Is this worthy of the hive?

[Jaina Proudless]

I am no modeler, but I made a geomerge which is cool-looking. Basically merges a rifleman with a footman head to make a footman rifleman. You can use a footman portrait for the portrait. The model also uses miseracord's assassin skin from his assassin model: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/models-530/assassin-47551/?prev=search=assassin&d=list&r=20

The model looks nice and I thought of sharing it but the hive only accepts the best. Is this worthy of posting here or not?

 

[NhazUl]

It would be considered good in wc3sear.ch/Hive's very early years when just a few people knew how to geomerge. Now I'd say it's lacking, no offense. You need to customize it - new meshes, more fitting textures, wrap fixes (Blizzard were quite lazy with their own models - see how the chest and hands are not seamlessly connected?) and so on. It's a good idea, but right now it looks like a dwarf with a helm.

 

[Callahan]

No it's really not.

 

[Kyrbi0]

...but the hive only accepts the best. ...

Lawl!

I would agree with what Nhazul said; historicity is something to consider.

 

[Vinz]

But why do you use the Assassin skin? Aside from what NhazUl said, you should try to use your own skin/s as much as possible, and even so, in-game textures.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

But why do you use the Assassin skin? Aside from what NhazUl said, you should try to use your own skin/s as much as possible, and even so, in-game textures.

I used it because it looks better. I don't care any for skinning or modeling and I am just focused on getting functional and good looking models into my map. This one is as good as any of blizzard's models so there's no reason for me not to use it while I am using so many of blizzard's models. It's consistent with the warcraft theme, it has a portrait, all animations work fine, and it doesn't have too big a filesize.

 

[Vinz]

I was talking in a perspective of submission, not personal use.

 

[Fingolfin]

It is always hard to have an unbiased perspective on your own first models. I don't think this model has enough "personality" to be approved, though.