It all started about 5 years ago, when I was 9 years old. I loved wc3 as a game, and I used to play it a lot just on single player melee and campaigns. I was so crap, however, that I never could get past the first few levels of the orc campaign (on easy difficulty), and I was really happy the day I managed to beat a hard computer
. One day, I was going to open wc3 through Start -> Program Files and discovered something I had never noticed before -- 'World Editor'. Wow, I thought! You can EDIT the game??!! I immediately opened it up, and I saw a blank map in front of me.
At first, I didn't have a clue how to do anything. I started fiddling around with some things like the terrain editor, then I discovered the unit panel. I also found the button called 'Test Map' and clicked it to see what it would do. To my surprise (and delight), Warcraft III opened up, and my little patch of grass with a footman on it was there! I was a natural
.
From then on, I began to explore the various facets of the World Editor. I found the button 'Object Editor' and clicked it, and was presented with a sheet of words and numbers that meant nothing to me. To the left, I noticed the unit tree, which contained all the units I had been placing on the map earlier. I clicked on footman (I liked the footman
) and the values on the right changed! After looking at them with some confusion for a while, I finally began to deduce what some of them meant.
I saw 'Stats - Max Health" and clicked on it. It was highlighted but nothing remarkable seemed to happen. I clicked it again. Nothing happened. In my frustration, I clicked it over and over until finally a chance fast double click made a box appear with a number in it and some control arrows. At that point unaware that you could click this and
type something in, I pressed the up arrow and the number got bigger! I held it down until I was bored, and the number had risen to about 20,000. I pressed OK and the number next to 'Stats - Max Health' had changed! YES!
By this point, I was aware that you could change the player that owns the units you place. I made one of these uber-footmen for me and made a knight for the computer. I tested the map, and my footman's health didn't appear to be showing. WTF? I made him attack the enemy knight to experiment, and he killed it slowly, but didn't seem to take any damage himself. I had made my footman invulnerable! (or so I thought)
As I played around with the object editor, I found a hero unit -- the Archmage. I made him have a scale of about 50 and placed him on the map. He was HUGE! I increased his stats until I had the best hero
evar, then put him in the middle of a melee map. He slaughtered everything. I thought I was so amazing to be able to do that. I spent ages making all sorts of heroes, from giant sheep to tiny Pit Lords. I wasted maybe a month of my life like this.
Eventually, I discovered the trigger editor. I was very confused. I though events were actions and vice versa and I had no f*cking clue what conditions did. But alas, I was saved -- I discovered WarChasers! I slowly learned triggering from that until I knew enough to experiment and learn by myself. This was about the time I discovered TheHelper.net, with its amazing World Editor Tutorials! They taught me what I couldn't learn by myself, such as what leaks are and how to avoid them.
I made my way to wc3sear.ch, too, as this site was then, and learnt more from that. I loved the vast amounts of amazing models and triggers and spells by other people that I could find there. It was way better than The Helper. One day, wc3sear was gone! GONE! In its place was this stupid new site, HiveWorkshop.com
. Soon, however, I learned that The hive was in fact, better than wc3sear, and also discovered the forums. I could ask for help now!
And so I became an amateur triggerer of the hive, then under the name of 'Bubba Ex'. I made a few systems and spells and a minimap in GUI(which all got rejected
), before discovering JASS. I learned JASS slowly, the concepts were hard for me at first, but I got there eventually. Now I found Silvenon's Knockback tutorial, and I learned vJass easily (by this time I been dabbling in C++ outside of wc3). I offered to help a few people in some projects, and got added to the team, but then became bored of wc3 for a while, and I went unactive. When I wanted to come back to the hive, I felt I had let some people down, so I made a new account so no-one would know what I had done
. I had barely any posts or rep anyway, and I wasn't well-known, so making a new account didn't set me back in any way.
In my new account (Element of Water), I began being awesome, and that is how I still am today
. The end.
(Woah, that got a lot longer than I expected/thought
)
