New bear / cat modelsFollow

Models are up for new Tauren bear forms - Blizzard has decided that these (along with Tauren cat / Night Elf bear and cat forms) will be coming in the next "big" patch (3.2).

New druid forms (official)

Tauren bear pic

Thought you might want to see this, as I know druids have been complaining about the lack of customization of feral forms for a while. :) Enjoy!

WOOOT

I do hope this also covers... travel forms. >..> They would need to re-colorize at least swift flight (no real changes as it is already a well made model) to match with the colors available to each faction.

My favorite floating candle blue is answering some questions of note.





Of course... the main model to see will be the Tauren cat form...




Indeedly Alex, I'm not sure where they are in the line up of druid forms to get "fix/customized" but I'm eager too to see white moonkins and cherry blossom trees. It could be that they figured that since those forms were added in BC that they may be last. :x ::pat, pat:: You're time will come too!

Edited, May 26th 2009 4:52pm by GryphonStalker

For one I thought this was amazing, I can finally be a a fearsome bear not just some low re/textured ashen vale bear.

I really hope we get some more customization via Cat Form, but I doubt it......id prolly change my Taurens skin tone just so i can have a white cat so i can be the Ghost of the Battleground.

its gonna be so awesome. i never really cared for the different forms thing that so many druids had a hard-on for, but im excited seeing the pictures. if you figure at least five different form skins per form per race, you're looking at about 70 different forms (30 for each race) between moonkin, bear, cat, travel, tree, water and flight forms. even if flight, travel and water forms arent updated thats still 40 different forms all based on customizeable hair color.

beargasm indeed.

Careful, we don't want to upset GC. He's already going round and round with moonkins on the damage boards. :-)

Edited, May 27th 2009 8:38am by chaydawg

Edited, May 27th 2009 8:39am by chaydawg

Night Elf bear form is up!

I'm still mulling it over, but I like how the ears aren't as massive.

To me this is a much needed step one to fixing the very basics of our form, which is a revamp of the model itself. Once you have that you can add all sorts of additions, like you need bones before you can pick out which blue jeans you wanna wear tonight. :p

Blizzard has stated that they want to add that much needed difference between pups and old grizzlies but that will take more time to implement and this will certainly tide me over for now. I'm even okay with changes being tied to hair color and color tint.. as it makes sense. Why would that black Tauren turn into a white bear?

I think the easiest thing they could add for now, would be (as hunter pets do) let us grow in size as we level.

As for the models themselves, I actually was disappointed with the bull bears but they are really growing on me. (I think it's the big brown eyes!) and I want to really reserve any judgment till I saw the cats and... well one can't really get the full understanding of a 3D model till you actually see it motion. Do I still flop on my side to sleep? How do I look while swimming? Is the running lope still a little funny looking?

4 years of ******** and we get color changes. woopedy feckin dooooooo


>.<

just My opinion

If by that you mean the exact same model with added polygons here and there, then I agree.

Seriously, it is the same model minus a few details. I assume the animations will be very, very similar to what they are right now.

Overall I like the new looks, but I am also disappointed. Especially since they were all like "Oh we got something going on. We can't say much, but you won't be disappointed! Oooh no!" Yeah right.

I'm not one who cares much for seeing gear while in forms (especially if badly implemented), for the record. I was just expecting more customization. Like individually choose the color of the tattoos, which accessories I wanted to display, like have 3 slots and then have to choose what you want on your bear or something, in a barbershop-style interface.

Still, can't wait for those changes to roll so I can stop using DoA. Also really, really can't wait to see the Cat forms, Tauren in particular for obvious reasons.

Edited, May 28th 2009 7:19am by Selverein

There's not a lot more they can do without a ton of overhead...they can't really change the basic framework of the model, nor how it behaves. Increasing poly count goes a long way to improving the overall look and feel, more than these still images tell. I'm pretty confident we can expect our characters to 'fold' less and actually move and flex limbs properly, plus the texture changes.

It's not like this changes in any way how we play the game anyhow. It's a bone blizzard is throwing our way, and I'll take whatever I can get in that regard. They get enough complaints about actual things that matter.

I just saw the Night Elf Bear form and I am very impressed. Currently, my druid has white hair so I assume by bear form will also be white. Though the white bear looks very cool, I like the dark blue (Or black? I'm semi color blind with blues/purples and darker colors) one with the white mane and stripes. I'm looking forward to what cat form will look like as that will confirm which colors I end up choosing.

Blues mentioned that the Tauren cat form is the next to be shown off and that it had some major work done to it. Congrats all you cows, you deserve this! Ya'lls cat form has looked so horrendous.


EDIT: I really hope they have the forms scale with gear in the future. That is what I really wanted to see happen.

Edited, May 28th 2009 1:34pm by NeithanTheWronged

As far as two legged forms go, heck, they've already got that developed - the lion in Kara.