Tauren Race

Is any release
date posted anywhere? :cool:

No, I should imagine this project's quite a ways off. The first testing, at least, might be by the end of January, perhaps? We essentially need the tech tree completely hammered out, a few models and/or skins, and some rudimentary balance. After that, the modeling and voice acting will take a good long time. It's hard to say. (Will depend, of course, on how many people we can get to work, and how dutifully they work) I've got my fingers crossed.

I imagine for the testing, we'll just send the progress to those who have aided or shown interest to us in the past, rather than putting it up for download. We'll see, though.



(Wow. This is 23rd response today)

ok this may sound stupid - but is there a picture of that tauren dude you posted TiJiL, one from the side, one from the back, one from the front, all directly like that, then you could have the perfect reference :) i done this ages ago, just one of those skills i want to be perfect at, then edit the model in the way i wanted. i would have done this with my previous models - but it just re-occured to me that i was quite good at doing this
this may sound "evil" to some people, but it will help in the characters creation, but i will not release the model to the public, only to TiJiL

another spell could be the dessert storm, it slows enemys and makes theiere sight smaller.

Im startign work on a 2v2 map, but Im still trying to work out how to get the Image Extractor working. Anyway, 2v2 map will be different than anything you have seen released from blizzard :infth:

TiJiL, could you post what you have for buildings and units for the race?, could help having peoples perspective on the techtree n stuff.

when this race is done, perhaps u could start a.... er... furblog race..... or maybe.... er.... demons, perhaps, u know u start in the twisting nether, and assimilate world after world :ggani: :ggani: or... no!
maybe even a harpy race, u have to battle the taurens, and the 2 campaigns could go side by side ;) .

sure but wuts mod called?

im not how size is affected her but this is logo so far *all images from blizzard so dont scream that i stole them cuz i did

ps. i can put words on the damn thing when u tell me what u want

Looks good, Rabid. Just keep it as is for now, while we think up a name.

So, second order of business... What should we be called?

3. We ought to get a website running soon, don't you think? Looks like this project might actually get moving, so perhaps hosting is the way to go.

4. Yep, Frostigt. When we finish this one, if we still want to do more, we'll make more races. However, I want to leave them until later to decide, so we can finish the tauren.

5. Gerundok, I agree. All of the material for this mod will be exclusively for this mod, though once it's released, whe may release the models as well. However, while in production, this stuff must not be released.

6. Now, for posting buildings and units, I assume you just mean names and descriptions. There are as of yet no completed images. If so, here it is:

Main Building - Pillar of Courage / Spire of Might / Totem of Honor
- Builds Youngblood - (Worker)
- Researches Pouch (Backpack)

Barracks - Warrior Garrison
- Builds Brawlers (Basic melee)
- Builds Hunters (Basic ranged)
- Builds ?
- Upgrades above 3 units

House - Tauren Hut

Altar - Altar of the Earth Mother
- Builds Battlechief
- Builds Thaumaturge
- Builds Plainstrider
- Builds ?
- Revives

Upgrader - Outfitter? (New name)
- Researches armament attack
- Researches tauren armor
- Researches creature attack
- Researches creature armor
- Researches totem attack
- Researches ?

Shop - Trade Caravan
- Sells items

Tower - Stone Pinnacle

-------------------Tier 2 + 3------------------

Spellcaster Building - Spirit Wigwam
- Builds Onyx Templar
- Builds Soul Messenger
- Builds Skywatcher
- Upgrades above units
- Can summon spirits to defend itself

Barracks 2 - Mudhole
- Builds War Kodo
- Researches Hesitation
- Builds ?
- Researches ?
- Builds Beast of Burden
- Researches Monstrous Strength

Aviary - Eryie
- Builds Sacred Wyvern
- Upgrades Sacred Wyvern
- Builds Stone Drake
- Researches Winged Terror
- Researches Geodermic Shell

Barracks 3 - Tribal Council Chamber
- Builds Siege Ram
- Researches Strength of the Tauren
- Researches Concussive Blast
- Builds ?
- Researches ?
- Builds Warrior
- Researches Reincarnation



That's what I have...

we shud have a tauren that is a savge and it runs and sticks its horns into em

and has a giant mane and ****
and it ability can be like bull rush and **** jus one idea

Cool sig, but it will need to be smaller out of courtesy for the rest of the board.

Cant u just call the upgrade place smiths hut/tent (k, not a very idea, but i got to think of something...)
and u didnt want the spirit walker huh?
otherwise, thats an ready unit waiting to be used, otherwise, distibute his spell among the others, cuz u need to keep those spirit stuff eh?
oh and another thing i thought of, u should make critters that looks like kodos, then u would be able to make the trainer in the muddhole that can take a kodo and use it in the mechanihcal critter way....
And about the mod name... jeez thats a hard one... for now ant u just call it the survival of the tribes or sumthing...?
oh and is this prior to ROC or not...?

No, I don't want the Spirit Walker. (Nor the Chieftain, nor the normal tauren). Personally, I'd like to make the tauren work with the four original races. I do not know how well this can be done, but here's essentially what I think.

If at all possible, I'd like each new race we make to be 100% unique, compatable, and balanced with the original four races. However, if this system forces us to compromise some part of our new races, then we'll just eliminate the old ones. My major fear is that we may not be able to get race-specific sounds or UI. If this happens, I suggest we just forget the previous races.

Oh, and this takes place after ROC, as the tauren have united and relocated, for the most part, to Mulgore.


And as for a name... I don't really know. Perhaps the Tauren of Mulgore?



Another thing I'd like to post is my daydreams about the eventual progress of this project. (I doubt it'll ever get this far, but it's nice to dream)

1. Get the spells, a few models, and some rudimentary balance finished, then test the alpha version amongst ourselves and any close friends we may have, but we must not distribute it very far.

2. Finish models, tileset, UI, sounds, and adjust balance as indicated by alpha testing. Create this as beta test and distribute to a slightly larger audience, but still not up for general download.

3. Make any necessary fixes and then release to public.

4. Begin work on a second race

5. Make tauren tileset and creeps and create a campaign about them.

6. Repeat steps until 4 races and 4 campaigns are done.


As I said, not likely, but fun to believe.

I dont think a orcs and taurens would fight in battles after TFT, but then i dont think undead would ally against orcs and humans (b.net), so what do i know....
This means FORGET THE OLD RACES!!

I was thinking, sitting here while the snow pounds down around the house, that another race shoudl be the pandarens. I know that they were an April Fools joke and all, but think about it, it would be pretty sweet to have a race thats all about alcohol :-P. But seriously, I think they could fit in perfectly, since there are already 3 heros laid out in the read me thingy on b.net. And they come from Kalimdor, as do the tauren.

The other two races could possibly be Harpies, centaur, quillboars, or dreanie (ehhh, thats iffy)

I still cant get my damn image extractor to work, and using teh WinMPQ doesnt seem to work either, taht just takes it out, but I cant modify the tiles.