[Reskin] Armoured Twilight Azure and Nefarian Drakes (Albino and Bronze)

[Angelsilhouette]

After a bajillion zillion hamster years of playing WotLK (about 9 months) I finally acquired a Drake mount then soon after, a second.

Unfortunately they happen to be, in my opinion, the two ugliest I could have: The Albino and the Bronze. (OK I actually like the bronze a bit more than the Blue Drake, but let's pretend a bit) so I'd been hoping to harvest the forums, here for some nice replacement skins. Now while I did find some very very nice reskins in the form of Alexial's Armoured Albino Drake and kimitsu_kouseki's Blue Hakkar Drakes for reasons I can't explain, I wasn't satisfied with them, even though I do think they are both brilliant.

So in the end, I decided to spend part of my evening bodging together a pair of custom skins (Using the Azure Drake's Armour). They're not the best, but I do quite like them so decided to give a little back to the community from which I've been taking.

So yeah, here they are. :3

Albino Drake to Armoured (Red) Twilight Drake





Download: patch-T for Twilight


Bronze Drake to Armoured Nefarion Drake with bonus Azure Drake styled runes





Download: patch-N For Nefarion

And because I let my OCD get the best of me, I put together a Bronze Drake to Azure Drake patch, as well:





Download: patch-A for Azure

I do hope you all like them. ^.^ (God I also hope I didn't mix up the download links. >.<)

(Now I'm wondering if I should make the wing membranes Hakkar style feathers for added uniqueitude.. well.. except for the other two reskins using hakkar styled winks. :3 )

[seekfin]

love that black drake skin, +Rep

[nicklol1]

Love the Azure one, GJ.

[Alexial]

I love these reskins! And I'm flattered you mentioned me +rep for that creative albino drake reskin! The bronze one is not too bad, but I'm just not a big fan of the color yellow :3 Well done none the less! That Azure one is quite the looker!

[Phoen!x]

Sweet reskin, well made.

[Vyil]

What's the program called that lets you make those skins? i'd like to learn it aswell , (if someone could make a step by step thread about it)

[Angelsilhouette]

Love the Azure one, GJ.

I'm afraid I can't take credit for it, it is the default skin for the Azure Drake mount that drops from Malygos in the Nexus. I used its armour to modifry the other skins into new armoured drakes.

What's the program called that lets you make those skins? i'd like to learn it aswell , (if someone could make a step by step thread about it)

I think there are tutorials in some of the other forums, here, if I'm not mistaken. >.>

I love these reskins! And I'm flattered you mentioned me +rep for that creative albino drake reskin! The bronze one is not too bad, but I'm just not a big fan of the color yellow :3 Well done none the less! That Azure one is quite the looker!

Thank you and it was my pleasure, especially as you were the one who inspired me to do so. ^.^

I used the colour yellow because it seemed to flow with the black and red scales. Also because it was really late at night, I was being very lazy and trying to match the jewels on the armour and the spikes on its tail. I do admit, though, that I could have done it a little brighter with more of an orange hue around the border to make them look as if they are glowing from the inside and have either been burned into or burned their way out of its hide.

What do you think about replacing their wing membrane with the Hakkar feathers that kimitsu_kouseki used in their mod? (which I think came from another mod before that. I'd have to read Kimitsu's thread again because cred is given there for the original.)

[Alexial]

What do you think about replacing their wing membrane with the Hakkar feathers that kimitsu_kouseki used in their mod? (which I think came from another mod before that. I'd have to read Kimitsu's thread again because cred is given there for the original.)

I think that would look fantastic with the blue one! (Maybe change the yellow a little to orange like you said and give the black one black to red to orange feathers?) You'll have to edit the alpha channel a little to get the game to recognize the shape of the texture, but that's pretty easy to do if you have a decent enough program

[lysaara]

I made the original Hakkar drake reskin, and I think the feathers look best on brightly-coloured skins but with a bit of reshading you could probably get a nice effect on these ones too. In particular, on the Nefarian drake you could make them match his armour for armour-plated wings! :3

[dep.ARTed]

Looks really great. I prefer the black one..

[Apocolyptus]

+Rep Dude, Well done

These are very nice, working on a few drakes to betters too :P

[Angelsilhouette]

I made the original Hakkar drake reskin, and I think the feathers look best on brightly-coloured skins but with a bit of reshading you could probably get a nice effect on these ones too. In particular, on the Nefarian drake you could make them match his armour for armour-plated wings! :3

Ooooooh, I like this idea! I'mma give that a try. ^.^

[edit] Credit where credit's due: My apologies Lysaara >.<

Original Blood God Drake

[edit]

So yeah, I fail at turning feathers into armour >.< Instead I recoloured them to match the glowy runes I put on the Nefarian style drake.. (also lightened the gems in the armour and the center of the runes in hopes they'll be more glowy looking) Don't know if I like them yet, I haven't been able to log in to WoW. The downloader is encountering some difficulties and stopping at 10% claiming tracker not responding.

[Angelsilhouette]

So decided to reactivate my WoW account, but when I did I found that my old mods don't work. I asked around and was told that I should put them into the Data/EnUS directory and rename them to the patch file names like "wow-update-enUS-#####.mpq" and the game will update the MPQ with all of the necessary files but leave my update alone so the skin would be a part of the actual game file. But when I asked if there was a way for Blizzard to find out I'd done it and if they'd ban me for it, no one seemed to be able to answer.

So, that being said, what are the answers to those last two questions I asked?

[Garalon]

Wow i love the first one

[Angelsilhouette]

Thanks

I guess making my old mods work is not too important, I unlocked one of my wish-list mounts, anyway (Ironbound Protodrake), so I'm not too fussed.