Posts from Guide on adding a new model, animation, and creature to HoMMV

Hello everyone, and a huge thank you for the guide on transferring models to HMM5, special thanks to zahar0z for the individual consultation and tips.
My first creation, an Orc, I decided to make him instead of the Shamanesses, and I'll replace the old Orcs later.
For now, he's mute; I want to extract his sounds from HMM7, they are archived in upk format. I've tried with various programs, but none of the ones I know can open it... Maybe someone can suggest how to extract the sounds?
I'm a complete beginner in modeling, but thanks to the detailed guide, I managed to create an Orc with perfect animation.

Hello everyone, and a huge thank you for the guide on transferring models into HMM5. Special thanks to zahar0z for the individual consultation and helpful tips.
This is my first creation, an Orc. I decided to make him instead of the Shaman, and I'll replace the old Orcs later.
For now, he's mute. I want to extract his sounds from HMM7; they're archived in the upk format. I've tried various tools, but none of the programs I know can open it. Maybe someone can suggest how to extract the sounds?
I'm a complete beginner in modeling, but thanks to the detailed guide, I managed to create an Orc with perfect animation.

Awesome.
Did you also change the texture? It looks better than the original, although the shield might be a bit too dark.
It would be good to change the icon, as it doesn't have a transparent background.
You can see how to make a good icon in Psathi's guide. Or is this a feature, not a bug?
If so, I've attached a link to it in the icon section of my guide.
Anyway, great job again. I hope your example will encourage others; they'll see that porting models is actually quite easy and they'll try it themselves.

Hello everyone, and a huge thank you for the guide on transferring models into HMM5; special thanks to zahar0z for individual consultation and advice)
This is my first creation – an Orc. I decided to make him instead of Shamans, and I will replace the old orcs later)
For now, he's mute. I want to extract his sounds from HM&M7; they are archived in upk format there. I tried different tools, but none of the programs I know can handle it... Maybe someone can suggest how to get the sounds?
I am completely new to modeling, but thanks to the detailed guide, I managed to create an orc with perfect animation.

Valuable comments from an expert)

Added 8 minutes ago
And yes, you spent a lot of time manually adjusting the smoothing on someone else's model (although you could also work correctly with automatic smoothing without doing it manually), and I don't understand what you're so proud of. It's perfect, I keep getting annoyed by your arrogance.)

Maybe it's better not to bombard a person who has created a lot of new things for himself with "valuable" criticism. Maybe you should support him somehow?

Although, I have a theory why you're doing this. It feels like the "revolution in modding" is no longer exclusively your domain, right? You want to prove that you can do it better than others?
I think you should look at the facts and admit that stealing other people's models isn't that difficult, and everyone can do it. And stop pretending to be an expert just because you... know how to manually adjust smoothing groups. God, aren't you embarrassed?


Added 22 minutes ago
If you want to talk about it, your ports also have a lot of flaws. I haven't looked at them in detail, but here are a few things that come to mind. The animation of a creature's attack often doesn't match the moment the enemy creature takes damage. There's an issue with the crossbowman's firing animation. But I'm not going to lecture you with a know-it-all attitude about these problems, am I?
If you're going to criticize these things, offer a solution. You know, like I did when I told you how to fix the animation problem.
No, it's easier to just walk by and say, "You're all idiots, but I know how to adjust smoothing groups on other people's models," but do you think that's who's really acting like an idiot?


Added 13 minutes ago
I think "experts" like you and me should support this person with kind words. He's only opened Max 2-3 times in his life. When I opened Max 2-3 times, I didn't do anything like this, and I'm sure you didn't either.
So, once again, hannik, keep it up, it's very good for a start. Good luck in the future.

if you know how to fix this, please tell me

I just pointed out the mistakes that need to be fixed

the polygon smoothing is poorly configured, but that's okay, I guess I'm the only one who spent a lot of time making sure everything was perfect in that regard.

regarding auto-smoothing, I've been convinced many times that it's not a great option,

I mostly agree.

I'll add that the desire to feed one's ego is harmful not only to those around them, but also to the person who boasts.

Footman, everyone would be happy to receive constructive criticism from you or anyone else (in fact, it's invaluable), but constructive criticism implies that it will somehow help the person being criticized. If it doesn't provide all the ways to solve the problem on a silver platter, then at least it should nudge them in the right direction. And of course, there can be no "I'm the only one doing everything right" in constructive criticism.

In short, let's forget that this incident happened. Let's focus on the positive and help each other and move forward together. I believe that as a small community, we have a significant potential for development, and we can theoretically use it.

I'm trying to be Leopold the Cat today (steal Psathi's usual role)). It probably doesn't work very well, but don't judge me too harshly))