tool search

10-09-2007, 02:38 PM	#1
Vexorian	I am about to start a tool, but I really find unlikely that this tool does not exist yet, I mean , it is supposed to be very necessary... What I want is an external object editor, one outside World Editor that could handle w3o, w3a, w3u, etc the way the object editor does (not necessarily with icon or model previews...) Does anyone know of a tool like this?

10-09-2007, 03:02 PM	#2
cohadar	I remember suggesting of making an IDE for jass that would use a tools like that... I presume the most logical solution would be to make such a tool as an extension of "GRIMOIRE object extension"

10-09-2007, 03:06 PM	#3
Vexorian	No. It has to be standalone totally unrelated to any IDE thing or grimoire/WE.

10-09-2007, 03:08 PM

cohadar

Are we talking command line or GUI tool here?

EDIT:

Now that I think about it the perfect tool of this type would actually be some kind of compiler.

You would have included object "classes" of all standard objects in wc3
and you would than make your own extensions of those classes.

It would reduce the transfer of spell objects to a simple copying of code text :)

JASS:

unit Dumy extends hpea // (peasant)
    .Name = "Dummy Caster"
    .abilList = Aloc, Aivs
    .manaN = 10000
    .sight = 0
    .nsight = 0
endunit

In combination with some autocompletion editor this could work like a miracle.

10-09-2007, 03:22 PM	#5
MaD[Lion]	as stated above it prolly is GUI

10-09-2007, 03:28 PM	#6
Vexorian	It could convert the object files to a totally readable xml file that looks like the object editor and viceversa

10-09-2007, 03:32 PM	#7
cohadar	I edited my previous post and I think it is a better solution than the direct xml editing. (But internal xml representation might not be a bad idea)

10-09-2007, 05:03 PM

Dr.Willy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vexorian

I am about to start a tool, but I really find unlikely that this tool does not exist yet, I mean , it is supposed to be very necessary...

Didn't Taurs Mapstudio aim to be just that (+Jasscraft)?
I dont know why it was abandoned, but as far as i know that was the only attempt to edit .w3o files outside Blizzard's WE.

10-09-2007, 05:26 PM	#9
Vexorian	The problem with Taurs Mapstudio is that it is an ego tool that only looks pretty and cannot save. And the guy who was making it just vanished from the surface of earth. And it wasn't really what it was aimed at, at least all what it currently does is showing scripts.