Crafting Azeroth

[rkma]

Not yet, maybe in the next version of the Minecraft map format being introduced in 1.2

For those who didn't hear the news, the Minecraft chunk format is changing dramatically:

http://www.mojang.com/2012/02/14/new...-format-anvil/

Incresed height limit, biomes directly in the region file. This is really cool stuff.

[Buuagr]

dude this is amazing, i heard about this from lewis from the yogscast, cant wait to see where this goes

[rkma]

Experimenting with some multi-texturing stuff:

[Demitri Vritra]

WoW does it for the same reason as I am against your proposition: Trying to fit instanced zones into their actual exterior could massively pump the instance and its exterior up or would require sacrifices regarding details, proportions and complexity. I know it would be so much cooler, if the actual Blackrock could contain LBRS, UBRS, BWL, BWD, BRD, BRC and MC at once, but even if it's huge, so are most of these instances. And 4 of them are in the upper levels.

Since Minecraft is incredibly inflexible in smoothing edges / making smooth transitions without wasting huge amounts of spaces, it is fairly limited without mods like RedPower2, where you could quarter a block and hence, have much smaller pieces to work with for more detailed work.

the easiest way to overcome these issues would be to base it off of the vanilla map and vanilla isntances if we use that logic it would from top to bottom respectively in black rock it would be LBRS, UBRS, BRD, MC. Besides Vanilla was the best and in terms of ease in reconstructing it the outward terrain of vanilla was physically representative of the the instances it hid, like if you swam around the mountain range from Westfall to Straglethorn you would see the giant doors that hid the ship in Deadmines, after all instances were originally only instances to remove wait time and allow for faster progression of quests or we would have several hundred people waiting to kill vancleef.

and from there you can add minor things that were supposedly there before deathwing ripped the continents into a mess

but yeah that would mean less work and over all better detail then trying to purely recreate WoW Cata.

[Powerogue]

once the minecraft height limit is changed, this could get REALLY epic. I look forward to its progress.

[superbotje]

made an account finally after reading MMO-C forums for about a year to tell you that this looks AMAZING please tell me you're going to make it available to download when you've finished

Yes please! This is awsome.
And my son always wants to play his wow char when i'm playing. Then he can play wow in minecraft.

[rkma]

A lot of people complained that the Barrens didn't look "barren" enough. This was because, prior to patch 1.2, there was no way to specify biome information in the region file. With 1.2, this is actually possible. The patch isn't live yet, but here's a preview from the most recent snapshot:

[Orange Joe]

Awesome work. Can't wait to see the final map.

[Deleted]

Damn that full map render is simply amazing and I am actually quite surprised at the level of detail you managed to pull over, considering you never really get to view the entire map like that it has so many the details I never realized wow had.

[rkma]

Some images of EK. Sorry for the grainy pics, there's no optifine for 1.2 yet, so it'll have to do

[Deleted]

it's amazing.Can't wait to see Gilneas

[Powerogue]

A lot of people complained that the Barrens didn't look "barren" enough. This was because, prior to patch 1.2, there was no way to specify biome information in the region file. With 1.2, this is actually possible. The patch isn't live yet, but here's a preview from the most recent snapshot:

this is going to get really cool. even if it kills my computer, I HAVE to have a downloadable version of this map to just explore.

[Deleted]

this is going to get really cool. even if it kills my computer, I HAVE to have a downloadable version of this map to just explore.

id really love to explore it myself aswel, i so hope hes gonna put a downloadeable link once its finished.
il even show it to all my old wow friends XD

[Deleted]

I'd pay to be able to do all quests from WoW there... :P

[Deleted]

Hey, I really like the work you've done so far and I'd like to support you in this so, is there a paypal link where I can donate to you to keep up your enthusiasm?

[rkma]

Hey, I really like the work you've done so far and I'd like to support you in this so, is there a paypal link where I can donate to you to keep up your enthusiasm?

I don't have a paypal set up, but thanks for thinking about it. =p

I know I haven't been posting a lot, but I'm definitely still working on this project. It's mostly been technical changes with the algorithm, which are hard to appreciate unless I show before/after pics. Anyway, here are some screenshots of Eastern Kingdoms I just took today:

[Pope]

ramses, are you planning to merge the Eastern Kingdoms with the Bloodelf-starting area?
It always annoys me that blizzard didn't fix that already.

[rkma]

ramses, are you planning to merge the Eastern Kingdoms with the Bloodelf-starting area?
It always annoys me that blizzard didn't fix that already.

I haven't decided how to do that yet. It would be neat to manually patch the two together, but currently there aren't any tools to make it work smoothly.

[Chaochamp]

That picture of Ironforge looks amazing

[PizzaSHARK]

this is going to get really cool. even if it kills my computer, I HAVE to have a downloadable version of this map to just explore.

Wouldn't it be better to just explore WoW? The process for creating this Minecraft world is pretty slick but it's still gonna be Minecraft. It's not like you're gonna run into the Alliance battling the Horde when you're wandering around South Barrens :-/