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i recently finished v2.0 of my browser-based World of Warcraft level viewer! so here's a thread on what it is, how it works, and a visual history of its development check it out at noclip.website by searching "World of Warcraft", finding a zone you wanna explore, and fly around w/ WASD + mouse

first off: noclip.website is an incredible project by @jasperrlz.bsky.social that's chock full of other games which have been lovingly reverse engineered & recreated in the browser. while most of the games on there are due to Jasper, the open source community has contributed quite a few as well

getting the project to this point took a truly insane amount of time, research, and debugging that's kinda difficult for me to wrap my head around now. it all started about a year and a half ago when i was looking for a new hobby project to sink my teeth into

i'd already spent a fair amount of time using @jasperrlz.bsky.social's noclip framework writing a Halo level viewer, and as a recovering WoW subscriber from back in the vanilla days, i wondered how feasible getting an older game like WoW classic into noclip would be

it also seemed like a better use of time then resubbing