Custom MPQ

[PurgeandFire]

When you add a file or create folders with files in them, those changes also have to be made within the listfile.

If Ladik's MPQ editor doesn't work out for you, I would try using an alternative editor:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/tools-560/mpq-master-v1-2-0-a-62935/
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/tools-560/winmpq-v1-64-a-62969/

 

[Chaosy]

Yes, you can.

No clue why it wont reappear for you.

 

[Kaien Shiba]

Thanks for the advice Chaosy and PurgeandFire.. I am a noob on this things

 

[Kaien Shiba]

What to do on list file things?

 

[Kaien Shiba]

Am I suppose to rewrite the list file to make my imported files in mpq appear? It doesn't work on both tools.. Please help

 

[Paillan]

Am I suppose to rewrite the list file to make my imported files in mpq appear? It doesn't work on both tools.. Please help

Stop spamming please. No, what you need to do is edit the list file, using notepad++ for example.

 

[Kaien Shiba]

Sorry for spamming.. Im a noob on this things just trying to learn something in this tutorial.. Sorry .

 

[Dion King]

Chaosy how about the icons? Well i use this kind of way but it does not work.

 

[Chaosy]

Same method as the model. Import the icon into the MPQ, then just use the path in the editor.
(though it could also use the skin method if you want to avoid the green icon bug)

 

[Dion King]

It works Thanks !

 

[Kyrbi0]

So does this still work with the new patches & the file migration & such?

 

[Chaosy]

I have not tested it to be honest. It should still work though, I do not see why not.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Well believe me I want to believe it does too. But I'm led to understand that with the newest/er patches, Blizzard moved the MPQs away into the Blizzard launcher thing (and/or turned them into "CASC"s), which would mean locally replacing the MPQs with custom ones (via SEMPQ or anything else) won't work. :<

But I'd love to be wrong on that one.

 

[Chaosy]

They did the same with WoW, but those CASCs file are still open-able, jus needed a different program I think.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Well, as the Tutorial Author, I bow to your experience; let me know. : )

 

[Chaosy]

Well, I am rocking 1.28 and I find MPQ files in my wc3 directory.
I read somewhere that you cannot use modified MPQ files over battle.net because of some sort of check.

However, I do not remember where I saw it being written. @Kam might know.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Well, I am rocking 1.28 and I find MPQ files in my wc3 directory.
I read somewhere that you cannot use modified MPQ files over battle.net because of some sort of check.

Ok, they're in the directory, but can you replace them (locally first) & have everything work right?

 

[Chaosy]

Works for me locally, tried with an icon just now.

 

[Dion King]

Chaosy I have another problem here. Is I can import icons into war3mpq, but when I use it as a icon for my spell in world editor and i pause the game then i see green colors icon appear. Even i had import the BTN and DISBTN icons

 

[Chaosy]

Because the path is not correct.
Similarly to a skin, an icon need to be imported to the correct path in order to avoid that bug.

There should be various tutorials and threads that ask this question, should be easy enough for you to find.

 

[Dion King]

Ah I have solve the problems. Sorry for late reply cause i was busy during the Chinese New Year.

 

[Dion King]

Well I was to importing resource into mpq files to help reduce the map size and i did not want to edit any files that belongs to mpq.
I have a few question here:

1. Can we edit the files mpq files inside the mpq? if cant then why?
2. I only want to import resource into mpq files only, so will there be any consequence?
3. After I had import(not edit) the files into the mpq and use it in my map, can i still play online? Such as garena and battle net.
4. Anyone who download my map at internet will they only can play on lan only or online?

(I just want to ask to confirm only, because I heard about other said do not touch the mpq files.)

 

[Chaosy]

1. Yes. Extract and then edit. Then import and overwrite
2. Well you force users to downloan an mpq with default files they already have. But other than that, no.
3. As far as I know, yes.
4. See 3

 

[Dion King]

O ho ho GRAZIE !

 

[raypack]

Hello... @Chaosy I need your help, direly!
How may I change the unit stats such as gold cost in the mpq editor?
I just want it for the campaigns.
I changed the night elf archer cost to 160 from 150 in the Custom_V0 UnitBalance.slk file and the game crashes when I load a campaign map that uses the night elf archer unit (presumably all campaign missions?).
I changed it in the War3.mpq and nothing happened (no change in gold cost) so I changed the file in the War3x.mpq and then it's when the game crash...
Weird because I've for example replaced a footman model (again from the TFT mpq, ROC mpq basically does nothing when I make changes).

I'm on patch 1.29.2

Your help will be divine...

 

[Chaosy]

You don't.

You can change unit stats in the campaign editor. The reason to use a MPQ is to avoid the map file size limit and changing stats does not impact map size. Not to mention if your map is of a recent-ish patch the map size limit is increased or removed, I don't remember exactly.

 

[raypack]

Oof okay.
I have no problem just changing the campaigns UI text file to load my custom edits of the missions.
I just make a campaign and then export each map and all the data and then import it back into that map.
I even managed to add 2 extra missions to the ROC Human campaign.
The missions don't show tho but can be accessed either through the "motherland" cheat or when clicking the "Continue Playing" button after winning the mission.

I wonder if it's gonna work with the "Show custom game button" trigger (to show the new missions).
Presumably not because the missions are just in a normal folders inside the Maps folder that is just named Campaigns and not in an actual campaign file (w3n).
But I need to test it...

I will edit this comment with the result, since it may be very useful to others reading this thread.

Edit: the trigger "show custom game/campaign" button does not work, as expected...

Just 1 more thing @Chaosy:
So I can edit all the files in the mpq except for the slk ones?