Retera — Tool Reviewer

Yeah a blizzard employee suggested it was better if I didn't share the video because it suggested in the video that it was easy to upgrade the game, which he said was untrue. Also he felt the tone of the video was anti blizzard because it was posed as me proving I could edit my own remake of the Object Editor to allow custom folders in 10 minutes, rather than me saying something constructive to Blizzard. He was kind of right and also Blizzard always wins.

I figured it was better if I respected his point if view; so, I deleted the video.

Blizzard can't take a joke and ultimately you also.

Okay thanks. File saved, will investigate

Any findings?

I will take a look soon when I have time, possibly tonight. I would like to believe I can find the issue, no matter what it is.

Hey, I sat down to look at this today but realized the pastebin was closed and I hadn't saved a local copy. Is there any chance you could link it to me again?

Yes :)

Yeah. That video was one where I spent 2 hours coding some JASS that I was talking to someone about. After the video went down, they also asked not to be associated with the video, because I did not ask them to include their name in it.
So maybe I'll make a different one later, but that one is a no-go now.

Yeah, would be good. I just wish I had 20% more code done before I published anything, so that I had the software that I wanted, first. But I probably should stop waiting around hoping for that to happen -- and make it happen.

My icon is the official Sheep Reforged, though :P

But has no Claus, does it?

Nope, I missed my chance

In concept it sounded cool, but I can't shake the feeling that it won't last long if there is a community shift towards playing Reforged next year.
With that said, you aren't the first person to link this to me. I read the description but I'm still a little curious about what all it is actually doing. Perhaps I should take a deeper look -- maybe this weekend. Achieving Widescreen on 1.26 would be no small feat, wouldn't it? It would have to include Console05 and Console06 textures. Does that really work?

I have written a gigantic post as a reply to the thread starter.
I do not think this project will go very far.

There is already a working widescreen patch both for RoC and TFT, and it is a great one

Please see my contributions in these two threads:
- https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/help-to-combine-wc3-ver-1-26-with-editor-compilation.305414/
- https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/warcraft-3-engine-upgrade.305541/

What could be done:
- update the Camera hack for the RoC Campaign
- update the GameDll_fix_mapsize_limit to support 256MB maps (like Blizzard silently already does)
- update the MSS library to 7.2g (if there are no adverse effects).
- (dirty hack) tweak the logo mdx files for various screen ratios by using localfiles
- (dirty hack) tweak the four cursor mdx files for various screen ratios by using localfiles
- make Warcraft 3 v1.26a able to use more than 2GB RAM on 32-bit OSes (tough!)
- (dirty hack) loading screens stretched to 4:3 the way Blizzard currently does it
- implement the code by TriggerHappy for transparent UI (cf War3Loader v2)
- implement more natives in the same way TriggerHappy did (cf War3Loader v2)

There was some more stuff that we intended to add, however somehow Spellbound and I seem to have both been totally forgetting to coordinate to make it happen. Would you want an as-is bundle? I can double check with Spellbound if that is a good idea. Maybe we should just do that

It could be awesome if they come into bundles separately. :) I wonder when will that be hehe

Somehow we still never published this. Maybe soon

yeah man, i keep my code on https://github.com/Retera/JWC3 for the world :)

Okay. Are you willing to send me the model in a private message or do you want me to walk you through trying to find a solution? Sometimes with the older version of the Matrix Eater, if I convert to MDL with MdlxConv and back to MDX with MdlxConv it will fix a bug introduced into the MDX by a Matrix Eater formatting issue. I have fixed the source of these bugs on my latest version but many people still have the version that adds the bug to models. It is one possible problem that could cause this. It might not be the problem you have.

i will send u the model and the skins via private msg, it would be great if you could tell me, if it is smth diffrent, what it was and how u fixed it so that i dont need to bother u with that again xD

Yeah. Use this tool on the model file:
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/mdx-pather.62978/

It will show paths like "Units\Voidspawn\HeroMawOfOblivion\NameOfTexture.blp" and you can click it, change it to "NameOfTexture.blp" and push save. Then when you import it, it should work if you change "war3mapImported\NameOfTexture.blp" to "NameOfTexture.blp" in the Import Manager.

Thanks a lot, I could not do this for a long time.

Can I change the paths? I would just like to leave them without Textures/ or whatever.
I mean, the program allows me to delete/rename stuff there.

Yeah all my content is pretty much all derivative works of Blizzard Entertainment; I believe deriving works from them had a tremendous beneficial impact on my life. I would never want to stop someone from making derivative works of Wc3 models I make. I believe everyone should be able to enjoy the game as I did, and modifying the Maw of Oblivion falls in that category.

The Maw of Oblivion was made many years ago almost entirely in Notepad++ and Oinkerwinkle's tools before I created my own model editing software. But hopefully someday it will be a sample of what is possible with a few minutes with good software.

Coolio.