HD Modeling Contest #1 - Hero's Journey

[BurnedSmackdown]

My work in progress

 

[Trolldaeron]

A human female with a rifle may be incredibly useful for Gilnean race.

 

[Ardenaso]

My work in progress View attachment 378779

you can use the Night Elf Runner's legs for the legs

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Peasant Troll Slayer

 

[Retera]

In my quest to make "Horrible PKBlaster PKB Editor!!!!111" I made a custom UI that can do "File -> Open" on the PKB, and then select strings within it, enter a new string of a different length, press ENTER to save it, and then I did "File -> Save" and saved out the PKB to a file that I selected.

Using this, I was able to take one of the two particles on the left (the purple and red are in-game) and introduce a blue one into my map.

Now I am well on my way to having the technology to make fancy custom PKB files for my hero character for this contest later, just solely for the purpose of showing off!

 

[Bagysta]

@ShadiHD @Tamplier777 @Bagysta get in here!

Okay, I'm in !

 

[Barorque]

Okay, I'm in !

 

[Archian]

Okay, I'm in !

 

[Barorque]

Geosets looking good on the ride (might need to add some team color, but then again, it's a hero with glow and all that).

Now to make the gnome (somefockinghow) and then to edit every animation, which will probably not work at all, we'll see... at least it will be a nice museum piece if not working.

If it wasn't clear, this is the WoW piece I'm trying to replicate, or make look similar:

Mechagon Mechanostrider

A mount collection item. It is a quest reward from Propagate the News. In the Mount Items category. Added in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth.

www.wowhead.com

Edit: Some amazing luck with cat's leg back-bones, they match the mechanostrider perfectly, this will be much easier than I thought.
(ignore the attempts to make an elf looks like a gnome, lots of work there needed)

 

[BurnedSmackdown]

Female Villager Hunter, just need to get the portrait right and thinking of doing some retexuring too

 

[Ardenaso]

View attachment 378997 Female Villager Hunter, just need to get the portrait right and thinking of doing some retexuring too

Tess Greymane?

 

[BurnedSmackdown]

Tess Greymane?

Nope just a villager hunter

 

[Barorque]

WIP-3

Still a lot of work to do, however geosets are.. let's say 95% done.
Need to connect the "power cable" to the mount's back thingy, fix every awkward animation issue, add some nice popcornFX and a few minor changes here and there. Looks like a few days of work.
Calling the hero Arc Lancer.




A few more angles without the strong lighting in RMS:

 

[Archian]

That's sick dude! Love the mount and that you gave her mech arms and legs

 

[Barorque]

That's sick dude! Love the mount and that you gave her mech arms and legs

That's kind of the thing about Mechagnomes, augmentation and being as little "flesh" as is possible. They're basically believing to return to their original state as the titans made them before the whole curse of flesh thingy.
It is a little bit silly lore-wise, but not that bad in my opinion, since gnomes were a joke race from the get go. Pretty sure every non WoW player on Hive must instinctively hate any new lore, but some pieces of it are just nice in my opinion.

 

[Raddazong]

The Legion is coming...



My "antihero" is making good progress ...
Revise a few unclean places in the animations, reduce the number of .dds-files that are still required.
Tighten a few screws here and there, a little bit of spit and some polish...

I call him: the Houndmaster.

 

[JarHed]

WIP-3

View attachment 379186

Going to comment here, but the legs look a bit long for a gnome. Maybe it's just the angle. Use your own judgement.

 

[Achille]

Going to comment here, but the legs look a bit long for a gnome. Maybe it's just the angle. Use your own judgement.

I sort of agree, the leg to arm ratio definitely looks sort of T Rex'y. However it really allows someone to see the definition in the legs such as that neat little gear and the iron stirrup. Then again maybe a few more angles in future screenshots will show that I'm completely wrong in thinking that the legs are short.

Regardless I am super excited to see that thing in game!

 

[Ardenaso]

the legs could be retractable; or Moonman made it like that to easily match the leg matrices to the leg bones

 

[Barorque]

Thanks for feedback... I already noticed another small issue, while I tried to use copper instead of bronze metal for the gnome, it still looks too similar to mount, might need to go full steel on those limbs, or she will be a bit lost in the model.
The legs are extended with the "piston" part or whatever... let's say a rider's augmentation.


Contest turned out more active than I thought, happy to see so much participation! Can't wait to see more WIPs!

 

[Ardenaso]

can the High Elf Paladin participate here?

 

[Bagysta]

Dear friends, I am delighted to present my Modeling Contest WIP to you; The shadow hunter hero for the forest troll race.

Most of the work so far has been to give a forest troll model the animations of the classic shadowhunter.

Now that that is done, the job will be to give it more personality by adding stuff, a more "forest troll" identity. I have already started this work by giving the weapon a "forest troll cultural" aspect which forced me to also work on the aspect of the projectile effect

 

[Ardenaso]

hey hey hey ! @Wildone get in here too !

 

[Riki]

Five days left to finish, what's your progress guys?

 

[Archian]

Let us know if a deadline extension is desired?

 

[Barorque]

Five days left to finish, what's your progress guys?

Getting there, allowed myself some time for my little gnome again, almost done, just some polishing left.

Would like to see everyone doing their best, so I'm up for extension if other's need it.

 

[Bagysta]

Five days left to finish, what's your progress guys?

Almost done !

 

[Barorque]

Well, I think I am done here! Arc Lancer
Let's hope I didn't forget anything critical.

 

[Riki]

Deadline changed to 7 June.

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Sorry guys, my exporter doesn't want to work :/ I'm looking into that, it is more important to me ... I'm out

 

[Bagysta]

Alea jacta est, Here's my entry to the contest, I hope I don't forget anything...

Hero Forest Troll Shadow Hunter

Hero Forest Troll Shadow Hunter Shadow hunters are masters of voodoo and shadow magic and were once the highest authority amongst all troll societies. Their spirit powers can both heal and curse, walking the line of dark and light in hope of saving the future of trollkind, doing whatever it...

www.hiveworkshop.com

 

[BurnedSmackdown]

Female Villager Hunter

Sometimes villagers have to go out and hunt or defend themselves when soldiers aren't around to do so Heads she is lacking death scream sounds and the blood splatter seems to be glitched when using her in World Editor, but everything else works fine Entry for the 1st HD Modeling Contest Do...

www.hiveworkshop.com

 

[Archian]

Remember that in order to enter the contest and be eligible to win a prize, contestants must submit their final entry to the HD Model Resource section. Remember to write in the description: "Entry for the 1st HD Modeling Contest"

 

[Vibe]

Good luck to all the participants!

I don't have the complete ability to participate in this competition, but I still pay attention to and like this competition. I like to feel the passion and creativity when designing characters.

I look forward to more hero model competitions in the future.

 

[SebioL]

My role model is not a hero. Consequently... my delivery is slipping a bit by the rules, at least it's a Neutral, and I also think it's very useful for many who wish to have an alternative worker. So I know I won't be competing on equal terms anymore. The days this month were very busy... I couldn't reach the middle of my Bandido-Archer hero mounted, but the Villager Worker will be delivering I believe that today... there are still some adjustments, after all, there are many animations and additionals accessories to make adaptations .

 

[Retera]

Hey I didnt post additional info and I'm a day late on this but in the end I made that PKBlaster program hoping to make a model using a colorized PKB, but then I got lazy and forgot to actually use that program to make an entry for this contest, so I did not make anything and we will have to leave it to others to see what they came up with.

Best of luck guys! Maybe later I'll make a model to represent what I would have entered if I had made something in time, or something like that. Keep the hype rolling!

 

[Barorque]

Hey I didnt post additional info and I'm a day late on this but in the end I made that PKBlaster program hoping to make a model using a colorized PKB, but then I got lazy and forgot to actually use that program to make an entry for this contest, so I did not make anything and we will have to leave it to others to see what they came up with.

Best of luck guys! Maybe later I'll make a model to represent what I would have entered if I had made something in time, or something like that. Keep the hype rolling!

On one side I'm sad, on the other overjoyed... that we'll have a program to finally edit previously untouchable elements of Reforged... finally everything I want can be Fel magic or Arcane, this will be a game changer, thanks for your work man!

 

[Riki]

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