[Question] Alpha Character Models

[The_Tauren]

You mean ... You'll port the animations?

Or even better ... You'll convert the models?!?!? :0

[Gurluas]

Indeed, i'd be very grateful if you could help.
The models I would like ported are:

Wow Alpha Troll
TBC Alpha Blood elf female
TBC Alpha Blood elf male

[phucko1]

Animation Porter can not open models from anything under WOTLK.

[The_Tauren]

Luckily some old school models still in wow share the animations of pre alpha character models. Such as http://www.wowwiki.com/Targorr_the_Dread for the orcs and a human NPC with this kind of standing pose http://www.scrollsoflore.com/gallery/al ... tman01.jpg


I wonder how the dwarves would look with their original animations. Basically the goblin anims on a dwarf model.

[iindigo]

For Dwarves, there’s an NPC in CoT that uses an alpha dwarf NPC model.

[The_Tauren]

I made a little gallery for the alpha models still found in WoW today. I used WMV to gather these pictures. I'm surprised to say that these models have a lot of animations, albeit some key ones like kneeling or sitting. Though i believe the ones we have for those are fine as it is. The real important ones are the standing and so on.

http://imgur.com/a/I9Dox

[inico]

I managed to export a lot of models from the alpha a long time ago, but they don't have animations. I am trying to animate the female troll right now (it's easy, but she has a lot of geosets and i am quite slow):



I will probably release it when its ready.

[phucko1]

I think the thing they want is the alpha animations, Inico. Also can you share how you got the geometry from the alpha models?

[Gurluas]

I managed to export a lot of models from the alpha a long time ago, but they don't have animations. I am trying to animate the female troll right now (it's easy, but she has a lot of geosets and i am quite slow):



I will probably release it when its ready.

This is a great first step! Good work!

Feel free to share it when you're done!