Blizzard is back with another blog post dedicated to a long-awaited feature coming to World of Warcraft: housing! Expected to arrive in the future expansion WoW: Midnight, housing has been on everyone’s mind for years now. In the previous blog, Blizzard outlined plans and philosophies when it comes to the feature. The most recent article focuses on interior decoration systems and is a work-in-progress.
There are two primary modes to decoration: Basic and Advanced, which you can freely toggle between. Basic mode allows you to quickly place (or remove) objects and move them around while keeping their movements somewhat constrained to make putting something together quick and easy. It has a number of rules in place to help with this.
If it is too restrictive for your tastes, this is where Advanced mode comes into play. Advanced mode effectively turns off a lot of the rules of Basic mode but also offers up additional tools of its own as well. For example, decor has no collision in Advanced mode. Want to push a chair into the wall? Enjoy!
This mode lets you interact and design things with very specific controls to make whatever your heart may desire. Internally using this, employees have taken bushes and made them into garland for their fireplaces, constructed a boat’s prow from a bed, or made paint buckets into small spice racks for their kitchens.
Those who love color-matching their transmog, pets and mounts, will be thrilled to read the following:
“For newly created assets (as opposed to legacy ones from existing art), we’re allowing players to dye them a variety of colors, so if you find a chair but wish the upholstery was blue instead of grey, you can make that change. But what if the blue doesn’t match the stain of the wood or color of the metal now? Well, you can fix that as well!”
It’s not just decorations you use to customize your space, but the wallpaper, ceiling and flooring as well. You can mix and match these to elicit various cultures and vibes or just make up your own.
