[Mount Reskin] Obsidian War Tiger and Silver Covenant Hippogryph

[Angelsilhouette]

My apologies for lurking/leeching for a while, I started out looking for mount re-skins; but not finding what I had been searching for, I decided to mooch about a bit and see if I couldn't figure out how to do it on my own.

This will be my first ever attempt at a WoW reskin, but I'm fairly confident it turned out OK.

The first is a re-skin of the PVP Frostsaber "Black War Tiger" using the gem tiger skin found on the earth dwarf's sleeping pet cat in north western Storm Peaks. It's mixed a bit with the original War Tiger's harness with a re-coloured saddle blanket and gems. I didn't touch the little purple glyphs on the armour as I wasn't feeling /THAT/ confident. I also had a few false starts with the teeth, making the transparency work, so I had to borrow the small teeth from Taiin's Frostsaber mod so it wouldn't have just one big tooth on the top and bottom between the sabers.


http://i41.tinypic.com/2iw144m.jpg (if it doesn't show)

Edited the pads of its feet to be jeweled as well.


http://i39.tinypic.com/nwj01t.jpg (if it doesn't show)

F for Frostsabre
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The next one was pretty straightforward; a simple skin replacement using the existing skins available in the common skin file. Cenarion War Hippogryph to Silver Covenant Hippogryph. Forgive me if someone already put this together, I looked high and low for it but had to make it myself in the end. Then again, it's lucky I did end up putting it together, otherwise I wouldn't have done the one previous.

Positioned between the two stationary silverwing hippogryphs at the flight master to show they are identical.


http://i41.tinypic.com/2z5j97k.jpg (if it doesn't show)

H for Hippogryph
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I hope someone out there enjoys them as much as I.

Also... If I decide to make any more, should I just update this thread with them or create a new one?

(Edited to correct location of the NPC cat and to seperate the text from the picture of the gryphs)

[Krazzee]

You can update this thread with them, looks pretty nice overall.

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[Icelandic1717]

Very nice.

How do you edit saddles? Is there a way to remove them?

[Angelsilhouette]

The bulk of the saddle uses the same part of the skin as the shoulder and the helmet armour of the cat; the gem on the forehead is the same as the shoulder and I'd wager that if you made the seat transparent, you'd see a big gem painted underneath. The seat, itself, is a separate skin.

Even without the seat cushion on the saddle, you'd have to edit the model to remove it. Even the lv 30 mounts have the saddle built into the model.

[silentshot]

Could you make Black war wolf into the tiger?

[droodinneed]

Very Very Nice.

I might even go grind up tokens just so I can get this

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[Angelsilhouette]

Could you make Black war wolf into the tiger?

It's definitely possible, but that would require a model edit instead of just a skin replacement; that is something with which I have no experience.

Very Very Nice.

I might even go grind up tokens just so I can get this

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I'm glad you like it

Now if only I could get that sheen that the gem tiger and the cursed spawn of hakkari have to go with it. Anyone have a clue how that works?