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Content creation => Level Design => Topic started by: Zadex on December 22, 2015, 01:04:05 am

Title: [QUESTION]  Phased Zones
Post by: Zadex on December 22, 2015, 01:04:05 am

Is it possible to have phased zones?

For example a zone where you wash upon a beach from a shipwreck, and over time your small camp of survivors turns into a town and then into a small city. Is phasing possible?

Title: Re: [QUESTION]  Phased Zones
Post by: schlumpf on December 22, 2015, 11:51:22 am

>= cata

Title: Re: [QUESTION]  Phased Zones
Post by: Skarn on December 22, 2015, 03:10:37 pm

Well, yeah, proper way of doing that starts from Cata+ but there are hacky ways to do it serverside on 3.3.5a too, I guess.

Title: Re: [QUESTION]  Phased Zones
Post by: Shakar on January 08, 2016, 07:07:39 am

For 3.3.5a, it would only be able to be done through objects and scripting. Cata+ would allow terrain changes as well. I have no knowledge on how phasing works scripting wise though for zones, so I am of no help with that.

Title: Re: [QUESTION]  Phased Zones
Post by: Sevastion on January 08, 2016, 09:26:48 am

You guys think its possible with custom patches yeah?

Title: Re: [QUESTION]  Phased Zones
Post by: Amaroth on January 08, 2016, 10:27:35 am

On WotLK, you can always copy-paste zone (and its gob and NPC spawn as well if you want to) end edit it a little bit. Its fairly easy to teleport player from one to another when he enters some place or finishes some quest. While its not phasing and is a little bit hacky, in the end it makes no difference for players and tbh, I find editing and spawning multiple maps easier than doing so with some kind of phased map. Its up to you what you choose.

Title: Re: [QUESTION]  Phased Zones
Post by: Crow on January 26, 2016, 02:44:39 am

I agree with the other guy, Copying the zone twice over and then making them instances seems to be a fun way to do it.


Otherwise you have to set specific npcs and objects to specific phases and phase the player as they quest through it via C++.

Title: Re: [QUESTION]  Phased Zones
Post by: larrylaffer on January 27, 2016, 02:18:05 pm

Only problem than copy-pastying maps is that you can only do it in zones with not too many ADTs, otherwise your custom patch will be too heavy.

Title: Re: [QUESTION]  Phased Zones
Post by: Rangorn on January 27, 2016, 03:59:36 pm

Quote from: "larrylaffer"

Only problem than copy-pastying maps is that you can only do it in zones with not too many ADTs, otherwise your custom patch will be too heavy.

Too bad, in Wod we have a special column in map.dbc for (copy paste ) an existing map in a empty map  8-)

Title: Re: [QUESTION]  Phased Zones
Post by: larrylaffer on January 27, 2016, 04:13:48 pm

Quote from: "Rangorn"

Quote from: "larrylaffer"

Only problem than copy-pastying maps is that you can only do it in zones with not too many ADTs, otherwise your custom patch will be too heavy.

Too bad, in Wod we have a special column in map.dbc for (copy paste ) an existing map in a empty map  8-)

Cool, too bad it doenst exists in MoP...