Ashenvale in WoW Forever: lore, levels and screenshots

What we know

Ashenvale is one of the three official examples of the new rendering: moonlight breaking through the leaves.
Blizzard is not changing the art style (“we believe WoW Classic's art style is timeless”); the work focuses on environmental effects.
The official fact sheet lists global illumination, volumetric fog, god rays, water that flows and catches the light, and terrain that casts shadows as the sun moves.
At the “Evolving a Timeless World” panel they said draw distance is longer: from the Wetlands you can now see Dun Morogh (press).
Blizzard admits the trailer leaned on sunrise and sunset: “not every zone is going to be set at sunrise or sunset all the time” (press).

What changes

Moonlight filtering through the trees.
Part of the rendering update Blizzard showed at BlizzCon; the game includes an HD/SD graphics toggle.

Before and after

Ashenvale — Ashenvale path: Classic's flat purple haze versus Forever's god rays and volumetric fog. — Classic

Ashenvale — Ashenvale path: Classic's flat purple haze versus Forever's god rays and volumetric fog. — Forever

Ashenvale path: Classic's flat purple haze versus Forever's god rays and volumetric fog. · © Blizzard Entertainment — fotogramas del vídeo oficial WowF_Ashenvale_01.mp4 (worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/forever, «Azeroth in a New Light»): Classic 7.533 s / Forever 6.467 s; recorte 1600×900 y alineación de encuadre (escala 0.992)

Ashenvale — Ashenvale clearing: global illumination and shafts of light through the canopy. — Classic

Ashenvale — Ashenvale clearing: global illumination and shafts of light through the canopy. — Forever

Ashenvale clearing: global illumination and shafts of light through the canopy. · © Blizzard Entertainment — fotogramas del vídeo oficial WowF_Ashenvale_02.mp4 (worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/forever, «Azeroth in a New Light»): Classic 1.500 s / Forever 2.533 s; recorte 1600×900 y alineación de encuadre (escala 1.022)

Gallery

What we know

Ashenvale is one of the three official examples of the new rendering: moonlight breaking through the leaves.

Blizzard is not changing the art style (“we believe WoW Classic's art style is timeless”); the work focuses on environmental effects.

The official fact sheet lists global illumination, volumetric fog, god rays, water that flows and catches the light, and terrain that casts shadows as the sun moves.

At the “Evolving a Timeless World” panel they said draw distance is longer: from the Wetlands you can now see Dun Morogh (press).

Blizzard admits the trailer leaned on sunrise and sunset: “not every zone is going to be set at sunrise or sunset all the time” (press).

Before and after