Give this man a job

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I’ve recently stumbled upon a guy who is working on some library for Warcraft, surprisingly, he hacked the warcraft and implemented stuff that is completely nuts, ALL of it from nothing on patch 1.26a. He is still updating the library for 1.26a patch and let me tell you what, it is absolutely SICK!
Original models without processing (insert https:// links are not allowed :frowning: )
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After processing (everything is done within warcraft 3 1.26a)
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A screenshot of a small fortress
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Google “render edge hive” first from the top
You can download 1.26a warcraft 3 and run test map without any libraries at all, which is super-duper impressive.
Blizzord plox, give this man a job, he will do much more without the need to decompile binaries and hack WE with Grimoire.

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/castsequence reset=0.000001 [HARM] HUGELIKEINDAAUTHORZFACE

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please post your link again as xhtml.

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Thats the good old warcraft, before they began messing up the aspect ratio. Also, notice the UI fits correctly on the screen.

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Yeah, looks like he s using widescreen for 3d gameplay while keeping the UI stretched ( the same way w3arena implemented it), which is the most logic thing to do instead of adding stupid bars.

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The most RIDICILIOUS thing is that an amateur is doing a better job than pete stilwell and the rest of his group who gets paid as professional developers…

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Very old. Last I heard all such projects as these were cancelled because Reforged does a lot better job at it.

Basically they used either a major arbitrary code execution exploit or a custom executable to modify the graphic pipeline.

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They inject code at runtime. IIRC they overwrite some address and hack in new functions off of this overwritten function.

There’s some memory exploit that allowed them to do total UI modification without external programs though too (that I don’t think has been fixed yet)

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looks quite good indeed!

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Give him a job doing what?

Why would Blizzard give a modder a job for modifying a older-patch of the game when they have Reforged coming out which already does that and more.

This would have been nice on current patch or a few years ago.

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Because not all of us wants to buy blizzards reforged cash grab with skins and microtransactions.

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Hey, Azureus, I’d like to get in touch with the “guy” you’ve mentioned. I’ll be a very prominent player come Wc3 Reforged and I could use such talent.

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if you just stretch the thing my dreams of more inventory slots is dead

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It doesn’t, it’s still stretched.

It looks pretty, look how much a bit of light and shadows can do.

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:open_mouth:

??? :open_mouth:

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Any chance to mod the current Reforged engine to do this?

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just imaging this kind guyz having access to source code… he did better job then blizz, who have all cards to modify, optimize and improve the engine.

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The only difference I see is shadows/lighting.

That’s it. Sorry, but I wouldn’t give him a job “just for that”.

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Better shadows and lighting effects makes all the difference! Looks how good the old game looked with that graphics mod! Everything with this graphics mod looks so vivid and real, imagine that better Lighting/Shadows in Reforged and how good the look can be!

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Yes, but the fact is they’re currently turned off.

During a beta.

I wonder why?

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Perhaps they’re collecting data for other systems.