Archian's Unfinished Projects

[Archian]

ALL I ASK IN RETURN IS THAT YOU TELL ME IF YOU USE ANYTHING FROM THESE PROJETS AND PLEASE TELL PEOPLE WHERE YOU GOT IT FROM

Hello community!

Since I started modding Warcraft 3 over 12 years ago, I've worked on or been a part of several projects with titles such as Dawn of Chaos, Flickering Light, Diablo 3 The Fallen Angel, Lands of Conflict, Fall of Argus, Dragon Wars, Moria: A journey through the Dark, Battle for Middle Earth, The Black Book, etc. etc.

Most of these projects was never finnished. But it's a shame to let all those years of work go to waste.
Thusly I've made the decision to make my unfinnished projects open source. Some of these projects include resources that has never been released before.

I will update this thread with more projects as I find them on my harddrive.

Stay tuned! Map downloads will be added soon!


Fall of Argus: - DOWNLOAD PROLOGUE - DOWNLOAD EREDAR01

Moria: A Journey through the Dark - DOWNLOAD

The Black Book

Diablo 3: The Fallen Angel - DOWNLOAD (The latest version of the map was lost many years ago. This version was the last version to survive.
It misses lots of assets and scripts, but does contain a good amount of resources. Also, please note that all triggers & scripts had to be removed in order to open the map.)

Diablo 1 - DOWNLOAD

Battle for Middle Earth

Lands of Conflict

and more!

 

[Stefan.K]

Do you still have those models I made for you for the Argus project?

 

[Archian]

I think so

Added Downloads for Moria and Fall of Argus

 

[Shar Dundred]

From the screens, this looks outstanding!
Think I'll give the maps a try when I have the time.

 

[Archian]

Thank you. Most maps aren't really playable. It's mostly terrain and assets imports.

 

[Hawkwing]

What interesting timing. I was just having a look through your media when I noticed the link to this thread in your signature! It's too bad you didn't have an opportunity or the interest to finish these projects, but I am glad you've chosen to share them. Thanks, Archian!

 

[tulee]

By unfinished, do you mean you won't continue them, or you are just making them open source so people can use the assets now because finishing them might take a long time?

Fall of Argus was unique because no other campaign had tried to tell a story in that kind of a timeline (eredar initial contact with Sargeras).

Anyway, thanks for uploading.

 

[Archian]

I probably won't continue working on them anymore, so anybody is welcome to pick up where I left off or put the assets to good use

Also, thank you for your kind words people!

 

[deepstrasz]

Thank you Archian, you are doing a great service to our community!

 

[Kyrbi0]

I agree. This is the kind of thing I've made a 'living' doing (see sig.); researching & archiving old dead mods to preserve their work, their assets, and their legacy for future generations of modders.

But oh how much better is it when someone who worked on the mod themselves provides all that stuff, instead of letting dorks like me sift through the sands of time to find a few nuggets of wisdom & coolness? It's Pretty Dang Great.

So thanks. : )

 

[Whitewolf8]

Oh wow, thank you for doing this! It's always a shame when things just die and are forgotten, seeing even just bits and pieces of something is way better than nothing.

 

[Kyrbi0]

is THAT the FRICKIN' ALPHA "TREE OF WOE" model???

Oh My Goodness.

 

[Linaze]

Great! I'll go through some of these when I have an hour to spare.

However I hope this does not mean the end of your modding journey though?

 

[Archian]

is THAT the FRICKIN' ALPHA "TREE OF WOE" model???

Oh My Goodness.

Yes, nice observation

However I hope this does not mean the end of your modding journey though?

Nawh, I have something else up my sleeve. Who knows. I might continue working on some of these projects.

Added Diablo 1 test map.
Also, my map titled Diablo 3: The Fallen Angel seems to be corrupted This was the reason why the project ended all those years ago. And none of the team members have an older version anymore. All the files were lost. Except this one which I can't open it in the World Editor anymore.

If anybody can help with this it would be much appreciated.

 

[deepstrasz]

If anybody can help with this it would be much appreciated.

I had to remove the triggers as there was one that didn't let the map be loaded.

 

[Archian]

I still can't open it.

 

[deepstrasz]

I still can't open it.

It works for me on 1.31.1.
What patch are you running?
Here's a re-saved version on 1.31.1. The one I posted above wasn't re-saved. I just removed the trigger files with Ladik's MPQ editor.

 

[Archian]

Thanks. I was really hoping that all the triggers and scripts could somehow be saved. It was the last map to survive. It makes me sad to think of how much progress was lost when we lost the latest version of the map many years ago.

But it's nice to see some of the work again after all these years.

This version of the map contains part of the Leoric's throne. I wish I had the latest map. It WAS AWESOME!

 

[deepstrasz]

This version of the map contains part of the Leoric's throne. I wish I had the latest map. It WAS AWESOME!

Try an HDD recovering program

About the triggers, I don't know, maybe someone experienced in the intricacies of Warcraft III files could help. I asked Drake53. Maybe he can do something. If not, there others like Retera. Zwiebelchen et al. and others I don't know at all.

EDIT:
@Archian the script can be kept but not in the GUI form for some reason as IsUnitOwnedByPlayer seems to crash the editor:

Spoiler

It's true that the word is found two times in the .wtg (trigger data) file while once in the .j (script) file.
Deleting them from the .wtg file will make the editor crash still but without giving that error.
Well, I think I need to edit the .wtg file with notepad++ or something. It might be because I'm using the usual notepad. However, there's some complication with saving the file. To what format?
OK, if you modify the file you can just use Save instead of Save As. But removing those still makes the map crash.

Maybe @Tasyen or @GhostWolf could help
WEU,WE,JNPG Problem

 

[Archian]

Try an HDD recovering program

I'm afraid that ship has sailed long time ago. I don't even have the same PC anymore.

It would be neat to have the scripts work, so at least some of the effort can be salvaged.

 

[Lt_Hawkeye]

Turns out that one that trigger error was a weu function, after running through ghostwolf's weu fixer, it was openable in the JNGP Lua by trigger happy.

 

[deepstrasz]

Turns out that one that trigger error was a weu function, after running through ghostwolf's weu fixer, it was openable in the JNGP Lua by trigger happy.

Great. Thanks!

 

[Archian]

Excellent! Thank you

 

[Xelos]

thanks you for sharing stuff from your old project with community. i see then you post pictures from black book, i remeber a long time ago that project, thought it was Whitehorn project, Nevermind , can you please post resource from that old project too ?

 

[OutsiderXE]

Tried to open the Eredar maps but "Level info data missing or invalid". Using 1.31 PTR.

 

[Archian]

Warcraft 3 has a lot of issues these days that still havn't been fixed by Blizzard. I'm sure that error is because of Blizzard.

 

[deepstrasz]

@Clanzion can/will you do the same for the other maps please? It seems most if not all of them have the same loading issue.

EDIT: the maps can be opened in the 1.32+ editor.
@Archian @OutsiderXE

 

[tulee]

EDIT: the maps can be opened in the 1.32+ editor.

Lmao. A testament to how buggy 1.31 is if it cannot even open something.

 

[deepstrasz]

Lmao. A testament to how buggy 1.31 is if it cannot even open something.

I don't think it's just about 1.31. Haven't tried it on other patches. The issue might be that the maps were edited with some other off-label editor.
Regardless, you cannot expect an update that brings something while taking something and then to go with it.

 

[Whitewolf8]

I don't think it's just about 1.31. Haven't tried it on other patches. The issue might be that the maps were edited with some other off-label editor.
Regardless, you cannot expect an update that brings something while taking something and then to go with it.

And well... Apparently Reforged and 1.32 added/redid/removed a bunch of stuff. It wouldn't exactly seem surprising that trying to open it with any version lower woudn't work.

 

[tulee]

Regardless, you cannot expect an update that brings something while taking something and then to go with it.

I was more critiquing 1.31 itself, rather than all patches lower than 1.32.

 

[OutsiderXE]

@Clanzion can/will you do the same for the other maps please? It seems most if not all of them have the same loading issue.

EDIT: the maps can be opened in the 1.32+ editor.
@Archian @OutsiderXE

So uhm... someone needs to export that stuff to be available for all versions

 

[deepstrasz]

I was more critiquing 1.31 itself, rather than all patches lower than 1.32.

As I wrote, I didn't try it with other versions, lower than 1.31.1... so until we know that those can open the maps, then you can't assume it's a 1.31 bug...

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EDIT:
@OutsiderXE I used Map Adapter and voila.

 

[hemmedo]

@deepstrasz Can you do the same for 1.30 please? I really don't wanna go beyond that to be honest

 

[deepstrasz]

Can you do the same for 1.30 please? I really don't wanna go beyond that to be honest

Well, I get an error trying to adapt to 1.29. There's no 1.30 in that program:

• Found incompatible identifier: 'CAMERA_FIELD_NEARZ' (6x)
• Found incompatible identifier: 'CAMERA_FIELD_LOCAL_PITCH' (6x)
• Found incompatible identifier: 'CAMERA_FIELD_LOCAL_YAW' (6x)
• Found incompatible identifier: 'CAMERA_FIELD_LOCAL_ROLL' (6x)

If @Drake53 has any idea how to bypass that.

 

[Drake53]

Well, I get an error trying to adapt to 1.29. There's no 1.30 in that program:

• Found incompatible identifier: 'CAMERA_FIELD_NEARZ' (6x)
• Found incompatible identifier: 'CAMERA_FIELD_LOCAL_PITCH' (6x)
• Found incompatible identifier: 'CAMERA_FIELD_LOCAL_YAW' (6x)
• Found incompatible identifier: 'CAMERA_FIELD_LOCAL_ROLL' (6x)

If @Drake53 has any idea how to bypass that.

NearZ is compatible with 1.30 so you can ignore that warning. The other three can be deleted.

 

[deepstrasz]

NearZ is compatible with 1.30 so you can ignore that warning. The other three can be deleted.

Deleted everything and I get this in the editor:

They work ingame though.

 

[hemmedo]

1.30 is literally the only decent/stable patch pre-reforged and it wasn't included in that thing:/

Though I only need the terrain and the object data. Maybe those deprotection programs can do the trick?

 

[OutsiderXE]

1.30 is literally the only decent/stable patch pre-reforged and it wasn't included in that thing:/

Though I only need the terrain and the object data. Maybe those deprotection programs can do the trick?

If you mean the eredar stuff, check out the post above yours^^

 

[hemmedo]

Yeah but it still doesn't open in WE.

 

[deepstrasz]

@Drake53 it think it's because of this

Deleting that still brings up that error I posted earlier. It works for 1.31.1 though...

 

[Drake53]

1.30 is literally the only decent/stable patch pre-reforged and it wasn't included in that thing:/

Map Adapter

@Drake53 it think it's because of this
View attachment 366739

Deleting that still brings up that error I posted earlier. It works for 1.31.1 though...

Fixed the 'unadaptable' bug in v0.7.0

 

[hemmedo]

Fixed the 'unadaptable' bug in v0.7.0

'User defined variable conflicts with generated variables'

then crashes again...but I saw some progress when it tried to open it this time

 

[deepstrasz]

'User defined variable conflicts with generated variables'

Can confirm

Even if I remove the script.

 

[Drake53]

Can confirm
View attachment 366768
Even if I remove the script.

This is caused by the war3map.wtg file (trigger data), which my program cannot handle (yet). It has a new file format since 1.31, so it's not compatible with 1.30

 

[hemmedo]

Forget it guys, gave up and jumped to 1.31. It's been a long time coming anyway.

I expected the Argus map to be bigger though

 

[Moises08x]

: goblin_yeah:: goblin_yeah:

 

[Kyrbi0]

Hey so I was gonna send the custom alpha Tree of Woe model to someone & I realized I don't actually have it. I Searched the Hive & found it here... but there's no link to the Black Book thing that has that screenshot?

 

[Archian]

Hey so I was gonna send the custom alpha Tree of Woe model to someone & I realized I don't actually have it. I Searched the Hive & found it here... but there's no link to the Black Book thing that has that screenshot?

I'll add the map this weekend

 

[Kyrbi0]

I'll add the map this weekend