yeah unfortunately, new unique models with their own animated skeletons, are reserved for big race intros, like dracthyr, and are not allowed for lowly allied races who are meant to be copy/pastes to relieve graphic lag and server crashes. apparently, during wod, they introduced new models for the races with new animations. draenei pony tail hairstyle was animated and it kept crashing the beta server because it exceeded the amount of animated bones the server could handle. as a result, they had to remove the pony tail animation. i think the tech is a bit outdated
Kul Tirans and the Nightborne have their own models. The tech should be updated. Otherwise, reskinning existing models and pretending they are “new” races is really not new content.
not entirely, for example casting and combat animations of nightborne are night elf. and notice neither of them have the kind of population blood elves have. presumably, population plays a role, afterall in wod, there were alot of draenei npcs and if they shared animations with draenei players, thats an awful lot of animated pony tails. they have a bone budget
yeah, this is why they said they were glad we liked allied races cause they could make lots of those. hehe
hehe ive always loved that cause it conveys chipper-ness, erm energy, spunkiness. and also because i’m an old everquest player and that pony tail was a long triangle that was not animated, at all. so its a sign of the advancement of the tech. makes ya happy as a gamer to see tech improvements, ya know?
I hope in midnight we find out that the SC is working with the Highvale and the Ren’dorei and all three are separate units within their factional workings.