Owl Moon Priestess Reforged

[3139245141]

I would like to port this model to the classic version, but I may need permission from the author

 

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[YourArthas]

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Can you show a tutorial about how you make those textures?

 

[3139245141]

Can you show a tutorial about how you make those textures?

I'm sorry I can't explain these things in English. I need to use Chinese for texture processing

 

[NETSHOW]

wrong.

• Combat - Targeted as: Air

should be Air, Ground like AOS

 

[Voltron212]

Heya! I'm trying to remove the Hero Glow from this model... But when I open the file in Retera; I cant find any Node relating to Hero Glow.

I'm pretty new to editing models, so any help removing the glow would be awesome!

 

[Altruistic Anduin]

wrong.

• Combat - Targeted as: Air

should be Air, Ground like AOS

That goes down to preference, if you're using this on certain types of map you are working on. Yes, Air and Ground for AoS-type of maps, or Air for what it looks like - the priestess riding on a flying owl... on air. There was a reason why this version of the Priestess of the Moon was scrapped due to it being the only hero to be aerial if it was released which would cause MAJOR unbalance and huge advantage for the Night Elves, that's why it was scrapped, because they weren't going for your suggestion on her being AoS-type. Same goes for the Naga race; they'd have the biggest advantage of all, for they can swim in the watery areas of maps and even build on shallow water. But I digress... This is just to remake the beta version of the classic Moon Priestess.

 

[Retera]

due to it being the only hero to be aerial if it was released

As far as I know, Blizzard was not this crazy even back then. Between alpha screenshots and data included in the RoC Beta on Hallfiry's unofficial archive, I'm fairly certain that flying heroes were going to be a part of all races, or a part of no races. My data suggests:

• Orc was going to have Farseer or a similar hero riding on a wyvern or maybe a ghost wyvern
• The Dread Lord back when he was wearing a dress could shapeshift into a bat, and there is even an unused soundset in the RoC Beta (that released! we have it... although it sounds a lot like carrion swarm modulated slightly differently in each sound file) for the dreadlord's alternate form
• Human was probably going to have the Gryphon Rider as their flying hero, but that's just my best guess. I don't recall seeing that in the alpha screenshots when I was looking at the ones I could find recently, whereas we do find screenshots of the orc caster hero riding on a wyvern/ghost wyvern (seems different across different alpha screenshots).

So, the flying moon priestess was undoubtedly going to be part of a cycle -- where each race had a flying hero -- that would have still been balanced across the races. I assume they were probably all cut around the same time as a design decision. I just liked this one because for me I thought it was the coolest.

To be honest, around ~2006-2008 some IRL friends of mine made a race mod with all custom races and gave each race 1 flying hero inspired by a rumor that RoC beta was going to have been like that. We... quickly removed it too after playtesting. It's too easy to troll an enemy base with a flying hero, or steal their items even better than what Wc3 matches see with blademasters, etc. I do appreciate why this is not a part of the official game. But, it's also a cool aesthetic to have fun with in custom maps, such as with this model.

 

[Ardenaso]

Shouldn't be hard to skin splice Tyrande here, no?

 

[Retera]

I would like to port this model to the classic version

i think i missed this message, by the way. Yeah man do whatever you want with this, maybe leave a note that it's based on the model by me so I get some cool credits.

sorry I know I'm late responding to this message. Maybe you already did it, I guess that's typically the way of the world

Heya! I'm trying to remove the Hero Glow from this model... But when I open the file in Retera; I cant find any Node relating to Hero Glow.

it's probably a ParticleEmitterPopcorn node with a name like "Hero_Glow" or something similar. I could check again later if you still don't figure it out

Edit 2: by the way guys, for this really really off topic stuff about porting HD models to classic, while I was on a vacation recently I wrote a similar utility using Retera Model Studio that bakes textures out of HD models so you could probably backport without the need for whatever other tools you were using, if that ever helps anyone

edit 3: for example i spent a couple of minutes, and I clicked "Port to SD" on the DRMS build with the texture baking and made the models from earlier in this thread all in SD in like 10 minutes with the automation. Do we care? Why does this matter? Why do this?

It even autobakes the team color to the best of its ability. But why? Why care? Why want this?

 

[PotatoMeister]

Really cool model! Could you make a version without the hero glow?