Earth Elemental

[Thrikodius]

I made this mesh a while ago and then it turned out that I couldn't attatch it to the bones without failing. But then I found away around the fail and started to animate it. This is the birth animation so far, the speed is about half of the normal speed. Tell me what you think (both mesh and anim).

 

[I)ark_Iatchi]

Sweeeet would love to see it when finished.

 

[Avator]

I suggest you add some dust as it rises from the earth. For the rest, it does look neat ^^

 

[Thrikodius]

I suggest you add some dust as it rises from the earth. For the rest, it does look neat ^^

Noted. I was planning dust for the walk anim but it will work here aswell.

 

[Devine]

Very plain texture =/
use infernal texture too ...=>/

 

[Thrikodius]

Very plain texture =/
use infernal texture too ...=>/

My plan with this is to use only natural cliff textures so that you can change them to make it fit any tileset and not having to change the wrapping.

 

[BlinkBoy]

hehe, nice done. quite original, but you should add particles and more details to it.

 

[MasterHaosis]

Thats it guys, Thrikodius at work! He is always full of ideas

 

[Thrikodius]

Thats it guys, Thrikodius at work! He is always full of ideas

Constructive Critisism for the win

 

[Revolve]

NICE Simple and useful, especially if you can use it as said for many tilesets
Though you should add some dust to animation (know its been mentioned, meh), and I think it would look cool if the model itself wasn't so plain. Perhaps add a stone that points out from his body? Ears(LoL )? Maybe some triangles that look like grass on top of his body

 

[Misha]

NICE Simple and useful, especially if you can use it as said for many tilesets
Though you should add some dust to animation (know its been mentioned, meh), and I think it would look cool if the model itself wasn't so plain. Perhaps add a stone that points out from his body? Ears(LoL )? Maybe some triangles that look like grass on top of his body

don't know about "ears" x3 but the grass would kind-off interfere with Thriko's "use everywhere" idea.

~Misha~

 

[Thrikodius]

don't know about "ears" x3 but the grass would kind-off interfere with Thriko's "use everywhere" idea.

~Misha~

Yeah rocks could work but not grass. I inted to upload it with all possible textures imported and give a tutorial on how to easily change the texture. Then you can do it on your own without having to ask someone else all the time (mostly me).

 

[Wintermute]

You might want to add more highlights signifying the eyes and different parts of the earth. And it looks flat. Seriously.

 

[Linaze]

Lawl, awesome idea!

 

[Thrikodius]

Instead of attatching .gif of all 14 anims I thought I'd attatch the model itself. It would be a lot easier to see it then. The anims look kinda lame in magos but if you view them in game they work pretty fine with the model.

So now I just need some hints on where I should add "more details". Cause when I like it as it is it's hard for me to come up with ways to make it better.

 

[Just_Spectating]

awesome model Thrik, but i think it needs particles that constantly fall from the face and or arms.

Is the Stand portrait also the stand regular?


<3 the morph anims.

Work on a spell anim.

 

[Thrikodius]

awesome model Thrik, but i think it needs particles that constantly fall from the face and or arms.

I could fix that. May look pretty nice.

Is the Stand portrait also the stand regular?

Yes it is. Appart from the Portrait Talk anim wich is only for the portrait.

<3 the morph anims.

Actually the Morph anim is the Birth anim in reverse only that it doesn't go all the way into the ground. And the Morph Alternate is the Morph anim in reverse (the Birth anim originating from the last state of the Morph anim). Anyway it work quite fine and it looks pretty nice in game to.

Work on a spell anim.

What? There is no spell anim.
EDIT: I thought you said work on the spell anim. So yeah I might. %P

 

[Just_Spectating]

lol, its still a good idea for it to morph.

It would be cool if you made one that was more like a water elemental shape.

 

[Thrikodius]

I see no reason to make something that already exists.

 

[BlinkBoy]

hmm, I think there was a replaceable ID for cliffs, you could try using it for making the model's cliff texture change according to game settings.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

That idea would be awesome on this model.

 

[Thrikodius]

hmm, I think there was a replaceable ID for cliffs, you could try using it for making the model's cliff texture change according to game settings.

Didn't work just as I suspected. Like when you assign a tree/bridge model to a doobad or unit in game it becomes white.

 

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

well...
i think i saw some script over at wc3c.net that was called "dynamic texture swapping" or something like that...
i think it was by toadcop!
i dont exactly know what it does, but still, maybe i point you in the right direction.
if not, i'm sry...

 

[Just_Spectating]

I see no reason to make something that already exists.

 

[Thrikodius]

well...
i think i saw some script over at wc3c.net that was called "dynamic texture swapping" or something like that...
i think it was by toadcop!
i dont exactly know what it does, but still, maybe i point you in the right direction.
if not, i'm sry...

I didn't find anything like that on Wc3c. Anyway it seems more like a tool that changes textures on the model rather than setting the texture to match the tileset.

I need some hints on what to do for a spell anim.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

very creative ^_^ i like it. when is it going to be finalised and uploaded?

 

[Thrikodius]

Once someone read the above post, give me a hint for a spell animation and then gives me time to make it.

 

[slawter]

it could fire a root with part of grass attached and that attached part could be changeable with the texture, like he fires part of the ground, or some molten rock is attached with the lava tileset

 

[Thrikodius]

I already made a spell anim where he breathes a bunch of sand or something else. I'm currently uploading the model.

EDIT: Here it is: Earth Elemental

 

[~Void~]

Could you perhaps make this with Ashenvale cliff textures instead of lordaeron summer? And maybe it would look cool with some shrubs on the back.

 

[Just_Spectating]

THe texture can be used with any tileset i think.

 

[KingDedede]

This is awesome, just an idea but for a map, it could be a secret boss, hiding on the lordaeron ground ramp thingys. For a spell idea, it could've slammed the ground and have dust particles.