[Solved] how to get to the ai files

[Cheshire]

Hey there,

I've been reading up a little on the .wai files and I want to try messing around with them but haven't been able to figure out where to extract them. All the tutorials I saw take that part for granted . Like for standard melee AI the trigger only says - "Melee Game - Run melee AI scripts (for computer players)", and for campaigns for example - Game - Preload all files listed in Scripts/UndeadX04.pld. where are those script files and how can I open them up?

I'm kind of rusty, so sorry if I didn't follow posting protocol in some way...
thanks!

 

[Chaosium]

You can use e.g. War3 Model Editor (or any software that allows MPQ/CASC browsing to extact them)

They'll be under the Scripts folder (at least back in MPQ times, not sure if that has changed much since)

You can open them with notepad, but I recommend JassCraft that makes them much more readable

 

[Cheshire]

thanks! finally got that going with a casc viewer tool (Casc Storages - Main page).

is jasscraft better than the available plugins for vscode?

 

[raypack]

thanks! finally got that going with a casc viewer tool (Casc Storages - Main page).

is jasscraft better than the available plugins for vscode?

OGs write JASS AI scripts in Notepad

 

[PurgeandFire]

thanks! finally got that going with a casc viewer tool (Casc Storages - Main page).

is jasscraft better than the available plugins for vscode?

IMO I would just use the vscode plug-ins. JassCraft is pretty old and iirc has some compatibility issues with later windows versions.

 

[Ravager16829]

thanks! finally got that going with a casc viewer tool (Casc Storages - Main page).

is jasscraft better than the available plugins for vscode?

JassCraft appears to be outdated today due to the compatibility issues with current Windows version, notably Windows 11. The same thing can be applied for older Warcraft III editing tools such as MPQ Master:

Can't use MPQ Master and Jasscraft on Windows 11

I just installed Windows 11 after my computer had a problem regarding viruses and want to mod Warcraft 3. When I'm using Windows 10, older Warcraft 3 tools like MPQ Master and Jasscraft can be opened without problems. With Windows 11 came, it caught this every time I start both of them. The...

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You can still use the alternative methods like VSCode with JASS/vJASS third party plugins if you still want to edit JASS thing.

 

[Cheshire]

do you guys have a suggestion for a good vscode plugin? the ones I found seem to all have chinese (or something that looks like chinese to my ignorant eyes) metadata...

 

[PurgeandFire]

do you guys have a suggestion for a good vscode plugin? the ones I found seem to all have chinese (or something that looks like chinese to my ignorant eyes) metadata...

there is one that is called "awesome vjass support" that is in english and works but it is a bit out of date (doesn't have the latest natives and doesn't have the common.ai natives).

I think the main one that supports the latest natives and common.ai natives is the chinese one. :9 It works well though, you just might be distracted by the random chinese descriptions for functions, lol.

Most of us use Lua for most scripts so I think there hasn't been as much support for JASS anymore.

 

[Chaosium]

JassCraft still works for me under Win11 though :0

 

[raypack]

there is one that is called "awesome vjass support" that is in english and works but it is a bit out of date (doesn't have the latest natives and doesn't have the common.ai natives).

I think the main one that supports the latest natives and common.ai natives is the chinese one. :9 It works well though, you just might be distracted by the random chinese descriptions for functions, lol.

Most of us use Lua for most scripts so I think there hasn't been as much support for JASS anymore.

"Most of us use Lua"

Certainly not me.

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