumber
Jan 02 - Today : Gold & Units/Supply & Lumber
You sure know a lot about the Beta![]()
I remember reading in a magazine that the resource for the undead was corpses.
I really do mean that, you seem to know everything there is to know about Wc3 Beta. Inside sources or just fanaticism? ;D
What if Hallfiry is actually a blizzard agent and is just pretending to be a modder so that they can gain intel on what were doing with their WE. :O
Oh cool. While I have collected many of them, I'd be really interested to see whatcha got. : )1) The model, along with the War3 beta and other alpha models (they were not in the beta) was on my old HDD which died. I can request them from the guy who fund and collected them in the first place.
Hum, that's really cool. Someone should throw that out to the Modelling Request forum.Nhazul said:3) It's composed of many billboarded green glow planes which rotate around a point in a quite elaborate manner. If the model were to be fixed and adorned with ribbons, it'd become something really sweet.
Sorry, was just being silly. Meant to throw a smiley-face or something; wasn't meant to be rude. :<Nhazul said:Also, mind your tone, will you?
When did I become a (pretend-)modder?
I'm surprised, the 1.00 cannon tower wasn't mentioned, yet. Four muzzles is quite a weird thing
Also: How about the texture for the walking Frost Wyrm (ingame from May 2000 untill ~January 2001), that is used for the TFT main menu (the spiked back of a creature that sometimes appears in the sea)?
The early model of the cannon tower had four cannons, one on each side.
Hmm.. How I imagine it, I think the one muzzle looks better. I thought it was something like this when they first mentioned four muzzle.
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The Space Orc Marine is named "ChaosSpaceOrc" in the files. Additionally, its skin is colored a very strange variation of green, with yellow eyes, which is unusual for Orcish units. It also has strange tattoo-like lines on its face which are common among Fel Orc textures. Finally, I found this image on the Starcraft Wiki:
http://images.wikia.com/starcraft/images/7/7b/SpaceFelOrc_WC3_Game1.jpg
(Dated 2008)
All of these seem to point to the fact that the Space Orc Marine used to be a Fel Orc, for some reason. An interesting, but probably useless fact.
By the way - did anyone actually ever get their hands on that Necropolis model?
http://www.scrollsoflore.com/gallery/albums/war3_prerelease/113.jpg
I would LOVE to have it. It looks extremely sweet.![]()
Yeah, Ultimata has made it his mission to physically resurrect a lot of old Beta/Alpha models. He's got a 4-tier Necropolis similar to the on you indicated, a spider-den-looking building like the one in the top left of that screenshot, and I think he has those Ziggurats, too. Some are just basically just reskins, but others he's done a lot of work one.By the way - did anyone actually ever get their hands on that Necropolis model?
http://www.scrollsoflore.com/gallery/albums/war3_prerelease/113.jpg
I would LOVE to have it. It looks extremely sweet.![]()
The militia as seen on this screenshot were added in the early beta patches. I actually extracted the model a few days ago. Bandits did not yet exist as creeps.
About the ncropolis, now that I look at it, at least part of the textures can be found on the undead interface files.
Since this thread has turned into something of a beta model thread, look what I found:
I have a model of the Druid of The Claw Beta, but it does not have the version of bear,
can someone fix this?