C++ Editing Warcraft

How do you edit warcraft III? Not only the .slk files but editing the entire warcraft like in fps MOD. Can you get the source code? and what program do you need.:bgrun:

If it were olnly that simple! You can do a lot of things by changing values at certain memory addresses. One memory address migh contain how much lumber you have, or it might contain where you clicked the mouse. I beliebe the FPS mod find where the mouse is located and adjusts the camera based on that value.

If you are asking about something like this, most likely you don't currently have enough programming skills to do it. If you want to find out how, I would suggest visiting hack sites, as the only differences between hacks and many mods is that the mods are harder to write and cannot be used to cheat.

How can you change the interface so it shows or hides something like hiding the gold or adding some kinda a value?

Hiding something would be very difficult, if it's hard coded.

Showing something on top of it is not all that difficult if you know how to program for windows well.

However, because you are asking these questions, you obviously don't know very much about programming. Go read a few hundred tutorials, or a couple books on C++, then go learn how to use C++ to program in Win32, then go to some hacking/cracking sights on how to put graphics on top of another app that is fullscreen.

Good luck, message me when your done.

But as for the War3 GUI, I dont know how its coded, and in what files. And I don't know the limitations of those files. For all I know, you might be able to just make a new war3patch.mpq and have different things in game. But I doubt it, or at least I doubt it would take less than hundreds of hours of work.

It's because I wanted to know what we could change.

OK, this has nothing to do with C++ though, just FYI.

The right question would be, "How does Warcraft3 hold its GUI information for in game screen items? Is it hardcoded, or are there files that I can change?"

I hope someone reads that and answers it for you. I don't know much about it.

Me and Targash(Member of Spacehulk like me) Found out how to change the ingame interface both value and look

The menues are stored in FDF files. The 3D animations are MDX files (with their textures as BLP).

You can not ever edit the games c++ source code without actually getting a copy of it from blizzard, you can however edit it's asm source to some extent. You can hide things like gold pretty easily if you know what your doing. But your going to have to get good at reverse engrineering and learn asm. A good starting point is making singleplayer cheats for games (trainers). Check out http://www.gamehacking.com they should have plenty of tutorials and forum help to get ya started. Good luck :)