Upwards Shimmering Portal Structure

[stan0033]

So you just took the model of blizzard, changed some colors and rotated it? eh....

 

[Hazop / Sarven]

Not bad for a simple model

 

[Kyrbi0]

RETERAAAAAA

Awexome to see you uploading again, man. Definitely seem useful. @Kam has the best ideas, doesn't he? : P

 

[Rogue Kessler]

Could be useful as a boss aura/attachment. I dig it.

 

[Cuore]

After downloading this I noticed it lacks attachment points and collision shapes. May I add them and send the modified model to you for re-upload, @Retera ?

 

[Wareditor]

With some changes it could be a really useful model for a lot of maps! I hope you are gonna make them

 

[Retera]

@Cuore Sure about the attachment points and collision shapes. I just based it on whatever the existing portal model had.

 

[General Frank]

Might be useful for people, but edits are too small to meet approval criteria.

 

[Retera]

Along with adding the sixth crystal crystal into the model, and team color crystals, I spent an immense amount of time writing a computer program to generate this model from the standard portal by rotating it's internal animation data to face a different direction so that it is truly an upward facing portal, not just a portal which had it's root bone rotated or something. So, it seems a little bit like subtley large edits, but I can see where you're coming from.

Considering these edits are small to you, I'm actually curious, do you have modeling software that could rotate a rigged wc3 model with it's animations to face a different direction? It might be worth it for me to investigate more existing alternatives to writing my own code.

 

[General Frank]

The result however is important: The model is just basically a rotated version, that's all.

 

[Kyrbi0]

"Retera's Private Model Dump Thread"...

Might be useful for people, but edits are too small to meet approval criteria.

Wait, isn't "might be useful for some people but not good enough for..." usually the rationale behind "Substandard"?

 

[General Frank]

"Retera's Private Model Dump Thread"...


Wait, isn't "might be useful for some people but not good enough for..." usually the rationale behind "Substandard"?

Yes, so what's the matter anyway?

 

[Kyrbi0]

Yes, so what's the matter anyway?

Ah, I didn't see the rating & thought you were saying "approved" as in "approved at all", i.e. was going to be rejected. My bad.

 

[Retera]

We're still at an impass where I have to run a piece of terrible, hacky code called ShimmeringPortal.java next time I want to rotate the axis of rotation of a bunch of quaternions :/

Anyway, sounds good. Thank you guys for the replies

 

[Klein]

Great idea!
I suggest removing the color layer over the portal. The original portal has only the purple effect in the middle, which is enough in my opinion.

 

[StormKnight]

@Retera This model kind of tricks peoples eyes because i showed it to some of my friends and based on screenshots they kinda got confused to thinking the model is standing as it originally was. i later understood its because of the spinning white runes facing player camera.

If you can make it so these spinning rune circles are not facing player camera, and just flat facing upwards like the portal itself while spinning, potentially also slightly lowering the hight of the crystals and the spinning runes. it would fix this issue.