Long time no see, a little texturing fun I had

[Zaljinzoo]

I would literally kill for that Thrall model once it's done. Holy shit, it looks amazeballs!

 

[Traggey]

Thanks you guys! <3 It's partly mine, I snagged the original Thrall model, removed the wolf and started tweaking it just to save myself some time in the blockout phase.

And yeah totally, just like with my other stuff I do intend to release it, as soon as.. Well I can solve my stupid export problems!

 

[Moy]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!
BEAUTIFUL!! MAGNIFICENT EXCELLENT!!

*caps* :>

You should release all of 'em and they should be deserved a spotlight.

 

[Traggey]

Thanks Nightmare! I swear by Elune that it will all be released to the community!

 

[Stefan.K]

As I can see from the screenshot you used Thrall mesh from in game. I'd suggest you change it entirely, legs especialy as I find it's mesh looks wierd.
Nice looking so far, I would really love to see custom animations for him. Btw, is he going to be mounted or?

 

[Traggey]

Ayuhp, as I mentioned previously that's exactly what I did. I've modified the entire thing to do what I want it to, and yes it'll be custom animated. As for a mount, I might make a separate verision for that at some point? But as for now, no mount.

 

[Stefan.K]

Ayuhp, as I mentioned previously that's exactly what I did. I've modified the entire thing to do what I want it to, and yes it'll be custom animated. As for a mount, I might make a separate verision for that at some point? But as for now, no mount.

Great, looking forward to see it finished and released. Good luck.

 

[Tauer]

Thanks Nightmare! I swear by Elune that it will all be released to the community!

But seriously, we gotta get those problems of yours fixed man! You can't be holding on to these delicious models. Did you try using 2016? If you want I can try exporting for you, see if it works.

 

[Traggey]

Ain't been able to try out 2016 yet! Would much appreciate the export help!

Quick lil' update.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Man you are scary.

 

[Traggey]

Man you are scary.

<3

 

[Kyrbi0]

Speaking of which, definitely take up Tauer on his offer; I still have that custom hero-map waiting for that Pandaren Mistweaver lying on my hard-drive. ; )

 

[Mr.Goblin]

Ain't been able to try out 2016 yet! Would much appreciate the export help!

Quick lil' update.

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the second I saw him, I wanted to make a texture for him as well.... So yeah, the day you release it, hope you don't mind I make a Mr.Goblin version of the texture? Your model and texture work are truely inspiring.

 

[Traggey]

You'd be more than welcome to Goblin!

 

[Stefan.K]

It's coming along nicely. Is it me or I smell grunt mesh here?

 

[Traggey]

No grunt mesh, I started from the Thrall mesh, everything that has changed with the model and been added to it is 100 % me.

 

[Stefan.K]

Oh, I obviously made a mistake. However that's good, the model already feels like original bliizard one. It will fit nicely.

 

[Tauer]

Ain't been able to try out 2016 yet! Would much appreciate the export help!
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Cool! You wanna send me the Max file over PM or something? Then I can try it out.

 

[Traggey]

Sure thing! Will do once I get it finished up, due to the export problems I was under the impression I'd been doing shite wrong and sort of deleted all my animations for the mistweaver, so I gotta make them again!

 

[Tauer]

Sure thing! Will do once I get it finished up, due to the export problems I was under the impression I'd been doing shite wrong and sort of deleted all my animations for the mistweaver, so I gotta make them again!

Ah cool! Well, keep up the good work! Looking forward to seeing it finished so these models can finally be released

 

[Traggey]

Much appreciated Tauer! This whole export bizznass has been driving me of a cliff.

Little update on Thrall!

 

[stein123]

O________O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sclammerz]

Such crispiness! *drooling*

 

[Stefan.K]

Is it me or the hammer looks small?
If this model is done with a nice animations it surely should deserve a DC in my opinion, the mesh looks much like original warcraft models. Judging from your previous animated gifs you posted, the model will be perfect.

 

[Traggey]

What animated gifs? :O

The hammer is about 1/3'rd of his body atm, might just have been the angle but it's really quite big.

 

[stein123]

Small? It looks big, short, but big (like it's supposed to look)

Edit. : WHOAH ๏_๏ ⊙_⊙（⊙.⊙）

 

[Traggey]

Decided to have a little fun before finishing Thrall up and made this rocky earthquake/ground slam type of effect!

155 triangles.
256 X 128 texture

 

[Kyrbi0]

Geez that's cool. And fitting, too; I always wondered why he had no earth-based shamanic abilities oh wait, Earthquake. I mean fire.

 

[Stefan.K]

What animated gifs? :O

The hammer is about 1/3'rd of his body atm, might just have been the angle but it's really quite big.

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You posted once some video of animations of those pandaren of yours. It had some animations.

 

[Archian]

Never ceases to amaze me <3 Beautiful model and texture. Can't wait to see the animations! (Don't think I've ever seen your animating skills before).

Got inspired by Tauers latest work and began working on this baby.

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I want you to have my babies <3

 

[Traggey]

A yes those videos! Yeah indeed, gotten more comortable with the way WC3 handles animation now, so hopefully Thrall will come out nicely.

And hah, thanks again Archian <3

Think I'm ready to call his texture finished now.

 

[Stefan.K]

A yes those videos! Yeah indeed, gotten more comortable with the way WC3 handles animation now, so hopefully Thrall will come out nicely.

And hah, thanks again Archian <3

Think I'm ready to call his texture finished now.

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Now that's real warchief now. How much polies does it have?

 

[Traggey]

He's a little higher than my usual stuff, he's currently sitting at 664 triangles with a 256 texture

 

[Tauer]

Absolutely magnificent.

 

[Traggey]

Rigging rigging~

So hey, I've got a question for ya'll! Would you rather see me make a separate portrait model for Thrall, similar to what I did with my Mistweaver? Or would you rather I make the portrait from the game model? Adding the extra portrait would look alot nicer, but would add an extra texture and model, making the filesize much bigger.

 

[Kyrbi0]

I've personally been a fan of 'built-in' Portraits (soooo much easier to import to the game), but separate Portraits is the "Blizzard way", and they probably did it for a reason, so... Meh.

 

[Traggey]

Had to take a break from rigging for a bit so I started another one! Woop woop

Also don't mind frostmourne for now! It's just a temp image from google that I'll be using as a painting reference ^^

 

[stein123]

Dude, you gotta be kidding me, how many DC's are you gonna receive? XD SUPERB

 

[Kyrbi0]

Had to take a break from rigging for a bit so I started another one! Woop woop

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I'm gonna go ahead & say it: This is TOO good for Warcraft. Seriously, I feel like I could sink a submarine through your depth of shading there on those pauldrons. Criminy. :<

 

[Traggey]

Hah, thanks you guys ^^ Glad you're liking him! Arthas is my alltime fav so it's real fun working on it.

 

[Stefan.K]

Had to take a break from rigging for a bit so I started another one! Woop woop

Also don't mind frostmourne for now! It's just a temp image from google that I'll be using as a painting reference ^^

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Nice. Are you basing him on the human ending cinematic or?
Edit: would you consider doing human captains mentioned in the campaign and their undead forms later?
Man, I can't wait to see you releasing your staff.

 

[Traggey]

I'm calling him Betrayal Arthas, as yeah I am basing him of the cutscene Arthas. It always bothered me how the in-game one and the cinematic one looks nothing alike.

No requests for now, I've been thinking of doing some footmen perhaps.

 

[Stefan.K]

I'm calling him Betrayal Arthas, as yeah I am basing him of the cutscene Arthas. It always bothered me how the in-game one and the cinematic one looks nothing alike.

No requests for now, I've been thinking of doing some footmen perhaps.

Eh, it wasn't a request. Sorry if it sounded like it. Just question.
Well, one could always edit it to a captain. What's the progress with the Thrall?

 

[Traggey]

So I've gotten Thrall all rigged and set up, started animating him and as per usual I've run into some bizzare glitch, I've not been able to track down which bone, but one bone in my rig seems to be causing Neodex to crash whenever it is animated, at least that's what I think for now!

Been able to get the idle animation out and working at least, so that's something!

 

[Wareditor]

Looks amazing! Can't wait to see the animations - hope you can figure out the glitch!

 

[Traggey]

I figured out the problem and am now making all the animations Any there any specific animations you guys would like me to add to this guy?

He'll have the normal set of anims that the old Thrall model already has, was thinking I could add a Stand Ready for him aswell.

The problem was keyframes located outside of the notes for some reason, this has been fine to export previously, however now if any keyframes are outside the frames Neodex will straight up crash.

 

[Archian]

A Spell Throw animation where he hurls off his hammer! For inspiration:

 

[Traggey]

Oh cool, good idea! Will do!

 

[Archian]

If you choose to make that animation, you might also wanna make the hammer a seperate model so it can be used as a projectile

 

[Traggey]

Absolutely! Was thinking I could make a separate verision of it where it's spinning and has those fancy speed trails.