Giving Soraka a horn more like her splash screen art

Azylin·Jul 5, 2018·3 votes·2,257 views

I'm trying to figure out if I can give Soraka's game model a better horn for the purpose of making machinima. Currently it's got the inflated banana horn as seen here:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/395324611488776192/464541680306094080/soraka-1.png

while in the concept art she has a triangular crystalline horn like this:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/2/2f/Soraka_OriginalCentered.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1215?cb=20180414203619

here's me trying to make the in game horn look more like the concept art:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/395324611488776192/464531827391201290/Untitled-1.png

Does this look like something worth doing, or are you all too attached to the in game banana horn?

8 Comments

BLACK REALM GODJul 5, 20186 votes

in my personal opinion i think soraka's model... sucks. it looks nothing like an ambulance at all.

GlîtchyJul 5, 20183 votes

Raka is in need of an visual update imo, her classic look and older skins look like something out of a PS2 game.

Linna ExcelJul 5, 20182 votes

She was the first champ to really get a VGU though. I'm not sure riot would work on her when there are champs that never had one yet.

LarrietJul 6, 20181 votes

She actually did not get a VGU! She got a visual update and then a gameplay update, separately. I was extremely confused when I watched her Champion Spotlight recently.

AzylinJul 5, 20181 votes

Yea her eyes are just painted on. I had to paint a new eyeball model for it to work. Thank you for being the first data point by the way, I'd already hoped people wouldn't be too attached to Soraka's in game horn before I ponder sawing it off.

AzylinJul 5, 20181 votes

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/395324611488776192/464572982375874569/soraka-3.png

I'll leave it at this. I'm not a texture artist. My brain hurts.

BLIGHTBRINGERJul 9, 20181 votes

To be honest I didn't even realise that it was intentionally made to represent a banana horn... I would mind this change, though I wish that Soraka's AA Visual would be Bananas instead of some Moon Crescent's by default, but they made a special skin for that.

UPDATE: I just noticed that in Soraka's Splash Art she doesn't have the earing around her left earlike she does in-game.

AzylinJul 11, 20181 votes

I think that due the angle of the shot, her bangs cover up the earring.