Curiosity - Question

[Zarathustra]

Would it be possible to make a 'Taur' race?

[A_Snake01]

I'm sorry. What the crap is a Taur?

[Zarathustra]

Like a Centaur.

I know there's creatures off Theramore that are centaur-like.. I'm just wondering if it's possible to do that with the playable races.

[Glynbeard]

I'm sorry. What the crap is a Taur?

i think its a brand of condomn, not sure though.

[Zarathustra]

i think its a brand of condomn, not sure though.

That's 'Trojans' you twink.

[Glynbeard]

That's 'Trojans' you twink.

ohh.. Well it still would have looked cool in a model edit.

[A_Snake01]

I'm so confused. What is it that you want? And be clear.

[Zarathustra]

I'm so confused. What is it that you want? And be clear.

Is it possible to make a playable four legged character?

Top half being Human / Night Elf / Dranei / Troll / Ogre / Blood Elf / Undead

Bottom half being a horse (for human / undead / blood elf), large cat (for Night Elf / Dranei), Wolf (for Troll / Ogre)

[A_Snake01]

Weelll.. That'd be... tough.

You'd need to edit(or make) a bottom half animal, and then you'd need to splice the top half with what you're editing to it. Then you'd need to texture it and make sure everything appeared right, give it bones for animation, and the animate it. Then you'd need to convert it and tie those animations to the proper actions. Then you'd need to define where it holds weapons. (You'd think, 'the hands of course', but in a model, no one part of it is defined differently than any other part unless you say so, so you'd need to do that.)

It'd be an incredible amount of work. So no.

[Fault]

Weelll.. That'd be... tough.

You'd need to edit(or make) a bottom half animal, and then you'd need to splice the top half with what you're editing to it. Then you'd need to texture it and make sure everything appeared right, give it bones for animation, and the animate it. Then you'd need to convert it and tie those animations to the proper actions. Then you'd need to define where it holds weapons. (You'd think, 'the hands of course', but in a model, no one part of it is defined differently than any other part unless you say so, so you'd need to do that.)

It'd be an incredible amount of work. So no.

Well snake, there are centaur in the game, couldnt he just do a raceswap into a centaur, via DBC? It would be work, but not as much as you said, but there would be a lot of issues to i guess like mounting, or weapons, and obviously armor, but still

[A_Snake01]

yeah, but that's not what he asked about.

[Fault]

ah i see now, was thrown off by what he meant ;-)

[Zarathustra]

Aye, going the whole distance and creating wholey new models would be more difficult .. and be something which would likely garner the creator a job at any of the gaming companies.

Switching for the existing Centaur-like race could be doable, but thinking about it, it would be difficult to change the mesh so that the armors / weapons would work properly with it.

Thanks for answering me anyway. ^_^