Elven Knights (AoW)

[Flinn]

Very nice work

 

[Darious]

Update 1

• I gave them both the weapon attachment so the aura of sundering blades will be visible.
• Also I tweaked a bit the Blood Knight Lance.

 

[Ardenaso]

awesome! it could also be used as an elite knight variant

 

[Land Eater]

It looks interesting. Are such knights considered heroes? I mean, about the teamcolour glow under your feet. They look really good.

 

[Darious]

It looks interesting. Are such knights considered heroes? I mean, about the teamcolour glow under your feet. They look really good.

We are not considering them as hero units. We have made other units as heroes. These two versions are going to replace the human knight.

 

[Reddourufu]

These models are great and have a solid unique look @Darious , unfortunately they also have flaws :

- The absence of the first attack animation (the sword blow) in favor of the shield (which is very beautiful though) has something disturbing ingame, models rarely have only one attack animation especially melee units, it gives the Attack 2 animation a sluggish look, I think you should have kept the sword instead of replacing it by a shield (which by the way is already the Footman's signature equipement).

- The lack of Team Color Texture, one of the basic rules of a good model is to be able to identify the team of the unit at one glance and from any angle, for that it is necessary to apply Team Color Textures to clearly visible places which is not really the case here, at least not enough. Besides the Blood Elf's armor is way too black, you should apply Team Color Textures to those spots instead.

- There is also this kind of ugly luminous aura that surrounds the unicorns, it not only hurts the eyes but in addition, it further hinders the identification of the Team Color. I highly recommend removing it, it just looks like a graphical glitch.

It's a shame because these guys really have everything to be the perfect elven equivalents of the Knight, but that's not it yet.

 

[Darious]

These models are great and have a solid unique look @Darious , unfortunately they also have flaws :

- The absence of the first attack animation (the sword blow) in favor of the shield (which is very beautiful though) has something disturbing ingame, models rarely have only one attack animation especially melee units, it gives the Attack 2 animation a sluggish look, I think you should have kept the sword instead of replacing it by a shield (which by the way is already the Footman's signature equipement).

- The lack of Team Color Texture, one of the basic rules of a good model is to be able to identify the team of the unit at one glance and from any angle, for that it is necessary to apply Team Color Textures to clearly visible places which is not really the case here, at least not enough. Besides the Blood Elf's armor is way too black, you should apply Team Color Textures to those spots instead.

- There is also this kind of ugly luminous aura that surrounds the unicorns, it not only hurts the eyes but in addition, it further hinders the identification of the Team Color. I highly recommend removing it, it just looks like a graphical glitch.

It's a shame because these guys really have everything to be the perfect elven equivalents of the Knight, but that's not it yet.

Thanks for the feedback, I will take your suggestions into consideration and update him in the future.

 

[Mr Ogre man]

Such a huge improvement from the original versions, especially the blood knight.
-Having only 1 attack is fine.
-The horse should have some Team colour, the knight has barely enough (but enough nonetheless).
-The horn light can be replaced by a fresnel, which looks much more realistic than an additive geoset. Adding one is incredibly easy, and they can also be teamcoloured. You can check the ghosts or the spirit wolves' .mdls and copy the fresnel to the geoset.

I'll check it out for bugs or optimisation thingies, but they look pretty damn good from what I'm seeing.

 

[JamesF]

Bloody well done mate. They are great!

 

[Darious]

Update 2

-Added team colour to the horse's clothing

 

[neruvian]

I have followed the rules and I get the model with parts not loaded, I have restarted 2 times the editor and it is not corrected. What do I do wrong?

 

[Darious]

I have followed the rules and I get the model with parts not loaded, I have restarted 2 times the editor and it is not corrected. What do I do wrong?

From what I see you haven't inserted the following textures correctly:

• High_Elf_Knight_set_Diffuse.dds
• High_Elf_Knight_set_emissive.dds
• High_Elf_Knight_Set_Normal.dds
• High_Elf_Knight_Set_Orm.dds

 

[UmbraPhoenix]

Amazing like all your stuff. Is there any chance you could post your elf hero that has the greatsword of the sin'dorei model? I absolutely adore it and would love to use it in a map.