Druid of the Claw bear form model

Anyone know how to make a custom unit use this? If you change it in the unit editor it just gives it the Night Elf form model. I tried creating a custom unit based on bear form, then having it use the model for the custom unit, but that didn't work either.

Yet if you place the bear down in WE it shows the bear but has the NE guy in the side display.

Any ideas?

hehe its the old WE bug, ok here's what u do, edit the original Druid of the Claw(Bearform) model to whatever name u want.... after that place it to a spot then after putting it QUICKLY AVOID SEEING THE UNIT (THIS IS IMPORTANT) or else an animation will play turning the bear to the NE form....

eh, not what I want :p

I'm trying to make a custom unit with bear model ;)

well whatever just tryin to make it easier

hmmm it can be done actually. The problem/crux is that the bearform and druid are at once one model (same prob with demonhunter-demonform)

it can be fixed however but it requires some indepth knowledge of hex editing =)
extract the druid of the claw.mdx file, put it in its original folder. Then use hexeditor and change the animation stands .Done correctly this will prevent the unit from morphing and its bearform is the standart =)

i knew it, it was the animation!!!1 *heavenly sounds*

DOH! I let my cunning secret slip away!!

DOH that kind of error was what I was trying to circumvent in the first place....see, I wanted a custom hero to have the bear form skill (I couldn't base him on the druid of the claw cuz then he wouldn't have other hero abilities). Now, because I couldn't get this to work (map crashed on loading, no model), I decided to instead give the hero an item. The item was simply a red drake egg with a changed icon and name. Then I setup a trigger to detect the red drake appearing and create the custom bear unit.

But that won't work now cuz of this :p

Is there anyway I could use the druid of the claw as a base unit and still use hero abilities?

well why not use demon hunter?
Just change his NE to that of Druid of Claw.
Then change demon form to the Bear.
Sure he could only be the bear for 45 seconds but thats still lots of time?

hmm.... that'd bloat the map size though wouldn't it?

Don't think it would work... cause hero and unit animations are so different. Also if you place Metamorphosis in a no Demonhunter model hero the map crashes while loading...