[Solved] Bloated custom abilities

[Crowller]

Greetings !
Perhaps I am completely stupid, that is to be considered, but I encounter quite a problem with the editor right now.

The context is that I have used the editor in the original WC3, and I were pretty good at using it. However, since Warcraft 3 : Reforged, I happen to have a recurrent problem concerning the abilities.
When I try to create a new ability (in this case, a derivative of Flame Strike, the AOE damage spell of the Blood mage hero), the whole thing ends up bloated with useless, and irrelevant data. To make it clearer, here is a screenshot of what I'm talking about.

Here is a screenshot of the Flame Strike ability. Everything is clear and works well ! Note how the scroll bar is large, and shows that the ability has only few lines.

Now, let's take a look at Phage Strike (my custom ability), that I have just created, using the "New ability" button. Note that the problem is the same when I try to copy/paste an ability.

Note how new, irrelevant, useless and bloating lines have appeared, and how the scroll bar is now at the smallest, showing how many unreadable lines have appeared.

As said, I might be stupid, but this problem never happened to me in the previous version of the editor, and I am not sure if it is normal, and if there is a way to make it disappear. Currently, all I can do is try to see in the original ability which fields exist or not, and it is a hell to work like this.

Does someone have a solution ?

 

[Uncle]

I would reinstall or something. For the majority of people the editor has been working fine since the release of Reforged.

Are you sure you're not doing anything odd? Are you launching the Editor from the Bnet client?

 

[Crowller]

I think that I have isolated the problem.
When I edit a map outside a campaign, it works just fine.
However, if I open my campaign, use "Edit map" on the map I wish to edit, and then create abilities, it suddenly "stops" working, creating bloated abilities like the example above.
I suppose I could just create all my maps independently and then join them together in the campaign, but it would be very messy, considering the fact that there is an object editor especially made for shared data through the campaign...

An idea of the origin of this problem ? I am far from being an expert in how Blizzard do their development.
And, could someone tell me if it's my campaign, or if the problem appears as soon as a map is opened through the campaign editor ?

 

[Dr Super Good]

I think object data during gameplay is stored in some kind of database. As such it supports all those fields for every ability, even if the ability logic does not use them. The way WorldEditor filters out unused fields must be broken when campaign object data is loaded.

 

[Daffa]

This has been an issue with making map abilities for maps inside a campaign. This is why the way of handling campaigns involves either having to use the Campaign Object Editor, or use object editor files and have the map edited outside of campaign documents then imported in.

 

[Crowller]

All right, thanks for all of your answers !
I will put this post as "Solved", as people with the same issue should find satisfactory explanations here ^^

 

[Crowller]

I think object data during gameplay is stored in some kind of database. As such it supports all those fields for every ability, even if the ability logic does not use them. The way WorldEditor filters out unused fields must be broken when campaign object data is loaded.

By the way, it is a very lame way to do it... I mean, I am a developer myself, and I would never imagine doing this XD
Blizzard surely has surprising ways of working.