Blood Elf Caster dude

[AnemicRoyalty]

Yeah, about the staff; I scaled it down, but it looked wimpy in-game next to other models so I ended up scaling it back up again. It looks gigantic in the viewer, but about right in-game, so what can you do? :P

Today's update: rigging complete and Stand 1 animation done. Anyone know of a good image capture program that can export to .gif? A quick Google search didn't show anything that looks appealing. Other than that I'm stuck with still shots :/

[moyack]

Originally Posted by AnemicRoyalty

Anyone know of a good image capture program that can export to .gif? A quick Google search didn't show anything that looks appealing. Other than that I'm stuck with still shots :/

Camtasia is the most advisable.

[AnemicRoyalty]

Ahh, thanks Moyack.

Animated screencap:

[deolrin]

Nifty. Looking forward to the rest. :)

[Linaze]

Looking good.

[Kino]

He looks kinda stocky, while most Blood Elfs are lanky-ish characters.
But still good looking though.

[AnemicRoyalty]

I based the proportions on the Blood Mage, the head's a little bigger on mine but otherwise fairly close. WC3 is pretty chunky in general, so rawr.

Walk animation done! Pretty stoked with how this is going :D Yes, I'm spamming updates, I'm sure it would be very annoying if the modeling forum was more active :P

The staff bugs out slightly, that's just NeoDex hatin' on me. There's probably a better way to do it (like having two bones for the staff, one for position and the other for rotation), but it's not *that* noticeable in-game.

[deolrin]

Well, is the staff attached to the hand right bone? Or at least, is the Staff's bone attached to it?

[Linaze]

Looks smooth enough, good work.

[AnemicRoyalty]

Originally Posted by deolrin

Well, is the staff attached to the hand right bone? Or at least, is the Staff's bone attached to it?

That's the thing; the staff is entirely separate to the right hand. It looks fine in Max, but when exported does strange things. I know that NeoDex has problems exporting bones that have both position and rotation keyed. What you're seeing is my hack-job attempt to fix the problem by offsetting the staffs position a bit in Max... I'm afraid it's a little beyond me D:

[deolrin]

But why won't you simply make the staff Bone_Hand_Right's child? That should fix everything. Not doing so simply seems silly, to be honest. :P

[SinisterX]

I like it. Proportions are fine, models in WC3/TFT are meant to be "chunky" or "beefy" specially if they are male/heroes.

blame Samwise Didier ;p

I can't wait to see it ready and out there.

[Nuclear Arbitor]

attaching it is fine as long as it never does anything odd in his hand. i know from experience that you can get some really big problems if you try and do anything other then rotation or scaling with child bones. (by that i mean in comparison to the parent bone; moving the bone is fine as long as you accept that the parent bone is going to move as well.) although you guys are probably all aware of this.

[Dionesiist]

This looks infinitely better in motion. Not that it didn't look good enough before, but the proportions were bugging me overall. But I am now distracted. =P

[AnemicRoyalty]

rawrupdate.

Stand Ready:



Death (...and then the Beast's animator suffered a sudden, fatal heart-attack):



I'm pretty stoked with the overall floofy-ness of the robe-thing.

Also done a dissipate animation which isn't that exciting (just goes limp and floats up, rotating slightly) and an attack animation which I'm not that thrilled with.

So yeah, need to make a spell animation or two, redo the attack (and possibly add another), make another stand animation, make Hero Glow, do some nifty particle work and make a portrait and I'm more or less done :P