My Pretties …

Ochre Bone SpiderIn unrelated but very good news, someone has hacked the WoW Model Viewer into a state where it mostly works with the new WotLK/Patch 3.0 file formats. (It still lacks particles, I believe.)

That means that I was able to get nice model pics for a bunch of pets up on Petopia last night, including our one and only spirit beast, the rhinos, and the bone spiders, among others.

Having a working model viewer is also convenient in sorting out which model goes with which pet, and indeed how many of them there are.

For example, I was having a really hard time telling how many different colors of jormungar there were because the light in the different environments can make it hard for me to distinguish subtle color variations. (And since not all jormungar can be tamed, I couldn’t just tame them and drag them somewhere neutral.)

But it turns out that the data files at this point only have one jormungar model, so … they must all be the same color!

20 Comments

  1. Darigez - October 10th, 2008 @ 12:24 am UTC

    Aww that spider looks cool maybe i’ll use him if i’m not beast spec. ^^

  2. Darigez - October 10th, 2008 @ 12:38 am UTC

    aww only 1 jormungar thats a bit of a disapointment though. But i gatta admit that pik of the spirit beast is nice. ^^ O i gatta ask n e one know what the spirit beast does while idle? Is it just like a normal cat or he do somethin special?

  3. hyena84 - October 10th, 2008 @ 1:01 am UTC

    ooooh.theres more then one bone spider color.hopefully theyll be tameable…

  4. BloodGod22 - October 10th, 2008 @ 1:05 am UTC

    Im getting the bone spider anyway no matter the spec…its my soul pet!

  5. Mitsuhide - October 10th, 2008 @ 1:27 am UTC

    How can there be bone spiders when spiders have no bones? O.o lol

    I really hope more spirit beasts get put in, if not when the patch goes live then soon afterwards.

  6. Drauer - October 10th, 2008 @ 1:50 am UTC

    Nice :)

    On the other hand, could you please give url to working model viewer?

  7. Mania - October 10th, 2008 @ 2:14 am UTC

    I’m using the version linked here: http://www.wowmodelviewer.org/forum/index.php?topic=3672.msg25802#msg25802

    I didn’t link it directly in the post because it is a fan version (if you will) and under heavy development, so I suggestion taking some caution with it.

  8. featherkitty - October 10th, 2008 @ 9:40 am UTC

    cool

  9. Boarwood - October 10th, 2008 @ 10:33 am UTC

    that’s kind of a shame, i was hoping for like a white jormungar skin… i’d never tame a jormungar but i like to think of others. the spirit beast thing is really sad, i was hoping for maybe a black panther-like model… but i’m glad you got the new pictures up on the site, and i don’t want to be a nuisance but there’s a few of the mini pictures on the “new pets in WotLK” that need to be changed, if you hadn’t noticed. Oh well, i get a firefly next weekend!

  10. Tashi - October 10th, 2008 @ 11:56 am UTC

    If undeads could be hunters (which would be weird, but epicly awesome) that bone spider would be THE PET. Although, I have to say, my belf hunter just wouldn’t suit any of the new pets. I tried the outlands pets too, but my perfect pretty is my red bat.
    I still think…
    Tauren Hunter + Kodo Mount + Rhino Pet + Elixer of Giant Growth =
    OMG!
    And an army of those? ROFL

    WotLK is going to be THE BOMB!!

  11. Darknez - October 10th, 2008 @ 4:05 pm UTC

    Thanks for the information Mania :)

  12. Shippleton - October 10th, 2008 @ 6:55 pm UTC

    Huh I followed the link, but i couldn’t find it..

  13. turtlesoup - October 11th, 2008 @ 9:11 am UTC

    The deep crawler from old kingdom cannot be tamed. I think you have to go to Icecrown to get one.

  14. Drakkena - October 11th, 2008 @ 11:26 am UTC

    In the link you will have to go to Page 15 to get the links

    They will display as
    * msvc.zip (444.91 KB – downloaded 25 times.)
    * wowmodelview-0.5.08-alfred-wotlk-v0.18.zip (997.51 KB – downloaded 14 times.)
    * enUS.zip (603.11 KB – downloaded 14 times.)

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Oh mania oO I downloaded it but I can’t find the Spirit Beast model D= What was the skin name for it?

  15. Mania - October 11th, 2008 @ 1:39 pm UTC

    turtlesoup: Thanks for the clarification.

    Drakkena: It’s under harkoa.

  16. Drakkena - October 11th, 2008 @ 7:44 pm UTC

    Really o_O I might have to download that newer file there that I found… because I didn’t have the Harkoa model in the viewer. Heh that or I’m blind and passed it by several times XP

    I’m digging the Protodragons though >> those things are sexy… and the Green Devilsaur!

  17. Zoblek - October 12th, 2008 @ 2:23 am UTC

    but were is BoneSpider_Brown http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?npc=32484?

  18. Mania - October 12th, 2008 @ 3:00 am UTC

    Something I found seemed to indicate that the brown bone spiders were summoned, possibly by Death Knights? I can’t find it now, though, so I may be misremembering. At any rate, I have a pic of those too in case I need it later.

  19. Namaria - October 12th, 2008 @ 9:15 am UTC

    Is there a video out of the spirit beast in action? I’m interested in seeing its animations, particularly of its special attack.

  20. Mastian - November 27th, 2008 @ 4:36 am UTC

    Just an update since I’ve been at wits end wanting to see what the new beasties animate like, then suddenly thought “WAIT! Mania has new pics, FIND OUT HOW” which lead to this page. The ‘fan patch’ has been bumped to its own Forumn Topic, link : http://www.wowmodelviewer.org/forum/index.php?topic=3916.msg26524
    Downloading it to looksie as I’m typing, good luck fellow hunters!

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