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04-19-2004, 08:54 AM#1
lear2000
:\ I have looked and looked, trying to find a way to make my own custom spells. I'm having problems with the .slk .txt way. I used WinMPQ to extract

Units\AbilityData.slk
Units\HumanAbilityFunc.txt
Units\HumanAbilityStrings.txt
Units\NightElfAbilityFunc.txt
Units\NightElfAbilityStrings.txt
Units\OrcAbilityFunc.txt
Units\OrcAbilityStrings.txt
Units\UndeadAbilityFunc.txt
Units\UndeadAbilityStrings.txt
Units\NeutralAbilityFunc.txt
Units\NeutralAbilityStrings.txt
Units\ItemAbilityFunc.txt
Units\ItemAbilityStrings.txt

I Then used a SpellEditor tool to make a custom spell. I put

Units\AbilityData.slk
Units\HumanAbilityFunc.txt
Units\HumanAbilityStrings.txt
Units\NightElfAbilityFunc.txt
Units\NightElfAbilityStrings.txt
Units\OrcAbilityFunc.txt
Units\OrcAbilityStrings.txt
Units\UndeadAbilityFunc.txt
Units\UndeadAbilityStrings.txt
Units\NeutralAbilityFunc.txt
Units\NeutralAbilityStrings.txt
Units\ItemAbilityFunc.txt
Units\ItemAbilityStrings.txt

All into my "warcraft III/Units" folder and then open up the world Editor. ( btw I was making avatar, pretty simple just made it a lot stonger. Was just testing) I then go to add the ability to one of my heros in the objects editor. It gives me two "Avatar"s to pick from. The 2nd one is the correct one, so I picked that. I then saved the map as TEST.w3m

I then opened back up WinMPQ, and did File, open. I picked TEST.w3m It has about 20 things already in it. I went ahead and added my modified file to it, as follows

Units\AbilityData.slk
Units\HumanAbilityFunc.txt
Units\HumanAbilityStrings.txt
Units\NightElfAbilityFunc.txt
Units\NightElfAbilityStrings.txt
Units\OrcAbilityFunc.txt
Units\OrcAbilityStrings.txt
Units\UndeadAbilityFunc.txt
Units\UndeadAbilityStrings.txt
Units\NeutralAbilityFunc.txt
Units\NeutralAbilityStrings.txt
Units\ItemAbilityFunc.txt
Units\ItemAbilityStrings.txt

I made sure I had Units\ for each one. I close out of WinMPQ and start up Warcraft 3. I do a single player custom map, I pick TEST as the map I'm going to play and press start. The map loads about 80% until it has a fatal crash. If I remove Units\AbilityData.slk from the TEST.w3m The map will load, but the hero will not have the special.

CAn anyone help? I have looked at all the tutorials and followed them to the letter. Tho they are not good tutorials b/c they dont tell you exactly what the names are, no screenshots, and no step by step example to give a end result. I couldn't find one that said anything about the AbilityData.slk . it said "just add your new files" what that suppose to mean? 12 .txt files and a .slk file. which do they want you to add to the map. They said "implant the files and your done" if this is a tutorial , you should say stuff like "open WinMPQ" "Click on file, open" "Open your map.w3m" "Click the add button" " add the following AbilityData.slk bla bla bla"

anywho my Units\AbilityData.slk is crashing my game, the tutorial just said to put "new" files in the .w3m (okay.... I have a million .w3m files, mind to tell me which one :P ) I add all the files b/c the tutorial didn't say not to.