Delete World-Editor only data

[pr114]

I'm trying to optimize/protect my map. Normally I have used Vexorian's optimizer for this, but unfortunately it does not work with lua. I could not find the right settings to make it work.

Now I want to delete some data manually from the map file using a MPQ editor.

I can't really find anywhere which files I'm supposed to remove.
I believe it should be some of the 'war3map' files?

Also, I would like to remove the listfile. Can this only be done with MPQ master?
And can the attributes file be removed too?

Would be grateful for some insight.

 

[TriggerHappy]

You can add a dummy war3map.j to your map to get it to parse properly in vexorian's optimizer. You can also use Frotty's optimizer or w3x2lni.

But, wtg, w3c, w3r, and wct should all be safe to delete.

 

[pr114]

Thanks for all these pointers! In the end I went with w3x2lni. I didn't know the convert to slk basically does this.

There does seem to be a few quirks I immediately notice:
-The research icon from 'Attribute Bonus' turned into Devotion Aura
-The precision of ability research tooltips changed to zero (so instead of: 'critical strike deals 1.5 times damage', it is now 'critical strike deals 1 times damage'.

I hope the format is otherwise safe and nothing major breaks.