Crossbow Turret

[Moderator]

09:27, 3rd Apr 2016
Misha: one awesome little crossbow turret works great as a 'ward'

 

[r.ace613]

Creative stuff man

 

[darkravenbest]

It might be useful.

 

[Mike]

The model and idea are really cool! For defence it will be very suitable. Your models are great too, Silent)

 

[ChaoticHunter]

MIlkshape Exported! xD It's seems to be mutual error! Nice work

 

[The_Silent]

Can see I forgot to add some attachment points. Also, birth and death animation could be better. Might add some eye candy as well (Emitters, smoother animations). Will fix it soon^TM

 

[WhiteFang]

Also, birth and death animation could be better.

Yeah,they look a bit odd right now.Other than that,this is a pretty nice idea and I can definitely see a lot of uses for it

 

[Grey Knight]

Hey,I have a Question? dat's his head will chase where is the Target Facing at it
Example: Like a nighelf ancient protector Tower
when the Target on the Right...the Tower Head facing on the Right
but when the Target is on the left or Middle...the Tower head facing on it

 

[The_Silent]

Call a bone "Bone_Turret" and it will face enemies when attacking.

 

[General Frank]

Team colour would be awesome. And the attack animation does not cycle correctly, the bolt should be reloaded at the end of the attack animation and NOT in the stand ready animation.
Still a good model.

 

[kellym0]

this is 150% more cool then I first thought it was.

pros: this models very useful -- it has potential and I like how its a turret boned ''turret'' model. very nifty.

cons: there is no attachment point behind the crossbow on the ground attached to the turret bone meaning we cannot use units (such as mur'locs) as attachment arts to man the turrets from behind, and spin around with the bow because you did not add one, fix that, by adding an attachment point at 0 height behind the crossbow about 100 or so back.

the birth animations kinda lame, look at the Sentry gun for inspiration on a birth animation:

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/models-530/sentrygun-47475/?prev=search=sentrygun&d=list&r=20

this birth animations fast but clean, yet nice. imitate that birth animation if you can, minus the flames.

the death animations also kinda lame, you should emulate this turrets death as well.

the reload half of the animation should not be in stand ready it should be in the other half of attack, the ending half. this is for animation reasons. other wise if somethings attack rate is too high this turret will look glitchy.

I think you should consider using darker textures for the legs of the stand. that or pick better textures that better match the crossbow.

I consider this fairly incomplete but its easily a 6/10 as of now. could be a 9 if you did some more stuff to it.

 

[deepstrasz]

Why not get medieval?
4/5.

 

[Nightmare2077]

Call a bone "Bone_Turret" and it will face enemies when attacking.

I don't get it, could you elaborate?

I'd love to use this model in my mod, but that offset by 90 degrees when attacking is so annoying.

 

[The_Silent]

Have you tried importing it into your map? I should already work, unless Blizzard broke something.

 

[Nightmare2077]

Have you tried importing it into your map? I should already work, unless Blizzard broke something.

Yeah, I've tried before (in 1.26) and now I've doublechecked with a newer WE version (1.30). Still the same problem:
(don't mind the non-functioning worker model, it's for smth else)

 

[Nightmare2077]

Okay I gave it one last shot: it turns out that if you make the base unit Serpent Ward, the facing problem disappears. I'm not sure what's that to do with. Anyway, just as Silent said, the problem seems to take care of itself.

 

[The_Silent]

Okay I gave it one last shot: it turns out that if you make the base unit Serpent Ward, the facing problem disappears. I'm not sure what's that to do with. Anyway, just as Silent said, the problem seems to take care of itself.

I think it is a quirk of how turrets work in wc3. So yeah, only wards and attacking structures

 

[Legeon]

Great. It's nice addition to tower defense or wards.

 

[Barade]

Useful for Ward items.