Voidspawn Building Pack

[stein123]

Noice pack :3

 

[Masih Shadowmind]

This is really COOL!!

 

[Devalut]

Amazing.

 

[Retera]

Thanks for your appreciations, I made these models years ago some of them up to even a decade ago, just like hundreds of others that I made but didn't put in the models section because that would take a while and also they are substandard geomerges like these or whatever, and I didn't want to hear it and preferred to tell myself they are cool.

 

[_lycan]

damn retera really cool models!

 

[Kyrbi0]

Hey, really great to see you uploading a bunch of your old models, man.

 

[hexhound]

Very cool stuff, thanks for putting it up.

 

[General Frank]

Very creative and lovely stuff.
Classic models and textures have a lot of charm to them.
Great work, @Retera !

 

[Kyrbi0]

Holy smokes

 

[Cherrymage]

Perfect

 

[KhalJyanoz]

These Voidspawn models would be PERFECT for a few projects I've had on the back shelf for some time.

 

[WanSaweR]

This building pack is great.

 

[stan0033]

All of the models don't have a proper or attractive birth animation. If I was a moderator I'd tell you to go fix 'em. Also, if there aren't attachment points and collision shapes, consider installing them on.

EDIT:

I tried to open Abyss Rift with War3 Model Editor v1.07, but - "Expected a VRTX tag, got a '*' tag"

So, your models are also broken. Nice.

 

[Retera]

I tried to open Abyss Rift with War3 Model Editor v1.07, "Expected a VRTX tag, got a '*' tag"

So, your models are also broken. Nice.

No, that means War3 Model Editor is broken. (Edit: Literally. Back in 2010 or whenever I made this I didn't know War3 Model Editor existed, so I didn't restrict myself to your subset of the format. I was using the format of the official War3 game)

The birth animation is a linked model in the same style as the original ones in-game. The import path is "SharedModels\VoidBirth.mdx"

Many of these models are very old and it is possible they might be missing certain attachment points. So I tagged the bundle with open source. Feel free to fix it however you want!

 

[stan0033]

soo, if I maybe fix them, you can update all with donations?

Why don;t you fix it?

 

[General Frank]

A very well made collection of buildings with a distinctive and coherent artistic style.
Great job.

 

[Loken Ironwolf]

Some of these buildings heavily remind me of the Lotus faction in Battle Realms. I take it that was the inspiration?

 

[BaiyuGalan]

Mathildon？Good

 

[kirkask]

these buildings are awsome but for some reason i can't use them (I already imported a lot of models and thoes just workd fine)

 

[KhalJyanoz]

these buildings are awsome but for some reason i can't use them (I already imported a lot of models and thoes just workd fine)

What do you mean you can't use them? It may depend on the version of WorldEdit you're using. I tried using the 1.31 patch (can be found somewhere in the forums) to update my Warcraft Classic after Blizzard removed that ability for Reforged's release, and I've got a couple weird bugs, including custom Icons disappearing in WorldEdit. It mainly triggers if I load a test map, but is fixed if I quit WorldEdit and reload.

 

[Resyak]

This is perfect for the new act of my campaign, thanks very much for upload quality content.

 

[Borgusul]

I am having difficulty making this work completely. I think I have imported all the textures in the pack, but the texture still isn't working correctly, specifically the SliverShatter4 and the DarkShrineX2 models. The top doesn't quite load. I am wondering if there is some step I am missing, though I have also imported void birth, as expected.

Any advice?

 

[Retera]

I am wondering if there is some step I am missing

Sure, for any model there is a computer generated guide to set it up:

In this case, in that guide it looks like maybe one of the textures is in the computer generated picture but not in your picture:

Other than that, it's been years since I made this model but I'm guessing one of the rock chunk textures didn't load based on your picture. That can happen if you try to preview the model before setting up all of these imports correctly, in which case the simplest solution is to restart your map editor, and in the worst case re-import everything and set up the file paths first before attempting to view it, to fix the problem in the map editor's texture cache.

 

[Borgusul]

You were right, it simply hadn't loaded correctly (despite me restarting World Editor to check). It works now, thanks for helping out. Great models!

 

[KaiZen7th]

This pack... is remarkable!

 

[Retera]

remarkable

Thanks. It is one of the 7 races in the mod I was working on back in the day:

Heaven's Fall: Melee Gameplay Mod

In an alternate Warcraft universe, giant relics left by the Titans that had once orbited the world have fallen upon Azeroth and changed the world forever. New races have arisen, twisted and changed by the magic of these old relics, and many have sought to claim the true power of the relics for...

www.hiveworkshop.com

My irl friends convinced me we should not use models from a site like Hive at the time, and should make all our own custom models as much as possible, so I was making custom for the units. Voidspawn is just one of the races. But because I worked on the stuff in that mod for so many years, it was of varying quality and not uploaded to Hive back when it was being made 10-15 years ago.

It's only in 2020 that this stuff was uploaded. In many cases, maybe a decade after it was made. Reforged makes me tired, and I wanted the people who still appreciate classic to pilfer my life story for its component parts and maybe use those to keep the dream alive, even if the shareholders of Warcraft brand don't want to keep the dream alive.

Let me know if you ever see any models or things in the Heaven's Fall techtrees, screenshots, whatever that you want. These bundles are made by pilfering the best among things I had created, but it always feels like there was a lot that I never uploaded to Hive Models Section. Sometimes the assets are not considered unique enough nor enough work to be permitted to upload them, so what you get here on Hive are these ripped out pieces of what was intended to be a complete experience. For example, all the units of the race these buildings were for... Some of the more notable heroes are uploaded to Hive, but most of the units just simply aren't that I recall. The idea was to mostly have them feature a lot of glow planes like voidwalkers, but to introduce team color I set them up to pulse the team color, at least on some versions. So, a lot of the units were stylized wc3 creep models, and maybe not inspiring to Hive model reviewers and could just be taken down.

 

[Towbftw]

Hello, first of all, insane models u rdy did a great job with theses !
Sadly I dont know what the matter but I cant use them, am using 1.30 TFT, I did exactly import as the tutorial said, when I start le game the building isnt apparent at all
Any help would be rly welcome

 

[kirkask]

Sadly even if i folow the how to import step by step, it still wont appire in game

 

[Retera]

These models were used in a 1.26 mod that I created many years ago. As the author of Retera Model Studio, I am generally OK with you opening and editing these models and I spend my time more focused on the tools than on the output of the tools. So, if you have any issue with the models, feel free to fix those issues.

The most likely problem that you might encounter would be that the models probably are still using sorted file paths from the mod that they were created for. So, a custom texture might need to be Buildings\Voidspawn\ShrineOfAether\ShrineOfAether.blp instead of ShineOfAether.blp nor Textures\ShrineOfAether.blp in the Import Manager.

But I also thought that the Hive import tutorial usually accounted for this problem. Have you tried dumping the models into Sanity Test to list model errors? If there are severe errors that actually cause it not to show, it might be as simple as fixing them. As the author of Retera Model Studio I know how to fix them, or if I don't get back to you in time you could fix them too.

(Which model file specifically were you having a problem with?)

 

[fostaa]

More than awesome.

 

[Macielos]

Awesome pack. I have a question though - how to use the birth effect? Normally buildings have birth animation within their models, but here it's separate. I could spawn this effect by trigger, set its scale dependently on building size, and remove once construction is finished/cancelled/destroyed etc. Any simpler way to handle this?

 

[Retera]

Any simpler way to handle this?

Yea. The models have the birth animation as a linked model, similar to night elf or undead. So if you import the birth animation to the correct filepath, then it will load automatically. If you want to know what the correct filepath is, you can check inside the model data for each model.

 

[Mortimm]

It looks fantastic! What a unique style that still fits within the Warcraft universe! Fantastic job!

 

[Trionetrix]

Amazing! I could really use this for my new maps! ^v^


10/10!

 

[Deathkok]

good job i will add in my map