Truespin Fishbrain and his stuff, too

[Truespin Fishbrain]

Hello there, Hive! I am all into modelling for warcraft again, and here's my WIP thread here:


2666 tris for now, lol

Right now i am working as an animator and 3d artist, but i think that its time to pay attention for my hobby roots, i.e. Warcraft 3 modelling

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Looking good, excited to see more and welcome back.

 

[Truespin Fishbrain]

Thanks. Glad to see somebody who remembers me at all, regarding my experience in disappearing (sorry, mr. Misha)

 

[Truespin Fishbrain]

Work is going well. now its time for animation, since rigging and skining is done.

Also, i have a little question for people experienced in modeling for warcraft. Is there some way of converting .FBX file to .mdx with all the animations and skining data, without too much pain?

 

[Tauer]

Work is going well. now its time for animation, since rigging and skining is done.

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Also, i have a little question for people experienced in modeling for warcraft. Is there some way of converting .FBX file to .mdx with all the animations and skining data, without too much pain?

Hey there!

Model's looking great! Are those ingame textures?

About the conversion to .mdx that really depends on what modeling software you're using. If you're using 3Ds Max you need to download the Neodex plugin. This can be used to export your model to .mdx format, as well as setting up everything your model needs, like sequences (animations), event objects and materials. If you have any questions please feel free to ask

 

[Truespin Fishbrain]

Model's looking great! Are those ingame textures?

Thank you, sir! Textures i've used:
1) Dranei White for body, face and stuff;
2) Crypt Lord is for Egyptian things;

 

[Truespin Fishbrain]

Update: i have figure out how to convert mr.Mummy to .mdx, so it's time for animations.

He is coming for you.

 

[Stefan.K]

Wow this is great! That animation looks very nice!
It's so nice to see another animator, before anything else, and modeler.
Welcome back.

 

[Truespin Fishbrain]

Basic animations set is done and model itself is optimised ("raw" animated model were around 6mb and optimised version is 750kb) done and now its time for convertation to .mdx and some further editing in W3ME.

 

[Cuore]

I'm excited to see more!
Excellent job so far.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Holy cow... Well, you did say you do this professionally. Incredible work, man! That mummy is just oozing with detail & character.

This is, however, a great example of how even a model with in-game textures can have trouble fitting in-game; personally it looks much too detailed for the standard game (imagine this guy next to some Footmen...). I love it, but dose polies man. xD

Still, looking forward to more!

 

[Deolrin]

Incredible work, although what Kyrbi0 said rings true - it's hard to imagine this model fitting in-game. Other that, the only feedback I would give is that the transition between staff and staff-head is too blunt. It could be done more smoothly. Maybe with some mesh melding the two?