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gm_shadowglen

This map is a small extract of the Teldrassil zone in World of Warcraft, including namely the starting zone of Shadowglen, where the player spawns, surrounded by circulating mountain ridges with a lone opening. Beyond the opening lies the remainder of the map, including a dwindling road towards Darnassus (city not included in this map) with some decorative Night Elf landmarks scattered about. Much of which is shadowed by the canopies of a massive and colourful forest.

Much of the actual infrastructure that exists at this part of the map is not included (yet) due to laziness. I still have plenty of props to add to the map but for now it includes the majority of vegetation. I may eventually add buildings and other landmarks as time goes. Regardless, I think the map has turned out very pretty already.

The map readily supports HDR which you can enable if you think the map is slightly too dark already. For the proper representation though, HDR would be off.

It also features custom ambience and some introductory music. Stop the sounds once and only the regular ambience should return in less than a minute.

The map is noded for ground NPCs but because the map utilises props and not displacements you may notice a penalty in performance. Regardless, NPCs will typically be able to follow along major gravel roads and beaten dirt paths.
The collision model of the ground is also slightly simplified, which may be noticeable at the base of slopes. I do intend to drastically improve the quality of ground collisions at some point.

❗ // If you get a prompt for the node graph to rebuild, be prepared to wait for about half an hour or less before it is ready. Sorry, but there are a lot of paths to generate! You can often leave the game running in the background, when loading the map for the first time.
Also, make sure that you are running at least -dxlevel 90 or higher when playing on this map.

I hope you will enjoy this map! I do very rarely make and upload maps for the Source engine so let me know if you have any issues or suggestions. Thank you!

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Credits to Blizzard Entertainment for the assets contained within this map.
World of Warcraft is a MMORPG that is available to download and play.