Author Topic: [SHOWOFF] Tides of Azeroth RP (Read 7364 times)

Laduguer · « **on:** September 21, 2014, 05:29:15 pm »

Hey guys!

So, whilst my other project is on hiatus, i've been working on another project. It's early days but I thought i'd share what i've made so far.

The basic premise of the project (which is also being ran as a roleplaying server, if interested please check here: http://toa.coe-roleplay.com/index.php) is exploring the seas and islands of Azeroth. There are a lot of locations under that umbrella so expect this thread to be updated continually with different builds.

Naturally all the screenshots below are WIP and likely missing ingame-spawned clutter unless stated otherwise.

Anyway:

Balor Isle:

This will be the primary starting location for Alliance characters. A prime strategic position for exploring the Great Seas, characters living here will become well accustomed to the high seas. However, the presence of an old Stormreaver ruin from the time of Balor's occupation by the Horde in the Second War brings trouble closer to home.

FULL ALBUM: https://imgur.com/a/vDOn7

Hiji:

Hiji will be the primary starting location for Horde characters, a territory aquired in the last few years by the Darkspear Tribe. Here they'll have to contend with the remnants of it's former Bloodscalp and Skullsplitter occupants whilst investigating the mysteries of the ancient Gurubashi temple that dominates the north island.

FULL ALBUM: https://imgur.com/a/d2aJt

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phucko1 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 21, 2014, 06:49:12 pm »

Cool

You should change the lightning on Hiji tho so the green-ish buildings blends better with the rest.

Laduguer · « **Reply #2 on:** September 21, 2014, 06:59:29 pm »

Quote from: "phucko1"

Cool You should change the lightning on Hiji tho so the green-ish buildings blends better with the rest.

Yeah, it's still a bit of a WIP. Gonna change the texture on that tall pyramid too.

phantomx · « **Reply #3 on:** September 21, 2014, 09:16:52 pm »

Very nice, keep up the good work.

Amaroth · « **Reply #4 on:** September 22, 2014, 10:30:13 am »

Balor Isle - thats some cool stuff, however, I can't see any ground effects/bushes. Screenshots are taken quite from distance, so its possible they just aren't loaded, but if you really didn't use them, I would. I also would try to not use just 1 sand texture everywhere, especially around that 1 tower standing a litte bit further from the rest of buildings.

Hiji - I haven't seen many locations with model-made rocks and mountains in WoW, so I love the fact that you tryed to make them itself. I would play a little bit with textures under rocky M2s, somewhere there are huge blocks of these stones and under them just nonshaded and nonsprayed texture. I would also try to make roads look less flat and I would also edit boarders between roads and grass. You are good with spray effects, they would suit there - use them even between roads and grass. And again, where are ground effects and/or bushes? I miss something under these trees. However, these things are just details, its very nice location overall. Good job.

Overall - I just wanted to name all flaws I found, but I really like these 2 Isles overall. I am looking forward to see what will be next, this is really good.

Laduguer · « **Reply #5 on:** September 22, 2014, 06:51:39 pm »

Thanks a lot for your feedback Amaroth. The ground effects are there, but I think as you say it's due to the distance that they aren't visible. All your other suggestions are totally valid though and i'll make those adjustments when I return to these builds.

Domminust · « **Reply #6 on:** October 18, 2014, 05:43:18 pm »

website doesn't work? I Would play a wow rp server again

Nortwin · « **Reply #7 on:** October 27, 2014, 06:35:29 pm »

Waiting on Bloodsail Hold.
This is amazing.

Zebraka · « **Reply #8 on:** November 02, 2014, 02:30:30 pm »

Good work really, it's pretty and simple.

Laduguer · « **Reply #9 on:** November 03, 2014, 12:23:23 am »

Hey guys,

The server itself didn't work out for more than a few weeks sadly, but i'm still developing the world edits I made for this. When I have more to show i'll throw them here or somewhere else.

axel0099 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 03, 2014, 04:24:53 pm »

why didn't it work?

Laduguer · « **Reply #11 on:** November 03, 2014, 06:57:42 pm »

Quote from: "axel0099"

why didn't it work?

The timing wasn't great as the release of the WoD pre-patch coincided with our population plummeting. There were also several other factors that convinced us that it probably wasn't worth waiting it out until the WoD hype was over.

TheBuG · « **Reply #12 on:** November 03, 2014, 11:14:00 pm »

That's sad. I doubt you'll have a good time hosting a new realm before at least February if you want to attract a decent population.

But it's a good thing you didn't stop building

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Amaroth · « **Reply #13 on:** November 04, 2014, 12:49:01 pm »

Uh, WoD hype on Blizz servers has anything to do with RP servers Oo? We have stable 30-40 online populations on our RP server, no matter what is happening anywhere else - and thats enough for playing (even 20 would be OK). But truth is that czech community is somehow smaller than english/international one. Still, if you don't expect/need hundreds of players... where else is problem? I never quite played RP anywhere else than on our local pure czech servers, so I have no idea how international community looks and behaves like in such matters. So I'm really just asking.

Laduguer · « **Reply #14 on:** November 04, 2014, 05:58:16 pm »

Quote from: "Amaroth"

Uh, WoD hype on Blizz servers has anything to do with RP servers Oo? We have stable 30-40 online populations on our RP server, no matter what is happening anywhere else - and thats enough for playing (even 20 would be OK). But truth is that czech community is somehow smaller than english/international one. Still, if you don't expect/need hundreds of players... where else is problem? I never quite played RP anywhere else than on our local pure czech servers, so I have no idea how international community looks and behaves like in such matters. So I'm really just asking.

That's really cool that you have such a stable population. That's very unique compared to the English community. 'Serious' RP servers in the English community tend to start high and then drop to 0 over the space of around six months (or in our case about two weeks!) and then normally vanish or find some way of generating hype and starting over again. It could be that because you're a Czech server you provide a service Czech people might struggle to find elsewhere and so they come to you reliably.

I agree with you that 20-40 people is fine, and I certainly wouldn't have shut the server down if we could keep those numbers, but that wasn't the case. I'd really like to do another server and learn from our mistakes a bit on ToA, but as TheBuG says it won't be a good time to do another until at least February.

Anyway, here's some more stuff I made. Nothing fancy, just a few reskins for some of our player guilds:

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