How to [download | install | configure] JNGP

[Anachron]

Edit by Purge:

Note: You can avoid a lot of stress just by downloading from this link instead:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/tools-560/jassnewgenpack-5d-227445/

Please check out the troubleshooting section before downloading. Make sure your antivirus is configured so that you will have a proper download and patch your Warcraft 3 to 1.26.

Actual tutorial:


For the 100th time this year I have to tell a guy how to probably download, install and configure JNGP In order to make it work. So I wrote this short tutorial to not have to answer it every time again and again.

• Requirements
• Download
• Install
• Update JASSHelper
• Configure
• Using
• Settings
• Misc

Requirements​

• Windows or windows emulator
• Latest Version of Warcraft III.

Download​

Open this url, download the JNGP file.
Alternative: JNGP 5d with JassHelper 0.A.2.B.

Install​

Extract it anywhere you want.

Update JASSHelper​

Open this url, download the JassHelper file.
Extract the content.
CnP this three files:

• clijasshelper.exe
• jasshelper.conf
• jasshelper.exe

, go to the JassNewGenPack folder, open it, and copy it into the subfolder "jasshelper" and click yes to overwrite.

Configure​

Open JNGP. (For that, you need to open "NewGen WE.exe"
If your antivir program does block something, set it to the exception list! This is not a virus, even if it may seem like it for antivirus!

Check the menu. Click on Reinventing the Craft, check the box "Disable RtC".
Close the JNGP instantly.

Open JNGP again, now you can use it with vJASS support.

Using​

To open the map, simply open it in the menu or with CTRL + O.
To save the map, please use Menu - Save (CTRL + S).
To save the map under a new name, press save as and then press save (CTRL + S) again!

If you edit your map (anything, while this can be scrolling in the trigger editor aswell) you can NOT play the map!
You have to save it again with CTRL + S in order to testplay it!

Settings​

Please make sure the settings of your JNGP match the following:



When saving for real version please uncheck "Debug Mode" in JassHelper menu.

Misc​

Grimoire

[X] Start War3 with -window
If enabled opens Warcraft III in a window when testplaying maps.
This does NOT change the normal Wc3 startup.

[ ] Start War3 with -opengl
If you enable this you will use OpenGL (GraphicFormat).
This is only useful when you know what you do.

[X] Enable TESH
Like a theme manager.

[X] Enable Colorizer
If you want to choose your own colors for coding, you can
enable it here.

[ ] Enable No limits
Removes the World Editor limits.
For example the 8000 doodad limit will be removed and you
will be able to place more doodads!

[X] Enable object editor hack
Allows you to put in field values that are normally not valid
for the WE.

[X] Disable default description nag
If you go save a map in normal WE and you haven't changed name from "Just anther warcraf 3 map" Then a dialog pops up, letting you know that you haven't.
This disables/enables that dialog.
Thanks to Cweener for this answer.

[X] Don't let WE disable triggers.
When your trigger has one or more invalid actions WorldEditor normally
disables it. You can prevent the WE from doing so here.

[X] Always allow trigger enable.
Same for above, but this time you are able to enable it.

[X] Mute Editor Sounds
You can mute the sounds here. I find it more annoying to
have sounds in the world editor. Listen to music instead.

[X] Disable First Save Warning
The WE pops up a little annoying message that you are saving the
map for the first time. You can disable it here.

 

[karland90]

btw for users of AVG: avg has 2 different lists of exceptions. one for pup (potentially unwanted program) and one for resident shield. i had trouble with it, so i added the files to both exception lists, just to be sure

 

[Anachron]

Updated.

 

[Dynasti]

Done everything this post tells me to do. Doesn't work

 

[Anachron]

What exactly doesn't work? Tell me what you do and what it does.

 

[karland90]

same here. updated and tested :S

 

[Anachron]

Can you please elaborate everything you did? ^^

 

[karland90]

i made a copy of your map to my desktop.
opened it up in the NewGenWE.exe.
moved one of the trees in map.
pressed CTRL+S
got this error:

Hidden

EDIT: how can i have map version 0.1.Y.3?? you have uploaded y.2

 

[Anachron]

I mean the installation of JNGP t the point you get the errors. Everything.

 

[karland90]

well up to the points i mentioned in my previous post i did exactly as you told in this tutorial:
extract.
replace the 3 files.
run.
disable rtc.
rerun.

 

[Anachron]

Make sure you have vJass enabled in JassHelper menu.

 

[karland90]

like this?

 

[Anachron]

No!
Please uncheck 'Disable vJass Syntax'.

 

[karland90]

it lives!

-You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Anachron again.-
-.-

 

[Anachron]

Sure thing, as I told.

But why is everything enabled in your JNGP? Are you sure you are using the newest version and not an old version you already used?

A new JNGP version automatically disables most stuff and enables vJass syntax.

 

[karland90]

well i deleted the jasshelper and JNGP folders last night. went on wc3c to get me latest versions, but found out that the .zips i kept on my computer just in case were the most up to date. then i extracted them again. and yes i think these are all the initial settings (well it doesnt keep any saved info elsewhere, does it?)

 

[Anachron]

I think it does (in Registry).

Edit: Updated first post with JNGP menu settings.

 

[syltman]

to this path "\$JNGPFOLDER$\jasshelper" and click yes to overwrite.

don't type \$JNGPFOLDER$, it's confusing. Insteed tell them to go to the JNGP folder and then to the jasshelper folder.

 

[Anachron]

Thanks, I fixed it.

 

[real138]

hmm good tutorial but i just noticed that i didnt have reinventing the craft in my WE i tried reinstalling everything but yet again it hasn't shown up. do you know any reason that might be? don't think i need it anyway since im disabling it just would like to know.

 

[Anachron]

That means your antivir is blocking the ReinventingTheCraft hack.

 

[real138]

ah ok the rtcexehack right? but i dont need it right? or should i fix it anyways?

 

[Anachron]

Antiviruses normally block every RTC executable file.
And no need to fix if it does compile correctly.
(For me it gives errors, so I had to put it in the exception list)

 

[real138]

ah ok well it compiles fine but just in case i'm gonna add it to the exceptions 2 mins won't kill me . great tutorial for people new to JNGP. +rep about time someone did it.

 

[Anachron]

Originally I wanted to make it longer and more described, but I said dude, no one wants to read a wall of text just to get his answer!

So I made it short but informative. I hope you like it.

 

[real138]

ya thats all that's really needed. but maybe put a mini description of the menu items like a sentence. i know at first i didn't know what half that stuff was for.

 

[Anachron]

Good idea, will add it later.

 

[Etzer]

I don't have the "reinventing the craft" when i open the NewGen WE.exe

EDIT : Nomatter, i just found out that the guy above me had the same problem, i'll try to fix it.

2nd EDIT : You know where the exception list for AVG 2009 is?

 

[Anachron]

Maybe make a google search?

 

[Etzer]

Maybe make a google search?

Oh yeah google 4 life <3

 

[karland90]

as i stated in the first post of this thread (after Anachron ofc) avg has two different exception lists.

first one: open interface. open resident shield. on the lower right of the main part of the window is manage exceptions
second: form toolbar open tools -> advanced settings. somewhere in the middle of the list of the newly opened window is PUP exceptions

hope this helped

 

[Etzer]

Yea. No, i just found out that i have PAV Somehow, it have switched...

 

[Anachron]

Bumpy.

 

[MortAr]

Hmm, what about UMSWE, you didn't mentioned any special options for it, and should it be enabled/disabled?

 

[Anachron]

First post includes now a guide what the settings of Grimoire do.
I never worked with UMSWE :/ Will check it though.

 

[phoenixfire]

Hey, "Reinventing the Craft" isn't one of my options. Is there something wrong with my JNPG?

EDIT: Also none of the things from the "Extensions" section work.

 

[PurgeandFire]

Do you have the latest NewGen installed? If you don't have RtC, it is fine since it is currently disabled by almost all NewGen users anyway. (At least for the moment, until MindWorX and SFilip release the next version)

 

[Anachron]

nuuh, as I already said, make sure you antivirus DOES not block anything of JNGP.
It seems like it blocked RtC.

 

[karland90]

lol i added some of the detected files to 2 different safelists of avg and the only thing that avg found during the last scan were those same files again -.-
and i had to restore them from quarantine again, cause i have no options.

 

[phoenixfire]

Anyways, everytime I click on something in the "Extensions" menu, nothing happens. I also installed this while my Antivirus system was down.

 

[Anachron]

You do not only have to have it disabled when its on install, but also after. You better put JassNewGenPack folder in your antivirus exception list.

Once a file of JNGP has been deleted due to AntiVir or Firewall, you should reinstall it.

 

[machris13]

i did everything you said,..

but when i look in trigger editor it is till in GUI?

im not running the old WE, im running the NEW PACK...

what will i do??

 

[real138]

.... its still gonna be in GUI. just when you convert a trigger to custom scripts will you have the options for JNGP

 

[Anachron]

Triggers don't magically change to vJass.
You have to convert them to CustomScripts. (Edit -> Convert to custom script)

 

[PurgeandFire]

Nice tutorial overall. Well explained, useful to those who can't setup New Gen properly, and well-formatted.

Good job, ~Approved.

 

[Oziris]

I still cant setup the New Gen properly.

We.Lua
Couldn't start World Editor. An instance of World Editor may already be running.
If running a patch prior to 1.21b make sure the Warcraft III CD is in your drive and try again
If your using kaspersky antivirus, turn it off before using NewGen.

I have Kaspersky and i turn it off, but it doesn't help. It still gives me the error. I updated the jasshelper. But nothing helped. :'(

 

[Anachron]

Make sure you followed every single step. Just don't think "Oh alright, I've already done this, lets skip this".

Turn off all antivirus, delete JNGP fully, use my tutorials, add JNGP folder to the virus exception list and start JNGP again.

 

[Oziris]

I turned off the protection of the Kaspersky, downloaded the JNPG into a folder, made the folder a trusted zone. I copied the jasshelper, pasted it and started the editor but the same error came out again. I really don't know what to do anymore.

 

[Anachron]

Maybe ask at wc3c.net

 

[indomitable1319]

Anarchon, I really need to use JNGP so I can continue my map, without the fear of too many doodads. I download it, but when I try to unizip it, it says that it's corrupted or something. Please help.

[EDIT]

WinZip
Cannot open file; it does not appear to be a valid archive.

If you downloaded this file, try downloading it again.

That's what WinZip says.