WTB 1x Skin

Ok, now this is here because I'd rather not even poke the feastery hole of anger, hate, and requests about "LOLOLOL SUPERSAYIN ORCZ LOLZ" that the requests section I lord over is

That, and, what, three past attempts there have resulted in zilch, and my only way to get a skin was calling in a favour from Afroknight which was, in the end, worth the effort. But I have exams coming up and am lazy

So, here's the thing. We all know I'm a crazy ass Geomerger, right? That I hate unwrapping, and that my worst talent in WC3 modding is skinning?

http://www.wc3sear.ch/?p=Models&ID=4461

I love my Raptus Storm Shepard so much. Possibly the most original geomerge to come out of my head, but slightly less so now thanks to Olcadan from Soul Calibur. (Speaking of which, if someone offers to skin him I might be able to chuck up one of him made from a Blademaster or something, for fun)

Anywho, I need a skin for this critter. Yes, I am aware of the whole "Using two skins when it should use one" problem in regards to still using the OrcWarlock skin when StormShepard.blp is almost an exact clone of it, but I screwed the alpha to hell and back on the shoulders somehow. I'm pretty sure most people here are competant in opening a mdl file and swapping a single texture to another one, so if you want to poke the shoulders, screw with that alpha and swap the second texture

But regardless, I could fix the alpha myself. Its not the alpha I'm caring about. Its the fact that this beasty is one of my favourite works, and I have no skinning ability at all. Making that hidious UV wrap was about my pinicle, and even that is buggy. So, I'd love someone to do a skin of this guy. I'm not very certain on what he should look like, so you would have pretty much free reign. But a few notes to consider

1. He's a Raptus. They're gloryfied Al'Akir worshippers who I made up, and thus could be considered Old God worshippers as well. Think "Twighlight's Hammer" in World of Warcraft, but more caring about the wind side of things. If you want to put magical runes on him, anything with curves would seem appropriate
2. The wings should be the same colour as the head feathers
3. The staff is a stick. A plain ol' stick
4. The additional portrait lacks the "mane" of feathers. Sorry, that was my mistake and I'll try to fix it. So focus more on the model for now
5. Preferably not an O'Rly/Ya'Rly owl ripoff, but I'll accept anything
6. Yes, I know the unwrap is screwed to hell. I was tired
7. No, I have no idea how changing the mapping managed to make this guy grow several bytes larger than he used to be. I'll figure it out eventually, but I'm unconcerned about size at the moment

I'll be happy if someone manages to get me a skin for this guy, very happy

i must admit i too loved the model when i first saw it.

There are just a couple of things wrong with it that make it just not good enough. (lack of proper portrait animations, the hands/claws look like poop, no animations on the wings...)

anyway, good luck with fixing the things you mentioned, but dont ask people to skin a bugged model please. Its innapropriate.

Ah, finally, nice feedback

I'll get around to doing a few changes and trying to fix that bloody alpha, and I'll just say "Screw the bloody owl claws, hippogryph all the way", which'll be nicer, thank you very much larger unwrapping

But it has a... Sorta proper portrait, which is just missing the mane due to the fact it kept going inside the body

And the wings is gonna be a bit of a problem, due to my lack of animation and bone adding skills, but I can probably rig up an attachment onto it

hmm...send me the skin, and give me info on it, i MIGHT have some time to do it, ..but .if i dont have time...well..er...sorry..
but i do like your model too