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Slingshot Siege Weapon

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Do you, like, my car?

The Rock Lobber is a preferred weapon of Kobolds but could be good for other crude or brutal races like Centaur, Draenei, Quilboar, Tauren, Troggs etc.
It's ironic that this style of slingshot seems to actually be very modern, after the introduction of rubber, where as gears and cogs are quite ancient. OH WELL!

World edit Parameters similar to Orc Demolisher:
Art - Projectile Launch - Y: 20.0
Art - Projectile Launch - Z: 170.0
Attack Backswing: 2.850
Damage Point: 0.150
Projectile Arc: 0.200
Projectile Art: Ancient Protector



feedback welcome, please report bugs/problems etc.
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Slingshot Siege Weapon (Model)

I appreciate when uploader provides the object editor settings👍 Helps a lot!
Those settings matter! I spent like a whole day trying to fix an attack animation and no matter what I did in Retera, it was still broken. Finally I figured out the attack backswing was bad and that fixed the problem for all iterations (i.e. there was nothing wrong with the animation to begin with).
It could be a perfect replace for dranai demolisher unit re-classic version.
I've never seen that unit, what does it look like? Is it spacegoat Draenei or fish-face Draenei?


Other people would probably put more decorations on this unit, But I'm very happy with the shape and proportions. The colours are maybe a B+. I also obsess over realistic physics, but I don't think most people care much about that really.

I'll also make a fat trebuchet (for Ogres), and I'd like to make a siege unit for Centaur, but what style would they use? @nagadragon might have some ideas.
When I make the Battle for Kalimdor campaign it would be cool for Centaur to have a variety of units with distinct styles.
 
Love it.

Anyone have ideas for Centaur siege weapons? I'm thinking maybe a ballista with horse motifs. Knight chess-piece head on the front. something more mobile might be cool seeing they would be a mobile army and faction.
Maybe chart mounted balista. Could have be drawn by a horse/Centaur that deploys.
 
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Loving your work so far. Really cool design. Makes me think of the game Besiege.

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Anyone have ideas for Centaur siege weapons? I'm thinking maybe a ballista with horse motifs. Knight chess-piece head on the front. something more mobile might be cool seeing they would be a mobile army and faction.
 
Anyone have ideas for Centaur siege weapons? I'm thinking maybe a ballista with horse motifs. Knight chess-piece head on the front. something more mobile might be cool seeing they would be a mobile army and faction.
Indeed mobile I was thinking of. Perhaps one attached to the back of a strong/muscly centaur which shoots in the opposite direction from the centaur's front. It could also have a siege mode where the centaur would put itself down on the ground bending the knees.
 
Hello, why can't my map be displayed after I import it? Is it because of a lack of texture? I'm a newbie.
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I'll look tonight for the problem. I have a habit of messing up the texture paths. Do you have any other info like what version of wc3 you are using? is it from before reforged?
Thank you. My game is version 1.27, and the editor I use is a domestic one. Are you referring to the issue with the texture arrangement order? Can I use War3ModelEditor or other software to modify and solve this problem?
 
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