Tiger Shark Underwater & Surface Version

Moderator · Dec 26, 2013

14:41, 6th Feb 2014
MiniMage: The model could be summarized as needing a lot of work and love. The animations are very crude and the mesh could use some work as well. I think you may have confused the two files together btw.

The offical file appears to be the underwater one, while the other is the non-underwater on. However. in shallow water, the low depth the model is will cause it to slide through the ground when it swims in shallow water. This needs to be fixed.

Mike · Dec 26, 2013

Looks great + Ingame textures + Useful

Razosh · Dec 26, 2013

Looks great and not to unlike the real shark though the mouth seems too big I'd suggest you make it smaller. Other than that it's picture perfect in my opinion.

Please make my favorite, the whale shark as well. It's the worlds largest known shark with the thickest skin of all known species in the world that's amzing 20 cm thick.

DESTROYER123 · Dec 26, 2013

When i saw the screenshot from the models section, I though it was a shark with a hellicopter fan on his back.
Lol.
Good job on this Tiger.
5/5 :goblin_good_job:

+2rep

InfernalTater · Dec 26, 2013

The dorsal fin could use some work on it's shape, proportion, and animation. It will probably need a couple of extra polygons. Nothing that will affect the file size, much, but it could look a lot better. Just use google and find a few reference pictures.

Still, this is pretty cool, and although its uses are limited, there are no other resources to fill the gap, making this extremely useful to those who need such a thing. A map with these in it would be really cool.

3/5 (but on the verge of going up at just any slight improvement)

Heinvers · Dec 26, 2013

Overall looks good

The animations are pretty strange and the mouth is a little too big!
Can be useful

Uncle Fester · Dec 27, 2013

Mike said:
Looks great + Ingame textures + Useful

ty

Razosh said:
Looks great and not to unlike the real shark though the mouth seems too big I'd suggest you make it smaller. Other than that it's picture perfect in my opinion.

Please make my favorite, the whale shark as well. It's the worlds largest known shark with the thickest skin of all known species in the world that's amzing 20 cm thick.

I was thinking about making some rudimentary changes in it. I just took the Shark Rider's (just search it in the model section) mount as is. For the shark rider the mount was good, as the rider made more than 50% of the model, but after examining the model again today, i came to the conclusion that it isn't that good for a single-standing model. About the whale shark: srry, but i'm not taking contracts any longer. :vw_sad:

I was planning to make a great white and hammerhead though. :wink:

DESTROYER123 said:
When i saw the screenshot from the models section, I though it was a shark with a hellicopter fan on his back.
Lol.
Good job on this Tiger.
5/5
+2rep

Lol

Thx a lot, old friend. :ogre_hurrhurr:

TLI-Inferno said:
The dorsal fin could use some work on it's shape, proportion, and animation. It will probably need a couple of extra polygons. Nothing that will affect the file size, much, but it could look a lot better. Just use google and find a few reference pictures.

Still, this is pretty cool, and although its uses are limited, there are no other resources to fill the gap, making this extremely useful to those who need such a thing. A map with these in it would be really cool.

3/5 (but on the verge of going up at just any slight improvement)

The dorsal fin? Now that amazes me......the dorsal fin of real sharks isn't much more moved than from this guy. It's main purpose is to stabilize the shark while swimming and helping it change direction and such, to the best of my knowledge. I also don't rly think it is that necessary to make it more complex, as it's quite simple in reality as well.

Thx :ogre_hurrhurr:

But there actually are other shark models as well on the Hive. :wink:

Heinvers said:
Overall looks good
The animations are pretty strange and the mouth is a little too big!
Can be useful

Yeah, i am aiming to make some major changes in it. Thx a lot for your feedback. :grin:

Razosh · Dec 27, 2013

Well atleast the Hammerhead will be a very nice shark to have although if you're making a great white shark I would reccomend you to make the Orca since lets face it, they hunt the great white.

Also who decided to name them killer whales instead of sea pandas?

InfernalTater · Dec 27, 2013

Uncle Fester said:
The dorsal fin? Now that amazes me......the dorsal fin of real sharks isn't much more moved than from this guy. It's main purpose is to stabilize the shark while swimming and helping it change direction and such, to the best of my knowledge. I also don't rly think it is that necessary to make it more complex, as it's quite simple in reality as well.

Take a look at real sharks for a moment. Yes, they have large dorsal fins, but yours is just ridiculously oversized. Real dorsal fins also go backwards and also are curved, not simply a triangle stuck on top of the shark's back, in order to reduce resistance and increase maximum speed (Kind of like a swept frame on sports-cars). You would only need to add two polygons (for a total of three) to significantly increase the quality of the fin without having a noticeable impact on the poly count or file size at all. The file size would be increased by less than 0.10KB.

Uncle Fester said:
Thx But there actually are other shark models as well on the Hive.

Yes, but all of the good shark models on here, that actually have proper animations for using as a unit and not a decoration, are yours. :ogre_love:

Uncle Fester · Dec 27, 2013

Razosh said:
Well atleast the Hammerhead will be a very nice shark to have although if you're making a great white shark I would reccomend you to make the Orca since lets face it, they hunt the great white.

Also who decided to name them killer whales instead of sea pandas?

Orca maybe later....there's an ingame orca doodad already.

TLI-Inferno said:
Take a look at real sharks for a moment. Yes, they have large dorsal fins, but yours is just ridiculously oversized. Real dorsal fins also go backwards and also are curved, not simply a triangle stuck on top of the shark's back, in order to reduce resistance and increase maximum speed (Kind of like a swept frame on sports-cars). You would only need to add two polygons (for a total of three) to significantly increase the quality of the fin without having a noticeable impact on the poly count or file size at all. The file size would be increased by less than 0.10KB.

Yes, but all of the good shark models on here, that actually have proper animations for using as a unit and not a decoration, are yours.

Yeah, i'll work on the dorsal fin.

So basically you say mine is the only shark that can be used as a creep and not only for deco? That's odd idd. I mean, there have to be more sharks around.... :wink:

On the Hive they seem to be even more endangered than in reality.

InfernalTater · Dec 27, 2013

Uncle Fester said:
Orca maybe later....there's an ingame orca doodad already.

Yeah, i'll work on the dorsal fin.

So basically you say mine is the only shark that can be used as a creep and not only for deco? That's odd idd. I mean, there have to be more sharks around.... On the Hive they seem to be even more endangered than in reality.

Good to hear you're working on it.

And, yeah, the only unit model sharks on hive are by you. There are some prehistoric sea creatures made by other people, but that's about it.

Ubernator · Dec 28, 2013

Very realistic model!

Uncle Fester · Dec 28, 2013

TLI-Inferno said:
Good to hear you're working on it.

And, yeah, the only unit model sharks on hive are by you. There are some prehistoric sea creatures made by other people, but that's about it.

Lol.

I'm still wondering that no one else ever made a unit shark so far.... :vw_wtf:

Ubernator said:
Very realistic model!

ty

Midasowski · Dec 29, 2013

Nice model, very useful

Uncle Fester · Dec 31, 2013

Midasowski said:
Nice model, very useful

ty

InfernalTater · Dec 31, 2013

The dorsal fin looks much better, now.

You also need to work a bit on the head. It's a bit too round and flat; it should be sharp, more of a V shape.

Edit: I should have elaborated. The part of the head I'm talking about isn't the nose, but the mouth.

Uncle Fester · Jan 1, 2014

TLI-Inferno said:
The dorsal fin looks much better, now.

You also need to work a bit on the head. It's a bit too round and flat; it should be sharp, more of a V shape.

Ty

em.....no. It's a tiger shark, it naturally has a flattened head, that's one of the tiger shark's main characteristics. A roundish head would make a bullshark out of it, with this texture. :wink:

InfernalTater · Jan 1, 2014

Uncle Fester said:
Ty em.....no. It's a tiger shark, it naturally has a flattened head, that's one of the tiger shark's main characteristics. A roundish head would make a bullshark out of it, with this texture.

I meant on the mouth. Not entirely a V, just not a __ either. The snout is flat, yes, but their mouth should still be round, sort of halfway between a U and a V, and on the "bottom" of the face, rather than all the way at the front.

Uncle Fester · Jan 1, 2014

TLI-Inferno said:
I meant on the mouth. Not entirely a V, just not a __ either. The snout is flat, yes, but their mouth should still be round, sort of halfway between a U and a V, and on the "bottom" of the face, rather than all the way at the front.

oh. It is slightly roundish....

PlankingWolf · Jan 5, 2014

Good job on this one, nobody has ever thought of making a tiger shark. This has been on my head for sometime. A 5/5 for you, sir!

Uncle Fester · Jan 5, 2014

PlankingWolf said:
Good job on this one, nobody has ever thought of making a tiger shark. This has been on my head for sometime. A 5/5 for you, sir!

thx a lot. :wink:

Just stay on, more sharks will come soon. I hope they didn't smell fresh food on the Hive. :wink:

Heinvers · Feb 25, 2014

The portrait behaves good.
The main model has a more fluent animation sequences. It moves much more gracefully, like a shark would do. The head is well proportioned to the rest of the body. In short it looks like a shark. If I would be in WC3 right now and encounter this beast I would sure believe it's a shark.
Greatly done uncle!

Bloody Wolf · Feb 25, 2014

Uncle Fester?? TAKE ALL MY REP q_q

Anyway xD i really liked the idea and it actually looks like a tiger shark, i just think you should make his mouth a little bit smaller 5/5

Uncle Fester · Feb 25, 2014

Heinvers said:
The portrait behaves good.
The main model has a more fluent animation sequences. It moves much more gracefully, like a shark would do. The head is well proportioned to the rest of the body. In short it looks like a shark. If I would be in WC3 right now and encounter this beast I would sure believe it's a shark.
Greatly done uncle!

Hehe, thx a lot for your rating and feedback. :wink:

I am planning to make more sharks sooner or later. They'll all use the same skeleton (+ anims), but scaled up/down. :wink:

Bloody Wolf said:
Uncle Fester?? TAKE ALL MY REP q_q

Anyway xD i really liked the idea and it actually looks like a tiger shark, i just think you should make his mouth a little bit smaller 5/5

ty

Oh, shame! :vw_sad:

I was planning to make the mouth smaller but for some reason i forgot it. :goblin_cry:

Will do it maybe tomorrow. :wink:

Renly Baratheon · Feb 26, 2014

Cue Jaws music.

Uncle Fester · Feb 26, 2014

Renly Baratheon said:
Cue Jaws music.

Wrong shark, it's not the great white one. :wink:

Heinvers · Mar 1, 2014

Uncle I must admit that your sharks look pretty darn good. What's the next species of sharks that you'll do?

Bloody Wolf · Mar 2, 2014

You know, i just saw your old squid model and i think you should make an updated version of it

Uncle Fester · Mar 2, 2014

Heinvers said:
Uncle I must admit that your sharks look pretty darn good. What's the next species of sharks that you'll do?

Hehe, thx

Dunno yet.

Bloody Wolf said:
You know, i just saw your old squid model and i think you should make an updated version of it

Maybe I'll make a squid too one day, but i must have much sparetime for this project. :vw_sad:

Bloody Wolf · Mar 3, 2014

Uncle Fester said:
Maybe I'll make a squid too one day, but i must have much sparetime for this project.

yea it looks really complicated, but if you manage to remake it ill try it out in no time :ogre_haosis:

Uncle Fester · Mar 3, 2014

Bloody Wolf said:
yea it looks really complicated, but if you manage to remake it ill try it out in no time

Must keep that in mind.....so i can notify you when it's done. :wink:

This aside, i'd rather first make a Kraken (octopus). There are good models i can use for this and a wow-model for the skeleton and anims with a few changes, ofc. :wink:

Heinvers · Mar 3, 2014

Really

If you'll do that you will be my hero of that day :wink:

Anyway this shark is on the "wave" to say the least :goblin_good_job:

Uncle Fester · Mar 6, 2014

Heinvers said:
Really
If you'll do that you will be my hero of that day
Anyway this shark is on the "wave" to say the least

Let's say, i'm aiming to make such a model. The existing krakens on the hive aren't that much of my taste. :wink:

Bloody Wolf · Mar 9, 2014

Uncle Fester said:
The existing krakens on the hive aren't that much of my taste.

lol gotta agree on that one :vw_unimpressed:

Uncle Fester · Mar 9, 2014

Bloody Wolf said:
lol gotta agree on that one

hehe, thx

Kartron · Mar 21, 2014

with this i shall make a sharknado spell <_< >_>

Uncle Fester · Mar 21, 2014

Kartron said:
with this i shall make a sharknado spell <_< >_>

lol, nice idea. :wink:

Orcnet · Apr 2, 2014

Uncle Fester · Apr 2, 2014

Orcnet said:

ty

Streak · Apr 17, 2014

i like the model need to take it on a large aquarium before using 5/5

Uncle Fester · Apr 29, 2014

Streak said:
i like the model need to take it on a large aquarium before using 5/5

lol, just don't put it together with fish, sea turtles or seals, it might eat them. :wink:

ty

Zed · May 1, 2014

Can you fix the mouth a little?

Uncle Fester · May 2, 2014

ChaosX said:
Can you fix the mouth a little?

eh.....what's exactly wrong with it? :eekani:

You have to be a bit more precise.....

Zed · May 2, 2014

Uncle Fester said:
eh.....what's exactly wrong with it? You have to be a bit more precise.....

Nah, forget it i already tested it in game and it looks awesome! \m/

Uncle Fester · May 2, 2014

ChaosX said:
Nah, forget it i already tested it in game and it looks awesome! \m/

oh, maybe it's one of those common Magos/WorldEditor thingies (i.e. what displays sometimes awkward or behaves strange in Magos works flawlessly ingames)..... hehe, ty :ogre_hurrhurr:

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