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[Rumsey]

My pet project has been to recreate a full-scale version of World of Warcraft inside Minecraft. The creation of the world is largely automated by custom software which I've been developing over the last few weeks. It's just now reached a point where I can release some quality screenshots!

Below you will see vistas from the first zone I have converted, Kalimdor, that I believe are very faithful to the original World of Warcraft environment. The same process will be used to re-create the entire game, including all continents and dungeons.



(full gallery on imgur)



The only obstacle I've run into is the default Minecraft height limit. Many zones exceed 128 blocks, so I've needed to use mods to increase the height limit. Once I'm satisfied with the quality of the maps, they will most likely be hosted online. I've received a tentative offer from Cursecraft to host the world, which might be where it ends up.

You can follow along my progress on my thread at MMO-Champion, where I posted some work-in-progress screenshots and explained how I did the conversion. Let me know if you're happy with the results, and I will gladly post more screenshots and video as the project advances =D

Update: There's now an interview on Venture Beat which includes some screenshots of Outland:



Update, Apr 4: Added some preview screenshots of the Eastern Kingdoms:

[Vlandow]

Holy dogshit this is amazing.

[GameGerds]

Nice work!

[tweecrafter]

I'm impressed, looking forward to seeing the whole thing finished, good work

[Glett]

Holy mother of manberries...

One question though... where will you put outland?

INSTA-EDIT: I just realised that the Nether would be perfect for it.

[Kazakane]

xD, I just got off WoW and now I see this, now i'm going play it again. Good work !

[Chiimaster]

Truly awe inspiring. I kind of wanna dust off my old WoW account now.

[Musicfreakcc]

The whole of Azeroth? I'll check back in 20 years when it's done.

[Nnelg9111]

You did this all by yourself???

Truly amazing work

[Marlamin]

Musicfreakcc, on 04 February 2012 - 02:03 PM, said:

The whole of Azeroth? I'll check back in 20 years when it's done.

This is generated, not made by hand (as said by the OP). The application is really close to being finished in my opinion. I'd be surprised if it will take longer than a month to finish.

And as I said on MMO-Champion, this is truly great work and we hope we'll end up hosting it on CurseCraft for everyone to collaboratively work on perfecting/detailing the still rough generated world.

[Nimmanu]

Chiimaster, on 04 February 2012 - 06:09 AM, said:

Truly awe inspiring. I kind of wanna dust off my old WoW account now.

That was my exact thought!

Nice, OP. Very nice!

[Rumsey]

Updated main post with a map of Kalimdor. It's so big I had to write custom software to produce the map.

[assassin10]

What about dungeons? Does your script do those?

[Rumsey]

assassin10, on 06 February 2012 - 02:46 AM, said:

What about dungeons? Does your script do those?

In principle, yes, although lighting them would be a chore.

[Rumsey]

Added Silithus and Uldum screenshots

[DARKSWORD95]

The terrain is very nice but it looks like you're gonna need to do the buildings by hand.

[Rumsey]

DARKSWORD95, on 06 February 2012 - 05:44 AM, said:

The terrain is very nice but it looks like you're gonna need to do the buildings by hand.

Most of them will need some sort of touchup after they've been generated. It's still a lot easier then building it all from scratch.

[DARKSWORD95]

Rumsey, on 06 February 2012 - 05:45 AM, said:

Most of them will need some sort of touchup after they've been generated. It's still a lot easier then building it all from scratch.

That's true. Good luck to you.

EDIT: It's also weird how much Kalimdor's changed since I played WoW. (I quit during WotLK) I can't wait to see how Azeroth looks.

[bullet_sponge]

Simply amazing. I am in awe of your software creation prowess. I have been looking for a quality terrain generator and was hoping that we could collaborate in some fashion?

[quintin391]

Tthis is great, but you didnt REAALLY make it if its all generated. Thats just my opinion, you ciuldve done it by hand , wand and voxel sniper :/ but then again thats just how i wouldve done it great job at wrtig the generators ffor the map.