Camel Animation

[Arwyn]

Quick vid featured on MMO-Champ of the camel mounts in motion.

Though the animation doesn't show anyone riding the mount, it looks like the camel won't jostle a toon around like the bear mount does.

And another thing, I know people might say that ground mounts won't get any use after 80 because you'll be able to fly, but whenever I'm going to be in Uldum or some other desert zone, I'm riding the camel. It just feels right.

[Dewclaw]

It's sad that ground mounts are essentially obsolete now.

[Kayb]

I wouldn't say that. It's still a lot of gold to build up to be able to fly, more at higher speeds. And those who don't have a lvl 80 toon already with a boat load of gold will have a tough time building the required gold at lvl 60 to be zooming through the skies

[Slickrock2]

There are still no fly zones, so ground mounts will get use. Of course, that doesn't mean I'm gonna grind the rep for the camel...

Now the undead raptor mount....

[cowmuflage]

Um do you guys forget that ya cant fly till 60 anyway so no ground mounts are still very usefull

[Kalliope]

Battlegrounds = no flying mounts.

(Also arena.)

[azurelith]

I don't know about you guys but i still plan on using my ground mounts. I love them too much to give them up for the sake of convenience.

These camels are cool but i wish they would do something about their gait. They don't run anything like a real camel.
I think they should change it to be like the camels near the end of this video. They look a bit to comical for my taste right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp3wtecrykQ

[Razzy]

That run will irk me endlessly.

[Euryleia]

They don't run anything like a real camel.

Actually, they do. The animation is a pretty good reproduction of a camel's gallop. The gait you're referring to towards the end of that video is of the camel's pace when they're going slower than a full gallop but faster than walking. It's the equivalent of a horse's "trot". It would be nifty if they had that too, but mounts in WoW only have two speeds, so you don't really have an opportunity to reproduce all the different gaits that any animal uses, so you get the walk and the gallop, but miss trots and paces and canters and such. Too bad, but what can you do? In any case, the mounts do in fact gallop like a real camel.

[Vephriel]

The walking animation bothers me a bit since camels don't move their legs in the same way another creature might. They move both legs of the same side forward at once instead of alternating like a dog might.

[Euryleia]

The walking animation bothers me a bit since camels don't move their legs in the same way another creature might. They move both legs of the same side forward at once instead of alternating like a dog might.

...and, again, no. You're talking about their pace that's the equivalent of a horse's "trot". When walking, they don't move both legs on the same side forward at the same time. The gait you're talking about exists, but it's not their normal walking gait, nor is it their galloping gait.

[Vephriel]

Nope, I wasn't talking about a trotting pace, though that is when the gait is most noticeable at having both legs of the same side move at once. Even when walking regularly their legs almost hit that sort of pacing at times. It's just a bit off in the model's animations. Honestly not something that's going to bother me immensely, just a minor observation.

[Jangalian]

I'm around camel-type animals daily....I have alpacas, and the gait on this mount is going to bother the living crap out of me! >_< I'll get one for achievement, but will never ride it.

[Anyia]

I'll get one for achievement, but will never ride it.

Sounds like another mammoth to me.

[Mindsprocket]

At least it's better than the seahorse.

I don't really have a problem with the way they move. Though I don't know that much about camels. Maybe you could just say that this is the way Azerothian camels run?

I guess you could tell Blizz that there's something wrong. It's still the beta, so they can still do something about it. So far I've only seen the camels glide without really moving in the videos I've watched. So I guess this is their first attempt at making them actually run. Just give Blizz some featback. At this point it may still help.

[azurelith]

You can see the camel in action here.