Skin Swaps! (Owls and parrots that never were... etc.)

Wain · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:36 pm

Kurasu wrote:

Teigan wrote:

I love the corehounds with turtle skins! But...what about the Kurken? He's a-lurken....

..... OMG I hadn't considered that. I desparately want to see what that looks like. Even if it's ridiculous.

Unfortunately they don't line up right, so they look like abominations:

And core hound skins on Kurken model:

UPDATE:
And best of all, at Kurasu's request, The Kurken skin on a turtle:

Nubhorns · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:38 pm

I admit I really like the red corekurken.

It's like some sort of old god-esque monstrosity.

Wain · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:51 pm

Loki over on this thread asked to see more swaps of giraffe/gazelle/stag/talbuk/horse skins.

Now I posted examples of all of them on horse models here. And I posted giraffe/gazelle swaps in this thread on page 2. So here's some examples of other swaps:

Stags. Other skins on stags seem to lose the mane, so instead you get a goitre, or some sort of neck lump like a bull might have. For some of them the neck also shows a seam where it joins the body, and the nobbly knees stand out on a couple:

Talbuks. The main problem with other skins on talbuks is that the neck beard doesn't look right. It's not textured to look as fluffy and natural as a talbuk's one. Other than that they aren't too horrible. Talbuks have a separate file for their horns, so that part never changes.

TygerDarkstorm · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:55 pm

Wain wrote:

*Squees in delight* I would love these two!

Bulletdance · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:01 pm

I really like that black parrot!

Wain · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:03 pm

Giraffes and Gazelles. I'll group these together since they use an identical skin art style. The horn texture is wrong on a few, the stag skin gives the giraffe a terrible neck beard, the talbuk skin gives the forelegs an obvious join, but they don't look too bad. The horse ones seem to look particularly good, though stag musculature on the gazelle makes it look emaciated.

And if a giraffe ever decided to join the Burning Legion, here's how it'd look:

Wain · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:17 pm

Update: added the kurken skin on a sea turtle to the kurken/core hound post above.

GormanGhaste · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:22 pm

That dark stag skin looks good on Everything!

Kalliope · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:42 pm

Bahahahahahahaha! That's awesome.

Loki · **Joined:** Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:26 pm **Posts:** 584

Thanks for posting the giraffe/talbuk/stag/gazelle skins

The Burning Legion giraffe is epic, and some of the others are good enough to use in-game in my opinion (shadow talbuk, blue striped giraffe, etc).

Teigan · **Joined:** Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:05 am **Posts:** 3664

Wain · **Posted:** Sat Sep 17, 2011 1:31 pm

Mychelle wrote:

Very curious though, have you tried any skin changes on the spiny raptors? Or is the difference a bit too extreme?

Unfortunately they use an entirely different skin format.

Ikutai · **Posted:** Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:14 am

If Blizz took this model of an Eagle, applied Wain's recolouring, and added the Lightning effect from Skoll to it, I would camp it until the end of Time. I can even see it having some kind of awesome name with a title <The Thunderbird>, and even being a more corporeal-like Spirit Beast.

Smyelmdar · **Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:58 am

There's a lot of nice combinations here.

I've tried doing this myself, but I can't get it to work properly. I did notice that the undead eagle skin fits the other birds you've tried.
It looks weird though. But I tried adding an owl skin to the undead eagle, and it still looked strange, but not as bad as the other way around.
Maybe you could give it a try?

I also noticed that the phoenix minipet skin fits the epic druid flight form. But I can't seem to get it to load the skin in WMV..

Vephriel · **Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:23 pm

Heee, looks like someone threw some pink ribbons over that one in an attempt to make it prettier. xD

Smyelmdar · **Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:45 pm

Vephriel wrote:

Heee, looks like someone threw some pink ribbons over that one in an attempt to make it prettier. xD

Yeah. I don't know where that comes from. Maybe the ear part, used in the druid flight form files.

Wassa · **Joined:** Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:37 am **Posts:** 1420

It is the ear. Here is the skin file.

EDIT: And here is the undead eagle skin to see the bandage is at the ear part.

Smyelmdar · **Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 7:43 pm

Yeah, thought so.
Man that undead skin looks funny on owls and parrots.

Britany · **Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:13 pm

Wain wrote:

I'm rather fond of Derpmaggus.

Smyelmdar · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:50 am

So, I've been trying this some more, and though I'm not nearly as good at it as Wain, I did manage to get some interesting results.
It seems like the ancient turtle skin fits the drakeadon and corehound skins too. Also the normal turtle skin fits them, but it doesn't look that good.

Turtle skin, brown:

Ancient turtle skin, normal:

Ancient turtle skin, fire:

I have to say that the last one looks very nice. I'd love to have a pet like that.

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