Neo - A WoW Development Suite

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@Kaev

You will made a wdt and map adder into neo?

[TheBuG]

The project is not dead?

It's a hobby project, people have jobs, sometimes it'll be on hold, but not dead.

[Смердокрыл]

Is this only for WotLK, or is it gonna work for Cata? *fingers crossed*

[Amaroth]

Its in main post - this tool is supposed to be for all versions.

[Kaev]

Is this only for WotLK, or is it gonna work for Cata? *fingers crossed*

but atm it's only for WotLk and WoD

[Смердокрыл]

Is this only for WotLK, or is it gonna work for Cata? *fingers crossed*

but atm it's only for WotLk and WoD

But there is no difference between WoD and Cata dbcs, is there?

[schlumpf]

Is this only for WotLK, or is it gonna work for Cata? *fingers crossed*

but atm it's only for WotLk and WoD

But there is no difference between WoD and Cata dbcs, is there?

There is a lot of differences in dbcs.

[Cromon]

About the versions:
Design allows adding new versions easily. Mostly you just have to do the parsing and implement some abstract classes to get it rendered. But right now i could only implement Lichking and Warlords.

About WDL:
WDL generation is fully done now. Theres even a progress dialog and the generation is done asynchronously. Theres one minor issue tho. For WoD the ADTs that are in the deep ocean for some reason come with a height of 0 in the WDL but have a different height in the terrain. I cannot fix this right now as i dont parse liquids but i guess its a very minor issue. For Lichking you wont notice any difference between the generated and the original WDL.

Map Generator:
Im currently working on a interface that automatically generates terrain with filters like perlin noise, voronoi noise, midpoint displacement, etc. The idea is that you can define "biomes" like in minecraft and connect generators for each biome and then create huge continents within seconds. Then all you have to do is like have a look at it and change the things you dont like.

Images for WDL:

This was the edit:


In the editor (after saving):


Ingame (after saving):

[Morfium]

Map Generator:
Im currently working on a interface that automatically generates terrain with filters like perlin noise, voronoi noise, midpoint displacement, etc. The idea is that you can define "biomes" like in minecraft and connect generators for each biome and then create huge continents within seconds. Then all you have to do is like have a look at it and change the things you dont like.

Haha once you annouce something it gets implemented elsewhere. xD
Neat. Looking forward to that. Especially the voronoi noise, I was looking at that too.

[kojak488]

Cromon, you should use the wimg tag.

[Cromon]

Haha once you annouce something it gets implemented elsewhere. xD
Neat. Looking forward to that. Especially the voronoi noise, I was looking at that too.

Actually i did this before for another project and wanted to integrate it into the editor a long time ago

Sadly all i have left from the old project are screenshots, code got lost when i erased a backup a few years ago

These are the screenshots i have left from back then:




@kojak488: Thanks for the tip!

[Morfium]

Wasn't meant as a reproach.
I'm pretty happy that you do that.
If you are at it anyway, maybe you could make it either configurable. Maybe via xml files etc.
Or allow plugins via dlls to allow people to write their own methods for generation.
Either way, looks and sounds very promising!

[Cromon]

Me neither, just thought its funny how it came together at the same time

The plugin stuff is actually the first thing i did yesterday:

[Morfium]

Alright I officially love you now. xD

[Cromon]

Ah, btw, since you mentioned XML. You can save a generator "plot" and then share it or use it in another project again. This will be done in an xml config file