About SLK's and Custom Tilesets.

I checked out all the tutorials. I did a forum search on all the forums on SLK, tileset, terrain, new terrain, and skiz. I couldn't find any relevant information for this.

I'm sure many people have this question also.

Since this question is fairly simple, I will number it.

1. How do you import custom tilesets?
2. What are SLK's?
3. Whats the difference between tileset compatability, you can't have two different tilesets on one map?
4. On maps such as Kaggz and Ozu's, I have noticed new doodads, what are those imported by?

I think the area of customization of tilesets is largely unexplored. Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated.

If I have a Summer Lorderon map I can't add cityscape round tiles right? Is there anyway I could import the tile and make it universally readable by everyone?

Melty

Q1. How do you import custom tilesets?
A1. a) In the World Editor, go to (menu) "Tools->Modify Tileset..."
Then check "Use custom tileset". You can only use 12 tilesets on a map with the World Editor (16 with mine) and there are some tileset you can remove or add because for example you can only have on kind of dirt tileset. When tilesets have a red upper left corner, it means they can't be changed. When they got a blue upper right corner, it means "unbuildable". So if you wan t to add a tileset to you map, just select it in the "additional textures" part and click on "Add Tile". Like I said before, sometimes you can't add tilesets (red tilesets, 12 tilesets->remove some before adding).
b) If you use my map editor (beta 3 or above soon), open your map, go to "Edit-Map Properties" or just hit "Alt+Enter". Then you'll see a line like "LdrtLdroLdrgLrokLgrsLgrd". Each group of 4 letters specify a tileset. For Example "Ldrt" is "Lordaeron Dirt".
Right now, beta 3 is also limited to 12 tilesets but beta 4 and above will be limited to 16. If you need to know what tileset has which name, have a look to the slk files...

Q2. What are SLK's?
A2. SLK files are like database files. They are stored in the War3 mpqs and you can extract then and open them with Excel. In older verion of War3, there were all units enabled but new patches brought new slks with less units because Blizzard didn't want us to use units before them. To work arround this limitation from newer versions, you can use "external" slk files (not in mpqs but in a directory that is the same as the one inside the mpqs).
For example, for tilesets, if you open yhe "war3beta.mpq" you'll find a file called "TerrainArt\Terrain.slk" that contains tilesets definition. All beta tilesets are defined in that one. But the latest patch you've installed (war3betaPatch.mpq) also contains a file like that that overides the previous one. If you create a directory called "TerrainArt\" with a file "Terrain.slk" in your war3beta directory, War3 will use this file instead. Unfortunately, you can't use old slk files because latest versions of war3 uses new fields in these slk. So if you want to use the old ones with all the stuff, you'll just have to add all the new fields of the latest versions in the slks. Also, you need an Excel that can save slks using the same format that War3 support.
One other thing to know about slks is that if you're playing with people who don't have your slks (exactly the same), the game can crash (it usually does).


Q3. Whats the difference between tileset compatability, you can't have two different tilesets on one map?
A3. I've answered before in A1.


Q4. On maps such as Kaggz and Ozu's, I have noticed new doodads, what are those imported by?
A3. I haven't seen these maps but they can use slk or another trick to add doodads.


About tileset/doodads/... tricks WITHOUT using slk, check this thread:
http://64.91.238.94/forums/showthrea...=&threadid=532


-=Zépir oo

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