Hey, since void elves just got the blood elf look, can we do the same for nightborne?
The males look awful, and the females are just a night elf model with the ears flipped.
We can do a texture change to the male night elf model and done.
It should be pretty easy, and then the elf trade can be complete.
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nightborne models are different to that of night elves, even if they use the same animations. its not as easy as it is for blood/void elves when its literally all the same aside from the coat of paint on each race
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The nightborne model uses a modified night elf model. They are the exact same skeleton. All they did was change the “flesh” which takes little work to undo.
As a result of using the same model, the job would justneed to be a swap
People have tried that and it doesn’t work at all.
It’s not that easy. Nor is it “just a little work.”
Having the same animation rig means nothing. The models are different and have different texture mapping points.
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So much this.
The Nightborne are the purest Highborne bloodline, preserved in a time capsule for over 10000 years.
They should look somewhat like Night Elves because they are directly from the highborn bloodline, same as Azshara and most of the early High Elves.
I Think they got the look right for the most part. They look like Highborne with a twist from their roots in surumar.
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Playable Nightborne models are the worst.
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Uhhhh…I’ve not seen this.
You have the devs literally stating that the nightborne model is simply a modified night elf model. It is the texture mapping tht would be an issue. Of course, texturing is not my strong suit.
It would certainlybe far better than what we have for the nightborne males.
Maybe fix their racials too
Male nightborne look fine imo. The females on the other hand… shudders
I don’t know why blizz didn’t just make them look like the npc nightborne
Please no. I don’t want the Night Elf model on my Nightborne. The changes they gave us are small, yeah, but I greatly prefer them to the Nelf models.
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Atleast their own necks arn’t wider than their waist, which is more than we night elf man-apes can say.
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All I know is that they need a lot of help.
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No they have not. It’s a brand new model actually. It only takes from the Night Elf animation rig. Meaning it only borrows animation, and the model is completely different. For reference, the Zandalari use the Night Elf animation rig with a lot of replaced animations.
So don’t act like it’s a simple job if you know nothing about it.
I am going to have to correct you on both of these aspects.
For one, yes the devs have stated the nightborne model IS the night elf model that has been modified.
Secondly, the developer who worked on Zandalari stated it is a jungle troll model whose back has been straightened.
If you take your blender application and rip the models, you will find my statement to be true. So in these aspects, you are clearly incorrect.
Both the underlying rigging and the actual model themselves are modifications of what already exists.
Save the hyperbole for before you demonstrate not knowing anything about modeling.
Admitting that it is not my strong suit shouldn’t be used by you as an excuse to throw dirt in the face dude.
Well he’s got a point. You’re claiming it would be super easy to do but you admit you don’t know anything about texturing.
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The male Nelf model makes me sad. Like I said… what we Nightborne got isn’t perfect and it isn’t quite what the NPCs have (bodywise is close but shorter, faces are completely wrong), but it’s leagues better than the male Night Elf model. I really hope they fix you guys some day. Even if that means just giving races multiple body choices during creation so that people who actually liked the old model could still keep it.
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Male Nightborne need to be deleted from the game. Hideous.
I like how saying “texturing isn’t my strong suit” means “I don’t nanything about texturing and don’t texture.”.
Like…what the heck?
I guess if someone says they’re bad at math, they can’t add or subtract either?
They should atleast have most of the same skin tones though imo.
They should rename allied races to limited races
And again, I’ll repeat myself, that’s simply not true. You’re mixing up skeleton and model.
That’s also false. It literally has Night Elf animations left over, and it’s common knowledge that they used the Night Elf rigging. Where you’re getting this from? Who the heck knows. Whatever it is, it’s wrong. If you seriously want to defend something so blatantly untrue, go ahead, link your source.
Eh… I think you might want to re-evaluate yourself. You’re in the wrong here bud.
Except it is. You have no knowledge on the subject therefore you shouldn’t act as if you do.
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