IP Connection for Warcraft Mod

Hey, at the moment some friends and I are creating a complete remake of Warcraft turning it into a new game and i would like to add a IP coonection option to it.

This Ip connection will replace Battle.net on the main menu. I then want the menu to go to an IP Address page and then to another page like the L.A.N. one to play the game.

Anyway im not fully sure how to do this but i know its done in 2 parts.

1 - changing the main menu and those kind of things

2 - changing the code of the game so battle.net is gone and there is an ip option.

If anyone could help me on any of this stuff it would be greatly appreciated.

P.S plz leave ur name so i can include it in the credits.

Thnx

Ehhh

This is completely unrelated to JASS in any way.

You can't simply change the game, as it's all inside game.dll, and is close to imipossible to edit.

However, the menu's layout + other things are in the fdf files. You can extract them from the mpq. There you can make simple changes to the layout, including, removing buttons etc. However, it's pretty hard, as it's easy to make a mistake that causes Warcraft not to start.

Cubasis

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Anyways you can just change the registry to change the servers.. I don't remember where and all that. but you can(at least that's what I had to do in the beta to be able to play on other servers than battle.net(oops)).. and change the Battle.net button picture file would also be easy, change to Connect IP or something

And also I thinkthis mod is probably illegal in some way.. IF, I say IF, you release it to public.

I don't think it would be considered illeagle until they started asking for money. Then they would be in deep crap.

It will be illegal because changing the server addresses is not enough. You have to hack the Warcraft exe (or add a loader) to trick it to connect to your server and that is definitely illegal.

But you do not need to do that. A better way is to set up a Virtual Private Network between the players that want to play and then use the LAN-functionality directly.
A different way and maybe more what you want is to make a separate program that connects to a server and then you choose a certain game you want to connect to and this program then redirects the LAN-packets of Warcraft to simulate that it is a game in the local network while in fact it is over the internet. That is a bit similar to what Waaagh!-TV does for allowing loads of observers to observe a game.