Witch Doctor with a Torchlight touch

[Vasshpit]

UPDATED 7/21/12

Hello all.
I really like the idea that D3 has going with the Witch Doctor character but I am not too fond of "ahem, coughs." other routes they have taken with their product so I am going to try my hand at modding this character into TL2. It is not going to be an exact copy as I plan on doing some things to make this class unique. Like maybe adding a little bit of healer in the form of summonable totems and such, not sure yet. I am, however, going to borrow from the D3 class. I am still very new to modding but have been learning and may be looking for partners and advice when the time comes.

Concept Art

Here is some class specific armor concepts.

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I will be posting some new ones as I finish them.
I am trying to get the look of items and such to tie in with the existing (as much as I know of) TL world as well as borrowing looks of some of my favorite D3 armor sets.


New Weapon type (Daggers)
I am shooting for 12 different model types. I may make more.

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New item type (Mojos)
Coming soon...

Any and all comments and critiques are appreciated. I am going to try and do the modelling and texturing myself but when it comes to skills and such I'll probably need help.

I also need some ideas on a charge mechanic. I was thinking something like fully charged bar equals an instant zombie swarm summon and maybe minion buffs... Not sure on this yet.

I REALLY want to make a quality mod so I am still looking for a hand with other aspects of the class creation such as skills, and particles, and such. This would give me more time to focus on the art side. Thanks to Runic for the early char model release.

SOoo excited for TL2!!!!

[AttackGorilla]

I hope it comes together for you fellow primate. Looking good thus far.

[automated]

One day I'll get some time off work, and start Modding again. I like the sketch...man hands and all! There are some great people here, so I'm sure you'll be able to find some help if needed. Good luck. I look forward to watching for progress.

[Vasshpit]

Updated

[Skars]

Awesome designs dude! The jungle set is specially well done.

[Vasshpit]

Whoo hoo, a response! Thank you Skars.

Updated original post.

[Vasshpit]

Small update. Added a pic of new weapon. I also think I need to clean up original post, might do that this weekend. Think I might need to submit a request to have this moved over to mod discussion.

I'm learning, go me.

[Vasshpit]

Update to OP (cleaned up).

[DarkTails]

Cool idea (too bad I can't help you with anything, oh well lol)

[tecnofauno]

very nice, how about the skill tree? Are you already working on that?

[Pastamaster]

I think the prospect of modding in new character classes is the one of the most exciting aspects of the coming months (and years) for this game.

Would be super sweet to have a Witch Doctor class, and those skins and weapon models look amazing. I'm not really a graphic design guru, but would love to help out in any way I can with skill design, class trees/mechanics, etc.

[gluemchen]

Very nice. Can`t wait to see what you come up with next.

[Jackalhead]

Wow! Nice work on that concept art. Sign me up to be the first to play this.

[SamaWoodo]

Awesome!! Keep working on it, pretty cool!

[Vasshpit]

Thanks for the kind words all!

So I will resume working on this very soon. I wanted to get some hands on time with the actual game first, so that's been eating up free time. So I figure after I beat the game a few times and Torched2 gets released, I will get back at it.

Here are a few WIPs of the starting looks. I still need to add some proper Witch Doctor bling and I'll probably just grab an existing belt from game and just retexture to save time. Also, I modeled the hairstyle of the female WD from D3. I wanted to wait till its textured though to show off.

And yes that is a chicken mojo...

Female

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Male

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[Jackalhead]

Holy cow, these are turning out good!

[Arionic]

Man, that is sick. If you are ever interested in working out an undead skin for a necromancer, let me know. I'll be working on that and a druid class eventually.

[FrodoFraggins]

looks great.

[DocMiles]

This looks amazing. I'll be following this mod very closely.

Wish I had the skills to help. D:

[EvilGinger]

if you need any sound assets made, hit me up, this would be fun to work on