Upcoming Champions [League of Legends: Arena]

With variety of fixes and visual enchantment, alpha version from my recent project - League of Legends: Arena is over, and moving on into beta state. However since the project is still a long go and I haven't fully animate some of the champions yet, I decided to made a sneak peek post on the blog which I didn't do anymore since my Fairy Tail: Battle of Magic project last time. So here is it, starting from the champions list - from the current available into some of those whose currently on my list to be included in future releases:

Currently Available: Katarina, Garen and Miss Fortune

Currently Available: Sona, Master Yi and Ezreal

Currently Available: Vladimir, Janna and Nasus

Upcoming Releases: Zyra, Nautilus and Graves

Upcoming Releases: Ashe, Leona and Ahri

Boss Mode
Boss mode will be implemented in future release as well, currently I have one between two champions on mind that has to be decided as a Boss: Hecarim, the Shadow of War or Nautilus, the Titan of the Depths.

Boss Mode illust with Nautilus as the boss

Achieving Low Size On A High Visualized Map

People often asked, how do I achieve such low size projects while most of the materials I'm using are normally a highpoly products. So I decided to made a short tutorial out of it, hopefully can be helpful for certain people who needed it, especially those who care much about size.

These points I'm mentioning are what I often do and based off from personal map making experience in order to achieving low sized, yet visually high quality looking maps:

1. Models
No doubt that model can enchant your map looks into something different and eye pleasing. But too much polycount ain't necessary for wc3. Therefore Polycount Reduction is needed to do, this is a polycount reduction example on a mesh that I did:

Blackhand from Warlords of Draenor - Before: 4,57 mb | After: 298 kb
(Model mesh size only, not including texture size)

Notice the difference? Polycount Reduction meant removing unecessary parts of the mesh in order to obtain lower size. This can be done in Mdlvis or Milkshape.

Short Note: In milkshape you can do reduction for various kind of model files other than .mdx. In my personal opinion, Milkshape is also a base modelling tool to build your modelling fundamental before move on into professional modelling tools like 3ds max or Maya.

The next part we'll talk about Animations, normally WoW models had plenty of animations which is not needed as every single of keyframes here are counted as kb.

1. Try to remove every single of animations that you not needed on the model and see the size difference. Especially on a model that you use as an NPC or Vendor role, leaving only stand animation on them is pretty much a good idea.

2. If you create the animations on your own, create only animations that you needed, beside lower the size, it's also way more time efficiency.

Last but not least, remove unnecessary keyframes on each animations, normally WoW animated models had hundered of keyframes on a single animation, remove them until 8-10 keyframes. Make sure you remove a correct keyframe or else the animations would be messed up.

From that Polycount Reduction and Keyframes Reduction method above I'm able to made the model on the pic down from 4,57 mb into 298 kb.

Blackhand in-game, comparison between
30% and 100% texture quality

2. Texture

For custom texture usage only, skip this part if you using in-game textures. Reduce your texture quality under 40% using BLP Lab.

If  you using custom seperated model potrait, you can just reduce yours into 20% instead, as with wc3 normal camera distance, texture quality is not really that noticable, unless it's for huge sized doodads decorations.

As for texture resolution, 256 pixels-below is the best choice, never went higher than that for your size efficiency. Changing a texture resolution can be done in Photoshop or BLP Lab.

And for ground tile textures, I usually have them in 60% of their quality so their looks ain't broken as a ground.

3. Icon
Normally it's 5 kb below for BTN, and 4 kb below for DISBTN. If your icon size is more than that, you did the conversion wrong. I'm using Photoshop most of the times before converting all of my icons, and then using Button Manager for converting them into .blp file.

Sound Cut, because every single second
taking quite alot of kbs

4. Sound
Sounds sometimes made the map rather more alive, right usage of BGM often can made the map vibe more intensive especially on battle arena themed one. I often cut any unecessary part of the sound/music which I'm using with Adobe Audition, after that compress them into 64 kbps, lower than that only causing a broken sound. I personally use Xilisoft Video Converter or Switch Sound File Converter for compressing the sound kbps.

For BGM, you can cut certain repeatable part from the music to cut down the size instead of using them in full length.

Those are vital parts I often do in order to obtaining a lower size, other than that you guys probably already know what to do. Doing the model part (polycount reduction and keyframes reduction) would be the more time-taking out of 4 points above. Creating from scratch or editing the materials used would need even more time.

But the visual and size result? I can guarantee it's worth it rather than have oversized kbs on something that can be achieved waaay more smaller! Except if you don't care at all about the size, of course.

League of Legends: Arena

Beside World of Warcraft total conversion projects series which I finally had the chance to achieve, since around 2 years ago I've been always planned to create a project based off from League of Legends for fun, and especially because I wanted to see a League of Legends visually converted into the game which anyone haven't done it (I meant the whole visual). Since I recently having fun creating hero arena-of sort, kind of map, I've decided to making this League of Legends project into an arena instead with League of Legends: Arena as it's name.

Perhaps an RPG version would be made in the future, as I had quite plenty of terrain concept to try on. It is the visual possibilities what wc3 can achieve which made me still enjoy making maps until today, aware of the fact that wc3 is already pretty old and it's started to pretty much dying day by day.

Miss Fortune in-game

The project terrain featuring experimental method for the tile, with higher resolution and dimension which I haven't tried with my projects before, and really had fun during the process of making it - as terraining is one of my favorite part on making a project. So if you enjoyed seen my terraining on my projects, make sure you tried this one as well!

Current Available Champions
here are currently few champions of choice that available on this current state: Garen, Master Yi, Miss Fortune, Sona and Katarina - which of course there will be more of it on future release! Champion audio voice clips also included when they cast their Q and R ability. These champions are on my mind right now to be included in next versions: Vladimir, Nasus and Jana. Beside those, there are also some pending champion list which I currently haven't animate, including: Ahri, Azir, Leona, Riven and more other. I made a sneak peek about some of them here.

As an arena type, the map featured fast paced, quick-to-learn gameplay like one of my previous project, enchanted with rich visualized, HD battlefield conversion which is my strong points as a visual person myself. Mediocre AI is included, enough to entertain on the whole game. Here's some ingame preview of the project:

Katarina preview in-game #001

Katarina preview in-game #002

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Katarina preview in-game #004

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Version 1.2 has been released on February 6th, 2015. Featuring new champions: Alistar, the Minotaur and Mordekaiser, the Master of Metal joins the arena! As well as mass revison on the previous champions available, and some more new stuff. Full changelogs available in-game menu.
Version History: 0.6.a, 0.6.b, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2

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Latest Release Date: August 5th, 2015

Current Map Size: 4.3 MB

World of Warcraft: The Battleground

Fourth title I've finally able to release this year from World of Warcraft total conversion project series of mine. A fun-to-play Hero Arena playstyle in a huge, rich visualized battleground inspired from the actual battleground from World of Warcraft itself, spiced up with RPG-like elements for people to play. Join up the iconic battle conflict between Team Alliance and Team Horde! AI included for the fun, enough to keep you entertained the whole game.

Available Classes
Play as your favorite role: be a davestating warrior battling on the front line, or powerful spellcasters who use magic to inflict damage on their enemies from afar! There are currently 14 available classes-inspired from original World of Warcraft available to play, including Hybrid Monk, which is a class I thought I'd never include.

Tauren Warrior

Arms Warrior
"A Battle-hardened masters of heavy weapons, using mobility and overpowering attacks to strike their opponents down."

Abilities:
Siegebreaker, Thunder Clap, Mortal Strike, Hamstring, Piercing Howl and Battle Shout

Equipment of Choices:
Main Hand: Sword, Axe, Mace, Dagger
Off Hand: Axe, Sword, Dagger, Shield
Armor: Plate, Leather

Undead Rogue

Assasination Rogue
"A deadly master of poisons who dispatches victims with vicious dagger strikes."

Abilities:
Mutilate, Wound Poison, Vendetta, Envenom, Stealth and Garrote

Equipment of Choices:
Main Hand: Sword, Dagger
Off Hand: Sword, Dagger, Shield
Armor: Leather

Undead Death Knight

Frost Death Knight
"An icy harbinger of doom, enchanting frost power and delivering vicious weapon strikes."

Abilities:
Frost Stike, Death Coil, Remorseless Winter, Howling Blast, Anti-Magic Shell and Shadow Infusion

Equipment of Choices:
Main Hand: Sword, Axe, Dagger
Off Hand: Axe, Sword, Dagger, Shield
Armor: Plate, Leather

Draenei Frost Mage

Frost Mage
"Frost specialization spell caster, able to freezes enemies in their tracks and shatters them with frost magic."

Abilities:
Cone of Cold, Frost Armor, Blizzard, Frost Nova, Deep Freeze and Absorb Mana

Equipment of Choices:
Main Hand: Staff
Off Hand: Shield
Armor: Cloth, Leather

Draenei Paladin

Holy Paladin
"Guardian of the righteous. Invokes the power of the light to protect and to heal."

Abilities:
Crusader Strike, Holy Shock, Holy Light, Flash of Light, Divine Shield and Devotion

Equipment of Choices:
Main Hand: Sword, Mace
Off Hand: Shield
Armor: Plate, Leather

Human Priest

Holy Priest
"Master of healing and preservation. Uses magic to shield allies from taking damage as well as heal their wounds."

Abilities:
Penance, Power Word: Barrier, Holy Light, Inner Will, Mind Blast and Absorb Mana

Equipment of Choices:
Main Hand: Staff, Mace
Off Hand: Shield
Armor: Cloth, Leather

Night Elf Warlock

Affliction Warlock
"A master of Shadow magic who specializes in drains and cursing spells."

Abilities:
Shadow Bolt, Drain Life, Howl of Terror, Soulburn, Malefic Grasp and Absorb Mana

Equipment of Choices:
Main Hand: Staff
Off Hand: Shield
Armor: Cloth, Leather

Orc Death Knight

Blood Death Knight
"A dark guardian who manipulates and corrupts life energy to sustain himself in the face of an enemy onslaught."

Abilities:
Death Strike, Scarlet Fever, Strangulate, Unholy Fever, Anti-Magic Shell and Vampiric Blood

Equipment of Choices:
Main Hand: Sword, Axe, Dagger
Off Hand: Axe, Sword, Dagger, Shield
Armor: Plate, Leather

Blood Elf Mage

Fire Mage
"Fire specialization spell caster, able to ignite enemies with burst of fire and combustive flames."

Abilities:
Pyroblast, Flame Strike, Molten Armor, Combustion, Polymorph and Absorb Mana

Equipment of Choices:
Main Hand: Staff
Off Hand: Shield
Armor: Cloth

Blood Elf Paladin

Retribution Paladin
"A righteous holy knight who judges and punishes opponents with weapon and holy magic."

Abilities:
Templar Verdict, Divine Storm, Holy Light, Binding Light, Divine Shield and The Art of War

Equipment of Choices:
Main Hand: Sword, Mace
Off Hand: Shield
Armor: Plate, Leather

Worgen Rogue

 Combat Rogue
"A swashbuckler who uses agility and guile to stand toe-to-toe with enemies."

Abilities:
Revealing Strike, Expose Armor, Vitality, Gouge, Stealth and Garrote

Equipment of Choices:
Main Hand: Sword, Dagger
Off Hand: Sword, Dagger, Shield
Armor: Leather

Orc Shaman

Elemental Shaman
"A spellcaster who harnesses the destructive forces of nature and the elements."

Abilities:
Lightning Bolt, Static Shock, Earth Shock, Lava Burst, Healing Surge and Absorb Mana

Equipment of Choices:
Main Hand: Staff
Off Hand: Shield
Armor: Cloth, Leather

Dwarf Warrior

 Fury Warrior
"A furious berserker, unleashing a flurry of attacks to carve his opponents to pieces."

Abilities:
Bloodthrist, Crazed Berserker, Whirlwind, Colossus Smash, Avatar and Berserker Rage

Equipment of Choices:
Main Hand: Sword, Axe, Mace, Dagger
Off Hand: Axe, Sword, Dagger, Shield
Armor: Plate, Leather

Pandaren Monk

Hybrid Monk
"A martial artist without peer who pummels foes with hands and fists."

Abilities:
Jab, Dragon Fist, Stance of Fierce Tiger, Breath of Fire, Zen Meditation and Fists of Fury

Equipment of Choices:
Main Hand: Sword, Mace, Staff, Dagger
Off Hand: Sword, Dagger, Shield
Armor: Leather, Cloth

Some attachments in-game

Features
♦ Total Conversion Materials from WoW
All materials has re-created, poly reduced, geomerged and edited by myself for the multiplayer project usage purpose.

♦ Huge Battleground, Detailed Terrain
The project provide a large, eye-catching detailed battleground for you to see while enjoying the battle against your enemies.

♦ Choosable Attributes Points
You'll receive 15 attribute points when starting the game, and 3 attribute points each time you leveled up.

♦ Attributes Scaleable Abilities
Q-W-E-R and D-F active abilities with comfortable hotkeys to use featuring fancy, describing tooltips. All abilities are scaleable by attributes!

♦ Custom Main Hand and Off Hand Attachment
You can change your weapon and shield attachment visual now as you change your main hand and off hand type item. Featuring some fancy World of Warcraft weapon and shield attachments with lowpoly revised, including legendaries: Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros, Warglaive of Azzinoth and Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest!

♦ Limited and Upgradeable Items
Additional RPG element, Player can only carry 1 type of equipment, all items are upgradeable up to 2 levels by Ore which you can bought on blacksmith!

♦ And More!

Screenshots Preview
Since the theme is about Mist of Pandaria, the terrain featuring a large arena battleground with design based off from Lost Isles mixed with ancient chinese Pandarian style, while the creeps are made via geomerging with Zandalari theme. These terrain design might be change and improved from time to time as the project progressing by.

Battleground Preview #1

Battleground Preview #2

Battleground Preview #3

Battleground Preview #4

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World of Warcraft: The Battleground latest Version 1.1 has been released on August 23th, 2015. Visit the main page on Hive Workshop for more detail.

Latest Version Release Date: December 9th, 2014

Current Map Size: 4,29 MB

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World of Warcraft: Clash of Legends

Third title I've released from World of Warcraft total conversion project series of mine. It is a fun-to-play classic Hero Arena play-style featured with memorable characters from World of Warcraft franchise. Play as Team Alliance or Team Horde and join the battle conflict between two great faction on Team Battle Mode, or even team up between the two faction and try Boss Mode; challenging the mighty Lich King himself which made some people rage quit! Mediocre AI included, enough to keep you entertain the whole game.

Available Lore Characters
Currently over 10 playable characters from the oldschool Paladin Arthas Menethil into the most recent "corrupted looks" of once, kindly sorceress Jaina Proudmoore. Including filler yet cool characters from lore that nobody cares about: Teron Gorefiend and Dranosh Saurfang!

Garrosh Hellscream

Garrosh Hellscream
Garrosh Hellscream, son of Grom Hellscream and former chieftain of the Warsong clan, is the former Warchief of the Horde. With the reopening of the Dark Portal, Garrosh was invited into the Horde by Thrall himself, quickly advancing to the position of personal adviser of the Warchief.

Specialization Abilities
Bloodthrist, Wildstrike, Hellscream's Warsong and Bladestorm

Base Abilities
Annihilate and Battle Shout

Kael'thas Sunstrider

Kael'thas Sunstrider
Kael'thas Sunstrider was a senior member of the Kirin Tor and the Prince of Quel'Thalas, the last of the Sunstrider dynasty. After the fall of Quel'Thalas, he led what remained of his people in the service of the Alliance. Striving to placate his people's addiction to magic, he later covertly allied with Illidan Stormrage and the Burning Legion.

Specialization Abilities
Combustion, Flame Strike, Scorch and Inferno Blast

Base Abilities
Fire Blast and Absorb Mana

Teron Gorefiend

Teron Gorefiend
In life, Teron Gorefiend was one of Gul'dan's acolytes. In death, he became the first of the necromantic terrors that became known as death knights — the warriors promised by Gul'dan to appease Orgrim Doomhammer and combat the human mages' powerful magic.

Specialization Abilities
Necrotic Strike, Death Coil, Vampiric Blood and Shadow of the Death

Base Abilities
Crushing Shadow and Anti-Magic Shell

Lor'themar Teron

Lor'themar Theron
Lor'themar Theron is the Regent Lord of Quel'Thalas, and was the leader of the blood elves of Azeroth in the absence of Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider. After Kael'thas' betrayal and eventual death, Lor'themar has become the sole leader of his people and seeks to lead them to a brighter future.

Specialization Abilities
Devastate, Shield Slam, Demoralizing Shout and Impending Victory

Base Abilities
Execute and Battle Shout

Dranosh Saurfang

Dranosh Saurfang
Dranosh Saurfang, often called Saurfang the Younger, was the son of Varok Saurfang and nephew of Broxigar the Red. His mother's identity is not known. Dranosh was very much like his father and uncle, a fierce warrior to the end. After he fell to Frostmourne at the Battle of Wrathgate, he was raised in undead by the Lich King.

Specialization Abilities
Frost Strike, Remorseless Winter, Killing Machine and Obliterate

Base Abilities
Howling Blast and Anti Magic-Shield

Arthas Menethil

Arhas Menethil
Arthas Menethil, Crown Prince of Lordaeron and Knight of the Silver Hand, was the son of King Terenas Menethil II and heir to the throne. He was trained as a paladin by Uther the Lightbringer, and had a romantic relationship with the kind sorceress Jaina Proudmoore.

Specialization Abilities
Crusader Strike, Holy Light, Devotion and Daybreak

Base Abilities
Holy Wrath and Divine Shield

Jaina Proudmoore

Jaina Proudmoore
Jaina Proudmoore is the founder and former Lady of Theramore Isle, the Alliance's major port in southern Kalimdor. After the destruction of Theramore, she took leadership of the Kirin Tor. She is also the most powerful human sorceress on Azeroth.

Specialization Abilities
Frost Bolt, Cone of Cold, Frost Armor and Frost Nova

Base Abilities
Shatter and Absorb Mana

Tirion Fordring

Tirion Fordring
Tirion Fordring was one of the first five Knights of the Silver Hand selected by Archbishop Alonsus Faol, and was one of the heroes of the Second War. He later became Lord of Mardenholde Keep in Hearthglen before being stripped of his title and exiled for defending an orc, Eitrigg. He now leads the Argent Crusade, an organization consisting of the old Knights of the Silver Hand and the Argent Dawn, against the Lich King.

Specialization Abilities
Holy Shock, Holy Light, Divine Storm and Exorcism

Base Abilities
Judgement and Divine Shield

Tyrande Whisperwind

Tyrande Whisperwind
Tyrande Whisperwind is the most prominent night elf leader, as the chosen high priestess of the goddess Elune, the former general of the night elf sentinels, and the current head of the Sisterhood of Elune. Together with her lifelong mate, the Archdruid Malfurion Stormrage, she has represented the highest leadership of the night elves since the fall of Queen Azshara and the Highborne caste ten thousand years ago.

Specialization Abilities
Moonbolt, Lunar Blessing, Lunar Guidance and Tears of Elune

Base Abilities
Starsurge and Shadow Meld

Velen

Velen
Velen has been the leader of the draenei people since their flight from Argus 25,000 years before the first orcish invasion of Azeroth. As his title entails, he has been granted the gift of prophecy, and has guided his people as they fled from, and later fought against, the Burning Legion who had ensnared their eredar brethren. He is first among the draenei and is the nemesis (formerly best friend) of Kil'jaeden and Archimonde.

Specialization Abilities
Holy Smite, Circle of Healing, Holy Nova and Prayer of Healing

Base Abilities
Divine Fury and Mana Burn


Screenshots Preview
The terrain featuring arena based-off from a garden-ish version of Stormwind City blended with moon-ish theme of Night Elves. Here are some first impression in-game screenshots. Here are some first impression in-game screenshots. Terrain layout concepts might be change as the update progressing by.

Preview In-Game #1

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Preview In-Game #3

Preview In-Game #4

Current Cover

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World of Warcraft: Clash of Legends Latest Version 1.2 update released on December 9th, 2014. You can also visit the project main page on Hive Workshop as well. AI included!

Latest Version Release Date: December 9th, 2014

Current Map Size: 3,9 MB

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