tips&critique plz

[karland90]

this time i decided to get some opinions/suggestions before trying to upload a model that isnt near-perfect. well actually this one isnt good at all.


i wanted to make the fishing bobber from wow. actually i started this some weeks ago, but was really busy at some times. there is a chance i might use it in a map of mine (with special lightning effect as the fishing line).

for those who havent played wow:

- the rock texture was the best i could find for the cork part. it might be wrapped better i think.
- the animation is a little off (too strong backpush) due to the fact that i made the model too big in 3dsmax and then scaled down in mdlvis.
- i didnt find any suitable textures for the feathers yet. the teal feather texture in SharedModels/ doesnt have any alpha. the feather from nightelf campaign screen cant be recoloured much, because it is mostly black.
- there were 2 options for me with the metal part of the bobber:
make it one plane (2poly) and wrap a chain texture there (did atm)
or to make a tiny mesh for it (would add some polys)

this was my first try at animating a model myself and also i used particles for the first time (Cnp-ed the values off the swimming sheep model (war3x.mpq/units/critters/sheep.mdx and then edited the values a bit).


i know that it has an unused texture. im not sure if i would want to upload it to resource section at all... if it were prettier (more like the real one) then maybe. but in te beginning i wanted to keep the polycount as small as possible - thats why the feathers and metal part are 2 poly.

thank you. ^^

 

[PROXY]

it's great! I think it would be a great additon the the resource section

 

[chilla_killa]

For what could you use that?

 

[MortAr]

I think the answer is simple - Nothing.

 

[karland90]

well its barely useful. but i think i should make it pretty-looking-barely-useful model. i still have to figure out how to do the thing that a geoset is coloured during an animation...


EDIT: yeah... youre probably right.

 

[chilla_killa]

Via Geoset Animations in Magos

 

[PROXY]

i think it could be used for many things, like games with a fishing ability, or just as a decoration while fisher siting near the water, but jeah^^

 

[karland90]

oh yeah. now i remember a fishing game that used the thunder lizard egg as a missile when casting the fishing line into the water and then some kind of shockwave for the impact with water... my model would be a good replacement.