Modeling Competition #8 - Cavalry

[General Frank]

Glad to see it having four limbs.
But please don't tell me the rider's gonna be an orc...

Hell no, the rider is going to be an kings guard draconian.

 

[frostwhisper]

Sweet.
A dragon-riding draconian. Who would've guessed. xD

 

[General Frank]

Thanks, Something like that. It's not fully final but about 85% of it.

 

[donut3.5]

The wrap on the rider's body looks funky, but that spear looks godlike! Do you plan to also include a spinning spear model?
--donut3.5--

 

[General Frank]

The wrap on the rider's body looks funky, but that spear looks godlike! Do you plan to also include a spinning spear model?
--donut3.5--

Eh, the spear is edited from the spear found in the Human Screen model is just edited it a bit. What spinning model ?

 

[donut3.5]

For a projectile, since the wind rider is traditionally a ranged unit. Or do you plan to have his attacks magic based and create glows and such upon attack?
--donut3.5--

 

[General Frank]

For a projectile, since the wind rider is traditionally a ranged unit. Or do you plan to have his attacks magic based and create glows and such upon attack?
--donut3.5--

Ah, you meant a projectile. Yeah I plan to to one based on *brumroll* Wywern rider spear. I renamed some of the animations to look kinda different.

 

[Shade987]

I think he means a projectile to match the spear.

 

[Elenai]

First WIP of the day for me.

 

[MadseN]

Looks really nice Elenai

/MadseN

 

[Elenai]

Thankyou, I'll admit that your cold one inspired me a little ^^

However this will be more birdlike than lizard like.

EDIT: New WIP pics added.

 

[DwarfZealot]

whoaaa lots of polies! is it ok if i release a version of my model just so people can test the anims and critique them?

 

[SuPa-]

Dwarf, that's fine. I did that for my siege competition model, but I never finished it anyway xD

 

[DwarfZealot]

k i will post a critiquable version soon, maybe tomorrow

Edit: Here is a PRE RELEASE demo version of the model, animations are as follows

Attack - 1
Attack - 2
Attack - 3
Attack Slam
Death
Dissipate
Stand - 1
Stand - 2
Stand - 3
Stand Ready
Walk

Please write some reviews of the anims, I am not so sure about how the attacks and the stand ready are workin out. Post your opinions please.

The model doesn't work in any viewer so you must test ingame, he is a little small so size him up to 2 or 3. Also make his walk speed like 40-50 (Comment on which looks best)

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EDIT: REMOVED

 

[Lord_T]

Necrobomb.. Mah sexy

okey dokey, Second attempt at making anything decent in Milkshape, can i please have some feedback, people? Still working out his anims, but if you guys could just give me some constructive criticism it'd be awesome.
This is not my final entry, just a... demo(?).

 

[~Void~]

Lord_T, I say give the abbo his arm back and make him carrying the necromancer.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

in the death animation, it looks like the abomination is kissing the necromancer. just my opinion

 

[frostwhisper]

Dwarf, that guy is awesome. Pretty impressive texture work too.
I suggest you remove that black and white part part on the edge of his mask though.

Another suggestion: make a spell anim using the little reaper in the tower. That would involve him more.

 

[Gilles]

Lord_T I like the idea a lot. The model needs a lot of work though.

 

[Pyritie]

in the death animation, it looks like the abomination is kissing the necromancer. just my opinion

Undead love <3


... D:

 

[Lord_T]

Lord_T, I say give the abbo his arm back and make him carrying the necromancer.

Nah, I'm going to fix up the meshes once the animating's satisfactory to make his missing arm look justifiable

Lord_T I like the idea a lot. The model needs a lot of work though.

Of course it does, silly! It's only 3 days in the making. Could you elaborate on the problems it has, besides the Incompleteness of the mesh?

 

[Elenai]

Undead love <3

ewww..necrophilia...

Anyways, as soon as I figure out how to put this stuff in seperate geosets in milkshape, I'll show some rig wips.

 

[DwarfZealot]

i have reworked the walk and deleted the crappy stand 3 anim, and tweaked the stand ready/attack anims so i will update that post with another version, currently working on a spell anim, any ideas?

Edit: how to i remove out of range Keys?

 

[Lord_T]

DwarfZealot, I think it would be cool if he Held the Bell over his head and swung it vehemently, with maybe some colored particles flying from it.
It looks really good thus far tho.

 

[Cavman]

Wow, I didn't even noticed that this started. Better hurry if I wanna get my model in in time.

 

[DwarfZealot]

i need some help transfering anims, I made a couple of spell anims on a diffferent copy if my model in max but when i try and export both and then transfer the spells to the other model it gives me an errorwhen i try to open saying Expected "}", got "2" in group "Bone" in "Bellspell2.mdl"

 

[Cavman]

DwarfZealot, can't help you there. probably gonna have to redo the anims from scratch on the old model.

WIP! gonna be a Pandaren riding a Kylin.

 

[frostwhisper]

That idea's just awesome...

 

[Dionesiist]

Oh look at that, I managed to finish!

 

[donut3.5]

Here ya go.
--donut3.5--

 

[Kuhneghetz]

@Dio's model.
The mount's UV Wrap looks fucked up ingame.
I think it's because the uv map on the mount is placed outside the actual mapping board (or what's it called) and can be fixed in Vertex Modifyer.

 

[DwarfZealot]

[RAINBOW]yo dio the wrap is completely screwed in model editor[/RAINBOW]

edit: crap dan van ollus beat me to it..... by like 15 minutes...

 

[Cavman]

Frostwhisper, thanks.

New wip. Now I got the mount skined a bit. gonna do a few more edits before I submit.

 

[DwarfZealot]

what is that thing he is riding?

 

[Cavman]

A kylin(qilin, qylin)
wiki page

 

[DwarfZealot]

oh wow that is a good idea! i think you should have made the mount out of the nightelf moon priestess, and made it look like this: http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/b/bf/Temple_Guardian.jpg

 

[Cavman]

Six legs would be a little tough, and the myth says it's body is like an ox/horse/deer, so I went with the mage(not to mention the moon prestess uses a bow XP)

FINAL
I work fast, here's the final version. Contains the Unit Model, Portrait Model, Skin, and a special riderless version that I made for some uknown reason while I was working on it.

 

[Callahan]

Caveman the link to your model is invalid.

 

[Cavman]

it works now. I think you clicked on it while I was doing a quick update.

EDIT UPDATE: Updated my entry with a new/squished version Happy Tauren did for me.

 

[Dionesiist]

Fuck, I have to edit the UV now...
EDIT: Updated my previous post with the fixed model, still need an in-game now :<

 

[DwarfZealot]

Can anyone help me with transfering animations? i described my problem in a previous post. I really need someone to help me.

 

[blazing-inferno]

Fuck, I have to edit the UV now...
EDIT: Updated my previous post with the fixed model, still need an in-game now :<

heres your in game shot.

 

[Callahan]

i think i won't win this contest with kobold ratorg rider, and i'm more ambitious than this so i started making another one that is beyond awesomeness.

 

[frostwhisper]

Interesting to hear.
Is it possible to have two submissions, btw?

 

[DwarfZealot]

Why is nobody responding to my question i have been asking for like 2 days straight doesn't anybody know ANYTHING about mdl?

 

[frostwhisper]

I, for one don't. Sorry :\

 

[HappyTauren]

Zealot, give me both mdls, I will see what I can do.

 

[Xatoga]

Can someone take an ingame shot of this? Right now the texture's path is still the Bandit Mage. I may change that, but w/e.

 

[Callahan]

Interesting to hear.
Is it possible to have two submissions, btw?

You may make as many models as you want, however pick only one for the final judge's evaluation.

yes.
And here the WIP of the mount.I still have to add the rider.

 

[Gilles]

Holy crap. That thing is badass! You've outdone yourself. The rider better not ruin it! No pressure though!