HELP: From Hero to Unit, adding Decay Bone and Decay Flesh?

[GreyArchon]

Getting back in the swing of things here, I'm making a Dwarven Ram Rider (similar to Norinrad's oooold one, 'cept this one'll be female), based on the mounted Malfurion model. Before doing this though, I felt I should make a critter unit first;

A dwarven ram of Khaz Modan.

Having been a hero before, it doesnt have Gutz yet, but thats easily fixed. (Though I'm not quite sure yet which bone to connect the Gutz to, when geomerging it into the model).

My biggest concern however is giving this little guy (and my rider, later on), decay Bone and Decay Flesh animations. Simply transferring these animations seems to.. well, not work. Any tips?

 

[Deolrin]

You'll need to add a "Gutz" bone that is not attached to anything. Look at some units to see how you should do it. Then you'll have to attach a fitting corpse to it, perhaps try with the Deer critter. Then you'll have to make two sequences; decay flesh and decay bone. "Decay Flesh" will have the corpse going down, and the bones(gutz) appearing later when the corpse is halfway in the ground. The animation ends with only the bones left. Then the decay bone should show only the bones(gutz).

 

[GreyArchon]

You'll need to add a "Gutz" bone that is not attached to anything. Look at some units to see how you should do it. Then you'll have to attach a fitting corpse to it, perhaps try with the Deer critter. Then you'll have to make two sequences; decay flesh and decay bone. "Decay Flesh" will have the corpse going down, and the bones(gutz) appearing later when the corpse is halfway in the ground. The animation ends with only the bones left. Then the decay bone should show only the bones(gutz).

Thanks, I'll add the gutz geoset without attaching it to a bone. I'm a little confused by your other advice. How would I attach a 'fitting corpse' to my model, without the ram's corpse magically turning into a deer stag when decaying?

Also, I have no experience with making sequences of any kind. I use Magos and Oinkerwinkle's tools for all my work. Any word on how to make sequences with these?

 

[Deolrin]

Hmm, well, you can download WarShape or WarForget and make some sequences there. And there is a typo in my 'other advice'; it should be "bones\gutz", not "corpse". And it is not possible to attach something to no bone at all; what I meant is, that the gutz bone has no parent bone(again, check some units to see what I mean)

 

[GreyArchon]

Blargh, more downloads.
I'll tinker around with it tomorrow and share my experiences when I'm done.
Thanks sofar, Debode.

 

[GreyArchon]

I could find neither a program called "Warshape" or "Warforget" to download, so I'm back at square one.

I desperately need a detailed how-to on how to add a Decay Bone and Decay Flesh animation to a unit, both in animation as in geoset. If possible, it would help me trememndously, and I'm sure other modellers would be very much helped with it as well. Without this, I'm afraid these units will simply not come to be.

 

[wowcraft]

yea a tutorial on this topic would be a nice....

 

[GreyArchon]

I have found this topic back on wc3c. Going to try and use this method. Linked here for future searches performed on this site, in case succesful:

http://www.wc3c.net/showthread.php?t=104969