eejin — Tool Reviewer

Just a heads up. I've updated https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/warcraft-spelling-checker.294837/ but for some reason the hive has repacked the zip in an odd way. It still runs, it just looks very unprofessional

Have a simple suggestion for HiveWE, add a string color generator from Warcraft 3.

Looking forward to the next version of HiveWE. : ]

Hey; figured I'd poke around in the HiveWE source a bit for the hell of it and see if I want to add anything. I'm new to both Windows and graphics dev (I mostly do scripting and algorithms stuff on OS X/Linux). After installing QT 5.10.1 and setting it up on the project it's failing to build on Win 10 with an error about a missing GLES2/gl2.h from within qopengl.h. Google isn't super helpful and I don't have that much patience to debug this (spent about 10 minutes and already losing interest), but any idea if there are some extra steps that are missing from the README that ought to have solved this?

Some nice and interesting stuff you are doing. Good work on the HiveWE.

Great job on the HiveWE. Keep it up!

In your terrain parsing code for tile/corner, you use int8_t instead of uint8_t. Are you sure that's not a mistake? It would mean the most significant bit is really just a +/- sign instead of data. See: https://github.com/stijnherfst/HiveWE/blob/master/HiveWE/Terrain.cpp

For the misc tile field, in your code you apply a bit mask to get the last 4 bits: corner.cliff_texture = (misc & 0xF0) >> 4; but then you do a right bit shift of 4. In your documentation I don't see why you are doing a bit shift on the last 4 bits. Can you explain? Doesn't this mean cliff texture will always a value between 0 and 15?

Hi, what is the 16th bit in "water_and_edge" in w3e used for? Is it always 0? According to your spec (and code), the 15h bit is whether the tile is on the map edge). Then in your code, you do the & of "water_and_edge" with 0x3FFF which just applies to the first 14 bits in binary: 0011 1111 1111 1111. Is the 16th bit used for anything?

Hello! I just learned about your great work breaking down the structure of Warcraft 3 map files and manipulating these programmatically. I am interested in be able to read terrain+doodad data from existing maps and then sample from this data to write new maps with new terrain+doodad data. I have a background in high level programming (Python, Java) and machine learning (which I want to use to generate new Warcraft 3 maps by learning from existing ones). Please let me know if there is any way I can help your work, and I may be coming to you for questions as I try to make use of your C++ repository.