[DiscordArchive] I'm struggling to piece together information about how phasing works in WotLK. I generally understan
[DiscordArchive] I'm struggling to piece together information about how phasing works in WotLK. I generally understan
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I'm struggling to piece together information about how phasing works in WotLK. I generally understand that NPC's and gobject's can be set in the DB but the "world" itself is what's confusing me.
Example being the DK starting area, on a fresh DK the human area below is basically bright, sunny, green grass, wmo's are all "pristine" variants. But when viewing it as any other character that just wanders into that area it is the destroyed post-dk quest line state with destroyed buildings, different wmo's spawned etc.
Is there any documentation available somewhere?
rektbyfaith
09-24-2021, 10:37 AM #1Archived author: Deleted User • Posted: 2021-09-24T10:37:43.736000+00:00
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I'm struggling to piece together information about how phasing works in WotLK. I generally understand that NPC's and gobject's can be set in the DB but the "world" itself is what's confusing me.
Example being the DK starting area, on a fresh DK the human area below is basically bright, sunny, green grass, wmo's are all "pristine" variants. But when viewing it as any other character that just wanders into that area it is the destroyed post-dk quest line state with destroyed buildings, different wmo's spawned etc.
Is there any documentation available somewhere?
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Oh I may have just found it.
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phasing is implemented in three different, and quite distinct, ways. The first is the phased instance. The only example currently is the Death Knight starting area. Beginning Death Knights are not actually in a phased section of the Eastern Plaguelands, they are actually in a large instance modeled after the eastern portion of the zone, similar to the way Old Hillsbrad is an instance modeled after a portion of Hillsbrad Foothills. This is indicated by the fact that the starter area is surrounded by invisible walls that prevent players from leaving, as well as the fact that players have a different General and Local Defense chat channel.
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rektbyfaith
09-24-2021, 10:43 AM #2Archived author: Deleted User • Posted: 2021-09-24T10:43:26.444000+00:00
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Oh I may have just found it.
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phasing is implemented in three different, and quite distinct, ways. The first is the phased instance. The only example currently is the Death Knight starting area. Beginning Death Knights are not actually in a phased section of the Eastern Plaguelands, they are actually in a large instance modeled after the eastern portion of the zone, similar to the way Old Hillsbrad is an instance modeled after a portion of Hillsbrad Foothills. This is indicated by the fact that the starter area is surrounded by invisible walls that prevent players from leaving, as well as the fact that players have a different General and Local Defense chat channel.
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they're still phased between the quest stages
rektbyfaith
09-24-2021, 10:44 AM #3Archived author: <o> • Posted: 2021-09-24T10:44:07.350000+00:00
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they're still phased between the quest stages
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buildings are just gameobjects as those can be phased (most types at can at least) the same as units. phasing is just implemented as a single bitmask on every worldentity, and it's the server that looks at the bitmask and decides if two worldobjects can see each others
rektbyfaith
09-24-2021, 10:45 AM #4Archived author: <o> • Posted: 2021-09-24T10:45:02.380000+00:00
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buildings are just gameobjects as those can be phased (most types at can at least) the same as units. phasing is just implemented as a single bitmask on every worldentity, and it's the server that looks at the bitmask and decides if two worldobjects can see each others
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Yeah just confirmed with `.gps` the DK start is map 609.
rektbyfaith
09-24-2021, 10:45 AM #5Archived author: Deleted User • Posted: 2021-09-24T10:45:30.247000+00:00
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Yeah just confirmed with `.gps` the DK start is map 609.
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i don't remember how lighting and the skybox works
rektbyfaith
09-24-2021, 10:45 AM #6Archived author: <o> • Posted: 2021-09-24T10:45:32.379000+00:00
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i don't remember how lighting and the skybox works
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> buildings are just gameobjects as those can be phased (most types at can at least)
This I didn't know, I assumed gobjects don't have mmaps so pets etc would walk funky on spawned buildings but I never tried
rektbyfaith
09-24-2021, 10:46 AM #7Archived author: Deleted User • Posted: 2021-09-24T10:46:35.958000+00:00
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> buildings are just gameobjects as those can be phased (most types at can at least)
This I didn't know, I assumed gobjects don't have mmaps so pets etc would walk funky on spawned buildings but I never tried
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mobs should be able to path around gameobjects, and the general shapes stay the same
rektbyfaith
09-24-2021, 10:47 AM #8Archived author: <o> • Posted: 2021-09-24T10:47:38.950000+00:00
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mobs should be able to path around gameobjects, and the general shapes stay the same
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what you can't really do is start building bridges and expect creatures to follow you on them
rektbyfaith
09-24-2021, 10:48 AM #9Archived author: <o> • Posted: 2021-09-24T10:48:15.698000+00:00
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what you can't really do is start building bridges and expect creatures to follow you on them
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I'll definitely play with that some more. Now knowing that the DK start is an entirely different map that explains most of my confusion.
rektbyfaith
09-24-2021, 10:48 AM #10Archived author: Deleted User • Posted: 2021-09-24T10:48:27.867000+00:00
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I'll definitely play with that some more. Now knowing that the DK start is an entirely different map that explains most of my confusion.
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