Worgen are the greatest 8.2.5 addition

The heads of both male and female are grade “A” upgrade. The bodies I think are not. There are actualy technical problems with them, and some subjective problems. On the males, some of the old animations have problems now where they did not before (like ‘sit’, watch the ankles) or are worse. The body structure is improved in some ways, and worse in others. The waistline was adjusted, badly, in Legion and not fixed in these updates and made slightly worse… the beltline is far too high and the lower torso is stuck, rigid, doesn’t bend or twist at all which causes a ‘constipated’ look to a bunch of the animations.

The texture placements on the legs are messed up, especially on the male worgen. It’s easiest to see on the Warbear woolies. This causes the texture-based armors to have some weird, undesireable looks, paricularly on the buttocks… which, since is what we stare at while playing, is annoying.

The female chest is made a triangular shape, with the placement of the breasts at an odd location, seems like too ‘high’ for the shape. It’s funny to point out, sure. It looks like suction cups attached to a chest at the wrong spot.

The waist on the female is completely flat. There’s no contour to the front of the thigh at the hip, and there’s no contour to the lower-torso. The previous roundness of stomach was un-done too much and now just looks strange from the side or front angle. Additionally, the right thigh is different from the left thigh… the right-front thigh is actually concave. It’s hard to see that, but it shows a mistake in the design. On the LEFT thigh, go into running-wild with a leg armor on that has a vertically-oriented straight-line component. The left thigh rotates forward differently from the right and actually collapses the hip area pretty badly.

The legs on both male and female swing outward while the buttocks and lower torso flex very little back-or-forth in the running animations, which causes that ‘stick up the butt’ look.

Anyway… It’s detail stuff, but its noticeable detail stuff, some of it previously not a problem, newly created, and some of it things the old models had that I assumed would be fixed in an update. It’s fine, I just had higher expectations than the result. The work is better overall, the heads are a great improvment.

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