Hero abilites

I need to learn how to make custom abilities in WE and still have the map playable in RoC. Like in DotA and Doomsday. I've been trying to learn forever, but all the maps that could teach me are protected... Do I need a custom editor to do this? Or do I just use regular WE? Any help is appreciated.

Roc huh? well in that case you will need TFT to make custom abilitys from the WE. If you wana make custom abilitys on RoC then you will have to learn scripting(I think thats its name). Its kinda complacated and you need a few programs. It would probobly be best to just get TFT. It offers way more options than RoC.

I have TFT, but I only play RoC (don't ask why). So I wanna make new abilities but I still want my map to be playable in RoC. Thx for the help though... Could you tell me what the programs are called?

Uh, DarkMage is full of it.

Making custom spells in RoC is not fun, and it's not worthwhile. In order to garauntee compatibility, you'll want to uninstall TFT. Open up the RoC war3patch.mpq file with WinMPQ and extract the AbilityData.slk file and the HumanAbilityData.txt and HumanAbilityStrings.txt files (also OrcAbility... UndeadAbility... etc.). Change everything you want in those files manually, and then open your map file with WinMPQ and insert the files, making sure to change their path to include the Units\ directory.

That's the shortly-explained way of doing it. It's a hassle. This is how abilities were manipulated in RoC and this is why RoC maps with custom abilities were so much more popular then.

Thanks, that helps alot. I can finally finish my maps now. :-D