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world editor

  1. Ciandehx

    Edit model Help

    I am new and trying to edit this model, but I have this error.
  2. Caalanuaa

    My Map! Looking for help/suggestions and feedback

    Howdy! This is my current project and I would like to make this thread in order to share the progress with you guys and get some feedback about thins that I could be doing wrong/missing/leaking, etc. The project is a DotA-like map, with heroes and hero waves. For now, I have some basic...
  3. Masterbird

    [Import] World Editor; custom model not showing up?

    So I downloaded a custom model mod, but the model doesn't show up in the game? The strange thing is that the model shows up in the world editor, but not in the game. There's just a shadow where the model should be in the game. Anyone that can help me with this problem?
  4. SteEditing

    Reforged and world editor..

    Hello Everyone, After a long time I decided to return to warcraft 3 and I am happy to be back. At the moment however I have a hard time grounding myself when it comes to the world editor. I am using the reforged editor but am missing the custom editor of the past. Can someone give me insight...
  5. Death Adder

    [Solved] syntax highlighting and function list for 1.30 or 1.31

    Is there anything like JNGP for warcraft 3 patch 1.30+ ? (I don't use reforged but if there's one for that then feel free to mention it as well) When mapmaking I still use 1.27 just for JNGP, but I want to be able to use the new natives...
  6. Altruistic Anduin

    [Import] Can't Give Imported Assets Custom Paths

    I'm no longer able to give assets I've imported custom paths. Double-clicking the Full Path doesn't allow me to edit the field. However, I can edit File Name, Mode, Teen and Locale by double-clicking their columns. I tried to edit the path with 'Modify File Properties...' option but it just...
  7. Dispatcher

    Huge Bug in the World Editor

    Hello guys there is a mysterious bug in my friends World Editor he can't post it himself here because he is lazy as hell. We are making a map full of Custom Sound, Sound Effects, WOW Icons, Units and etc. And we were saving the map but there was an error saying can't save map to Worldedit.w3m...
  8. ZeroGravity

    Only Host disconnects from my map

    During loading screen, the one that hosts my map got disconnected for unknown reason and this happen 9 out of 10 times. I don't know why. I load in the singleplayer just fine but when trying on multiplayer, I myself also got disconnect (even when loading in alone for testing). If we host a full...
  9. Oriri Ire

    Strange model texture behaviour (depending on zoom)

    Hello everyone, i hope someone can help me. Im using newest Warcraft 3 Reforged. I created two custom models with Reteras Model Editor (used existing WC models and edited them). In the Model Studio the models look just fine. I Imported the model and corresponding Textures (also edited) into...
  10. ZeroGravity

    Spawn unit trigger leak

    I have been wondering. If I wanna spawn multiple units from 1 trigger, will these leak? Trigger 1 Testtt Events Time - Every 60.00 seconds of game time Conditions Actions Set VariableSet Point1 = (Center of (Playable map area)) Unit - Create 1 Footman for...
  11. ZeroGravity

    Need help with resurrect all dead ally heroes trigger?

    So I don't know where to start with this trigger. I do have resurrect one ally hero ability though which is this one. Hero Revive 1 Events Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability Conditions (Ability being cast) Equal to Death Negater (Revive Ability) Actions...
  12. newtype

    How to fix this

    Warcraft 3 Reforged
  13. Gall

    [Import] Atiesh (demon) warcraft 3 model

    Hey! One day when i was playing custom map in warcraft 3 i saw the Atiesh (Hand of Sargeras) model (this NPC from World of Warcraft) https://www.pngflow.com/en/free-transparent-png-owyuh And i cant find this model for wc3. Can someone send a link to this model? Its even possible to import...
  14. Amy_Belms

    Object Editor Error

    I got an error in the object editor and I don't know what to do! Does anyone know how to fix this?
  15. FSK

    How to activate a stand alterante animation?

    I tried putting 'stand alternate' in the string field for the 'Art--Required Animation Names' attribute for the object of interest (whose model has a 'stand alternate' animation I want to activate). Thanks.
  16. CAAentertainment

    Reducing World Editor Lag (Trigger Editor GUI)

    Hello, I'm currently working on the classic World Editor for 1.30.1 Warcraft 3. I do not wish to switch to the Reforged Editor at the time. My map is quite large, I've been working on it for close to ten years now. As it has grown, the editor has become slower and slower to work with that it has...
  17. demonsoflight

    Problem Starting up World Editor

    I bought myself a new tower computer, installed WC3 and i can't open The World editor. I can open the games reign of chaos and frozen throne. When i open world editor a smal invisible window pops up, where my mouse is trapped in. After a while of if i klick, the window disappears and nothing...
  18. JohnnyNeff

    World Editor - Line Tower Wars "Online Ranking System" Coding?

    Hello! I was playing Line Tower Wars and noticed they had a cool custom ranking system. This ranking system would save win/loss/score progress and reload it, when playing against other users on Battle.Net, making the game more competitive and seeing where you stack up amongst your peers. I was...
  19. Dispatcher

    World Editor Crash

    Hi guys i have a big problem here in my world editor i have downloaded a draenei archer model created by Ganondorf it contains the mdx,blp and the portrait i have imported them all in the import manager in world editor and change the path of the blp file from war3mapImported\DraeneiArcher.blp to...
  20. Macadamia

    ...then I found the automatic JASS to LUA converter.

    Hello there ! As some of you already know, especially as I often come here to ask for help when I am hitting difficulties, I am currently converting my map from Jass2 to Lua. I have gone quite far, and only a few functions remain problematic, not mentioning the upcoming hidden bugs I have not...
  21. Nortander

    [Trigger] Cyclic event

    Hi there! For a map of mine still in construction, I'd like some of the creeps to receive reinforcements everyday at midnight, if a player defeats them. I thought using the "Time is x" event would work, but it seems it only occurs on the first time the hour is midnight. Do you know how I can...
  22. HeuDevil

    World editor freezes when creating a unit.

    hello, im working on a map on warcraft 3 TFT, the program freezes when creating 1 single unit for 10 seconds, this problem also happens when renaming the unit, the program freezes for 10 seconds just to create a unit, my CPU is a bit old but i don't think thats the issue since the game is 18...
  23. Stormgoddd

    [Import] Import custom tilesets in reforged world editor

    I'am suprised noone else has asked this yet. How do I import custom tilsets in reforged? When I import a custom sand tileset and change the path of lets say ashen_dirt_diffuse.dds, ashen_dirt_normal.dds and ashen_dirt_orm.dds the result is (see below). I also tried to just change them one by...
  24. urachi

    [Import] Reforged - Channels and effects of audio files

    Can someone link or make a tutorial about those channels and effects you can choose for the audio files inside the W Editor? Some files get affected more than others and are not played correctly in game. Please help and clarify There are channels like: General, Music, Cinematic General There...
  25. Schmiki

    Warcraft 3 Reforged - Changing Tree texture

    Hello everyone, I was wondering if it is possible to change Reforged tree skins? What I want to do is to lower cityscape summer tree saturation and make it a bit darker. Using casc viewer I've extracted the _hd.w3mod cityscape tree dds files. I've extracted both...
  26. Macadamia

    [General] Simple Reforged WE questions for vJass EXPERTS

    Introduction I have now reached a point where I can't fix my map further as I can't find anyone with the knowledge to answer my non UI-related questions, I decided I should take the matter in my own hands. To do so, I think I need to forget about plain Jass and start converting my map into...
  27. urachi

    [General] Triggering - Hero gain size per level

    Hey lovely people, i am currently struggling on a simple trigger that would be: When a hero gets a level up, triggering hero gains 5% size. I know it is bloody easy but i just got stuck, please help me :xxd:
  28. IvoryHellflames

    [Solved] Reforged units: Adding/removing Heroglow

    Long time no see! I was one of those wanting reforged and, although there are... issues with how blizzard treated this community and the game I do enjoy returning to map editing and (aside from the facial animations being underwhelming) enjoy the new models at least and some of the upgrades...
  29. GlassHouseTahaa

    World Editor Assets Missing?

    Hi, I'll get straight to the point. My World Editor appears to be missing assets for multiple doodads and I am wondering if anyone else is having this problem or if it is just local to me. My Warcraft III is fully updated, I do not own Warcraft III: Reforged and my World Editor is set to...
  30. Xzere

    [Solved] Health Regeneration based on missing health

    Hello! Is there a way to make an ability for a unit that increases its health regeneration based on each 1% of its missing life? Thanks in advance.
  31. deepstrasz

    Concerns on the future of Reforged mapping

    So, I've been having this autistic chat with @Moonman (here: https://www.hiveworkshop.com/media/emerald-nightmare-preview-2-0.128950/#comment-98277) [he's doing a wonderful job, by the way, supreme programmer bless his soul] and I've come to the obvious realization that mapping Reforged will be...
  32. jainaproudmore

    World Editor keeps crashing on me

    Hi, I've been dealing some issues here. When I open World Editor, it keeps crashing like exiting on itself on 1.27b. World Editor also crashes too on Public Test version. I don't know what's causing it and I tried to uninstall the public version and delete 1.27b files too. I extract 1.21 back...
  33. Wayzz

    Is it not possible to use the new animations (ie walking, kneeling etc) from reforged in the WE?

    After playing through the campaign, I noticed there are obviously several new animations. But I cant seem to find them anywhere. I opened up the map in the WE and I notcied that the value for the animation was written like 'Kneeling '' etc. but I cant find any animation like that and cant find a...
  34. InsaneMonster

    [General] Tree animation missing in-game

    Hi everyone, I was playing around in the World Editor and noticed trees animations are actually there and showed up both inside model preview and when placed on the terrain itself. However, there is no way that I've found to make them play such animations in game. I am dumb or it's somehow bugged?
  35. lolreported

    [Crash] Clicking the doodads-tab in Object Editor crashes World Editor

    With the recent patch I just discovered a major problem with the map I'm making for the Mini Mapping Contest #16 - Mini RPG. As soon as I click on the Doodads-tab in the Object Editor my entire World Editor crashes. I can't remember if I looked at the Doodads-tab in the BETA, but my World...
  36. Tom_Almighty1

    Warcraft 3 Reforged (WORTH IT OR NOT)

    Guys I was wondering with all the disappointed fans out there. Is warcraft 3 reforged worth it or it the classic better? I have not purchased it because I am still deciding. Here are my concerns: 1. Graphics: I was expecting HD lighting and shadows like the one released in Blizzcon. Is it...
  37. ZeroGravity

    Trade System

    Hi, I wanna create a trade resource trigger for players in the same team, but I don't know where to start or how to do it so any guideline or trigger recommendation for this system? Thanks in advance!
  38. maxxxus

    tutorials in WE

    i think the coming WE patches (or reforged) should include several TUTORIAL series of each window of WE ("trigger window tutorial series", "AI window tutorial series", "vjass window tutorial series", "etc") and how to use each one of their triggers/commands/etc. adding an option that let you...
  39. posthumousturbo

    [General] Attachments Don't Work

    I want give weapon spear to wc2 ogre model from hiveworkshop. I write "right hand" and this don't work. I want use attachment on mephisto model from hiveworkshop, probably this unit not have origin attachment. Please write why this don't work? right hand (wc2 ogre texture), origin (on hero and...
  40. TastyBamboo

    Vision Tower triggers?

    I want to make a vision tower for my map that functions basically just like the xel naga vision tower from SC2. I have a flying fairie dragon right now that enters channel animation and gives 2200/2200 vision range. I got it to work when a unit owned by a player enters and it transfers...
  41. HellCEzAR

    Advanced World editor

    Greetings everyone, about 10 years ago i was in WE. And now, when reforged comes, i want to back to WE. But i find post about JNGP dont works now. Which WE i need to use to get more options than standart WE? Thx alot
  42. TastyBamboo

    Work flow as a team advice tooltip related

    Hello! I am working with a team on a map for their next update. Specifically all their tooltips need updating (for now). What is a good way to work on all the tooltips and give them the work? There are about 300 or more abilities to update. A moment ago I was given TTcreator to try, but I'm...
  43. Runoske

    [General] How to change the animation of a building?

    Good day, can you help? How to change the animation of a building? For example, to create a "necropolis" through the animation of creating a "tree of life"?
  44. BladeMaster3 (TVWK)

    Importing models and skins

    Farewell folks sorry to bother you but since i am a frickin noob with the WE well when for example i want to import the kargath custom model by augur well i import the mdx then i put the model on rexxar but it doesnt work so i put the blp on icon art and it still doesnt work i dont know how to...
  45. Ahalan Bessa Windson

    Get a random value from the unit attack range

    I want to get the attack range of a unit and make an action generating a random number from the unit attack range. Example: I have a footman with 15-42 attack range From that attack range i wanna generate a random integer from 15-42 without putting it manually on the values.
  46. Pokemanharald

    Problem with Custom abilities in new editor

    Not sure if this is the right forum for this but figured since it's related to the reforged editor i might as well try here. So i'm having a problem with custom abilities in the reforged editor. On the first screanshot here you can see the ability in the editor, it has a description, custom buff...
  47. ZeroGravity

    My map crashes when clicking on tavern

    So I was editing my map and testing stuffs then suddenly when I clicked on red, green or yellow tavern, my map crashes without any warning. I wonder why. The blue and orange taverns are fine though. I don't think it's my triggers and all my units are working fine. Any idea?
  48. Aleksandr

    How can I put external lua code into my map ?

    I want to put my custom war3map.lua file to the map. The initial goal is to create something like hot redeploy of lua script to the map while I'm working in World Editor. But once I replace generated war3map.lua on my custom one it does not work. Neither when WE is open nor it's closed. it...
  49. itsTrixyB11TCH

    Moving from region to region - help

    Hi, I've been trying to move spawned units from one region to the next region, through a for each loop. it doesn't seem to work since the unit stops at "T1 03 move2". I kinda figured out my looping is wrong, but I can't figure out how to do it properly. What I wanted was to get a "short"...
  50. ZeroGravity

    Need help with bonus xp trigger

    Hi, I wanna create a trigger that if a unit equips this item, he/she will gain bonus xp but mine seem to leak and cause lag so I need help here. There are 3 levels of this equipment so I separate its trigger to 3 but I think there might be a better way to do this? Any suggestion? Boots of...
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