Tuskar

[Dr00d]

Tuskar models have been found in the latest PRT patch. In the model viewer you can give them armor and weapons, much like the Naga.

 

[~Void~]

Ugh, these are ugly. Their head sticks out too much from their heads. In WC3 it was back further and more or less in the same blob as their body. Made them look more like walruses.

And also, the WoW modelers have a tendency to make creatures with extremely slouched low shoulders... that looks really bad too, makes them look weak :\

 

[Dr00d]

I haven't personaly played with these models, but it looks as if they use the same skeleton as Tauren and Akama.

 

[~Void~]

I dunno about tauren, but definitely Akama. And all the Broken draenei for that matter.

 

[Tyranid]

Blizzard should start making new skeletons and animations in my opinnion .

*EDIT* Sorry I realized that the Vrykul use Human animations, not Orc.

 

[~Void~]

Blizzard is really lazy with WoW, but maybe that's a good thing. Maybe they're putting more effort into SC2 and "project X" (WC4 or D3 or whatever...)

 

[Kimbo]

Pity about no new animations but I find these tuskar models a great improvement in quality and the wc3 ones are really ugly and just resemble a bald distorted human. These ones really pack the walrus quality and I like that, i think these new models are great.

 

[Tyranid]

What I really dislike about WoW is the size of Bosses and Elites, it just doesn't seem natural that Illidan for example is like 10 times the size of a normal Night Elf. Is the only reason for this that it would be easier to target him or something?

I just think it's ridicilous.

 

[THE_END]

What I really dislike about WoW is the size of Bosses and Elites, it just doesn't seem natural that Illidan for example is like 10 times the size of a normal Night Elf. Is the only reason for this that it would be easier to target him or something?

I just think it's ridicilous.

I agree, WoW is absolutely stupid for doing that

 

[~Void~]

Pity about no new animations but I find these tuskar models a great improvement in quality and the wc3 ones are really ugly and just resemble a bald distorted human. These ones really pack the walrus quality and I like that, i think these new models are great.

Silence, heretic! WoW models are abominations!

*(not like the undead ones...lol)

 

[Dr00d]

I dunno about tauren, but definitely Akama. And all the Broken draenei for that matter.

Tauren, Akama and Broken all share the same bones/anims.

 

[Kwaliti]

Will Blizzard finally put Arthas into the MPQ's by mistake?

Anyway, that looks like a hell lot of polies!

 

[frostwhisper]

The model is by no doubt very well done.
High-poly when next to an orc however.

But Blizzard tends to do that with expansions. Take blood elves for instance. They have more polygons than all of Orgrimarr altogether.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Still, they need to fix the size of bosses. Arthas better not be 20 feet tall.

 

[frostwhisper]

In wc3 bosses were huge as well...

 

[Tyranid]

In wc3 bosses were huge as well...

But no where near as huge as they are in WoW.
While I can understand that things like Archimonde, Thunderaan, Ragnaros, Kil'jaeden, Murmur, Frostlord (2.4.0) and the Qiraji Prophets are huge, I simply DO NOT understand while things like Illidan, Arthas, Kel'thuzad and people like that must be so god damn HUGE.

 

[busterkomo]

Because those characters are bosses, and when you have 25 people spamming text and spells, it can become very hard to see them.

 

[Dr00d]

Will Blizzard finally put Arthas into the MPQ's by mistake?

Not in the .MPQ's yet, but heres the model.

It's really painful to look out. It's just close enough to tell it's Arthas, and yet to far to see any detail. Good thing is that he looks to scale of a human.

 

[~Void~]

Not in the .MPQ's yet, but heres the model.

It's really painful to look out. It's just close enough to tell it's Arthas, and yet to far to see any detail. Good thing is that he looks to scale of a human.

Watch the throne be like 2000 feet wide, and he's the size of Illidan.

 

[busterkomo]

Wow, the textures on those models are intense.

 

[Dr00d]

I've just played around with Tuskar extensively and am happy to report that they do have their own set of animations.

 

[frostwhisper]

That's a relief.
I'm not too surprised though. Their bone system is way too unique to use the generic animations.

 

[Mecheon]

But no where near as huge as they are in WoW.
While I can understand that things like Archimonde, Thunderaan, Ragnaros, Kil'jaeden, Murmur, Frostlord (2.4.0) and the Qiraji Prophets are huge, I simply DO NOT understand while things like Illidan, Arthas, Kel'thuzad and people like that must be so god damn HUGE.

Gameplay reasons mainly, so people in the raid full of 25 other people can target them

Imagene having to target a Night Elf sized Illidan when you've got giant tauren warriors all around him. Not going to be particularly easy

 

[Tyranid]

Gameplay reasons mainly, so people in the raid full of 25 other people can target them

Imagene having to target a Night Elf sized Illidan when you've got giant tauren warriors all around him. Not going to be particularly easy

This is why we have the auto-target button ._.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

yeh but its still better to make them gaint, anyways, if you play wow you cant exactly expect it to make sense....hey didnt you realise people have shrunk since artha's day?

 

[Mecheon]

This is why we have the auto-target button ._.

Which not everyone uses, and Blizzard compensates for that by making bosses large

If they were all small, people would complain. Plus bosses that have multiple parts you need to target, like C'Thun's tentacles

 

[Tyranid]

If they were all small, people would complain. Plus bosses that have multiple parts you need to target, like C'Thun's tentacles

I think you missed my point... Bosses like C'thun, Archimonde, Kil'jaeden, different dragons and Elemental Lieutenants can be huge in my opinnion, since they are supposed to be huge in lore! However bosses who are about the same size as their race in lore, like Arthas, Illidan, Kael'thas, are way too big in my opinnion in WoW.

 

[Mecheon]

I think you missed my point... Bosses like C'thun, Archimonde, Kil'jaeden, different dragons and Elemental Lieutenants can be huge in my opinnion, since they are supposed to be huge in lore! However bosses who are about the same size as their race in lore, like Arthas, Illidan, Kael'thas, are way too big in my opinnion in WoW.

And you're missing my point of gameplay reasons. Blizzard do not expect everyone to use the Auto Target button. Therefore, they make all of the bosses large, even if they're meant to be normal sized, according to lore. This is because Blizzard is like that

 

[VGsatomi]

If they were all small, people would complain.

Indeed....ever tried targeting a gnome warrior/rogue when they have shrink/noggenfogger on, all amongst a cluster of combating players in battlegrounds using only your mouse curser....? They do that on purpose, I swear....
-VG

 

[Kwaliti]

There is a Tab button for a reason.

 

[VGsatomi]

....which I always found kind of pointless when it cycles through and targets the target you are TRYING to target dead last most of the time.

 

[Andreja]

Actually Illidan is huge cuz he turned into the Damon Illi with wings and stuff and look at TFT hes like 2 time larger then all of the other night elves the only guy that look sugly huge is Kael'Thas i mean a Blood Elf the size of a Airplane it look silly.Theres an auto-target button XD?

 

[frostwhisper]

WC3 heroes we're considerably larger than the normal units. I think it's only fair for WoW to keep that tradition going.

 

[lolphin]

The bosses are so big so you can see them in a raid. You don't feel quite as good after killing a boss when you can't even see it's melodramatic death animation.

 

[Kwaliti]

Why the hell have you resurrected this thread?

 

[lolphin]

Why the hell have you resurrected this thread?

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see that the date of the last post was 2007, cause I found the thread while searching for something else and I thought I had a useful answer.

 

[Kwaliti]

2007? This thread is 2 months old, not a year old

And please refrain from necroposting next time.