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Zandalari Throne of War

"Zandalar forever!"

My entry for the 35th Modeling Contest

A fearsome devilsaur mounted by a crew of trolls and a massive ziggurat-ballista.
This unit was designed as an endgame techtree-topper. It has a built-in portrait, several spell animations, and two sets of attacks (melee and ranged). Also included is a missile model for the ranged attack.
The mesh is modeled from scratch in Sketchup (sans the batrider geosets). Wrapped and animated in MdlVis and Magos. Uses in-game textures.

Art - Animation - Blend Time 0.15
Art - Animation - Cast Backswing 0.550
Art - Animation - Cast Point 0.600
Art - Death Time 2.30
Art - Projectile Impact Z 200
Art - Projectile Launch Y - 30
Art - Projectile Launch Z 270
Art - Required Animation Names - Attachments large
Art - Shadow Image - Center X 160
Art - Shadow Image - Center Y 160
Art - Shadow Image - Height 390
Art - Shadow Image - Width 390
Combat - Attack 1 - Animation Backswing Point 0.550
Combat - Attack 1 - Animation Damage Point 0.600
Combat - Attack 1 - Range 160
Combat - Attack 2 - Animation Backswing Point 0.700
Combat - Attack 2 - Animation Damage Point 0.600
Movement - Speed Base 220

Hand Left/Right - the devilsaur's hands
Foot Left/Right - the devilsaur's feet
Chest - the devilsaur's chest
Head - the devilsaur's head
Weapon - the devilsaur's jaws
Mount Left/Right - the commander's hands
Rear Left/Right - the riders' chests

As always, everything is open source, feel free to modify to your liking. Credits will do fine.
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Zandalari Throne of War (Model)

Zandalari Throne of War Missile (Model)

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General Frank
A beautifully opulent model with lots of details, great use of in-game textures and good animations. Works in-game. Great job.
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Whoa...! Who does this dark-skinned and red-eyed T-Rex remind you of? Me, actually! Well, only when I was using my previous pseudonymous dino avatars... and they were all Giganotosaurus, not Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Anyway, I really loved this "big bad boy". Hmm... I might even use him. Keep up with the outstanding work, @frostwhisper! It's because of you amazing modelers (especially @General Frank, @Tauer, @bakr, and many other highly talented modelers), who create high quality models, that I'm slowly returning to campaign-making for Warcraft III (I still have to revamp my whole ten-year-old-abandoned campaign), therefore I wish to thank you all for inspiring me!
 
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So epic! Love that there are attachment points on the riders as well 👏
By any chance please do a wild Devilsaur hehe
 

frostwhisper

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Can you make a demo map where you show off the best way to utilize this model as a unit?
Sure, have a look at the testmap I used when making the model.

By any chance please do a wild Devilsaur
I'll release an unmounted version once the contest concludes.
 

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