Hacking/Patching the Editor

[Tastingo]

Hey I was wondering if anyone had any experience with hacking/patching the editor. By this I mean like knowing how they made JNGP. I'm trying to alter the way the editor saves, so that it always saves as a W3M.

Why do I want to do this? Well I'm an RoC map maker and always have to convert my maps when I incorporate TFT editor features. Pretty much just putting the TFT mpq files + imports into a RoC map. I have a feeling I and a lot of other people that convert maps would save a lot of time if the editor just saved it as W3M.

So does anyone have any idea how to do this, or do you need me to explain further?

 

[Dr Super Good]

As far as I can tell, it involves worm like behaviour where you get a dummy program to run the WorldEdit.exe executable and then inject instructions into the virtual address space the editor uses.

 

[Tastingo]

Do you happen to know how hard it would be to change it so it always saves as a W3M? Or do you know someone that would know a little bit more about this if you don't?

Thanks for responding, I was afraid no one would reply .

 

[Dr Super Good]

If you mean just change the file extension, a string modification might be all that is needed. If you mean to change internal mechanics of the map archive then you will need code modifications.

 

[Adiktuz]

but I think it will work bad if you include TFT-only files on the map, as its not present on the RoC mpq...

 

[Dr Super Good]

A lot of TFT content is apparently backwards compatible such as custom objects and gameplay constants.

The problem are resources which are just missing without TFT.

 

[Tastingo]

Exactly and you can import most of those resources. Do you know anyone that might be able to help change the String extension?