Need Help

[GoldDraco]

Okay I am really new to this. I managed to deprotect the map I want to edit. As in I can open it in map editor. And managed to reinsert the gui triggers so I have all units etc when I play the map. But I did all of that through an mpq editor. As for the map itself when I go to edit it and SAVE it crashes. I cannot even save it with no changes made it still crashes. And I can alter other maps perfectly fine. I was wondering if anyone would know what could cause that. I know most of you probably don't care but I am not map hacking. The map I am altering is for personal play only. It will not be posted anywhere online. Nor will i try to claim credit for it. It's just for lanning. And only small changes are being made. Pretty much I am just tweaking numbers on some buildings. Modding a couple of abilities damage on a couple of heroes stuff like that. Nothing major. I am not coder. Oh yah forgot to mention. I AM COMPLETELY new to this. Messing with any of these things won't mess up the AI will it? I am neither deleting nor adding units. Nor altering terrain. Just modding the actual stats of some units and abilities.

When I go to save it says world edit has stopped working yadda yadda. Windows will notify you after the program closes if there is a solution.

[Senethior459]

If all you are doing is changing things in the custom objects, here's a better way to do it.
Take the protected map (Don't deprotect it, it makes more problems than are needed!)
Open it with an MPQ tool
Extract war3map.XXX (whichever one is required for what you want to edit, .w3u for units, .w3a for abilities. I have a full list HERE)
Open WE
Make a new map
Open the custom object editor
Switch to whatever tab, Units, Abilities, etc.
File>Import Custom whatever it is Data>Find the path to the war3map.XXX file you extracted. In the units tab, find the war3map.w3u, etc.
Now, edit to your heart's content!
When you're done, File>Export Custom whatever it is Data>Save it to someplace. For each one that you imported, you need to export one. In each tab of the object editor.
Now, open the protected map with the MPQ tool
Delete the old war3map.XXX
Add the new war3map.XXX
Choose to Compact it, or Flush it, whichever the tool that you're using has.
You're done!

[GoldDraco]

Thank you very much for the info. I am gonna try that now and see how it goes. I appreciate that a lot.

edit:
Worked Like a charm thanks again. I am gonna go sleep now. (been plugging at this for nearly 3 days without sleep) I suck. I am one of those people that gets focused on something and cannot do anything else until that thing is figured out. (I did a lot more than that with the initial time trust me lol was not 3 days of messing around). Anyway. On a final note. When I wake up. If you have any advice on hero creation. Attaching to a tavern. Making sure he respawns etc. That would be awesome. And making sure comp does not pick him cause I am not programming AI for him. I wanna make a sort of broken character for my friend to use. He kinda sucks. And since I play against him I wanna give him an upper hand. He is a good sport but I hate beating someone who is not as good. Or if you have like a premade character like that sweet. (not invincible just stronger than average). Kinda like an elite from wow lol.