WoW Modding | Update Announcement

[@nakenmil]

I'm a sucker for these smaller-scale, more down to earth fantasy environments. Villages, farms, bandit camps, local troubles, etc. Love seeing this kind of environment worked on in WoW after every official expansion goes bigger and bigger (which is perfectly understandable, but you know, I'm getting older and crankier, lol)

[@MTLMedia]

Thanks Enthused! We are getting older and crankier.. xD so we learn to appreciate the smaller things. I can totally see a farmer in this zone coming out with his Dwarven shotgun.. "get off me land!!!" XD

[@lilethan000]

Glad to see you back in action!!

[@MTLMedia]

Thanks it been fun to see what people are doing with the resources. So that injected me with a desire to make some updates and fixes!

[@Goodcola1]

Videos always get me thinking on what/where you could add stuff to the classic world

[@MTLMedia]

Exactly. I think the fun part of map making / design.. is to provide something that makes logical sense, but also enough variation to make it feel new.

[@AcidTripOk]

This zone looks amazing, it has old Azshara vibes and it REALLY looks and feels like a vanilla wow zone, can't wait to see it finish! Keep up the good work mate!

[@MTLMedia]

Thanks Acid Trip! Thats the best compliment to get!

[@retvizan6864]

I think one of the greatest things about your zones is how they are full of different locations and detailes, and you are always able to put some extra stuff here and there. I didn't comment under latest Arathi update, but I was fascinated by the way you incorporated ogres, trolles, syndicate and a whole elf and troll cities into the area using what where just simple empty mountain ranges. And Northvale/Stormwind region definitely follows that idea, with every part cleverly incorporated into the zone. I think Vanilla WoW lacked proper mountainious locations, except for maybe Stonetalon mountains. Thank you for your fantastic work, I hope you will have a lot of fun working on this and other projects!

[@MTLMedia]

Thanks Retvizan! Thats very kind. I do like to squeeze a lot out of zones yes... And I try to add differentiation. The most important thing is to make the world feel lived in. That is, if there is a space that could make suitable location for Ingame critters.. then thats what makes sense.

[@retvizan6864]

@@MTLMedia, I also wanted to ask a little Dun Morough related question. There is this empty valley behind Gnomeregan, unofficially known as "Western Dun Morough", and I was curious - maybe you have some plans to transform this location too? I am not sure that you didn't talk about it in previous videos, maybe I just missed something. I always was dissapointed seeing empty and unused locations in WoW, because many of them have such a great potential

[@MTLMedia]

I did see it, it would probably be easy to develop. But yeah, I haven't thought about it. Maybe I should ;)

[@brancaleone8895]

amazing update!! i like a lot the transitions this map has

[@MTLMedia]

Thanks BrancaLeone, merging zones and transitions is always fun but tricky at times ;)

[@georgeginev1207]

@@MTLMedia Lol amazing!I was thinking for a moment you stoped modding WOw.I really want to mod Wow and make my own custom continent but i do not know from where to begin with.Can you give me some link for tutorial.I believe people mod Lich king expansion right?

[@bluenasca]

This is so unbelievably cool - ever since I was a little kid growing up playing WoW I was fascinated with all of the closed zones in the game like the area you used as a basis here. Seeing them come to life and in the style of the vanilla game is like getting a dream come true after so long.

[@MTLMedia]

Oh wow thanks Nasca! Thanks for sharing that story. I know exactly what you mean. When I was younger I would spend hours with friend speculating about WoW with my friends... We all had these ideas and crazy views. Its been a pleasure to share this with everyone so many years later.

[@Letgoit2]

Thanks to you and some other modders iam getting into wow modding aswell!^^

[@MTLMedia]

Amazing! Welcome to the hobby! I hope you make some great stuff!

[@Letgoit2]

@@MTLMedia its certainly ambitious lol

[@MTLMedia]

@@Letgoit2 indeed ;)

[@isljack3117]

Hi! It's Great! I'm not familiar with your map yet, but there is a question. How did you connect the new part of the map with Stormwind? There 's a curve there .a wmo that constantly appears and disappears if you look at it from different angles. I 'm looking for an opportunity to split the whole .The Stormwind wmo is divided into pieces and pasted them individually to solve this problem. I'm so glad you're still working on this game. This is my most favorite game. 3.3.5a forever!

[@MTLMedia]

Hi Isl Jack! Good question. The answer is that I didn't. In my dev server, there is a door inside stormwind (matching location) that teleports you from inside to the outside cemetery. It is also possible to access the back, by walking a path around the docks.

[@MTLMedia]

Check out my Back of Stormwind video to get a better look at how I got around the WMO.

[@pulseobsidian]

Thank you for your hardwork and all you do! You're awesome:):)

[@MTLMedia]

Thanks Pulse! You are all just too nice! ;)

[@lolpin101]

just found your channel mate, loving the work. keep it up!

[@danielemacciantelli1788]

I see a future of wow private realms with custom map. Just like uol :)

[@MTLMedia]

Thanks Daniele! I appreciate the support and I hope that more people will make unique realms of their own.

[@jnwwood]

Amazing work, do you have a list of which servers are using your work? I would love to explore this world.

[@MTLMedia]

Hi @jnwwood! Thanks, at the moment I don't know who is using my assets as that might change month to month. Duskhaven was the last one, but they are relaunching with new content.

[@killy374]

Excellent job man , I am a big follower of yours and I think you did a very great job.

[@PossMcLeod]

Loving your vids! Soooo inspirational! Just curious What version of WOW Emulator do you use? Sorry if this has already been answered, had a quick look and couldn't find anything about it

[@balobaev]

That town in Northvale looks like an Alteraci village due to orange-coloured roofs. (In WCII it was the national colour of this kingdom) Makes me wonder if you will ever do something with Alterac itself.

[@MTLMedia]

Hey Balobaev, actually the roof coloration comes from existing buildings from Stratholme in the past. Given that we already have blue and red tiles in other towns of Stormwind - I thought orange would look nice with the autumn environment. Alterac is always a possibility though ;)

[@balobaev]

@@MTLMedia one interesting thing is that in WoW the only building in Alterac Mountains that has orange roof is Ravenholdt Manor. Two houses along Lordamere Lake coast for unknown reason have red roofs (despite it being the colour of Stromgarde) and all the other buildings are ruined

[@balobaev]

@@MTLMedia if you will ever start restoring Alterac City, it will be quite complicated due to how small the entire Alterac Mountains zone is in game (especially the snowy area where the ruined city is) and how terrible is its layout. And on top of all that, the ruins of the capital are so tiny that it feels like a burned down village, so it will be quite hard to make it look decent. Stromgarde's depiction in original game is also not very great, but at least its capital has huge walls, several districts, neat little things like the bridge at the entrance and even some subzones like "The Sanctum" and "The Tower of Arathor", while Alterac is just a complete joke.

[@isljack3117]

Do you know how to create or re-design .m2 & .wmo in Blender properly? It would be incredible!

[@jackcoldstone7235]

Looking good

[@MTLMedia]

Thanks Jack! Its appreciated. I happy you enjoyed

[@tempinternetname]

big fan

[@klua5774]

Can you use newer models than 3.3.5 with noggit??

[@MTLMedia]

You can downport newer models to 3.3.5 and use noggit.

[@CheReji0289]

Is this a Private wow server? If it is, please tell me the name and how can i play it. Cheers!