What the hell is wrong with my WC3 Editor?

I need items for my map and when I make items with icons different than the original icon of the item I based it on, then the icon displays right in the editor but in wc3 itself it displays the original icon. I asked some people about this, and they said "import icons into your map". Well, the thing is, I don't feel like increasing my map size by 500 kb just to use icons that are ALREADY in the mpq file for WC3. I also looked at some other maps that use icons that aren't for the items originally, and they DON'T have those icons imported into their map, so there is a way. But why doesn't it work in my World Editor?

I cant help you but say the same thing.. How could it show up on another person's computer if they dont have the file?? and icons would not take 500kb unless u plan on importing like 1000 of them.

You shouldn't have to import the button if its already a War3 button that can be found in the MPQs.

I have not had this particular problem before...

Are you 100% sure you gave the unit the custom ability and not the original?

If you would like you could e-mail me the map and I will take a look at it for you ( [email protected] )

I use custom abilities all the time and have never had that problem..

I ALWAYS change the "Editor Suffix" catagory for a spell I made to "Custom" so that I know I used the correct ability when I give it to a unit. Perhaps you should to (just to be sure).

I never said anythign about custom abilities. Those work fine, it's the Item icons, when I change the icon for an item it appear changed in the editor, but when I host the game it shows the icon of the item that I based my item on. Like say I take orb of fire, rename it to Whatever, and change the icon to orb of ice icon. The edito starts showing item called Whatever with orb of ice icon. The game itself however, still shows fire orb icon. And as I said the files are in MPQ, everyone has the same MPQ that comes with WC3, so the items SHOULD show up for everyone, but they don't show even for me, and each icon is 5 kb, so u only need 100 of them to have 500 kb added to ur map.

well, try making new items based of those u mentioned, and try restarting worldedit (like when importing models etc)....
i really don't know whats with u'r WE, cuz it should always work fine....
that worked fine even in wc3 beta :)

I never actually modify the original unit. I instead make a New Custom Unit, then modify it. It works fine for me, and it hardly takes up any more space (atleast, not that i noticed). Tell me what happens after you do that.

creating a new item does the same thing, I already tried that, because when u make a new item u tell the editor what item it's based on, nad it just uses the icon from that. I just dont get what could be causing this.

Things that could cause it:

• Corrupt WE
• Corrupt War3
• Local Files
• Using an advanced editor not compatible with the latest patch

Suggestions

1. Make sure you don't have any folders that don't belong (like a UI folder)
2. Try the regular WE (if your not already)
3. Reinstall the latest War3 Patch
4. Reinstall Warcraft 3

Aha, removing the Units folder I made a long time ago to be able to create marines added additional options to my editor in object editor and also added the expansion units that werent displayed before for some reason. Thanks.