Tauren Race

update on the Roc Icons.

Pretty cool icons there, Pheonix. Hehehe...

Perhaps we can do that, Frostigt. Might be a cool compromise. I have purchased the three Warcraft RPG books that are out to learn more about the tauren, etc. There's quite a lot of cool stuff. (Technically, I only have one so far. The other two are in the mail. Hopefully I'll get them tomorrow or Tuesday)

When I'm done reading this book, I'll post all of the information I feel is pertinent and interesting.

i dont think you should use all of the spells, dont have enough room, it would be better with like, er... 2...



oh and i got another idea for a spell, its anti-air.


the Roc flies up to a flyer, and brabs it with the claws, and whil in that position it starts to pick it (thats the right word? right, u know with the ah h*ll! that mouth thingie!!!) it would deal massive damge over say 15-20 secs..

Most of those spells would be hell to trigger, and TiJiL has already spoken of the pick up and drop one for the stone drake.

I think it would be awesome to have it swoop down, pick up an enemy unit, and carry it off. (Neither ever returns)

the animations of the Roc swooping would be coded into the model, not part of the triggers. Those spells wouldnt require much triggering at all.

TiJiL, check your PMs, and PM me your response. ^_^

got 2 spells working without triggers, put the icons in made a small map with creeps ect. Now the triggerers can make the other two ^_^

I did the easy ones for you, arnt i nice :ggani:

I realize the swooping would be in the model, but you would have to use triggers to attach the unit model to the feet. Granted, that's not as hard as the one TiJiL wants for the stone drake:


Barrel- Swoops down and barrels through enemy units, knocking them out of the way and stunning* them.
*More like the thunder clap stun, the dizzy kind.

Knocking them out of the way I'm sure will require JASS, which I don't know... But there is no spell which causes a unit to travel from point A to point B, other than blink and other teleport spells. Somehow we'd have to detect the point the unit was targetting (Easy enough in an AOS type map, if it were a hero, but not in melee games!) and rotate the unit accordingly, then give it no collision just in case there were air units in the way, then play the animation, then somehow make it stun specific units (only the ones struck), then make it slide those units out of the way (The part that must have JASS).

you should talk to Ultramagnetic and his friends who made The Big Chill AoS, hes got some interesting trigger based spells in there.

Good, good. Just got word from Electromancer. He said that he had forgotten us, but that we will be hosted shortly. I hope so, anyway...

A. I am loth to ask for help. I'm an arrogant and stubborn bastard.

B. AOS spells are a lot easier, because you can assign variables to the heroes. I can't do that in melee mode, as these spells are for units.

i know their alot easyer, but Ultra and his friend are -VERY- good with triggers, i'm arrogant too, but i know when to admit defeat.

Yes, Bhav. I understand your desire to do everything yourself, but he's right. They are very good at triggers. You should play their map. Neat spells, anyway.

Not a huge priority right now, though. We haven't even decided on all of the tauren units...

I will ask for help only after I have tried it myself and failed.


(So I'll probably be asking for help...)


Anyway, TiJiL and I have been making a new Footman Wars map while we wait for hosting. Not the best use of our time, I know, but it's fun.

you should make a kodo siege weapon, with like burst of speed and it can charge at a building causing severe damage but needs to have a certain distance for a run up to do its maximum. Otherwise you could just make it a have a launching platform for boulders, either way I think they should be incorporated into the race as they are like their livestock and labour burdening "oxen"