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As much as im grateful for Blizzard for making those new feral forms, i would like to point on some issues that should be recognized as bugs and fixed during PTR phase. This is our test of your graphics, and those are the bugs i have found. Please don't take it lightly, because this is our patch. We have been waiting for 5 years for those forms, you can and should do it right, Blizzard. Not asking for much, but for proper quality only.
1) I will start form NE cat form. The first and most noticeable bug is how polygonal mesh is attached to right hind leg bone. There is a bunch of wrong weighted vertexes resulting in the leg's deformation upon movement. You can see how the leg is being deformed in sitting phase. Compare right and left legs when the cat is sitting. Take a look at slow video of sitting down animation:
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And this is the video of tauren cat form which does not have the bug:
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A slow video of NE cat running, notice how the leg is being unnaturally deformed during it:
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And this is the same video but from the other side of NE cat where the mesh attachment has been done properly:
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And tauren running animation which is good as well:
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The next bug, or rather complaint, is the necklace. I was the one saying that it is "ok" for NE cat to wear jewelry.. ..until i saw HOW it's been implemented in game. The necklace is made with a sprite which always faces the camera. This is a cheap effect which has become popular in blizzard lately. But while it is ok to make leaves on Twisted Visage with it and dangling cloth on druid T7.5 in case of NE cat form this is not acceptable. Because the sprite itself is rather big and when you look at your cat from up top it sticks out of the neck like if it has been impaled by the jewelry from the side or something. This is very bad and very cheap looking. Please consider either removing necklace altogether or making it short so the cat form model would hide it if you look from up top. How about removing the dangly thing and putting a silver moon amulet there? Or the same acorn like NE bear has? Watch the scrrenshots:
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2) Tauren cat form appears to be holding currently equipped weapon in its paw. This needs a fix.
3) Bear form. There is a bug in jump animation which has been in game forever, but now is a chance for you, blizzard, to fix it. Please do. You have fixed frost worg animation which had the same kind of bug in running animation, and you made it very fast. Please do the same for us, players, we deserve it no less than the brainless mobs.
About the bug itself.. When jumping the right hind leg is shaking atrocioulsy, like some kind of epilepsia syndrome, it looks really bad. Watch the slow video of what happens there:
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And normal speed video:
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That's it for now. Thanks for your time.
PS: Im quite disappointed with overall models poly-count. Why are you guys so afraid of adding more polygons to our feral forms? Player models with armor have at least twice as much, even considering the updated models. I could understand the limits because of system requirements but feral models, as a PLAYER model, are nowhere near those. You could have fixed all those ugly triangles, on the body especially and on the tail. Cmon guys, this is year 2009 and we are not like playing quake-2 on Voodo Graphics Accelerator, even for your own standarts of a player model those are way too shy on polygons. I would say even Vrykul and Tuskar models are using much more polygons than those..
1) I will start form NE cat form. The first and most noticeable bug is how polygonal mesh is attached to right hind leg bone. There is a bunch of wrong weighted vertexes resulting in the leg's deformation upon movement. You can see how the leg is being deformed in sitting phase. Compare right and left legs when the cat is sitting. Take a look at slow video of sitting down animation:
http://img190
And this is the video of tauren cat form which does not have the bug:
http://img190
A slow video of NE cat running, notice how the leg is being unnaturally deformed during it:
http://img190
And this is the same video but from the other side of NE cat where the mesh attachment has been done properly:
http://img190
And tauren running animation which is good as well:
http://img190
The next bug, or rather complaint, is the necklace. I was the one saying that it is "ok" for NE cat to wear jewelry.. ..until i saw HOW it's been implemented in game. The necklace is made with a sprite which always faces the camera. This is a cheap effect which has become popular in blizzard lately. But while it is ok to make leaves on Twisted Visage with it and dangling cloth on druid T7.5 in case of NE cat form this is not acceptable. Because the sprite itself is rather big and when you look at your cat from up top it sticks out of the neck like if it has been impaled by the jewelry from the side or something. This is very bad and very cheap looking. Please consider either removing necklace altogether or making it short so the cat form model would hide it if you look from up top. How about removing the dangly thing and putting a silver moon amulet there? Or the same acorn like NE bear has? Watch the scrrenshots:
http://img524
http://img524
http://img524
2) Tauren cat form appears to be holding currently equipped weapon in its paw. This needs a fix.
3) Bear form. There is a bug in jump animation which has been in game forever, but now is a chance for you, blizzard, to fix it. Please do. You have fixed frost worg animation which had the same kind of bug in running animation, and you made it very fast. Please do the same for us, players, we deserve it no less than the brainless mobs.
About the bug itself.. When jumping the right hind leg is shaking atrocioulsy, like some kind of epilepsia syndrome, it looks really bad. Watch the slow video of what happens there:
http://img190
And normal speed video:
http://img190
That's it for now. Thanks for your time.
PS: Im quite disappointed with overall models poly-count. Why are you guys so afraid of adding more polygons to our feral forms? Player models with armor have at least twice as much, even considering the updated models. I could understand the limits because of system requirements but feral models, as a PLAYER model, are nowhere near those. You could have fixed all those ugly triangles, on the body especially and on the tail. Cmon guys, this is year 2009 and we are not like playing quake-2 on Voodo Graphics Accelerator, even for your own standarts of a player model those are way too shy on polygons. I would say even Vrykul and Tuskar models are using much more polygons than those..
Dragonpaw
