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Winter Veil Reforged

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Retera
Tags
Cinematic, Open Source, Reforged
Size
70.88 MB
Rating

(4 ratings)

Downloads
134
Created
May 21, 2022
Updated
May 21, 2022
Resources
1
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Approved
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Winter Veil Reforged

This is the cinematic map that was used to record my YouTube video below:

Credits:
Christmas Wreath by Deolrin:
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/christmas-wreath.185688/
Winter Hat by Deolrin:
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/santa-hat.151805/
The music is from here, and a lot of the animation is also heavily borrowed from this video:


Map Creation History:

Similar to my Makrura Rave project, the video recording is unedited from the Warcraft 3 map, including the music, so I thought it might be fun to share this map for posterity. (Make sure you enable Music in the options before playing the map ingame!)

I tagged the map as open source so you can feel free to tinker and look around to see how the music is able to sync with the animation even when inside the Warcraft 3 client, but as opposed to Makrura Rave which was fairly simple, although this map operates on the same basic premise I am dubious that any map developer who opens this map to look at how it is created would be able to take much from it.

The map's light animations were created using external software written specifically to automate the process of creating this map, specifically. Accordingly, without that software, updating the light show on this map would be a complete nightmare.

The software written to create and modify this map produced a grid of 8th notes matched against the beat of the song, where each column was the 8th note beat and each row was one of the lights in the scene. Clicking on a cell in the grid would toggle that light for that beat on or off, or there was an additional option of a "flash" mode that would essentially be a 16th note at that time (using multiple 8th notes "subsequently" would normally only leave the light on for a prolonged period of time, not ever turning off and therefore not appearing to move to the beat).

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The "X" shape is the 16th-note "flash" effect.
Any names created in this UI for a row to represent a light could then be hooked up to a model by linking the model object and the light row names together in code:

Java: 
                generator.generate(swordsFile) //
                        .emissiveAnimate("SwordA1", 1, "Textures/Black32.blp", "CS_Props_Statue_Mat_Emissive.tif") //
                        .lightAnimate("SwordA1", 0) //
                        .emissiveAnimate("SwordA2", 2, "Textures/Black32.blp", "CS_Props_Statue_Mat_Emissive.tif") //
                        .lightAnimate("SwordA2", 1) //
                        .emissiveAnimate("SwordA3", 3, "Textures/Black32.blp", "CS_Props_Statue_Mat_Emissive.tif") //
                        .lightAnimate("SwordA3", 2) //
                        .emissiveAnimate("SwordA4", 4, "Textures/Black32.blp", "CS_Props_Statue_Mat_Emissive.tif") //
                        .lightAnimate("SwordA4", 3) //
                        .save(new File(output + "SwordsA.mdx"));

                generator.generate(swordsFile) //
                        .emissiveAnimate("SwordB1", 1, "Textures/Black32.blp", "CS_Props_Statue_Mat_Emissive.tif") //
                        .lightAnimate("SwordB1", 0) //
                        .emissiveAnimate("SwordB2", 2, "Textures/Black32.blp", "CS_Props_Statue_Mat_Emissive.tif") //
                        .lightAnimate("SwordB2", 1) //
                        .emissiveAnimate("SwordB3", 3, "Textures/Black32.blp", "CS_Props_Statue_Mat_Emissive.tif") //
                        .lightAnimate("SwordB3", 2) //
                        .emissiveAnimate("SwordB4", 4, "Textures/Black32.blp", "CS_Props_Statue_Mat_Emissive.tif") //
                        .lightAnimate("SwordB4", 3) //
                        .save(new File(output + "SwordsB.mdx"));

                generator.generate(wreathFile) //
                        .geosetVisibleAnimate("WreathLeftOuter", 3) //
                        .geosetVisibleAnimate("WreathLeftOuter", 4) //
                        .geosetVisibleAnimate("WreathLeftOuter", 5) //
                        .save(new File(output + "WreathLeftOuter.mdx"));

                generator.generate(wreathFile) //
                        .geosetVisibleAnimate("WreathLeftInner", 3) //
                        .geosetVisibleAnimate("WreathLeftInner", 4) //
                        .geosetVisibleAnimate("WreathLeftInner", 5) //
                        .save(new File(output + "WreathLeftInner.mdx"));

                generator.generate(wreathFile) //
                        .geosetVisibleAnimate("WreathRightInner", 3) //
                        .geosetVisibleAnimate("WreathRightInner", 4) //
                        .geosetVisibleAnimate("WreathRightInner", 5) //
                        .save(new File(output + "WreathRightInner.mdx"));

                generator.generate(wreathFile) //
                        .geosetVisibleAnimate("WreathRightOuter", 3) //
                        .geosetVisibleAnimate("WreathRightOuter", 4) //
                        .geosetVisibleAnimate("WreathRightOuter", 5) //
                        .save(new File(output + "WreathRightOuter.mdx"));

                generator.generate(archwayTopperFile) //
                        .geosetVisibleAnimate("RoofRibbonA", 0) //
                        .geosetVisibleAnimate("RoofRibbonB", 1) //
                        .geosetVisibleAnimate("RoofRibbonC", 2) //
                        .lightAnimate("RoofRibbonA", 0) //
                        .lightAnimate("RoofRibbonB", 1) //
                        .lightAnimate("RoofRibbonC", 2) //
                        .save(new File(output + "RoofRibbons.mdx"));

                final GeneratingModel wallLampGen = generator.generate(lampFile);
                for (int i = 0; i < 7; i++) {
                    final int strId = (i + 1);
                    wallLampGen //
                            .emissiveAnimate("WallLamp0" + strId, i, "Textures/Black32.blp",
                                    "Doodads/Cityscape/Props/LanternPost/CS_Props_PostLantern_Emissive.tif") //
                            .lightAnimate("WallLamp0" + strId, i);
                }
                wallLampGen.save(new File(output + "WallLamp.mdx"));

                generator.generate(niceIceFile) //
                        .emissiveAnimate("IceTop_Left", 0, "Textures/Black32.blp",
                                "Doodads/Icecrown/Structures/IC_IceArch45/ICG_Structure_ArchwayIcy_Diffuse.blp") //
                        .lightAnimate("IceTop_Left", 0) //
                        .save(new File(output + "NiceIce.mdx"));

                for (int i = 1; i <= 6; i++) {
                    for (int j = 1; j <= i; j++) {
                        final String ghoulKey = "GhoulRow" + i + "Guy" + j;
                        System.out.println("making ghoul " + ghoulKey);
                        final boolean red = ((((i - 1) % 2) + (j - 1)) % 2) == 0;
                        File ghoulFile;
                        String colorString;
                        if (red) {
                            ghoulFile = lanternGhoulRedFile;
                            colorString = "Red";
                        } else {
                            ghoulFile = lanternGhoulGreenFile;
                            colorString = "Green";
                        }
                        generator.generate(ghoulFile)//
                                .emissiveAnimate(ghoulKey, 4, "Textures/Black32.blp",
                                        "CS_Props_PostLantern_" + colorString + "_Emissive.tif") //
                                .lightAnimate(ghoulKey, 0)//
                                .save(new File(output + ghoulKey + ".mdx"));
                    }
                }

                generator.generate(snowmanFile) //
                        .emissiveAnimate("TerenasStatusStaff", 2, "Textures/Black32.blp",
                                "Doodads/Cityscape/Props/LanternPost/CS_Props_PostLantern_Emissive.tif") //
                        .emissiveAnimate("TerenasStatusStaff", 3, "Textures/Black32.blp",
                                "CS_SH_Props_StatueKingTerenas_Emissive.tif") //
                        .lightAnimate("TerenasStatusStaff", 0) //
                        .save(new File(output + "KingSnowman.mdx"));

                generator.generate(greenLanternArthasFile) //
                        .emissiveAnimate("GreenLanternArthas", 0, "Textures/Black32.blp",
                                "CS_Props_PostLantern_Green_Emissive.tif") //
                        .lightAnimate("GreenLanternArthas", 0) //
                        .save(new File(output + "GreenLanternArthas.mdx"));

                generator.generate(redLanternArthasFile) //
                        .emissiveAnimate("RedLanternArthas", 0, "Textures/Black32.blp",
                                "CS_Props_PostLantern_Red_Emissive.tif") //
                        .lightAnimate("RedLanternArthas", 0) //
                        .save(new File(output + "RedLanternArthas.mdx"));

                generator.generate(beetleFile) //
                        .emissiveAnimate("BlueExtras", 1, "Textures/Black32.blp", "shinybeetle2.tif", true) //
                        .lightLinearColorAnimate("BlueExtras", 0) //
                        .lightAnimate("BlueEnableBit", 0, true) //
                        .save(new File(output + "BlueBeetle.mdx"));

                for (int i = 1; i <= 4; i++) {
                    generator.generate(bansheeFile) //
                            .fresnelLinearAnimate("BansheeA" + i, 0) //
                            .fresnelLinearAnimate("BansheeA" + i, 1) //
                            .lightLinearColorAnimate("BansheeA" + i, 0) //
                            .lightAnimate("GhostEnableBit", 0, true) //
                            .save(new File(output + "BansheeChoirA" + i + ".mdx"));
                }
                for (int i = 1; i <= 4; i++) {
                    generator.generate(bansheeFile) //
                            .fresnelLinearAnimate("BansheeB" + i, 0) //
                            .fresnelLinearAnimate("BansheeB" + i, 1) //
                            .lightLinearColorAnimate("BansheeB" + i, 0) //
                            .lightAnimate("GhostEnableBit", 0, true) //
                            .save(new File(output + "BansheeChoirB" + i + ".mdx"));
                }
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Winter Veil Reforged (Map)

Author
Blizzard Entertainment
Filename
WinterVeilReforged.w3x
Suggested players
1
Players
1
Required game
Warcraft 3
Recommended version
1.32
Dimensions
138x183 (160x224)
Size
70.88 MB
Uploaded
May 21, 2022
Updated
Never
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deepstrasz
deepstrasz
Lovely cinematic map, a musical even. We haven't had any of these for a long time, not even cinematic maps at all. Approved. If you want more reviews, you should participate in the The Grand Review Exchange! R U L E S Site Rules Map Submission...
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Lovely cinematic map, a musical even. We haven't had any of these for a long time, not even cinematic maps at all.

Approved.

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