W3 Compatibility

Sorry for this basic question, i'm new to W3Mapping but not to programming.
I wanted to know if RtC maps are compatible with non-RtC maps.. I mean, do I have to include RtC distributable along with my maps?

No, they aren't compatible - if you used any of our custom natives, then people must have RtC installed in order to play your map.

Will it be possible to add a feature which prevents this and disables all the implemented natives? It would make the map playable both on battle.net and using RtC then.

Originally Posted by SFilip

No, they aren't compatible - if you used any of our custom natives, then people must have RtC installed in order to play your map.

Thanks for the reply

There's a feature that allows dual war3map.j's in maps, it's not something we have documented yet, but using that feature it should be easily possible to have a map that works both on regular wc3 and RtC wc3.

Originally Posted by MindWorX

There's a feature that allows dual war3map.j's in maps, it's not something we have documented yet, but using that feature it should be easily possible to have a map that works both on regular wc3 and RtC wc3.

Interesting... But anyway keep up the good work!

> to have a map that works both on regular wc3 and RtC wc3.
"Works" is not the right word - having maps with two different .j files will cause an instant desync so the only purpose will be to defeat the players who don't have RtC injected on map initialization.