Custom Violence Level?

[Cypher]

This is something interesting I came accross while dead in a boss fight in SSC. I was browsing through WoW.exe with a disassembler and found this.

Assembly:

.text:006B4630 ; =============== S U B R O U T I N E =======================================
.text:006B4630
.text:006B4630 ; Attributes: bp-based frame
.text:006B4630
.text:006B4630 sub_6B4630      proc near               ; CODE XREF: sub_4045E0:loc_404845p
.text:006B4630
.text:006B4630 var_10          = byte ptr -10h
.text:006B4630 var_4           = dword ptr -4
.text:006B4630
.text:006B4630                 push    ebp
.text:006B4631                 mov     ebp, esp
.text:006B4633                 sub     esp, 10h
.text:006B4636                 mov     eax, dword_8EA520
.text:006B463B                 xor     eax, ebp
.text:006B463D                 mov     [ebp+var_4], eax
.text:006B4640                 mov     eax, dword_CE0B90
.text:006B4645                 mov     ecx, dword_B95C5C[eax*4]
.text:006B464C                 push    ecx
.text:006B464D                 push    offset aD_2     ; "%d"
.text:006B4652                 lea     edx, [ebp+var_10]
.text:006B4655                 push    0Ch
.text:006B4657                 push    edx
.text:006B4658                 call    sub_63A690
.text:006B465D                 push    0
.text:006B465F                 push    0
.text:006B4661                 push    5
.text:006B4663                 push    offset sub_6B45D0
.text:006B4668                 lea     eax, [ebp+var_10]
.text:006B466B                 push    eax
.text:006B466C                 push    0
.text:006B466E                 push    offset aSetsTheViolenc ; "Sets the violence level of the game"
.text:006B4673                 push    offset aViolencelevel ; "violenceLevel"
.text:006B4678                 call    sub_6366F0
.text:006B467D                 mov     ecx, [ebp+var_4]
.text:006B4680                 xor     ecx, ebp
.text:006B4682                 add     esp, 30h
.text:006B4685                 call    sub_409C8A
.text:006B468A                 mov     esp, ebp
.text:006B468C                 pop     ebp
.text:006B468D                 retn
.text:006B468D sub_6B4630      endp
.text:006B468D
.text:006B468D ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

.data:00B95C5C ; int dword_B95C5C[]
.data:00B95C5C dword_B95C5C    dd 2, 1, 7 dup(2)       ; DATA XREF: sub_6B45D0+1Br
.data:00B95C5C                                         ; sub_6B45D0:loc_6B45F4r ...
.data:00B95C80 off_B95C80      dd offset aBloodspurtsmal ; DATA XREF: sub_6B45D0:loc_6B4615r
.data:00B95C80                                         ; "BloodSpurtSmall01_Low.blp"
.data:00B95C84                 dd offset aBloodspurtsm_1 ; "BloodSpurtSmall01_Medium.blp"
.data:00B95C88 off_B95C88      dd offset aBloodspurtsm_0 ; DATA XREF: sub_6B45D0+4Cr
.data:00B95C88                                         ; "BloodSpurtSmall01.blp"

Pseudo-C:

int __cdecl sub_6B4630()
{
  int  s; // [sp+10h] [bp+0h]@1
  unsigned int v2; // [sp+Ch] [bp-4h]@1
  char v3; // [sp+0h] [bp-10h]@1

  v2 = (unsigned int)& s ^ dword_8EA520;
  sub_63A690(&v3, 12, "%d", dword_B95C5C[dword_CE0B90]);
  return sub_6366F0("violenceLevel", "Sets the violence level of the game", 0, &v3, sub_6B45D0, 5, 0, 0);
}

Did anyone else know this existed? It seems to be a console/config option (with custom value 0-5) that sets the level of violence in the game. Well, just thought I'd share this as I'd never seen it before and I expect others may not have either.

[Cypher]

Well, just ran a quick Google search and it turns out I fail, it's already documented in multiple places (eg on Allakhazam). I think it's interesting nonetheless though, anyone know what changes it actually makes?

Allakhazam.com: World of Warcraft: Guide: Console Guide

[schlumpf]

There are several files concerning the violence level. I never heard of something on changing it or the effects of changing it. One file for this is UnitBloodLevels.dbc iirc. And.. as you found the different textures.

[Vladinator]

You have something similar on weather intensity too I think...

[Gothian]

I think if I remember right, it makes blood splats and stuff more visible, like, rend, MS warrior crits, basically anything with bleeds/poisons. I toyed with it, it wasnt really a huge difference, but somewhat noticeable.