Not at the angle that they do in WoW. It looks stupid, and I'm standing by that dammitTaluwen wrote:They do actually hold their heads down a lot. I watch animal planet safari stuff all the time and more often than now, their heads are down cause thats where the food is.
Perhaps to you, but that's your opinion on it, not an encompassing fact.Tulune wrote:Not at the angle that they do in WoW. It looks stupid, and I'm standing by that dammit
They are widely known for being ugly, e.g. http://www.sunsafaris.com/ugly-five.html includes them in with buzzards, wildebeests and warthogs, or just google "hyena + ugly" and see how many hits you get... and that perception isn't recent either as many cultures view them negatively in history/folklore (the name itself is derived from the Greek word for pig).Kryte wrote:I don't know what hyenas you've been looking at, but I've never seen one that I thought was ugly. They're pretty adorable, even if they are vicious.
It looks like the same ones in the real wild.Vephriel wrote:Perhaps to you, but that's your opinion on it, not an encompassing fact.Tulune wrote:Not at the angle that they do in WoW. It looks stupid, and I'm standing by that dammit
They walk with their heads upright, actually. The only time the head is down is when the hyena is idling. When it attacks or moves, the head returns to the upright position, giving the model a head-bobbing... thing. Again, my biggest problem with the lowered head is that the model clearly wasn't designed with it mind. This gives the neck an sharp, awkward slope, weird animations, and exaggerates the effect of the model's "uni-boob". Trying to upload some pictures of this, but it doesn't seem to be working at the moment.Vephriel wrote:I never paid enough attention to Hyenas back when they had the original posture, however I do admit I like the hunched stance more. I know there's some model issues with the new pose, but they've never been enough to bother me. I really like the look when they walk around with the head down, just gives off a good attitude.
*nods* Yup, I have a Hyena on my Troll Hunter. They have the hunched posture when idling and slow walking. I've seen the model errors, but they just don't bother me enough to notice.Kryte wrote:They walk with their heads upright, actually. The only time the head is down is when the hyena is idling. When it attacks or moves, the head returns to the upright position, giving the model a head-bobbing... thing. Again, my biggest problem with the lowered head is that the model clearly wasn't designed with it mind. This gives the neck an sharp, awkward slope, weird animations, and exaggerates the effect of the model's "uni-boob". Trying to upload some pictures of this, but it doesn't seem to be working at the moment.Vephriel wrote:I never paid enough attention to Hyenas back when they had the original posture, however I do admit I like the hunched stance more. I know there's some model issues with the new pose, but they've never been enough to bother me. I really like the look when they walk around with the head down, just gives off a good attitude.
That's the only problem I have with the new look, really. Head up was fine, head down is fine, but having its neck snapped between each stance? Yikes.Kryte wrote:They walk with their heads upright, actually. The only time the head is down is when the hyena is idling. When it attacks or moves, the head returns to the upright position, giving the model a head-bobbing... thing. Again, my biggest problem with the lowered head is that the model clearly wasn't designed with it mind. This gives the neck an sharp, awkward slope, weird animations, and exaggerates the effect of the model's "uni-boob". Trying to upload some pictures of this, but it doesn't seem to be working at the moment.Vephriel wrote:I never paid enough attention to Hyenas back when they had the original posture, however I do admit I like the hunched stance more. I know there's some model issues with the new pose, but they've never been enough to bother me. I really like the look when they walk around with the head down, just gives off a good attitude.
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*raises hand*Tulune wrote:Cmon, there has to be someone who remembers how they wewre, and like it better besides me
Lazuly wrote: The bug with the tail was not since the beginning, I remember it appearing sometime during BC. I think that when they finally gave Hyenas a jump/swim animation then, that something funky was done to the model. Laz has had a hyena since the very beginning of WoW, and there wasn't any bug with the tail until BC.
Well, once the tail-issue appeared, they changed the posture a couple patches later. I'm pretty sure it was cause and effect, I could be wrong, but I don't think they'd have spent the time/manpower to change a model entirely because they didn't think it looked real enough. I personally think the old one was more true-to-life anyway, this "new" (well, old nowAcherontia wrote: The OLD posture created an error where the tail inverted deep into the hyena's body whenever it used its biting attack animation.
The NEW posture was their "fix"--which they did by plastering the Hyena model onto the coyote skeleton, but as it doesn't particularly fit correctly, this makes the hyena stand oddly and use slightly different animations--and the Standing animation just looks horrible like that, imo.
) one makes me sad. But without an official GM reply, I doubt we'll ever know for sure.
