Ujimasa Hojo's Resources Discussion

[Ilya Alaric]

What about making at least a summary? With a link to all your edits. Because posting here is cool, but in a few months, it will be more difficult to all your work!

I do not how even make albums, so.... :/

 

[Ilya Alaric]

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[r.ace613]

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You really like the stormreaver that much eh? I love it, please keep up the great work, I also agree that you can try creating your own thread!

 

[Ilya Alaric]

You really like the stormreaver that much eh? I love it, please keep up the great work, I also agree that you can try creating your own thread!

Well, yes and know. I really enjoy making their units, but in the first place, when I looking on that smae looking units in original wc3 campaigns and maps, I am estetically dissatisfied from it. Same units, just with other grafic colours. Its just sucks, really, I am that type of person that can without problem sitting at computer even DAYS, just to choose other models for units in campaigns or maps.

 

[stein123]

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that's pretty cool, how about an orc warlock version of the druid of the talon? kinda like this oldie: https://media.moddb.com/cache/images/mods/1/7/6059/thumb_620x2000/32329.jpg

 

[Ilya Alaric]

that's pretty cool, how about an orc warlock version of the druid of the talon? kinda like this oldie: https://media.moddb.com/cache/images/mods/1/7/6059/thumb_620x2000/32329.jpg

I do not know man. Talon shape is not something for orc unit. But maybe I try far seer or shaman. Or I too plan do some silverhands.

 

[r.ace613]

Well, yes and know. I really enjoy making their units, but in the first place, when I looking on that smae looking units in original wc3 campaigns and maps, I am estetically dissatisfied from it. Same units, just with other grafic colours. Its just sucks, really, I am that type of person that can without problem sitting at computer even DAYS, just to choose other models for units in campaigns or maps.

eyyy same too, i guess that's what a pandemic does to you

 

[Ilya Alaric]

eyyy same too, i guess that's what a pandemic does to you

nah, even before I had it like this

 

[Ilya Alaric]

okay, some of you asked for it, here you have it

 

[stein123]

I do not know man. Talon shape is not something for orc unit. But maybe I try far seer or shaman. Or I too plan do some silverhands.

lol you've literally made an orc version of the necromancer and acolyte X'D

 

[Ilya Alaric]

lol you've literally made an orc version of the necromancer and acolyte X'D

I mean... Yeaa, but that is something different. When I imagine orcish caster, I imagine two types of appearance - one is muscular half warrior, for example such shaman and warlock are ideally, and other is just twig in clothes, thin green guy, that have maximally some armor to look bigger or more majestic. Talon is something between it, I do not know, I have time to do it, I like make orcish units, damn, look at what I have in my thread, maybe I will make it, but now I have other plans.

 

[r.ace613]

Hey sir Ujimasa, just a little suggestion, knowing that you will use some other resources from other fellow hive members, I think you can use these two satyr skins for the Emerald Nightmare faction. Using just the same light violet variant's texture is a bit repetitive, maybe it's just me but you might as well use the other brown texture variant

 

[Ujimasa Hojo]

Hey sir Ujimasa, just a little suggestion, knowing that you will use some other resources from other fellow hive members, I think you can use these two satyr skins for the Emerald Nightmare faction. Using just the same light violet variant's texture is a bit repetitive, maybe it's just me but you might as well use the other brown texture variant

I use the in-game textures as much as possible because they can then be easily swapped with other custom textures.

EDIT: Does anyone know a good texturer? I need some to make a coral-esque version of the tree of life texture because I eventually want to make something akin to the coral ancients:

The challenge is to see if they wrap perfectly with Spring versions of the Tree of Life, Ancient of War, and the Ancient of Lore.

 

[Yousef]

Hello, I just found your Myrmidon models and I saw a pic of a pit lord version that is not downloadable, may I ask where can I find it and do you plan on making a red variant?

 

[johnwar]

Hello, I just found your Myrmidon models and I saw a pic of a pit lord version that is not downloadable, may I ask where can I find it and do you plan on making a red variant?

Look at the alternate animations of the Demon Hunter Naga.

 

[Yousef]

Look at the alternate animations of the Demon Hunter Naga.

Oh, I'm blind, thanks a lot!

 

[r.ace613]

I use the in-game textures as much as possible because they can then be easily swapped with other custom textures.

EDIT: Does anyone know a good texturer? I need some to make a coral-esque version of the tree of life texture because I eventually want to make something akin to the coral ancients:

The challenge is to see if they wrap perfectly with Spring versions of the Tree of Life, Ancient of War, and the Ancient of Lore.

I think I can try if it means helping you finishing this project faster

So what we need to do is to retex the Tree's texture into the coral-esque version that you displayed here, right?

 

[bakuma]

Reupdate the Tauren derivatives @Ujimasa Hojo by adding a Youngblood tauren model and logo

 

[r.ace613]

Reupdate the Tauren derivatives @Ujimasa Hojo by adding a Youngblood tauren model and logo

bro the young tauren uses the original tauren texture

 

[bakuma]

bro the young tauren uses the original tauren texture

Yeah, i knew already because it uses the same texture but different color. I wish this was implemented soon

 

[johnwar]

bro the young tauren uses the original tauren texture

I think he means the youngblood tauren on the campaign

he wants a different texture for this guy.

 

[r.ace613]

I think he means the youngblood tauren on the campaign
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he wants a different texture for this guy.

Huh, that makes sense too. I forgot that this was a unit back in the roc campaign

 

[Ujimasa Hojo]

I think I can try if it means helping you finishing this project faster

So what we need to do is to retex the Tree's texture into the coral-esque version that you displayed here, right?

Yes.

I think the best base texture is the Tree of Life's. That way, the custom texture can easily be swapped over the Spring Set.

 

[r.ace613]

Yes.

I think the best base texture is the Tree of Life's. That way, the custom texture can easily be swapped over the Spring Set.

I hope you don't mind me taking on this task then, I could take a long time lol

What better thing to do while awaiting for internship

EDIT: I think I need a tutorial for texturing, for the team colour part, anyone got a good link?

 

[Null]

You could Use this texture Mag'har Orc, Grunt on your orc units to make them a mag har variation.
Or even this one MokNathal.

 

[Ujimasa Hojo]

I hope you don't mind me taking on this task then, I could take a long time lol

What better thing to do while awaiting for internship

EDIT: I think I need a tutorial for texturing, for the team colour part, anyone got a good link?

You need to use a tool that can either edit .blp or .tga files. Back then, PAINT.net was a good one because somebody made an extension which allows you to edit .blp files directly. Unfortunately, it no longer works. Even so, you can still extract in-game textures as .tga files with the MagosEditor. When you open the .tga file in PAINT.net, you will notice that team colored portions are "transparent".

 

[r.ace613]

You need to use a tool that can either edit .blp or .tga files. Back then, PAINT.net was a good one because somebody made an extension which allows you to edit .blp files directly. Unfortunately, it no longer works. Even so, you can still extract in-game textures as .tga files with the MagosEditor. When you open the .tga file in PAINT.net, you will notice that team colored portions are "transparent".

I am planning to use Photoshop, but yeah it's the team colored portions that concerns me, I opened the tga file with Photoshop and the team colored portions are black color instead

 

[The_Legion]

I am planning to use Photoshop, but yeah it's the team colored portions that concerns me, I opened the tga file with Photoshop and the team colored portions are black color instead

I think you can show the red team color on the paths tab if I recall correctly

my mistake, it should be on the channels tab beside layers, you'll want to click alpha to show the tc

 

[r.ace613]

I think you can show the red team color on the paths tab if I recall correctly

my mistake, it should be on the channels tab beside layers, you'll want to click alpha to show the tc

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So those red spots are tc? So do I just draw over it then?

And if I wanted to move the tc, do I color the parts I wanted to have tc in the Alpha layer?

 

[The_Legion]

So those red spots are tc? So do I just draw over it then?

And if I wanted to move the tc, do I color the parts I wanted to have tc in the Alpha layer?

Im not sure how to properly explain it but the red spots by the leaves would be transparent areas on the model because of some material setting on the model itself. You have to reference the areas on the model that would actually have tc on em

 

[r.ace613]

Im not sure how to properly explain it but the red spots by the leaves would be transparent areas on the model because of some material setting on the model itself. You have to reference the areas on the model that would actually have tc on em

I think that's helpful, thanks a lot

EDIT: Sorry, I think I won't be doing this task atm, I'm gonna be busy in the following week

 

[Omera]

The Ice Troll kinda missing their ice axe missiles.

 

[Ujimasa Hojo]

Sorry if I won't be able to do requests at the moment. Busy with the Ancients and real life stuff.

 

[r.ace613]

Hey @Ujimasa Hojo , I finally began working on the Coral-eqsue Tree of Life like you asked(Great job me for delaying it 2 months whole), wanted to ask if you already had someone else working that for you or not? If not, I will continue mine. I might as well show you my process first

I will finish it part by part, so it might take a few days to finish this(And I'm still trying to understand the wrapping around the model itself)

 

[Ujimasa Hojo]

Haven't asked anyone else.

No need to be too strict with the wrapping of the original model because the wrapping can always be adjusted in the edited model.

 

[r.ace613]

Alrighty then, I shall continue, in the meantime I reached this far

If my intern doesn't get crazy tomorrow, I think I am able to finish it tomorrow or Tuesday

 

[r.ace613]

Sorry for double posting, but just thought I should update you

Apparently I have so much time today that I finished texturing it, but there's one issue(at least to me), the texture seems a little too flat... maybe because I removed the leaves behind the ancient(I tried coral but they just looked horrendous). At this point I'm not even sure if this is good enough to be used by you or not 😅

So I thought maybe you can do a separate model file for the coral version of tree of life? Using actual corals in the Coral Bed model for the back if you want to

 

[Ujimasa Hojo]

Not having the "seaweed" is fine. There are in-game textures I can use as substitute.

 

[r.ace613]

Not having the "seaweed" is fine. There are in-game textures I can use as substitute.

Soooo do you want me to upload the texture here then?

 

[master Gul'dan]

This models have bugs Lumber mill Orc beta and derivatives, lumber mill's saw changes it's size when model does work animation.

 

[Nightmare2077]

I have a question about cannon tower (see here Tower (Human) and Derivatives )

They do not face their guns correctly at their target upon attacking (always instead face 270 degrees, i.e. 'south'); while during 'rest' their cannon-turrets rotate back to deafalut 'south-east'.

Is there any easy way to fix that, within unit editor perhaps? I think this isn't the model's fault...

 

[Retera]

@Ujimasa Hojo I happened to be looking at this bundle: Warlock (Stormreaver) and Derivatives

And I noticed that the human blademaster variant within this bundle (which seems to have uploaded named "Ujimasa Hojo") has fallen victim to a bug in Retera Model Studio that has existed for many, many years (and also in my prior software called Matrix Eater).

For years I told people that opening a model and saving it again in my software would usually fix the "model parts sticking to other models" bug. This is because I do not preserve the GeosetId and GeosetAnimId metadata on bones, and instead I regenerate this information every time we save a model. I do this because I determined that for all I could tell, the original War3ArtTools used to create the original Blizzard MDX art assets also automatically generated this information, so it would be a waste of the time of our community for artists to need to decide this information on their own.

However, in the one case of the Blademaster -- and I think I have not seen any other model like this -- there is an "intentionally corrupted" entry in one of the GeosetId/GeosetAnimId values that basically gets lost by resaving with Retera Model Studio and all the other MDX software that I have ever written with my same libraries. This causes the ribbon effect on the Blademaster sword to show only and specifically during the Blademaster "Dissipate" animation, even though on the original classic model it does not show.

So, I was seeing that your model has this bug. You can reformat the model to something that Retera Model Studio can open and save fine by changing the ribbon emitter on the Blademaster sword to have a 0 visibility value during the dissipate animation (meaning "don't show"). Obviously if you're interested you can analyze the original blademaster and how it does not have that visibility setting -- so in theory its ribbon emitter should show during its dissipate animation -- but then in reality ingame it does not show. The reason is because of these GeosetAnimId/GeosetId meta datas. Blizzard basically attaches the classic Blademaster ribbon to a bone, and then corrupted the bone so it would normally do that thing where it would stretch out and attach to nearby models, but apparently the behavior on ribbons instead of stretching like that is to disappear, and so it causes the original blizzard Blademaster model's ribbon to mysteriously disappear during that animation (which despite not having 0 visibility keyframe is presumably the author intention, since I doubt the ribbon is intended to show during dissipate).
Or at least that was my intuition/conclusion when I investigated the problem many years ago. Maybe I am mis-remembering, but as I recall this was the general idea of the problem.

For the above described reasons, I never felt called to fix this, because it seems that I would need to change my GeosetId/GeosetAnimId meta data generator to generate using some intentionally corrupted output in certain circumstances that I didn't bother to work out.

Just figured I'd mention this in case you feel like modifying it to fix the problem. The issue may also apply to other Blademaster derivative works that you open and save with my software. Happy modding!

 

[Ujimasa Hojo]

@Ujimasa Hojo I happened to be looking at this bundle: Warlock (Stormreaver) and Derivatives

And I noticed that the human blademaster variant within this bundle (which seems to have uploaded named "Ujimasa Hojo") has fallen victim to a bug in Retera Model Studio that has existed for many, many years (and also in my prior software called Matrix Eater).

For years I told people that opening a model and saving it again in my software would usually fix the "model parts sticking to other models" bug. This is because I do not preserve the GeosetId and GeosetAnimId metadata on bones, and instead I regenerate this information every time we save a model. I do this because I determined that for all I could tell, the original War3ArtTools used to create the original Blizzard MDX art assets also automatically generated this information, so it would be a waste of the time of our community for artists to need to decide this information on their own.

However, in the one case of the Blademaster -- and I think I have not seen any other model like this -- there is an "intentionally corrupted" entry in one of the GeosetId/GeosetAnimId values that basically gets lost by resaving with Retera Model Studio and all the other MDX software that I have ever written with my same libraries. This causes the ribbon effect on the Blademaster sword to show only and specifically during the Blademaster "Dissipate" animation, even though on the original classic model it does not show.

So, I was seeing that your model has this bug. You can reformat the model to something that Retera Model Studio can open and save fine by changing the ribbon emitter on the Blademaster sword to have a 0 visibility value during the dissipate animation (meaning "don't show"). Obviously if you're interested you can analyze the original blademaster and how it does not have that visibility setting -- so in theory its ribbon emitter should show during its dissipate animation -- but then in reality ingame it does not show. The reason is because of these GeosetAnimId/GeosetId meta datas. Blizzard basically attaches the classic Blademaster ribbon to a bone, and then corrupted the bone so it would normally do that thing where it would stretch out and attach to nearby models, but apparently the behavior on ribbons instead of stretching like that is to disappear, and so it causes the original blizzard Blademaster model's ribbon to mysteriously disappear during that animation (which despite not having 0 visibility keyframe is presumably the author intention, since I doubt the ribbon is intended to show during dissipate).
Or at least that was my intuition/conclusion when I investigated the problem many years ago. Maybe I am mis-remembering, but as I recall this was the general idea of the problem.

For the above described reasons, I never felt called to fix this, because it seems that I would need to change my GeosetId/GeosetAnimId meta data generator to generate using some intentionally corrupted output in certain circumstances that I didn't bother to work out.

Just figured I'd mention this in case you feel like modifying it to fix the problem. The issue may also apply to other Blademaster derivative works that you open and save with my software. Happy modding!

I was able to find an older version of said model and the error was on my part.

@Ujimasa Hojo I happened to be looking at this bundle: Warlock (Stormreaver) and Derivatives

And I noticed that the human blademaster variant within this bundle (which seems to have uploaded named "Ujimasa Hojo") has fallen victim to a bug in Retera Model Studio that has existed for many, many years (and also in my prior software called Matrix Eater).

For years I told people that opening a model and saving it again in my software would usually fix the "model parts sticking to other models" bug. This is because I do not preserve the GeosetId and GeosetAnimId metadata on bones, and instead I regenerate this information every time we save a model. I do this because I determined that for all I could tell, the original War3ArtTools used to create the original Blizzard MDX art assets also automatically generated this information, so it would be a waste of the time of our community for artists to need to decide this information on their own.

However, in the one case of the Blademaster -- and I think I have not seen any other model like this -- there is an "intentionally corrupted" entry in one of the GeosetId/GeosetAnimId values that basically gets lost by resaving with Retera Model Studio and all the other MDX software that I have ever written with my same libraries. This causes the ribbon effect on the Blademaster sword to show only and specifically during the Blademaster "Dissipate" animation, even though on the original classic model it does not show.

So, I was seeing that your model has this bug. You can reformat the model to something that Retera Model Studio can open and save fine by changing the ribbon emitter on the Blademaster sword to have a 0 visibility value during the dissipate animation (meaning "don't show"). Obviously if you're interested you can analyze the original blademaster and how it does not have that visibility setting -- so in theory its ribbon emitter should show during its dissipate animation -- but then in reality ingame it does not show. The reason is because of these GeosetAnimId/GeosetId meta datas. Blizzard basically attaches the classic Blademaster ribbon to a bone, and then corrupted the bone so it would normally do that thing where it would stretch out and attach to nearby models, but apparently the behavior on ribbons instead of stretching like that is to disappear, and so it causes the original blizzard Blademaster model's ribbon to mysteriously disappear during that animation (which despite not having 0 visibility keyframe is presumably the author intention, since I doubt the ribbon is intended to show during dissipate).
Or at least that was my intuition/conclusion when I investigated the problem many years ago. Maybe I am mis-remembering, but as I recall this was the general idea of the problem.

For the above described reasons, I never felt called to fix this, because it seems that I would need to change my GeosetId/GeosetAnimId meta data generator to generate using some intentionally corrupted output in certain circumstances that I didn't bother to work out.

Just figured I'd mention this in case you feel like modifying it to fix the problem. The issue may also apply to other Blademaster derivative works that you open and save with my software. Happy modding!

Must be one of those post-Reforge bugs. I haven't encountered the bug as far as I can tell.

 

[Ujimasa Hojo]

Soooo do you want me to upload the texture here then?

I have been waiting for your to upload it on the official resource page, by the way. Unless there is going to be an issue with the rules or something.

EDIT:

I have a question about cannon tower (see here Tower (Human) and Derivatives )

They do not face their guns correctly at their target upon attacking (always instead face 270 degrees, i.e. 'south'); while during 'rest' their cannon-turrets rotate back to deafalut 'south-east'.

Is there any easy way to fix that, within unit editor perhaps? I think this isn't the model's fault...

That looks like an older version of the official upload. Try upgrading the imported model.

 

[r.ace613]

I have been waiting for your to upload it on the official resource page, by the way. Unless there is going to be an issue with the rules or something.

Ahh I will just upload it in pastebin here then, sorry for the wait, here you go

 

[BallsSucker]

@Ujimasa Hojo Hey man!
I downloaded your alchemist and derivatives and its awesome!

Im wondering if you just could tell me how to import the pikes when he gets morphed. I saw they're bones, but do you know how I can make them appear into another moddel?

I converted the reforged model of alchemist to classic, and I think it would look awesome with the pikes.

Thank you a lot for your time and reply!

 

[Null]

Can you make an avatar form for garithos?

 

[Yousef]

Hello, I made these Nightborne building textures a while back based on the Observatory and Dalaran Buildings doodads by cropping wow textures and Ujimasa Hojo's Dalaran buildings, if anyone wants to use them or maybe refine them please be my guest.

Spoiler

 

[Null]

Can you make a discord server cause there people can communicate and understand things more easily

 

[MasterHaosis]

@Ujimasa Hojo I always wondered why you never made Kul Tiras Footman and Knight. Especially knight, since we do not have any (there are modern HD with green clothes, so they do not match your blue clothes for that faction). There is footman made by loktar. I made once Knight, because we lacked that, a few years ago. It was mounted captain on a horse, with blue Kul Tiras clothes. Helmet, shield and weapon remained original. Then I lost model..... I am still upset on moments when I remember about that.