[WIP][AreaChange] New Swamp of Sorrow

[Zantas]

Don't flame cause it's my first world edit.


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What I've edited so far:
Trees, rocks, ground, bushes all sorts of passive-doodads I felt needed to get removed or changed.

My future plan for this is to edits the sky and fog to more lighter one and
edit Stonard to be less orcish.
I also want to change around some smaller objects and perhaps make an island near the shores.

Tools I used so far is Taliis, YiasEdit, Modelviewer, Ladiks MPQEditor
and DBCeditor.

I need some tips on how to change the skybox.
I've read Sclumpfs guide and an older one, but I'm not getting anywhere with it atm.

Changing skyboxes in instances is simple, but to make a local skybox change in a larger map(Azeroth) is very hard for me.


Hope someone likes it ^^

[Subset]

Looking great so far! anyways, you should teach me world edits This would be a great addition since the swamp of sorrows is so dismal looking
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I like the little crystal rocks.

[Zantas]

Thanks you.

With a new skybox is will be a lot more delightful to visit.

[LIMEEE]

Looks nice for a first edit! GJ

[Xel]

Changing the skybox will make a huge difference I belive.
This is quite good for a first edit.

[Zantas]

Thanks

I will put a lot of of effort into finding a good skybox today

Only tho I need some tips on how cause working with Light.dbc is not easy in my mind

[Zantas]

Update

Taught myself how to edit skyboxes now




Now that the ground and trees are more visible I plan to work extra hard on the ground through YiasEdit to make it look genuine.

[sirfranc]

indeed the only bat thing so far is the terrain, but keep going
the general idea is really interesting so far

[Zantas]

You mean bad and not bat?

Anyhow the terrain will require a lot of work, but for now i changed it into something less gloomy.

The skybox is posted might not be the one I choose for release, since I got mahcinima tool working and now checked all sorts of skyboxes.

[sirfranc]

You mean bad and not bat?

Anyhow the terrain will require a lot of work, but for now i changed it into something less gloomy.

The skybox is posted might not be the one I choose for release, since I got mahcinima tool working and now checked all sorts of skyboxes.

sorry i meant baD xD
btw is a good job and an original idea (is the first swamp of sorrow edit i saw so far xD)

[Zantas]

I was thinking over Swamp of Sorrow as ED, but I know Xel made one that he didn't release so I thought of something else.

Anyway Thanks for good replies, it keeps me continue with this.

[Xel]

Nothing stops you from trying to beat me with your own Swamp of Sorrows as ED.

[Zantas]

Well I don't want to make something someone else made ^^

[korric]

looking good for your first Zantas! Keep it up.

Taught myself how to edit skyboxes now

I wish I could figure that out, I can never get skybox editor to work without giving my WoW a critical error :S
Would love to know how to change the skybox, PM me if you could tell me how, as far as I know; there are no guides in the guides section about this, so maybe you could post a guide

+Rep for the edit by the way

Edit; can't Rep, gotta spread, sorry

[Zantas]

There is a guide that I learned from.
an old one by Sclumpf it works well.