W3Z Map Editor

One word: yay!
;)

Guys, check out the screenshots on the news (14/09/2002):
http://www.wc3campaigns.com/modules....rder=0&thold=0

zep yur editor is looking nice.. hope ya release it soon..

I don't get this really...... In the next version you can convert the terrains from a PUD to a W3M???? And in future versions you shall be abel to convert SMC(or whatever they're called) to W3M????

I think you got it. :)
You run my editor, open a PUD (Warcraft 2 map) and you can edit it and save it as a W3M (War3map) that you can play with War3.
Right now, it only converts the ground, not the units and other special stuff. It converts mountains as cliffs and that's a big difference with War2 since moutains can be exploded in War2 but cliff can't be exploded in War3. I got a rock model from Samsuffy that I'll try to use (as a doodad) to convert mountains correctly.
If people converts the tileset textures to BLP, I could also include the "new" ground in the map instead of using War3 tilesets.

You've fizzed my little ogre magi brain out

I'm really looking forward to it... :)
it should be released today/tomorrow

Here is beta 8:
http://wc3campaigns.com/w3z/downloads/w3zmeb8.zip

And the first thing i did was converting my favourite map from wc2.....

Is this editor compatible with blink and the trigger editor? And can i expect it to have a reasonably low amount of bugs?

Well, my editor edits War3Maps, then, think about your question again...
If you have a text file, you can open it with Notepad, Wordpad, Word and even Excel,... Then you edit it and save it and it's still a text file. Unless you explicitly saved it to another format. You get what I mean?


About the bugs, I dunno. I know only a few minor bugs and nobody reported them at the moment. Dunno if there are big bugs though.

Very Good zepir!
A question, How do I change the tree sort default is "LTlt" I would like to place out trees from "Lordon fall". But I dont Know the "secret word". Thx

If I'm right, you open war3.mpq with WinMPQ and you extract the file: "\Doodads\doodads.slk". Then the first field called "doodID" is the one which is used by my editor. Try to find the one you're looking for there! ;)

Zepir, for your next version do you think you can implement .wpm importing/exporting? Save me the hassle of having to do it manually. :)

And much thanks to you for your tileset modifying ability! I wasn't able to import the snow tile from Northrend with the default WE, but now my mountains look much better!

Thanks!

Take care.

NP.
About the .wpm import-export, I'll add an option for TGA import-export. All the convertion code is there, it just need the menu implementation. BTW, I hope you tryed the auto-pathing tool (called "Reset Pathing").
Anyway, have fun! I'll work again soon on my editor.