If I were Blizzard, it's exactly what I would do. Hell, I would even throw several Deathwing versions including one from WarCraft II: BtDP for this expansion.
In edit mode, you can see individual vertices' weight groups in the N shelf. You can use this to spy out which vertex group is a culprit, and (as far as I remember) it should also carry over your selection in the N shelf into weight painting mode!
Here is one better. In weight paint mode, you can see what weight groups are influencing each vertex In 3.6, you can shift + right click, and a context menu appears with all the groups that influence the vertex In 4.0, you can do it with CTRL+SHIT+X on an area or vertex. This way, you can change what bone you are working with on the fly without having to move to other menus
why? Just to fire him? They had best of the best in the world and the game went to shit because of management not focused on player. Be patient, riot is building new wow mmo...
Bruh, who would want to work for blizzard? Shitty pay, bad work enviroment, they treat their employees like Thrash. This Guy Deserves More than that. Not wasting his talent so Bobby kottick can get richer.
I want this so badly and its almost painful knowing this is just a model you made and not an actual part of the game. This needs to be in the game, every single one of your projects is absolutely stunning and I don't think i'll ever be happy until Blizz gives you commendation and credit to such amazing stuff to the point of working with you to make this an ingame reality
I agree with you, but to be honest, in the case of wow I would do anything for free just so I could have my finger prints on the game that I've been invested in most of my life lol It would be extremely unprofessional of Blizzard to actually agree to have me do free work though, whether or not I'd care. So yea, you're definitely right. No studios should take unpaid work (unless it's repaid in a favor or something else at request of the artist)
Turaylon just casually chilling on the throne like "Hmmmm..." It's very telling of your maturity as a designer that you know not to overdo it. Great work man. Video great as always. I thought your were going to have your Onyxia eat Blizz's Highland Drake for a sec haaaaaa
Regarding the bone weighting issue, on Blender if you enable the Vertex Selection option (second button from the left of where it says weight paint, white square in an empty cube) then select one of the affected verticies, it will then show all the bones that deform that vertex in the transform menu (shortcut is N by default) at the bottom of the 'item' box.
If this is what the Onyxian drake mount looked like today I'd be farming the living heck out of that thing. And I avoid mount farming like the plague. As always, the machinima bits are spectacular! The "subtle" changes to the dragon's shape really makes an entire world a difference. And your texture work here is marvellous. From colour matching, reusing textures and the painting to you did yourself- You've managed to capture the wonderful look and stay consistent with the dragonflight drakes, whilst also capturing the essence of the Onyxian drake and a strong feeling of vanilla wow at its heart, too. Absolutely splendid work, that.
Love the bit where Onyxia flies into the throne room and does that really cool triumphant roar while Turalyon just stares dead forward like "... well, there it is" Also I gotta ask again, forsaken horses when? 🙏
Adding to other folks tips, you can clear your rigging from a selected part of the mesh by going to vertex groups then click on the down arrow on the right and choose "remove from all groups"
I think my only criticism is I wish you had made her a darker black instead of the purple black. It’s make the contrast with the bright purple spikes and red webbing nicer rather than how muddy and kind of ill fitting it is atm + since she’s a black dragon flight having a genuine darker black would also fit her in better with the current flight models ingame
Your work on these really is incredible! I have loved every one of these redesigns you've done and my only wish is that they were available in-game. Thank you for everything you put into these
“Thinking the same thing” -Sarah Kerrigan When i got the highland drake i searched high and low for the option that would get me close to the onyxian appearance, yours looks infinitely better, cool vid.
As always, love your content Tomkek, and it inspires me to jump back into blender and learn some more 3D modeling! Keep up the content, you're killing it, and I'm here for every second of it!
It's just crazy what you are able to pull off on so many levels - 3D modelling, sculpting, painting the assets. The creativity that goes into these projects as a work-around to any obstacles you encounter is simply praiseworthy. Congratz Tomkek :)
1:48 OH OH I KNOW THAT ONE!! If you just go into edit mode and select one of the vertices that has the wrong weights, you can see which vertex groups they are affected by in the Item panel.
Amazing work there dude! Really hope Blizzard could get some inspo and actually rework all the models as well, would've been so nice to experience an updated Azeroth!
One day there will be developers who will tell you how they got started, that they saw an upgrade video by a UA-camr and that inspired them to be as cool as that guy. Kudos to you, legend.
Fun fact, If you still have the Onyxia scale cloak you can open a chest in the new zone containing a toy beacuse the chest is engulfed in shadow flame that that cloak effect protects you from it, enjoy
I don't use the highland drake model because it looks goofy in game, no matter how it's customized. This, however, I would use in a heartbeat!!! Well done!
Love your video! I stopped playing a long time ago but WoW has still a place in my heart. Your puns and humour are great! I think your video is visually interesting with good cuts between shots and you switch just enough times between the contest itself and your face. You look fine and cute btw 😊
i wish blizzard would give you a lead artistic design position. your output is way more inspired than the disney/sims type models that theyve been spitting out for the past few years.
It looks super cool! Dragons are probably my favourite race in WoW. It's such a shame that we've never got an updated onyxian drake, among original drakes, Onyxian drake looks the best.
@Tomkektv 1:43 I don't know what exactly you're looking for but if you go to weight paint tab, click on vertex selection and select a vertex you're having problems with (or a bunch of them), then under item tab on the right side of the viewport a tab called "vertex weights" is available. It shows you all of the weights assigned to a specific vertex with corresponding bones. What you can do is select a bunch of them, change the value of the weight that you don't want to 0 and click "paste weight to selected" (it's an icon to the right of the value box).
So amazing. As a dragon lover, I really hope Blizzard will put this much love into rigging Onyxia and the other dragon mounts if or when they put them in the game. They won't, but I can still hope. Wonderful job!
Onyxia is my favorite Drake in the game and i wished so badly Blizz had made what you did and more, they could have reworked all the existing Drakes/Proto Drake mounts in the game to go along with the DragonFlight exp. Your model looks amazing! 11/10!
I watched this in full from asmon's reaction, but came here to rewatch to give you that watch time, which you whole heartedly deserve. Thank you for the great content.
Love the storytelling meanwhile - even though I also thoroughly enjoy the commentary on "how I did this". Thanks for the video, hope you're having a good day!
The fact you edited this model with pre-existing textures and an already in-game model that's ready to use.... you bet your ass I'm gonna get that dragon because Onyxia is my fave dragon of them all, aside from Mommy Alexstrasza
I'd love to be able to ride these in game. you've done some great work yet again, and i hope blizzard builds on their history and lore in customizations
I wish blizzard would give at least some of the more iconic drake mounts the highland drake skeleton (or turn them into skins for the highland dragon), your updated onyxia drake looks amazing. something that has always bothered me about the old dragon mount skeleton was how scrunched up they stand and how the saddle is placed on the neck instead of the back lmao
You need to consider streaming your work if you don't already. I believe a good amount would love to see you in real time doing what you love. Could be an amazing way for you to share knowledge and gain it throughout your community.
Well done man I can tell you have a lot of passion for the game. I was 7 years old trying to get into onyxia to see the massive dragon everyone is talking about XD. Now I am 27 years old and reaching boomer status.
I’d recommend trying to use vertex groups instead of using weight painting. Idk how easy it is when it comes to complex models though, the most complex thing I’ve rigged is a set of hands assigning vertex groups instead of weight painting
Really hope over time they add mounts that have flight physics like dragonriding mounts that are available everywhere. Imagine being the sandstone drake with someone on your back doing epic spins across the Eastern Kingdoms. I really enjoy DF and I hope they continue with a similar theme. It was fun and it wasn't as "serious" as the other two previous expansions felt. Sometimes I just need a good dragon to spin in a race between trees instead of kicking rocks in the ass for 8 different quests in a row.
Man, you should be proud of yourself for this one. This is *insanely* cool. I would kill to get this into the game on an official level, this is easily the coolest dragon mount I've ever seen. I place it above the Raszageth skin :D
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!! I’m a huge fan of Onyxia as well, and ever since dragonriding came ou I’ve wanted to make my highland drake match Onyxia as much as I could, but obviously the customization is very limited for that. Your work came out perfect as always, I love how faithful it is to her. You’re great dude, love your vids ❤
Everytime I watch one of your videos I'm hoping for Blizzard to recognize your work and just make it work for the game. It's amazing.
Wont happen. He takes to long to make bobby enough money for another yacht mount
No no no, we don't want Blizzard to claim him. They'll ruin him. He deserves so much more than Blizzard.
they are probably gonna exploit him, loop holes in contracts.
Blizzard doesn't deserve such good employees tbh.
If I were Blizzard, it's exactly what I would do. Hell, I would even throw several Deathwing versions including one from WarCraft II: BtDP for this expansion.
In edit mode, you can see individual vertices' weight groups in the N shelf. You can use this to spy out which vertex group is a culprit, and (as far as I remember) it should also carry over your selection in the N shelf into weight painting mode!
Here is one better. In weight paint mode, you can see what weight groups are influencing each vertex
In 3.6, you can shift + right click, and a context menu appears with all the groups that influence the vertex
In 4.0, you can do it with CTRL+SHIT+X on an area or vertex.
This way, you can change what bone you are working with on the fly without having to move to other menus
Blizzard pls hire this gem of a man
They’d fire him the moment he’d ask for a justified income.
why? Just to fire him? They had best of the best in the world and the game went to shit because of management not focused on player. Be patient, riot is building new wow mmo...
Yeah, aren't they in trouble because all their employee's are quitting? Hire this man!
Bruh, who would want to work for blizzard? Shitty pay, bad work enviroment, they treat their employees like Thrash. This Guy Deserves More than that. Not wasting his talent so Bobby kottick can get richer.
Let's rephrase this:
TOMKEK, Please make WoW2.
I want this so badly and its almost painful knowing this is just a model you made and not an actual part of the game. This needs to be in the game, every single one of your projects is absolutely stunning and I don't think i'll ever be happy until Blizz gives you commendation and credit to such amazing stuff to the point of working with you to make this an ingame reality
Unfortunately I don't think blizz is gonna give such a commendation unless he is in their payroll. Dem's the breaks.
You guys need to understand that recognition doesn't pay the bills, and professionals don't work for ackhnowledgement from companies.
I agree with you, but to be honest, in the case of wow I would do anything for free just so I could have my finger prints on the game that I've been invested in most of my life lol
It would be extremely unprofessional of Blizzard to actually agree to have me do free work though, whether or not I'd care. So yea, you're definitely right. No studios should take unpaid work (unless it's repaid in a favor or something else at request of the artist)
6:52 Turalyon just chilling in the background was the best part xD
Turaylon just casually chilling on the throne like "Hmmmm..."
It's very telling of your maturity as a designer that you know not to overdo it. Great work man.
Video great as always. I thought your were going to have your Onyxia eat Blizz's Highland Drake for a sec haaaaaa
Regarding the bone weighting issue, on Blender if you enable the Vertex Selection option (second button from the left of where it says weight paint, white square in an empty cube) then select one of the affected verticies, it will then show all the bones that deform that vertex in the transform menu (shortcut is N by default) at the bottom of the 'item' box.
If this is what the Onyxian drake mount looked like today I'd be farming the living heck out of that thing. And I avoid mount farming like the plague.
As always, the machinima bits are spectacular!
The "subtle" changes to the dragon's shape really makes an entire world a difference.
And your texture work here is marvellous. From colour matching, reusing textures and the painting to you did yourself- You've managed to capture the wonderful look and stay consistent with the dragonflight drakes, whilst also capturing the essence of the Onyxian drake and a strong feeling of vanilla wow at its heart, too. Absolutely splendid work, that.
Love the bit where Onyxia flies into the throne room and does that really cool triumphant roar while Turalyon just stares dead forward like "... well, there it is"
Also I gotta ask again, forsaken horses when? 🙏
I see Tomkek popping on my notifications, I click.
Adding to other folks tips, you can clear your rigging from a selected part of the mesh by going to vertex groups then click on the down arrow on the right and choose "remove from all groups"
I always love your updated model designs.
Keep up the amazing work!
this was by far my biggest wish for the highland drake- absolutely love that you made this!
So many cool things to rework. So little time…
I think my only criticism is I wish you had made her a darker black instead of the purple black. It’s make the contrast with the bright purple spikes and red webbing nicer rather than how muddy and kind of ill fitting it is atm + since she’s a black dragon flight having a genuine darker black would also fit her in better with the current flight models ingame
we need like 10 of you and we will have basically a whole new game in like a year, your work is amazing dude
Your work on these really is incredible! I have loved every one of these redesigns you've done and my only wish is that they were available in-game. Thank you for everything you put into these
“Thinking the same thing” -Sarah Kerrigan
When i got the highland drake i searched high and low for the option that would get me close to the onyxian appearance, yours looks infinitely better, cool vid.
As always, love your content Tomkek, and it inspires me to jump back into blender and learn some more 3D modeling!
Keep up the content, you're killing it, and I'm here for every second of it!
It's just crazy what you are able to pull off on so many levels - 3D modelling, sculpting, painting the assets. The creativity that goes into these projects as a work-around to any obstacles you encounter is simply praiseworthy. Congratz Tomkek :)
I hope you go places dude your content is great!
Always great work loved the little story at the reveal.
1:48 OH OH I KNOW THAT ONE!! If you just go into edit mode and select one of the vertices that has the wrong weights, you can see which vertex groups they are affected by in the Item panel.
Amazing work there dude! Really hope Blizzard could get some inspo and actually rework all the models as well, would've been so nice to experience an updated Azeroth!
Dude... You are a master of this craft!
Asmon's gonna love this one
He better :)
One day there will be developers who will tell you how they got started, that they saw an upgrade video by a UA-camr and that inspired them to be as cool as that guy. Kudos to you, legend.
That would be fucking wild. They better reach out to me so I know and can brag about it
Kudos back at you tho
Fun fact, If you still have the Onyxia scale cloak you can open a chest in the new zone containing a toy beacuse the chest is engulfed in shadow flame that that cloak effect protects you from it, enjoy
That hand painting was incredible.
SOMEONE GIVE THIS MAN A LEAD IN THE CORPORATION
na he will leave as soon as he gets in , the higher ups wont listen to him anyway waste of time , i would rather see him do hes thing and enjoy it .
I don't use the highland drake model because it looks goofy in game, no matter how it's customized. This, however, I would use in a heartbeat!!! Well done!
I remember getting Ony mount way back in the day. It was my favourite mount for years! This is AMAZING bro!
Love your video! I stopped playing a long time ago but WoW has still a place in my heart. Your puns and humour are great! I think your video is visually interesting with good cuts between shots and you switch just enough times between the contest itself and your face.
You look fine and cute btw 😊
You're way too nice man :) I'm glad to hear you enjoy my videos
i wish blizzard would give you a lead artistic design position. your output is way more inspired than the disney/sims type models that theyve been spitting out for the past few years.
It looks super cool! Dragons are probably my favourite race in WoW. It's such a shame that we've never got an updated onyxian drake, among original drakes, Onyxian drake looks the best.
One of my all time favorite mounts brought into current dragon flying is just GLORIOUS!!! Blizzard please get this into the game.
@Tomkektv 1:43 I don't know what exactly you're looking for but if you go to weight paint tab, click on vertex selection and select a vertex you're having problems with (or a bunch of them), then under item tab on the right side of the viewport a tab called "vertex weights" is available. It shows you all of the weights assigned to a specific vertex with corresponding bones. What you can do is select a bunch of them, change the value of the weight that you don't want to 0 and click "paste weight to selected" (it's an icon to the right of the value box).
Awesome work you did with the drake. Love the ending presentation KEK
So amazing. As a dragon lover, I really hope Blizzard will put this much love into rigging Onyxia and the other dragon mounts if or when they put them in the game. They won't, but I can still hope. Wonderful job!
Onyxia is my favorite Drake in the game and i wished so badly Blizz had made what you did and more, they could have reworked all the existing Drakes/Proto Drake mounts in the game to go along with the DragonFlight exp.
Your model looks amazing! 11/10!
I watched this in full from asmon's reaction, but came here to rewatch to give you that watch time, which you whole heartedly deserve. Thank you for the great content.
Thank you for coming over man
There is already an onyxian drake mount in the game, but it's the old model. This version with the modern mesh looks so good
Always nice to watch the work you do in these videos and see the whole process!
I can't, that looks so freaking good dude. I PRAY blizzard adds this to the game, I would love an Onyxia skin for the Highland drake
Onyxia is my favorite dragon of all times in WoW... This is such an amazing work!
Love the storytelling meanwhile - even though I also thoroughly enjoy the commentary on "how I did this". Thanks for the video, hope you're having a good day!
Thanks! Same to tou :)
The fact you edited this model with pre-existing textures and an already in-game model that's ready to use.... you bet your ass I'm gonna get that dragon because Onyxia is my fave dragon of them all, aside from Mommy Alexstrasza
We also need a frostwyrm version. Blizz has so many dragons from the past that would be great to have as skins for Dragonriding.
That looks awesome! that loading animation on the boat... GOLD
Actually inspiring. Amazing work mate.
Freaking loved this.
My man out here doin The Light's work. Looks great as usual.
I usually forget to Like & comment videos of content creators, but since you asked so nicely
This is incredible! I really Wish Blizzard would be Willing to implement some community made stuff Like This into the game
The end was quite funny, good job on the editing ! Each new video is better than the previous one !
Now we wait for the makers of the Dragonheart Patch for Epsilon RP Private Server to reach out to you so they can get your model files.
Amazing work!
Oh my god, poor Windsor X'D
Dude you did an amazing job on this!! Blizzard gotta reach out fr..
I love and adore your remasters, but goddamn do those end cinematic scenes hit hard in the best ways. Stormwind dude getting recked was pure gold.
I'd love to be able to ride these in game. you've done some great work yet again, and i hope blizzard builds on their history and lore in customizations
your own brood mommy love that line
Onyxia is one badass mommy
Warglaives of Azzinoth next
Amazing content like always!
I wish blizzard would give at least some of the more iconic drake mounts the highland drake skeleton (or turn them into skins for the highland dragon), your updated onyxia drake looks amazing.
something that has always bothered me about the old dragon mount skeleton was how scrunched up they stand and how the saddle is placed on the neck instead of the back lmao
Holy Crap. Why is someone with this much talent on freakin UA-cam? Come on Gaming Companies. PAY this man what he is worth and get him on staff.
You need to consider streaming your work if you don't already. I believe a good amount would love to see you in real time doing what you love. Could be an amazing way for you to share knowledge and gain it throughout your community.
Video edit is just awesome. Keep going!
I like how casually Turalion is just sitting on the background of the final shot.
Dude you got the WoW style down perfectly, the finished project looks like something from the game.
This is so cool dude, this is exactly the sort of option I want for my drake.
Latter half of the video: The sound of Stormwinds ballistae and cannons roaring, and the heavy thud of a very dead dragon.
This looks better and the trailer looks better then majority of fun stuff reveals blizzard has done as of late. I WANT THIS DESIGN IN THE GAME!
This need to be in the game WTF!
Ah, whatever is right. We do get it. Keep up the fantastic work brother. You're amazing, and Blizzard needs to hire you to their art team.
Well done man I can tell you have a lot of passion for the game. I was 7 years old trying to get into onyxia to see the massive dragon everyone is talking about XD. Now I am 27 years old and reaching boomer status.
So, just got done watching nearly your entire back catalogue. And I have to say, some damn impressive work man. Subbed.
Awesome work dude!! I want this mount in game!
Yet another absolute banger. Shocking, your work is absolutely incredible, as always.
Just subbed. This mount looks siiiick. You're smart and talented.
Recreates Onyxia as a mount. Also puts Call to Arms on the presentation footage like it's showing some shiny Paladin item :D
I’d recommend trying to use vertex groups instead of using weight painting. Idk how easy it is when it comes to complex models though, the most complex thing I’ve rigged is a set of hands assigning vertex groups instead of weight painting
thats the dragon mount i actually want, i ride the highlands drake because its the only one that feels like a proper dragon but it is quite blocky
I think she looks really great, that’s a fabulous remake job. I don’t know if blizzard does interns but they should definitely give you a chance.
Found you from WoWhead. Love the anecdotes and humor. Subbed.
SO cool!
The art!
The jokes!
...and cute to to boot! 😘
Keep up the great work!
What a proper dragon edit there! As a long term dragon admirer I approve! 😄 Amazing job! 💜
Much wow! That flight into stormwind was epic! I looking forward for yours Drakthar rework! And great job!
I *need* this in the game - holy crap, what an amazing job!
I like how Turalyon is just in the back siting on the throne like "well looks like Stormwind has yet another dragon problem"
one of the better recent machinima. well done.
Love love love your videos. already can't wait for the next one.
Love your work man! Remanaging old assets is what Blizzard really needs to think about...
Really hope over time they add mounts that have flight physics like dragonriding mounts that are available everywhere. Imagine being the sandstone drake with someone on your back doing epic spins across the Eastern Kingdoms.
I really enjoy DF and I hope they continue with a similar theme. It was fun and it wasn't as "serious" as the other two previous expansions felt. Sometimes I just need a good dragon to spin in a race between trees instead of kicking rocks in the ass for 8 different quests in a row.
First time I've seen you're channel. This is AWESOME!! You sir, have earned yourself a sub!
Absolutely Amazing Dude! Keep up the Great Work!
I love the reveal! Good work sir
Man, you should be proud of yourself for this one. This is *insanely* cool. I would kill to get this into the game on an official level, this is easily the coolest dragon mount I've ever seen. I place it above the Raszageth skin :D
Wow the highland drake's rig! No wonder the animations are so good. Amazing job on Onyxia!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!!
I’m a huge fan of Onyxia as well, and ever since dragonriding came ou I’ve wanted to make my highland drake match Onyxia as much as I could, but obviously the customization is very limited for that. Your work came out perfect as always, I love how faithful it is to her. You’re great dude, love your vids ❤
6:27 Can't unsee lower jaw.
Incredible job as usual!