Blizzard's Unfortunate Official Stance

02-01-2005, 05:47 AM

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7) How do I protect my map so it can't be opened in the editor?

While map protection is not officially supported, a simple and common method of doing so is to remove the binary trigger data file from the map. This can be accomplished by importing a blank text file into the map, and changing the path to war3map.wtg. Once this is done, the map will not open in the editor, as the trigger information will be gone. However, since triggers are generated into the map script file when the map is saved, it will still work in the game. Make sure you back up your map before applying any sort of protection, or else you yourself will be unable to edit it again

straight from blizzard forum's top 10 Qs. I don't see em making a big effort to stop map protecting.

02-21-2005, 01:15 AM	#62
Guest	I guess that when you think about it, we all belong of the government, in a time of need they draft and use us. Other than that we do what we want. Blizzard 'owns' all of your maps, but until they start to care about it, you can do what you want. They don't care do they?

02-21-2005, 05:17 AM	#63
Pheonix-IV	GAh! Stop reviving this old thread. The issue is finished, done with. Stop playing grave digger!

02-22-2005, 04:50 PM	#64
luckyownz92	Wtf ???? If they wont let you protect maps in warcraft 3 then why do they let you protect them in starcraft explain that gear...

02-22-2005, 08:08 PM	#65
Guest	well there is a way to pretty much copyright ur map right Vex i saw u did it w ur circle d i messed w some stuff and it makes everyone lose as soon as the map initialates also i saw that u only protected the map initialazation part to prevent people from stealing ur map Vex u r a real genious ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^

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