My comments:
These new shapeshift skins look pretty nice, and they dont seem so old, seeing as the date on the forum posts. I'll be expecting some 'Olde news is olde' replies, but I visit this forum frequently, and since I haven't found it on these forums yet, I figured maybe other people haven't either, and will enjoy the fact that I'm bringing it here. Please keep in mind that these forms in fac DO violate the World of Warcraft Terms of Service agreement, but there's a good savior to this. In fact, only the people who have installed his patches into their WoW folders can see you in these forms, to everyone else, you will look like the regular bear/cat/travelform/flightform, and I know this because I have asked about 30 people if they see any difference in my forms and they all responded no. So if someone reports you for this, this means they have vilaoted the ToS as well since the only way they can notice any difference is if they've downloaded it themselves. I'll be posting a lot of the information from his post in the MMOwned forums in this post, except download links.
If you need help installing these forms feel free to ask me, he seems like he doesn't want to answer any more installation questions.
What Andrige has done:
Race designed themes for either your Tauren or Nightelf to use and enjoy
Reskinned Dire Bear
Reskinned Moonkin
Reskinned Cheetah
Reskinned Catform and new model for Catform (Tauren)
Reskinned alternative option for Tree of Life; the Tree of Christmas
Reskinned and new model for alternative option for Catform; the Worgen
Reskinned and new model for alternative option for Travelform; the Stag
Reskinned and new model for alternative option for Tauren Moonkins; the Furbolg
New 'morph' spell animation when shifting (http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...e/Morphpic.jpg)
New Faerie Fire animation (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/e...707_123345.jpg)
New spell animations and sounds for some feral abilities
New sounds to Worgen form
Why he has done this:
This pack was created due to Blizzard never listening to the constant
and needed suggestion of a change to our Feral forms.
Lets hope that this might give Blizzard a clue on what we truly want!
Basically, Andrige was sick of Blizzard ignoring the constant complaints from the Druid community that we are sick and tired of how the forms look, so he took action and created his own forms (well, remodeled the old Blizzard-created forms.) And the forms, in basic words, just look completely awesome.
VIDEO:
Here's a video from him showing his work used in Azeroth.
Some IMAGES of his work (theres more in his official post, including a Shaman Ghost Wolf reskin):
BEAR FORM
MOONKIN FORM:
CAT FORM:
TREE OF LIFE FORM:
TAUREN LYNX:
STAG:
FAQ SECTION By Frequently Asked Questions, I mean those that I won't respond to in the thread. The answers are here, so read it.
FAQ: Do you do requests? And will you ever make Nightelf <-> Tauren theme switch? I just don't like the one available here for me and my Druid.
Not going to do that. Feel free to investigate yourself though and re-release the pack. Contact me and I'll add it to the Download section. I stand by my opinion that the races
differ by the racial colours I've done so far, and I won't change that. Also, it takes alot of effort from my side to do that especially when I update so frequently, and in many cases
there's no +rep involved in doing requests. I've spent countless of nights for about 3-5h each time, what you don't see is that I don't get paid or anything,
so please understand that requests will be ignored.
FAQ: My game crashes on startup!
Try renaming the file-ending from .mpq to .MPQ, I sometimes to forget the file-ending (read Installation section again for more info).
FAQ: My game crashes on startup and mentions something about .dbc-strings!
Dude, you need to read. You've installed the WORGENpatch-8.MPQ from the SPECIAL MODELEDITS folder. If you READ the README in there, you'll understand that
section requires ModelEditFix.exe to work to gain the benefit that well, you can read about in the ReadMe document in there.
This applies to any future content that I put in the Special Modeledits folder. IT WILL CRASH THE GAME UNLESS YOU HAVE THE MEFIX.EXE!
FAQ: Worgen attack-animations aren't working for me, why?
Due to an error from my side I've forgotten to adjust the animation-prioritation-order so the "idle" animation is actually more important and above the animations for 1-handed attacks,
hence no attacks are shown and you don't hit the target with auto-attacks but animations show for special-attacks still (and it works for staffs, no guarantee about 2-handed maces though)
I'm sorry about that and I'll fix it the next time around when I update.
Consider using the original feline alternatives instead.
FAQ: Why can't the Travel Form skin have both the themes enabled? The patch have the same number after and it changes for both me and the opposing faction.
It is not possible to have those two skins enabled at the same time. This is because Travel Form is a shared form (texture and model), same with Aquatic Form (texture and model) and Flight Form 60% (model).
I cannot change that mechanic by modelediting unless you'd want to use the third-party software ModelEditFix.exe which I will NOT use in this pack since it can become a unreliability for the people who wants to use it. Choose the theme which is your race and live with it.
FAQ: Tauren Lion has a goofy hitbox; the spells hit above the body, and the name is waaay up in the air. Also, spells like Freezing Trap, stun or any effect doesn't show!
Please update to the newest release of the pack. This has been fixed.
FAQ: Why doesn't the Nightelf Worgen have a weapon equipped!?
It's a bug that came with the voicechat patch I'm afraid. They must have configured something to hide the weapon for Nightelves when entering Catform (perhaps like Shamans
had with their weapons showing in Ghostwolf) to avoid it looking goofy.
Sadly, I can't do anything about this bug.
FAQ: Will modelchanging make the appearance of my form different to others aswell?
No, the thing here is that modelchanging can only affect your client, which means that it will only be locally visible on your computer.
It cannot be seen as you see it on their screen unless they themselves have the modelchange installed (tell your friends! ^^).
Read "FAQ: The Stag changes all the hunter pets..." FAQ below for explanation why this pack can change the looks on certain mobs after installing this pack.
FAQ: I think the worgen model would look cooler if it didn't have a weapon and did the unarmed attack.
This can now be done, we'll see if I'll do it though, it's quite a bit of work to do, aswell as my own evaluation of it at first glance was that it didn't look
as good compared to attacking with a weapon.
FAQ: The worgen seems to look kinda goofy when stealth walking.[/b
]
No can do for the moment. Changes may come on this though, if all things go well I may be able to customize the model(s) alot more, which could mean an increase in
size which would mean less tip-toe racing while prowling.
[b]FAQ: The Stag changes all the hunter pets and every tiger in the Barrens to stags... is this intended?Well it is possible to solve that, but I considered it less useful to ask those who download the pack to use the ModelChange.exe file (an external program that makes it possible
to do some more heavy and exploitable changes) that you have to start up each time you start the game, allowing me to change so instead of sharing models (like the Cheeatah
or Nightelf Cat does with mobs you can find in the game) I can make unique ones to the shapeshift spells. They should be unique from start in my opinion, but you know Blizzard...
rather re-use models as much as possible. But, I rather not do that, as the drawback is bigger than the gain, I rather make it simple to use than rely on a third-party .exe which
could be harmful for your computer (keylogger renamed for example) if you aren't careful.
So the Stag will alas, only be alternative and have this weird setback to boot.
FAQ: The shapeshift animations occur when anyone mounts up... not really a big deal, I'd still rather keep the model changes but still would be nice to get that out of the way.
No can do. They share animations, so Blizzard only can solve this.
FAQ: Why is there no horns on the Tauren Catform?
Because I can't edit the models yet, quite simply.
Until the tool which I hope to get to use sometime gets released there is actually no way for me to implement horns to the Tauren Catform.
And even if the tool gets released I haven't worked with 3D-models before whatsoever except those very very small tweaks on Tauren Tree of Life for example.
FAQ: Will you reskin Flight Form(60%), Tauren Swift Flight Form or Aquatic Form sometime?
A definitive "no" to Flightform (60%) for both races. It's a placeholder, get that money and earn the Swift Flightform!
Tauren Swift Flightform will... most likely not be reskinned. It's already fine as it is, however if I ever get that urgent need to do something quite unnecessary you could
perhaps on a long shot expect a small tweak to it, but really it is fine as it is.
Aquaticform have crossed my mind, but we'll see... there's no alternative to it really so it would have to be that horrible
Nightelf/Sealion-****** hybrid for both races... since I won't be using some other model like shark or whatever.
Go to other modeledit-packs for that kind of out-of-feel changes imo.
FAQ: The Nightelves look bland, why are they gray and not purple/blue-toned as Blizzard originally designed Catform?
Well, I know your feeling, however early during the construction of the Nightelf theme (this package was at first Tauren only) I established the colourtheme, and by coincidence
people liked the gray version with moss-green ornaments more than my first, purple one. Also, it would have been bothersome finding a good purple alternative for Dire Bear...
a slightly blue/purple cat can work, but a purple bear?
So, you could say the gray theme is the most "naturally" coloured fur, aswell as both Cat and Dire Bear would then have the same colourscheme, which was what I aimed for.
I won't do a purple reskin. And so far I've learned during the months, is that I'd get requests to give Taurens
two kind of themes aswell then... and I just can't be bothered with all that extra work.
FAQ: Can I ask you on MSN if I can't get it to work? I tried starting my game so many times now, but it just won't start!
Well there, you should understand I can't be there for all of those who clearly doesn't get simple instructions.
That's why you read the Installation section! All the steps are there, and you MUST rename the patches according to instructions!
If you don't get those steps, I ask you, please don't bother me!
Ask a friend or something for help on those basic Windows/Mac problems; don't bother adding me. I'll only be able to instruct to you to read the Installation section,
as it contains everything there is to know!
FAQ: My gosh, where's the ladies!? There's not a single female looking form in your pack; will you ever come to change that?
Consider this: extra work, just a hobby and I am a guy...
I just don't want to strain myself, also you will not get male/female looking forms at the same time, so if you're a Tauren Female and insert the pack, your own shape will look like
a female but then so would everyone else. Convince Blizzard to make gender specific shapes and skins, then I could perhaps.
But right now, I have to say no for any kind of female forms on my to-do list.
Anyways, I think I'm done blabbering about his post, time for the grand finale! The link to the official thread where the images & download links are! Have fun everyone, because I am enjoying his forms as well.
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/model-editing/31222-model-reskin-druids-azeroth-new-shapeshift-skins.html
(If these violate any Allakhazam rules, please just remove this thread, and not me =].)
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