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Ujimasa Hojo Presents


Draenei

Buildings
  • Forge
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  • Metropolis
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Author's Notes:
  • Don't forget to remove "war3mapImported\" from the path of the skin after importing.
  • Pack is here.


I must say, there are a few races I wish you'd make. The lack of well made Draenei units are apparent, but I am really looking forward to this pack.

You are by far, my favorite model maker, I - for the lack of a better word - cherish your models. Can't wait to see the rest.

PS. I wonder, would an Arcane Sanctuary and Arcane Vault with the "orbs" replaced with crystals look good? I think they just might.
 
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Ujimasa Hojo Presents


Draenei


Oh boy. Wrote up a big collection of ideas you could pull from as well as took the liberty of taking a bunch of screenshots for reference:

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Farm-type building:

The most common Draenei building you'll see is this:

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They're literally everywhere. It's the standard Draenei multi-purpose home.


Barracks-type building:

Every Draenei town has a barracks-like temple like these:

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I would suggest using your Arcane Temple model and adding a second building in the middle "courtyard". From the inside of these buildings, there's an initial small building that connects to another larger room in the back seperated by a domed courtyard. If not, a highly modified High Elven Barracks could work, too, but barely.

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Tower building:

Draenei towers look like this in-game:

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You're best off leaving it as a single tower like an Orc one instead of upgradeable like the Human towers.


Altar:

Draenei use tombs for fallen heroes. The Gilnean Library would be a good start.

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Tombs are usually adorned on both sides with statues like these.

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Caster building:

Every large Draenei town has a temple in it.

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I would highly suggest your Arcane Sanctuary model as a start because the general shape you made it strongly resembles the temples of the Draenei.


Aviary-type building:

The Draenei use faerie dragons as flying mounts. They're domesticated in aviaries.

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The faerie dragons of Draenor are pretty large compared to Azeroth's. I would suggest using the Arcane Academy without its floating crystals and a shorter spire.


Workshop-type building:

The Draenei use large observatories like the one here:

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Best suggestion I could give for this category.


Goldmine:

I wouldn't suggest using an entangled style mine for the Draenei.

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They have a thing for mining. Especially crystals not gold. It's all they mine all over Draenor.


Shipyard:

Your Arcane Shipyard is a perfect shape to work off it just needs some Draenei flair.


Improvements -


Metropolis: For Tier 3, I would add some sort of purple force field around the building coming from the crystals. The important buildings of the Draenei all seem to have it.

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Amazing skin. The water could be tinted purplish, though.

Nah, there is no purple water where Draenei come from.

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However, Ujimasa, you can make the water a little more darker blue.
 
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Mage Tower
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Shipyard (Night Elf)
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To be totally honest: meh.

The Shipyards dont even look remotely Draenic.

Like I said previously, your readily made Arcane Shipyard (Night Elf) already looks Draenic it just needs a few adjustments and a retexture.

The Mage Tower on the other hand... :zip:

If you truly want to capture the essence of this highly-requested theme, it should be correctly. You can't take the easy way out on this one; You'll need to put a little more creative effort like you did with themes such as Arcane/Gilnean/Bandit/etc, where you did more than just simply retexture the buildings. Personally I already added a long list (with pictures:grin:) of suggestions that best fit each building in the techtree logically and aesthetically.

Just come creative criticism plus my two cents. :cute:
 
Nice references, if only they could be done with less polies.. and effort. I wish model programs had more functionalities.
Don't worry, I'm just putting out the easy ones first. I'm also planning on putting out an extensive set so people can choose which ones they want.
Good to hear, a full Draenei set right?
 
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Nice references, if only they could be done with less polies.. and effort. I wish model programs had more functionalities.Good to hear, a full Draenei set right?

I'll rewrap the new texture to the Highborne buildings first, then I'll add new ones. I'm going for something like the Forsaken set which has more than 11 buildings.
 
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I'll rewrap the new texture to the Highborne buildings first, then I'll add new ones. I'm going for something like the Forsaken set which has more than 11 buildings.

Rewrap Arcane lol it really does fit like I can't explain how much I'm for it.

EDIT: Very creative use of the orbs on the Arcane Sanctum; replacing them with crystals. Nice idea

EDIT 2: Vault looks spot on I believe. You should do a version of the Human Arcane Vault model with crystals instead of runes. That would look pretty interesting.

For the Vault, I'd suggest making this team color area here a bit less plain. Kinda of clashes with the whole pristine Draenei look.

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Ok, I just LOVED the Arcane Sanctum, great work in this! :D
The Cripty looks great, and the Tomb of Relics too, but don't you think that the Arcane Vault, from the humans, would fit this better? The Crystal Spire looks awesome too! keep it up man!

Also, did you recentely change something in your Forsaken pack? Because the Altar's skin is not in there.
 
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Awesome building set, now we just need some actual decent Draenei units to finally have one of the coolest races to build.

PS. I'll try to look for those models.
 
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Where are all the Forsaken models? Town Hall, Slaughterhouse, Arcane Den and more ?? These models were good and without them I can not continue to create missions for Forsakens :(
 
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For the Altar, you should make the statue either silver or a more dull gold (not that bright). Also, it could do without the moss and trees. Or without moss and just smaller trees.
 
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Couple things,
1. Thanks for all these models, theyre very helpful
2. I recolored the texture for your Draenei structures but left it in TGA form. I felt like your color scheme didn't quite match what we saw in Outland or Draenor. Feel free to use it if you like, or not. No worries. I can also take it down if you want
3. Twilights Hammer buildings could be cool. Just a suggestion for another set/tech tree

Thanks again
 

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Couple things,
1. Thanks for all these models, theyre very helpful
2. I recolored the texture for your Draenei structures but left it in TGA form. I felt like your color scheme didn't quite match what we saw in Outland or Draenor. Feel free to use it if you like, or not. No worries. I can also take it down if you want
3. Twilights Hammer buildings could be cool. Just a suggestion for another set/tech tree

Thanks again

Thanks. I'll add it to the post.
 
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Tnx Ujimasa Hojo.

Edit: Umm Sir Ujimasa Hojo do you also have an icon for the Thunder King? Really need it since im going to use him.
 
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Ujimasa Hojo Presents


Axis of Awful

Units:
  • Gnoll Chieftain
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  • Gnoll Pulverizer
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  • Gnoll Raider
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  • Gnoll Spirit Walker
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  • Kobold Digger
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  • Kobold Far Seer
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  • Kobold Shaman
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  • Murloc Reaver
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  • Murloc Witch Doctor
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  • Trogg Mountain King
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  • Trogg Salamander Rider
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Buildings:

Author's Notes:
  • Most of the buildings are edited versions of Mephestrial's Gnoll buildings. He gave me permission to post these.
    Mephestrial said:
    Would be honored to have you edit them.
  • The Murloc models here are basically just Reign of Chaos versions (fins instead of spikes) plus amphibious animations.
  • Pack is here.

 
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I don't care for any of those races... But smashing idea, Ujimasa. Really cool to see it all come together like that. I'm particularly glad to see edited Gnoll buildings (no custom textures woot!). Lol.

Also, I'm going to give you reputation for the name "Flea Market" alone. xD
 
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I don't care for any of those races... But smashing idea, Ujimasa. Really cool to see it all come together like that. I'm particularly glad to see edited Gnoll buildings (no custom textures woot!). Lol.

Also, I'm going to give you reputation for the name "Flea Market" alone. xD

Mephestrial deserves the the credit for the "Flea Market" name. It's one of his planned buildings.

EDIT: Don't forget to look at the new Forsaken units as well. I'm currently working on them.
 
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I've noticed the new models for the Forsaken. They're outstanding! Do you plan to add more? If so, a Forsaken Rifleman would be sooo useful! Also a rifleman hero would be amazing too.
 
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