Fountain Guard

[Vinz]

The spear could use a better wrap. But I like him, man!

 

[HerrDave]

I might be taking this one down in the near future - I'm tired right now x_x

You know how some people stress-eat?

...I stress model, and it isn't anything to write home about

 

[Zess]

One of my favorite units in BFME finally got a good incarnation for WC3!
Good work)

In Attack 1, a hand with a spear kinda twitches a little, maybe fix it a bit so that the blow goes from down to up?

P.S.
It would be cool to see Numenoreans/Angmarim variation of this unit

 

[HateCrew]

Pretty cool, here's how it looks with CloudWolf's gondor infantry skin

pretty much BFME1 fountain guard

 

[Jaina Proudless]

I am happy you chose the BFME 1 version. The BFME 2 version is a bit weird with their massive pikes. What's the point of a pike as a guard of the fountain court? A shield and a spear are far better choices.

 

[Hazop / Sarven]

OH GOD YES!!!!!!!!

 

[ClariceGonzalesBR]

Pretty cool, here's how it looks with CloudWolf's gondor infantry skin

pretty much BFME1 fountain guard

Whoa! Pretty Good

 

[infrenus]

Fug. Its nice, but try to not stress yourself more dude, these last times have been rough.

Edit: yep now its even better, and making a version that works with cloudwolf skin is a good plus.

 

[T.Nick]

Looks beautiful, but i think it lacks a bit of team color. Could you maybe do a version with a team colored cape and/or shield?

 

[BlackSite]

Great work

 

[konvan5]

Cool model

 

[hexhound]

Very cool model and great filesize. the only criticism i can make is that the shield covers his entire face (and importantly his eyes) during the defend animations. it's probably not noticeable from a normal game camera but i wouldn't want to use those anims in any scenario where the camera is close up. Nobody walks blind into battle if they can help it.

 

[Vinz]

Not quite sure what happened to the chest wrap for the non-skin version. There's a lot of plain black now. I prefer the previous.
The pole got better, though.

 

[HerrDave]

@hexhound - I can change the defend animations so he'll be able to see
The original animations I based it on were even worse - the shield was bigger and the Tower Guard was practically looking at the ground.

I thought about using this pose, but I couldn't get him to attack in a way that looked smooth

@Mythic - The pool of black around the base of the neck was supposed to resemble black cloth from the face-mask, but I see what you mean about it looking a little plain

Do you think I should simply revert the change, or add a collar to the breastplate to make it look a little more natural?

 

[hexhound]

@hexhound - I can change the defend animations so he'll be able to see
The original animations I based it on were even worse - the shield was bigger and the Tower Guard was practically looking at the ground.

I thought about using this pose, but I couldn't get him to attack in a way that looked smooth

i think you made the right choice, the pose in the screenshot looks cool but i see the problem you probably saw. that stance would mainly be taken as a defensive measure when an enemy is bearing down on you, to let them impale themselves on the pikes "passively" with the ground acting as backstop instead of doing any jabbing motions. hard to mix into warcraft's melee system unless you wrote a system for dealing/taking damage when running into sharp objects based on movement speed or some kind of calculation for momentum and weight.

 

[T.Nick]

The pool of black around the base of the neck was supposed to resemble black cloth from the face-mask, but I see what you mean about it looking a little plain

Do you think I should simply revert the change, or add a collar to the breastplate to make it look a little more natural?

You could brighten the area a bit and make it look like some kind of fabric, like for example you did with your d&d rogue model (which i can't seem to find right now).

 

[Vinz]

@Mythic - The pool of black around the base of the neck was supposed to resemble black cloth from the face-mask, but I see what you mean about it looking a little plain

Do you think I should simply revert the change, or add a collar to the breastplate to make it look a little more natural?

Either should be fine. I like the smooth simplicity of the previous version, but more detail would be welcome.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

The old shield was better.

 

[infrenus]

A weird thing with the new shield, it seems to be slightly transparent on the green area now

 

[HerrDave]

Heck & feck

That's an easy fix, thankfully

Just a second...

 

[Corristo]

Hi! Nice model Dave, but after dl-ing the file, I got only one mdx file, with 1 model in it. And that models cape has no team color. Only the shoulder pad has TC.
Can you please re-check it?

 

[HerrDave]

What the--
I'll check it out right now, just a sec

*Edit, okay, I've just completely removed and re-uploaded the models directly from the folder I use for my own map resources, try it now

 

[Corristo]

Thank you! Now its there

 

[Sinandur]

I've been looking for a Fountain Guard model for a long time... a long time.*

Worth the wait.

Great stuff, HerrDave.

5/5

*Yes, I know there's a WoW-rip version of one out there and no, it doesn't count. They just look... weird.

 

[Deleted member 238589]

The arm of the icewolf variant is visible through the shield in the model viewer.

 

[HerrDave]

Yep, that's because without Icewolf's skin - the outer part of the shield is invisible due to it's UV map

You're seeing the inside of the shield through a layer that is solid when the skin is put on

To not step on Icewolf's toes, I've not uploaded the skin here, only a model variant that has been adjusted for it's use for any people who were already using his skin for their project.

 

[General Frank]

The HP bar is a bit too high above the unit. Please fix that.

 

[General Frank]

Works in-game, performs appropriately and is a good addition to the model section. Excellent work!

 

[Archian]

LOTR inspired map makers are gonna jizz all over this. Well done! A welcome addtion to Hive's resource horde. Nice model and animations. I like that you gave him a thrust attack animation.

 

[Barade]

Good model but why is the shield and cloak green ingame? Either use the team color or black: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/l...est/scale-to-width-down/469?cb=20190829164349

 

[lion man]

hi, i made a simple edit in his shield.

give me permission to use it?

 

[secondpink]

The model is excellent.

Could you perhaps upload a model with a sword in place of the spear? That would be awesome too!