05-19-2009, 01:49 PM
(Dislclaimer: As far as I know, there is nothing anyone working on this server can do about this. I'm pretty sure it's something Blizzard has to do which, if it gets done, will hopefully eventually trickle down to us as we update. So I'm not directing this at anyone here, because I know there's nothing you can do about. I just wanted to see if anyone else has noticed/ is bothered by it.)
There's this little issue in WoW that's been bugging me since forever. The horse animations. Once upon a time, they were even worse than they are now. The walk animation was actually a mangled slow trot (the legs moved in diagonal pairs, but there was no period of suspension). Thankfully that has been fixed, at least. Now the walk looks pretty darn good, I think.
The problem for me is the horrific 'gallop.' It looks like a series of small jumps. It looks more like a dog or cat would run, if even that. There's nothing equine about it at all. Honestly it reminds me of the antique drawing of horses from before people actually studied horse gaits with photography. Ehm, it's hard to explain. My poor little horse bounds along like a gazelle... his front and hind legs move in pairs, not in an even succession like they should. There is way too much 'butt-wiggle.'
What really gets my undies in a twist about this is that it would be so easy to fix! The death knight horses have an completely different gallop- one that is absolutely gorgeous by comparison. All it would take is switching all the horse models to the DK mount's gallop animation.
Please, Blizzard gods! I beg you! Let my horse run like a horse!
Oh, and the horses are way too big for the riders. When I'm mounted, it looks like if I were to stand next to my horse, I would only come up to his shoulder. Oh, and the riders always sit way too far back.... *digresses into technical equestrian nonsense*
/end rant
Just out of curiosity, has anyone else noticed this? Does it mess with your head as much as it does mine? Or am I just being a nitpicky horse nerd?
There's this little issue in WoW that's been bugging me since forever. The horse animations. Once upon a time, they were even worse than they are now. The walk animation was actually a mangled slow trot (the legs moved in diagonal pairs, but there was no period of suspension). Thankfully that has been fixed, at least. Now the walk looks pretty darn good, I think.
The problem for me is the horrific 'gallop.' It looks like a series of small jumps. It looks more like a dog or cat would run, if even that. There's nothing equine about it at all. Honestly it reminds me of the antique drawing of horses from before people actually studied horse gaits with photography. Ehm, it's hard to explain. My poor little horse bounds along like a gazelle... his front and hind legs move in pairs, not in an even succession like they should. There is way too much 'butt-wiggle.'
What really gets my undies in a twist about this is that it would be so easy to fix! The death knight horses have an completely different gallop- one that is absolutely gorgeous by comparison. All it would take is switching all the horse models to the DK mount's gallop animation.
Please, Blizzard gods! I beg you! Let my horse run like a horse!
Oh, and the horses are way too big for the riders. When I'm mounted, it looks like if I were to stand next to my horse, I would only come up to his shoulder. Oh, and the riders always sit way too far back.... *digresses into technical equestrian nonsense*
/end rant
Just out of curiosity, has anyone else noticed this? Does it mess with your head as much as it does mine? Or am I just being a nitpicky horse nerd?