Riderless Mounts

[Footman16]

But... the knight with no rider is already in the game?

 

[DREADMAN]

But... the knight with no rider is already in the game?

An optimized model of a horse without a rider will not hurt anyone, haha
And if I want several variations of horses without a rider (skins), then I can't add several skins to one original model.

 

[Saelendious]

But... the knight with no rider is already in the game?

Well, at least this edit has a proper portrait, I guess

 

[Kyrbi0]

Yeah I'm down for this existing & grateful, but the existing one largely fulfills this purpose, doesn't it?

 

[PurrsandMlems]

actually, ive taken a read at changelog of knight over there and hmm...
yeah im not sure if this was needed.

 

[Varthas]

More riderless horse variety is neat ^^ I'll be waiting on the other variants

 

[PurrsandMlems]

have decided to go ahead and create them anyways.

packhorse may take time to get done as it has got extra length on legs to compensate for shorter 'skirt' of texture, that will need to transfer, weld and rig properly.

 

[StonemaulMidget]

Wait a minute, did you remove the riders from their steeds using Mdlvis, or did you simply shrink and condense them?

 

[PurrsandMlems]

utterly deleted in model editor, geosets, nodes, meshes etc.

 

[PurrsandMlems]

Frank wanted me to merge all riderless into one bundle, so here they are all now.

 

[deepstrasz]

Don't kill me but would you be kind to work on another version with team colour (saddle?) for the Elk ?

 

[PurrsandMlems]

suggest me a texture to be used for the teamcolored saddle, been on the search for one myself.

 

[deepstrasz]

suggest me a texture to be used for the teamcolored saddle, been on the search for one myself.

If no fitting one is found, I guess something like that from the back of dragons could work

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Or Chimaera?

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Or you could make the fur on the hind team coloured like the mage horses have it. Or even cooler to make it a bit similar to the Warlord's, instead of the tail, colour the beard, ha-ha.

Enough yip yapping.
Maybe the Dryad could be the best and most fitting inspiration (the hair could be used for the beard; but colouring the calf part of the inferior limbs would suffice)?

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Or, maybe easier, take it from the Polar Bear?

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While you're at it, you could even add some team colour to Fel Stalker, Fel Beast and Fel Ravager since they have none. Oh, Ghost and Wraith as well. Infernal too. Ah, Zergling and Hydralisk haven't any. Give a person a finger and they'll take your whole hand...

 

[PurrsandMlems]

While you're at it, you could even add some team colour to Fel Stalker, Fel Beast and Fel Ravager since they have none. Oh, Ghost and Wraith as well. Infernal too. Ah, Zergling and Hydralisk haven't any. Give a person a finger and they'll take your whole hand...

Ghost turns out to already have the teamcolor setup on the model but did not show up due to incorrect transparency on relevant parts of the texture. So that was simple to fix.
As for the Fel Stalker i might do something like the Spirit Wolves have, a layer of teamglow on the unit.
At the Infernal, easiest would be to edit the texture so the black cracks turn into seams of teamcolor instead. Something more involved would be to edit the inner particle effects to have teamcoloring instead, so that the bulk of it's particle fx remains green felfire, with subtle insertions of teamcolor along the main body and arms.

 

[TheDarkGiganotosaur]

Extremely useful for cinematics where the riders need to get off their "noble steeds" every now and then. Or for many other things... just let your imagination flow!

 

[PurrsandMlems]

i have also added teamcoloring versions of the kittens.

edit: 31-10-2023
recalculated extents for all with the portrait bg excluded to fix any issues they might have had with the healthbar remaining too damn high.

 

[Tuwnew]

If you want to have a complete bundle, you can add Death Knight and Thrall I think

 

[BaiyuGalan]

Useful Packs

 

[General Frank]

Simple and useful riderless models. Nothing too special about this menagerie of animals, but they might be useful to map makers.

 

[HuanJuan]

Cool models!

Do you have a Scapegoat model too? Some families are sure need it.