Necropolis | Warcraft Classic HD

[Villagerino]

Great work, very neat and precise, these bricks, cracks and smooth geometry are just healing to the eyes. The highlighting on the textures next to the green water is a particularly nice little detail. I always wondered why they didn't take the HoTS graphic design, already a lot of ready-made material, and put it here, almost exactly what you do, I mean how it turns out visually.

P.S. It looks like the glow in the spire in T3 was disabled by mistake, unlike the original.

 

[stan0033]

i think they must make category "SD-HD" specifically for your models

 

[YourArthas]

Great to see this one, you are getting better and faster each and every model man!

 

[LongbowMan]

P.S. It looks like the glow in the spire in T3 was disabled by mistake, unlike the original.

You're right! I'll fix this today, thanks for noticing

 

[Nyctaeus]

Sorry for too short comment that may not contribute much to actual discussion.

But maaan, oh fk yeah! Feast for the eyes.

 

[The Nightmare Book]

It looks pretty solid. And why I'm getting the feeling that if infamous Warcraft: Rumble had this style, it wouldn't fail in the eyes of the fanbase...

 

[Wind Rose]

Blizzard does the same thing with AI and only in images to fool people... Seriously though, it's great, you do a fantastic job.

 

[ERIOL33]

YES!!! FINALLY!

 

[SalvatorThenorium]

It took me a while to realize it was a non-Reforged model, it’s very well made.

 

[LongbowMan]

Update: fixed the glow in tier 3, removed streams from tier 1 portrait
And some good news: I posted Undead Birth asset that can be used with this building (and other Undead buildings)

 

[Retera]

Hmm, strange. Whenever someone is a fan of the game this much, that they want to make art like this, usually some type of dystopian thing comes into their life and stops them from working. It's like the curse of Warcraft III, that it is never allowed to be handled well.

 

[Altruistic Anduin]

i think they must make category "SD-HD" specifically for your models

True. Though sadly, I don't know if other people would be willing to keep up with the raised quality or poly of these Classic HD graphics. It would be awesome it was a group effort too. But if a Classic HD category was ever made, this should be the standard quality of the models. Still for Classic graphics, but more detailed.

Classic models are still the same quality as the very game. But if they have been doing better and better (more detailed) models, it would've been a great start. But yeah, they're almost like the same as the vanilla classic models already for now. Ported models, however, are okay as far as I've seen. Just need more sharpness and whatnot.

Hmm, strange. Whenever someone is a fan of the game this much, that they want to make art like this, usually some type of dystopian thing comes into their life and stops them from working. It's like the curse of Warcraft III, that it is never allowed to be handled well.

I hope that you don't get cancer from the curse from making art this good. Remember not to eat off of Teflon pans.

I've seen this happen in many games that are moddable. An individual or even group of people would start an ambitious project, but they will never finish the thing due to burnout or personal life issues. One example I could think of are the many mods for Skyrim. I've subscribed or invested in overhauls, specifically a supposed all-out NPC overhaul like WICO (you can look that one up). But then they just suddenly stopped because of the amount of characters needed to be redone, like the models and icons for the classic Warcraft III alone.

What if the scope expands and one tries to create a simplified version of Reforged models to the same poly and quality as LongbowMan's Classic HD models. I mean, that'd be cool, but it's going to be a great undertaking. Someone on Discord is already making a Classic HD remaster/remake of the icons, and I hope they finish and publish them in the future. That'd cool.

 

[LongbowMan]

Hmm, strange. Whenever someone is a fan of the game this much, that they want to make art like this, usually some type of dystopian thing comes into their life and stops them from working. It's like the curse of Warcraft III, that it is never allowed to be handled well.

That's probably the main reason I keep posting as soon as something is ready. I'm just a mortal human being, having to work full time, occasionally going through emigration, divorce, and other troubles. People definitely burn out on big projects - I try to keep it casual so I don't feel unreasonably anxious about this hobby.

Though sadly, I don't know if other people would be willing to keep up with the raised quality or poly of these Classic HD graphics.

One of the ideas behind this art direction (and IMHO, Blizzard should have thought about it as well, when planning Reforged) is to make everything more detailed without setting the bar too high for a hobbyist 3D modeller to reach. I can imagine people reusing my textures or pieces of models to create nice and simple assets of matching style without too much hastle. There are talented artists here who make stunning models using standard textures - in fact, some of them would blend really well with my Classic HD assets.

It would be awesome it was a group effort too.

I mean, I would be happy to collaborate, but most professional artists have better things to do
Seriously, imagine spending all this time to create models for asset stores instead, or freelancing. That would earn me a few extra salaries already.

 

[Juveqis]

Your work is wonderful, a breath of fresh air without a doubt. The path Blizzard should have taken.

If it's not too much trouble, what software do you use? Do you do this professionally?

 

[LongbowMan]

Your work is wonderful, a breath of fresh air without a doubt. The path Blizzard should have taken.

If it's not too much trouble, what software do you use? Do you do this professionally?

No trouble at all. For this project I use Maya, Substance Painter, Photoshop, and Retera MS. Yes, I work as a 3D Artist

 

[LongbowMan]

New update!​

• Fixed sanity check warnings.
• Fixed team color issues that caused the building to get tinted with team color during placement.
• Added upscaled version of graveyard ghosts for work animation.

 

[BaiyuGalan]

Awesome.

 

[LongbowMan]

New version!​

• Team color fixes*, following this discussion;
• Changes to texture paths**, based on this poll;
• Various fixes, mostly sanity checker warnings.

* Team color now has a 10% of unshaded layer to make it a bit more visible at night and bring closer to units and buildings with brighter values.
** Models now have longer texture paths, relative to the originals. Example: Buildings\Undead\SlaughterHouse\SlaughterHouse.blp. This was done for modding purposes, because War3HD assets are made to replace the classic models using local files.

 

[Mr Hawk]

I got to say this is a ten times better respect to the original warcraft 3 than what reforged did. Starcraft HD Graphics at it's greatest.