From now on, I'm starting a one-man project wnich I named "Melee Heroes Project"! (yay)
SO! I'm planning to do models for one melee hero from of the almost all races of Azeroth. One hero per race. These races will include: Humans(*), Orcs, High Elves, Blood Elves, Night Elves, Dwarves(*), Gnomes, Jungle Troll(*), Tauren, Ogre, Goblin, Forsaken and Scourage Undead, Nerubian, Naga, Ancient, Dranei, Fel Orc, Demon, Pandaren, Elemental;
Total of 21 heroes,
The purpose of this topic is to help me make those models be best as they could with asking you of advices, for finding ideas (post your if u want) and to give me motivation to do them .
Not very much is done. I'm planning him to have shiny runes all over his body, and an alternate form in wnich all runes are shining bright (something like power up).
That would be all by now. Ideas and comments are welcome
I think the tauren looks cool, the way his hair is hanging down like that. Maybe the robe should be a different shade of brown, because that one looks too much like the tauren skin.
Troll hero update: [pic removed] Both versions received new weapon and with-flag version has new banner skin and skulls atached to it's belt. Few skin changes. Everything needed now is portrait and name.
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cover troll's body with tatoos (like the demon hunter)
change the tauren's robe OR give it a fur texture, so we will not mistake it with the tauren itself
the angel desperately needs a new skin. and as for the human hero, i dont think the demon hunter is a good base model for this. you see, all its animations just dont fit with the sword he is carrying, the golden ball were probably the dh's blade middle. change his animations (standing and attack, walking is cool) give he new swords, make an golden eyeglow for him and finish his helmet
For the skin, i suggest you to make the tatoos team colored, and to try some kind of facial painting. about the model, rework the proportions. Forest troll are usually hunched, tall and slim, and this have still the body of a blademaster. Also, the team colored pants catch a lot the eye and remember a lot the original model, you may want to do something about that.
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i was gonna suggest the not-so-Arthas head on the first one till i saw your comment. i like the orange troll. low-poly units that look decked out are very cool in my opinion. the angel can't have a new skin. it's part of the other unit's UV map. a very small section, i might add. the Tauren Runemaster needs a belt. i'd suggest the blademaster beads going around his waist. i think that'd look very nice. i also think he should he should have two horns. that could be achieved with a simple extrude, scale, and a snap double verts.
i think the pants on the angel-unit (not the angel version. the unit that turns into it) should stay blue but have kneepads on it shaded in the same way as the top armor background.
Decided to name troll The Skullsplinter becouse of those skulls and his spear-like weapon wnich can cut and splinter. I'll think of some background story of the class later.
I'll upload flag-less version after fixing some bugs.
The angel unit (alternate) will surely get new skin, probably the "shape" of the skin will be the same, only brighter colours. Also non-alternate unit will receive new helmet and whole head and some skin changes. Will be reshaped to look more like human than elf ( elves are slimmer and more agile than humans, at least in w3) New anims also.
the Tauren Runemaster needs a belt
Roger that!
I've started work on an ogre hero, I'll post some screenshot when beta version will be ready.
Also I'm really pleased how the Skullsplinter turned out. I would like to thank Mecheon for spear weapon idea, Raiju for tatoos idea and to Nasrudin for telling me to reshape it more. Thanks to you guy this model looks really cool^^
Reshaped a bit non-alternate form to be more bulky, changed weapons to scimitars, added shoulderpad, some small skin changes. Alternate version is now transparent as you can see. The head will be ,of course transparent too.
Things to do: Finish non-alternate form's helmet, change hands skin to look like gloves, change pants skin a bit, change scimitars to look more sacred-gold-like, change skin of the shields. And of course make alternate's form head transparent.
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http://www.wc3sear.ch/?p=Models&ID=2832
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