[General] Extracting Victory/Defeat Conditions

[sniper_zero]

How do I extract the Victory/Defeat condition? I'd like to edit it so that "You will be revealed to all players if you don't build a Town Hall." message doesn't pop up.

And before anything else, no. Adding the custom hall to gameplay constants and editing its equivalencies won't fix the problem. That message only gets removed if you remove the Victory/Defeat condition :<

 

[Dr Super Good]

How do I extract the Victory/Defeat condition? I'd like to edit it so that "You will be revealed to all players if you don't build a Town Hall." message doesn't pop up.

It is done by the file "blizzard.j". Get this from the "War3Patch.mpq" in the Warcraft III install folder using a MPQ editor like MPQEdit. Modify the pure JASS file using any text editor or a tool like Jass Shop Pro or JASSCraft or whatever. Importing a custom "blizzard.j" file with the changes you made into the map should then work (as I know overwriting common.j using imports works so I only assume that will work as well).

You will need knowledge of JASS and it will likely add 100-200 kb to your map size.

The alternative is to extract the appropriate functions from blizzard.j and then bypass the standard melee defeat system completely with your own customized version of it. Again will require JASS knowledge but the result will be a much smaller map (since you are only including the functions you need instead of a copy of all the others). I would recommend doing this.

 

[sniper_zero]

Thanks! Are there other unrelated functions in the blizzard.j file?

Also what's the file path?

 

[aple]

There's already a modified version of the Victory/Defeat condition to include any structure that is a Town Hall for the reveal function.

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2378104-post50.html

If that's what you're wanting.

Having ANY structure that has the Town Hall classification will count for the player and make them not get revealed.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Thanks! Are there other unrelated functions in the blizzard.j file?

Yes, most GUI actions and function wrappers are declared in it. You could fix the leaks in a few of them if you wished.

Also what's the file path?

I do not know off the top of my head. It should be the same as in the other non-local MPQs which do have a listfile so you can use those to find it.

 

[sniper_zero]

There's already a modified version of the Victory/Defeat condition to include any structure that is a Town Hall for the reveal function.

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2378104-post50.html

If that's what you're wanting.

Having ANY structure that has the Town Hall classification will count for the player and make them not get revealed.

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