WIP - Skeletel Warrior (WoW)

[Deleted member 177737]

Hey,

I'm currently re-creating the Skeletel Warrior npc from WoW. It might be finished today or tomorrow I'm not sure yet.
Every time I finish a piece of the model I'll update this post with a new picture of the piece.

(I need suggestions for what unit to copy the animations from)

WIP 1

 

[D a w n]

erm...skeleton anims maybe??

 

[Deleted member 177737]

erm...skeleton anims maybe??

I'll try them out when it is finished.

Edit: Just finished the chain mail around his head, going to work on the shoulders now. The poly count will probably be around 700-900 so it shouldn't be used in large amounts.




Edit2: Finished the shoulders, probably going to work on the ribcage next.





Edit3: Finished the Ribcage and Spine, Working on tattered cloth bits. Looks like the model will be a bit more high poly then I thought, the new estimate is 800-1100. (The model will need to be a special unit with high resource costs.)






Edit4: Took around 30 min just to do the first piece of cloth mainly because it was hard to figure out how to place it onto a skeleton. The upper body is mostly complete minus a few things like arms. Working on the arms and pelvis area next.





The model that I finished looked like crap so I'm re-doing parts of it.

 

[PROXY]

Until edit 4 it looks kinda nice, but the last WIP ist just rushed and fucked up. I suggest you to redo the feet, legs, pelvis and arms. Even if you suck at it, try it, as now it just looks... akward.

 

[-Grendel]

ok like Fan said, latest WIP was just...well...not as i was expecting..
the arms are too short and you need to redo the legs. i would also suggest making the shoulderpads bigger.
try making his body structure look more like this:

 

[Deleted member 177737]

Yeah I did rush it a bit during the last few bits. I'm going to test the version now with animations, then I'll re-model the arms legs and pelvis area.

Edit: Just began re-modeling some of the stuff. Here is the belt and belt-buckle, I probably won't be including the hanging head (not sure though). The next thing I'm going to attempt to make is the boots.




Edit2: Realized that I already modeled a foot for my "Titan" doodad series, so I just deleted a few meshes combined some stuff and re-textured it to make the boots for the skeleton. OFC I tried to make them look like the model from WoW but I couldn't get it to look right. The model just hit 1k Triangles and almost 1k vertices, my estimate for the end result is 1.3k... It might reach 1.5...




Edit3: Decided not to even attempt to make the hands by myself, so I took the hands from the footman on the human campaign screen. The model is around 1.17k atm, I think that the 1.5k is a more realistic estimate now... Kind of insane for a unit (1.5k is around 3 normal orc grunts I think). Looks like this model will need to be only used as a boss monster or something along those lines.



Edit4: I seriously didn't want to increase the polys by 300-400 with the skirt so I went with something a bit more simple which only adds around 20-30, I will then layer one or two more little things on with it to make it look a bit more detailed. <3 transparent cloth, its helping make the model look really undead.




Edit5: Finished, he just needs some animations now. I tried to keep the polys down with the bones again so I just kept it as a while bone for the arms and legs instead of doing multiple parts which would increase the poly count. The model is at 1.32k polys.

 

[Centurion]

Hmm looks pretty Cool man i think it looks pretty nice, keep it up!

 

[Hawkwing]

His hips look a bit wide and his chest a bit narrow. Otherwise, it's quite nice.

 

[Deleted member 177737]

Can anyone give him the footman animations?
If you can the model's DL is here http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/requests-341/transfer-animations-model-completed-201246/

I've edited the link. The model attached to the OP is (I think) the newest version un-geoset merged, and the model attached to the bottom most is (I think) the one where I merged some geosets onto the skeleton.

 

[PROXY]

Everything's fine now (and looks much better) but I suggest you to remodel the legs, as they are just some simple boxes right now :/ Also, make the hipps a bit smaller. Other than that, it looks really cool. I can do the rigging if you want me to.

 

[Deleted member 177737]

Everything's fine now (and looks much better) but I suggest you to remodel the legs, as they are just some simple boxes right now :/ Also, make the hipps a bit smaller. Other than that, it looks really cool. I can do the rigging if you want me to.

The legs, arms, and hips are like that to save around 300 polys =P

Yeah that would help.