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[loktar]

Idk, what do you think of this? I might add TC to arms later.

 

[Kotol]

Animation is really bad though lol, not sure if I can fix it.

You can use Sludge Monstrosity for walking animations and Banshee for attack animations imo. You can remove spell animations since the unit is not a spellcaster.

 

[loktar]

You can use Sludge Monstrosity for walking animations and Banshee for attack animations imo. You can remove spell animations since the unit is not a spellcaster.

Did you see the model I posted above?

 

[Kotol]

Did you see the model I posted above?

I cannot open the model because I don't have a computer right now. I will try to use Model Checker to see the model.

Edit: I think the model is looking good. Not the best but it is fine.

 

[loktar]

Added it to the bundle. Tweaked some stuff, not sure what else I can do to make it better.

 

[loktar]

Starting on fire elemental, probably should edit the mesh a bit too.

 

[deepstrasz]

Starting on fire elemental, probably should edit the mesh a bit too.

Looks good. I remember such a model on HIVE.
You'll have to fuse the parts though.

 

[loktar]

Looks good. I remember such a model on HIVE.
You'll have to fuse the parts though.

Yeah it should be one body instead of floaty bits

 

[loktar]

Operation Stitch Part One: shoulders & arms

 

[Kotol]

Starting on fire elemental, probably should edit the mesh a bit too.

I thought the Infernal model would be incompatible, but the model you're working on is a perfect fit for the WC1 Fire Elemental. The model has hands, feet, and fingers. Nice work .

 

[loktar]

Operation Stitch complete. Any ideas to make it better before I post it? I'm also not sure if I should animate the skin like the regular fire elementals. Maybe I'll make different versions too.

 

[DREADMAN]

Operation Stitch complete. Any ideas to make it better before I post it? I'm also not sure if I should animate the skin like the regular fire elementals. Maybe I'll make different versions too.

Not enough TC

 

[loktar]

Not enough TC

Totally forgot about that ;D

 

[Kotol]

Totally forgot about that ;D

You should add team-colored bracers like vanilla WC3 Water Elemental.

 

[loktar]

You should add team-colored bracers like vanilla WC3 Water Elemental.

That's exactly what I did

 

[DREADMAN]

That's exactly what I did

Maybe should add eyes and facial features?

 

[loktar]

Maybe should add eyes and facial features?

Gave him some eyes, not sure how I would other facial features.

 

[DREADMAN]

Gave him some eyes, not sure how I would other facial features.

You can also add lines to your cheekbones and other parts of your face, or to your mouth, by creating a thin line in orange.

 

[deepstrasz]

Gave him some eyes,

Go Powah Red Ranger!

 

[stein123]

tweak the body proportions, it's basically an fire infernal, a bit redundant when villagerino has a better fire infernal, a more human-ish shape would be better, just play with the vertices; or just leave it like that and call it whatever you want anyway

 

[Kotol]

tweak the body proportions, it's basically an fire infernal, a bit redundant when villagerino has a better fire infernal, a more human-ish shape would be better, just play with the vertices; or just leave it like that and call it whatever you want anyway

More humanish would be nice either imo but there is no humanish melee unit who attack with his fists in vanilla Warcraft III. I thought the villager model could be used but it is too short and too imcompatible for an elemental unit. The best model for WC1 Fire Elemental is Infernal model.

 

[loktar]

Changed the proportions a bit, is it better?

 

[loktar]

I thought you can make WC1 Spider like WC1 Scorpion which you have done before, just making the skin look alike WC1. You don't need to edit the model, you can just edit the skin.

Something like this?
edit: forgot about team color
edit2: hmmm can't really figure out a way to add TC that looks good. I'm using the zergling skin here and it doesn't have a good TC part. I tried with the Wyvern skin but that looks bad here, it worked better with the scorpion model.

 

[stein123]

I tried to tweak the proportions a little more to give it a more human shape:

 

[loktar]

The difference is too noticeable right? I guess I could customize the zergling skin.
edit: it's even more noticeable in other editors/viewers

Edit 2: ok I've just edited the zergling skin, it's not great but it's fine I guess?

 

[loktar]

I tried to tweak the proportions a little more to give it a more human shape:

Oh that's pretty cool! If you want I can add it to the bundle?

 

[stein123]

Oh that's pretty cool! If you want I can add it to the bundle?

Sure, the more the merrier XD, but test it first

 

[loktar]

Sure, the more the merrier XD, but test it first

Had to do one small fix on the left arm, and adjusted the fire at the feet a bit, but other than that it was fine Added it to the bundle =)

 

[loktar]

Starting on WC2 Great Hall, again not sure if I'm gonna finish it xD Especially the fortress seems like it's gonna be difficult.

 

[Kotol]

Starting on WC2 Great Hall, again not sure if I'm gonna finish it xD Especially the fortress seems like it's gonna be difficult.

I wish we could play the old but golden RTS games from Blizzard's peak era with modern graphics now. If that were the case, WC2 Great Hall would look something like this.

 

[loktar]

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I wish we could play the old but golden RTS games from Blizzard's peak era with modern graphics now. If that were the case, WC2 Great Hall would look something like this.

Haha, well, that looks pretty good (from Chronicles of the Second War?). I prefer SD graphics over Reforged style graphics though. There's just something timeless about it. More importantly, modeling in SD is something I'm actually able to do, Reforged/HD is waaaaaay beyond my abilities xD

Btw, what did you think of the spider retexture? It uses the same skin as the scorpion.

 

[Kotol]

Haha, well, that looks pretty good (from Chronicles of the Second War?). I prefer SD graphics over Reforged style graphics though. There's just something timeless about it. More importantly, modeling in SD is something I'm actually able to do, Reforged/HD is waaaaaay beyond my abilities xD

Btw, what did you think of the spider retexture? It uses the same skin as the scorpion.

It is from The Scouring, an upcoming RTS game, which looks like inspired from WCII.

I prefer SD graphics too because optimization of Reforged is terrible unfortunately.

The spider looks nice, but I think some of the animations could be improved. It would be nice if the spider's legs were spread apart like in the Stand Ready animation, instead of close together in the Stand animation. Also, I don't know what the Birth animation looks like on the summoned unit. It's incongruous when it appears from the sky with a spider web when summoned.

 

[loktar]

It is from The Scouring, an upcoming RTS game, which looks like inspired from WCII.

I prefer SD graphics too because optimization of Reforged is terrible unfortunately.

The spider looks nice, but I think some of the animations could be improved. It would be nice if the spider's legs were spread apart like in the Stand Ready animation, instead of close together in the Stand animation. Also, I don't know what the Birth animation looks like on the summoned unit. It's incongruous when it appears from the sky with a spider web when summoned.

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Hmmm, I guess I could copy the Stand Ready animation to the Stand animation. I can also just delete (or rename) the Birth animation, you're right it looks a bit weird when summoned like that.

Edit: done.

 

[loktar]

That's not quite right.... lol....

 

[loktar]

I believe that's better xD

 

[deepstrasz]

That's not quite right.... lol....

Aztecs?

 

[loktar]

We have a roof over our heads now... may have to reshape it a bit... please ignore the floating tusk/spike/whatever.
edit: that's better

 

[loktar]

We've got a door and a window, yay!

 

[loktar]

Guess the mesh is ready, now the animations ^^

 

[deepstrasz]

We've got a door and a window, yay!

We have two black holes!

 

[loktar]

Well, the animations are finished. The Stronghold will be a bit harder I think. Some of it I'm not 100% sure how it would translate to 3D. We'll see xD

 

[Kotol]

All human unit models so far. Peasant and Conjurer team-colors have been edited. Human Catapult shields could be simply edited. Cleric (I am using different Cleric model) could have team-colored staff (I tried to colorize but all image team-colored instead as a square) and headband. Scorpion doesn't have purple eyes. And that's all. I don't expect these simple edits soon because you are engaged to WC2 building models and you are doing God's work.

 

[deepstrasz]

Human Catapult shields could be simply edited

I remember there's a very Orcs & Humans inspired catapult on the site.
Are those eyes or fangs on the scorpion?
Also, units seem to be left handed in Warcraft III.

 

[loktar]

you are doing God's work.

Hahaha, I don't know about that. With my track record it will be 2030 (or later because there are way more WC2 buildings than WC1 buildings) before I finish WC2 stuff. But very kind of you to say though, thanks for the moral support =)

 

[Kotol]

I remember there's a very Orcs & Humans inspired catapult on the site.

The Human Catapult model can simply be edited by adding 4 shields. There are many shield models available in the Hive Workshop. This could be used for the 1st shield, and vanilla Bandit shield could be used for 2nd and 4nd shield.

Are those eyes or fangs on the scorpion?

Those are the scorpion's eyes. Thanks to Warcraft: Orcs & Humans Remastered we know about that.

Also, units seem to be left handed in Warcraft III.

Yeah. I tried to reverse the unit too but all this caused animation problems.

 

[Kotol]

Hahaha, I don't know about that. With my track record it will be 2030 (or later because there are way more WC2 buildings than WC1 buildings) before I finish WC2 stuff. But very kind of you to say though, thanks for the moral support =)

Btw, I think you should use different skin for WC2 Orc buildings. They look too similar to the WC1 buildings.

 

[deepstrasz]

Thanks to Remastered we know about that.

Ah, I see, you were basing them on the remaster and concept art. I thought the comparison was done with the pixel images you posted especially regarding the catapult. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[loktar]

Btw, I think you should use different skin for WC2 Orc buildings. They look too similar to the WC1 buildings.
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Personally I like the similarity, adds a bit of continuity between the two eras.

 

[loktar]

Not sure I like how this turned out. The shape of the beams isn't right.

 

[loktar]

better