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Grasping Tentacle
- Author(s)
- frostwhisper
- Tags
- Attachment, Effect, Fantasy, Neutral / Creep, Open Source
- Size
- 71.59 KB
- Rating
- Downloads
- 1652
- Created
- Mar 23, 2021
- Updated
- Mar 23, 2021
- Resources
- 3
- State
Approved
This bundle is marked as recommended. It works and satisfies the submission rules.
A grasping tentacle, springing from the shadows to ensnare its target and fail it about.
Modelled and animated from scratch. Uses three variations of ingame textures.
This effect is designed to utilize the Sprite First Ref attachment and to work particularly with abilities based off Cyclone.
For this reason the Death sequence is 5 seconds (the game's hardcoded like that).
All open source. Feel free to modify to your liking. Credits will do fine.
Note: On patch 1.29 there seems to be a bug with the Cyclone ability, where casting it on a moving target will freeze the tornado (or tentacle) effect after its Birth animation and only resume once the Death animation begins.
Modelled and animated from scratch. Uses three variations of ingame textures.
This effect is designed to utilize the Sprite First Ref attachment and to work particularly with abilities based off Cyclone.
For this reason the Death sequence is 5 seconds (the game's hardcoded like that).
All open source. Feel free to modify to your liking. Credits will do fine.
Note: On patch 1.29 there seems to be a bug with the Cyclone ability, where casting it on a moving target will freeze the tornado (or tentacle) effect after its Birth animation and only resume once the Death animation begins.
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frostwhisper
Media Manager
- Joined
- May 25, 2007
- Messages
- 4,252
Basically yeah.
With a duration of less than 6 sec like your example you get the Birth (1 sec) sequence, one or two Stand (2 secs each) sequences, then it abruptly cuts.
With a duration of exactly 6 sec you only get the Birth (1 sec) and Death (5 sec) sequences.
With a duration of more than 6 sec you get Birth, a few Stands and Death.
Cyclone is a weird ability like that. Essentially it will devote 5 seconds of its duration to the death animation and skip it entirely if the duration is less.
I might be wrong of course and there may be a way to work around it, potentially with gameplay constants and such.
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Battle for Lordaeron (Lordaeron WoW)
Awesome. 5/5
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damn this site is more than a decade old and people can still squeeze new unique stuff!!! 5/5!!!
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Great idea! :O
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- Oct 25, 2018
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- 68
This looks awesome! Love that the units actually rotate along as if they're being flopped around.
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- Feb 22, 2021
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- 7
I love it!
Just make more tentacle!
Just make more tentacle!
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- Feb 7, 2023
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- 34
Is it possible, to use this effect not only from cyclone?
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- Jul 29, 2008
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Holy smokes, how did I miss this? This is very lovely; a simple but surprisingly-useful kind of model, and perfect for a variety of uses (Faceless One, Void, Old One, Naga/octopus).
It makes me wonder why we don't see more usage of "sprite" like in Cyclone, and in more interesting ways like this. I think one could make a decent variety of "disabling" abilities that, while functionally similar, would look drastically different (based off of different custom animated models).
It makes me wonder why we don't see more usage of "sprite" like in Cyclone, and in more interesting ways like this. I think one could make a decent variety of "disabling" abilities that, while functionally similar, would look drastically different (based off of different custom animated models).
