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Does anyone know how to do the transition like in the Orc Campaign TFT?

07-02-2003, 09:56 PM#1
Mech-Sheep
Read topic please..
07-02-2003, 11:46 PM#2
piRo-piOn
i think its like a "play next map trigger", might be in game you have to know how to use game cache
07-03-2003, 01:17 AM#3
fr0ggE
why don't you extract the maps and take a look?

and if you find out, do tell, hehe, cuz i don't know either.
07-03-2003, 06:33 AM#4
Dactrius
If you mean how do you switch maps like in the 'To Tame a Land' campaign, then you can't. Only Blizzard created maps can make use of these triggers, as demonstrated by the message displayed on the actions themselves. I'm not sure why this is, but I could see how people could possibly play havoc with the 'delete save folder', etc, if they do actually do that.
07-03-2003, 09:26 AM#5
Arche
I extracted it and took a look at it. It's not a nice sight. They have really organized their triggers idioticly, it's almost impossible to see which trigger does what.
07-03-2003, 11:33 AM#6
Guest
Wich program u used to extract the map from the war3x.mpq? I didn´t find the campaings....
07-03-2003, 12:43 PM#7
Guest
I believe you can use the transition system in the same way as blizzard does, it works a bit like this:

let's say you have one map, map A. let's say your hero enters the area from where you wish to switch to another map.
you've made a trigger that activates when u enter that area.
the trigger saves the game in a special folder, creates a game
cache in which it stores all the units you want to warp to the next map and loads the next map. the next map has a trigger that activates on map initialization. it restores all the units in the game cache. when u leave the map, save the game again (with another name) and store the units you want to transport into the cache. autoload your first save game. the first map has a trigger that activates when the map is loaded from a savegame.
it restores all the units from the game cache and voila!

If u do not know anything about storing units in the game cache
pleaze try to find out yourself first...
07-03-2003, 10:51 PM#8
kmfdm515
I hope it isn't too hard...

That was one of the things I was looking forward to the most in TFT WE.
07-04-2003, 09:02 PM#9
Arche
I took out the files from the MPQ with winmpq. It doesn't work with the old programs which required listfiles.

Oh wait.. I think the campaignmaps are in the war3xlocal.mpq file.