After looking through these forums that stretch years back, I must say I'm surprised this hasn't been answered already. Odd because I think it's something a lot of people would like to do.
I know you can access the original campaign maps using the MPQ editor. There's multiple mentions of it across the forums. What I want to know is how to actually make a working, customisable campaign out of these maps. As they are, the maps seem to be coded that they'll always try to load the original campaign maps as opposed to whatever you put in the custom campaign progression list.
I've got some experience with triggers, but I could never figure out what exactly needed to be changed so that it'll load the map that follows it on the Custom Campaign list, not the original campaigns in a completely different area. I'm almost shocked that I didn't manage to find even a single mention of this problem anywhere else. I know Blizzard RTS' are a big thing, so that fact had me incredibly puzzled. I know it's possible because I managed to find enhanced Campaigns made by someone called Terry Mcdonald for ROC that I thought was great, and I could edit those myself and they worked just fine.
Failing the information to make it from scratch, I would also be satisfied simply having a series of FT campaigns at vanilla that aren't coded to load the originals so I could make my own variant of the Frozen Throne campaigns. At this point, I'd probably be willing to pay for it.
Any help or tips that anyone could mention would be greatly appreciated. I love Blizzard, but I also understand that they don't directly support the editors, so it's unfair to ask them directly for assistance in this issue.
I know you can access the original campaign maps using the MPQ editor. There's multiple mentions of it across the forums. What I want to know is how to actually make a working, customisable campaign out of these maps. As they are, the maps seem to be coded that they'll always try to load the original campaign maps as opposed to whatever you put in the custom campaign progression list.
I've got some experience with triggers, but I could never figure out what exactly needed to be changed so that it'll load the map that follows it on the Custom Campaign list, not the original campaigns in a completely different area. I'm almost shocked that I didn't manage to find even a single mention of this problem anywhere else. I know Blizzard RTS' are a big thing, so that fact had me incredibly puzzled. I know it's possible because I managed to find enhanced Campaigns made by someone called Terry Mcdonald for ROC that I thought was great, and I could edit those myself and they worked just fine.
Failing the information to make it from scratch, I would also be satisfied simply having a series of FT campaigns at vanilla that aren't coded to load the originals so I could make my own variant of the Frozen Throne campaigns. At this point, I'd probably be willing to pay for it.
Any help or tips that anyone could mention would be greatly appreciated. I love Blizzard, but I also understand that they don't directly support the editors, so it's unfair to ask them directly for assistance in this issue.