Dalaran Buildings

[tillinghast]

In my last test of the models, the external birth attached animation sometimes fail to load or show during the upgrade phase. I am not sure if the problem is in the model or because of the game itself but the visibility are all in proper order so i'm not sure why this sometimes happens.

i don't know if you use mdlvis but this can happen with it, it clears the visibility of attachments, so you'd have to add birth attachments and such last, without saving your model in mdlvis after

 

[bakr]

i don't know if you use mdlvis but this can happen with it, it clears the visibility of attachments, so you'd have to add birth attachments and such last, without saving your model in mdlvis after

do i need to remove it and add it again in model editor?

thanks for the reply

 

[tillinghast]

do i need to remove it and add it again in model editor?

thanks for the reply

it doesn't remove the attachment itself, it only resets the visibility to "0: 1"
i just find it more convenient to add it last, otherwise birth will show up in every animation while i'm testing it in sanity checker and such

 

[bakr]

it doesn't remove the attachment itself, it only resets the visibility to "0: 1"

i mean the visibility is not the problem since i checked it again before importing. but for some reason the birth animation sometimes does not show. for example upgrading two towers of the same unit. one will show it the other wont.

 

[tillinghast]

i mean the visibility is not the problem since i checked it again before importing. but for some reason the birth animation sometimes does not show. for example upgrading two towers of the same unit. one will show it the other wont.

it must be something else then, i don't know what
you should also make sure that the filter is "none"

 

[bakr]

it must be something else then, i don't know what
you should also make sure that the filter is "none"

maybe the problem is in the game itself, but i'll wait for the others to test the models. thanks a lot!

 

[Barade]

Nice!

 

[BaiyuGalan]

I have been waiting for this moment for many years.

 

[Carefree World]

Alas, these Dalaran buildings rely too much on team colors to distinguish them. I think while having team colors, there can also be purple or pink.I hope that when you create Blood Elf buildings, they can have both team colors and red.

 

[mukuro14]

Hi Architects.
Have you ever considered making buildings in the style of ruins?
I think this is very scarce.

 

[MasterHaosis]

So bakr did this again! He nailed with awesome pack of buildings, this time with mages.
What can I else say except as usual, 5/5 + like from me!

 

[StonemaulMidget]

Hi Architects.
Have you ever considered making buildings in the style of ruins?
I think this is very scarce.

He's not oblivious to the possibility, but busy bees like bakr will probably need a good long break.
Making ruined versions especially for canon is a whole new overhaul, just like how the sculptors designed the Master Chief Memorial for HALO 3. It's a different genre, but it shows that any artist would build a nice building first and then whittle it down so it looks all torn up.
I'm saying that he's got a lot of packs, which for now you should appreciate.

 

[bakr]

regarding ruins doodads sometime in the future i guess or maybe someone else will since there's a lot of great modelers recently so maybe one of them can. But my initial idea right now is to have some generic ruins that can be assembled to resemble basic buildings in ruined form lets see how it will turn out.

regarding my projects.. my personal projects are all geared towards the completion of my Azeroth recreation map. It's just fortunate that Manastorm's projects are in line with mine that made it possible to make these packs. So it is all thanks to him.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Another great pack for a complete faction. Nice!

the buildings uses an external birth animation that is linked to the mode

I'd love to hear more about your process for this, as I'm trying to figure out how to make that happen for my own custom faction projects, except I have a bunch of different custom building assets from different authors. Is there anything one needs to do with them to make this happen/easier? Can I just have someone make a (custom) external birth animation (model) & find a way to 'link it' correctly to all my various other assets?

 

[Mathematician]

Hurray! This set has finally been released!

 

[paladinjst]

Great! Will the units pack in the same series come soon ?

 

[Flower Fairy]

Very nice models, maybe we'll see them in future campaigns.
Archimonde: I dislike these buildings.

 

[Macielos]

Hi Architects.
Have you ever considered making buildings in the style of ruins?
I think this is very scarce.

You mean, ruined versions of existing buildings? You'll find some of them among Ujimasa's resources, e.g.:

Barracks (Human) and Derivatives

Barracks (Human) and Derivatives Edited by Ujimasa Hojo Barracks (Human, Optimized) Info: Polished some texture wrapping around meshes especially among the Birth ones. Uploaded. Barracks (Dalaran) Info: Created a Barracks which meshes well with the Arcane Observatory. Cleaned...

www.hiveworkshop.com

Workshop and Derivatives

Workshop and Derivatives Edited by Ujimasa Hojo Workshop (Optimized) Info: Deleted some of the redundant meshes. Fixed up the texture wrapping of the base. Uploaded. Workshop (Dalaran) Info: Created a Workshop which meshes well with the Arcane Observatory. Redid the texture...

www.hiveworkshop.com

Search "<your building> and derivatives" for more.

 

[Flinn]

Excellent work! Would be really cool to see these in the RoC Undead campaign.

 

[mukuro14]

You mean, ruined versions of existing buildings? You'll find some of them among Ujimasa's resources, e.g.:

Barracks (Human) and Derivatives

Barracks (Human) and Derivatives Edited by Ujimasa Hojo Barracks (Human, Optimized) Info: Polished some texture wrapping around meshes especially among the Birth ones. Uploaded. Barracks (Dalaran) Info: Created a Barracks which meshes well with the Arcane Observatory. Cleaned...

www.hiveworkshop.com

Workshop and Derivatives

Workshop and Derivatives Edited by Ujimasa Hojo Workshop (Optimized) Info: Deleted some of the redundant meshes. Fixed up the texture wrapping of the base. Uploaded. Workshop (Dalaran) Info: Created a Workshop which meshes well with the Arcane Observatory. Redid the texture...

www.hiveworkshop.com

Search "<your building> and derivatives" for more.

Thank you, but I have been using these models.

 

[StonemaulMidget]

Excellent work! Would be really cool to see these in the RoC Undead campaign.

Exactly my plan too.

 

[bakr]

Alas, these Dalaran buildings rely too much on team colors to distinguish them. I think while having team colors, there can also be purple or pink.I hope that when you create Blood Elf buildings, they can have both team colors and red.

there is no need to insert other colors in these buildings i believe. inserting red in the blood elves for example will contradicts the team color if the player is using other colors than red. another example is for dalaran if I insert permanent purple/violet colors in them and the player's team color is red or green then the overall appearance of the model in game will be a contrast of different colors that does not blends well with each other.

the design, shapes and little details of these buildings are already based on WoW and easily distinguishable to determine what faction they represents. the decision to lessen the iconography and specific faction heraldry except for the barracks is also intentional to make the buildings flexible to use for other maps that is not dalaran.

 

[Carefree World]

there is no need to insert other colors in these buildings i believe. inserting red in the blood elves for example will contradicts the team color if the player is using other colors than red. another example is for dalaran if I insert permanent purple/violet colors in them and the player's team color is red or green then the overall appearance of the model in game will be a contrast of different colors that does not blends well with each other.

the design, shapes and little details of these buildings are already based on WoW and easily distinguishable to determine what faction they represents. the decision to lessen the iconography and specific faction heraldry except for the barracks is also intentional to make the buildings flexible to use for other maps that is not dalaran.

The reason why we don't rely on team colors is because they can be used on neutral buildings. If you are concerned about conflicting with the color of the building and the team color, you can adjust the team color to match the color of the building.

 

[bakr]

The reason why we don't rely on team colors is because they can be used on neutral buildings. If you are concerned about conflicting with the color of the building and the team color, you can adjust the team color to match the color of the building.

there is no need for that i guess. structure wise the models already represents the intended factions.

and people usually find ways to make the models work the way they want it in their maps.