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Chen, the Holy Knight

I present you Chen, the Holy Knight!

Lore:
"Born in the godless Hazhadal Barrens, Chen came of age among the outlaw tribes who eked out an existence in the shimmering heat of the desert. Using an ancient form of animal enthrallment, Chen’s people husbanded the hardy desert locuthi, a stunted species of burrowing dragon that melted desert sands into tubes of glass where twice-a-year rains collected. Always on the edge of starvation and thirst, fighting amongst their neighbors and each other, Chen’s clan made the mistake, one fateful day, of ambushing the wrong caravan.

In the vicious battle that followed, Chen’s clan was outmatched. The armored Knights of the Fold made short work of the enthralled locuthi, who attacked and died in waves. With their dragons dead, the tribesmen followed. Chen struggled, and slashed, and clawed, and perished—or would have. Defeated, on his knees, he faced his execution with humility, offering his neck to the blade. Moved by Chen’s obvious courage, the executioner halted his sword. Instead of the blade, Chen was given a choice: death or conversion. Chen took to the faith with a ferocity. He joined the Fold and earned his armor one bloody conversion at a time. Now, with the fanaticism of a convert, and with his powers of animal enthrallment at their peak, he seeks out unbelievers and introduces them to their final reward."

FEATURES:
  • Particle Emitters
  • Dissipate Animation
  • No Custom Skin (Full In-game Texture)

Recommended Skills: Since Chen is a supportive/jungler hero, its nice to use him with 2 Three-Levels abilities (Holy Light and Soul Burn) and 2 One-Level abilities (Charm and Resurrection)

UPDATES:
  • Better Front-Chest wrapp
  • Better Team Glow
  • New Animations: Spell Throw and Spell Slam
  • Model optimized/Linearized Animations (I DON'T KNOW HOW BRUTAL CAN THIS SCREW THE MODEL)

Keywords:
Chen, Holy, Knight, Holy Knight, Dota, Dota 2, Support, Jungler, Hero
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Chen, the Holy Knight (Model)

Chen, the Holy Knight - Portrait (Model)

Reviews
HappyCockroach
Nicely done. Even if it's mostly UV mapping as you say, the result is a quite unique model. We don't see many models to fulfill the need this one does. Also, performs well in-game. Approved. :)
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Cool hero, will you create all stars of DotA2?

I don't know, maybe...

Edit: @Rocker Z have you received the Varian Wrynn model?

Edit 2 :

Huh, that's kinda neat. Pretty good editing to get to a base concept which still fits Warcraft 3.

Thanks, that was the idea. Any suggestions of others Heroes from Dota 2? Except Legion Commander that have been done.
 
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Level 20
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Jan 14, 2014
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i suggest changing everything that looks like a warcraft preset model, namely, garithos head and the archmage mount. customize it more bro, right now it looks like a plain geomerge to me.

The model is full uv mapping, only the head address, sceptre wing, staff, shield and team glow. Anything else is only mapping.
 
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