How to use DDS on Reforged

[SnowYell]

Hi,

I am trying to make a map in Reforged which require a DDS system.

I tried downloading this Damage Engine, copy paste it into my map, but it breaks. I believe this DDS is not compatible with Reforged? My W3 is v1.36.1 (latest) and I believe it must be 1.31?

What is my best solution for this?

Thanks

 

[Duckfarter]

The damage system works on the latest patch. Usually, when people are having issues with adding the system to their map, they either havnt enabled jasshelper or one or more variables got corrupted during copy/pasting. The script error/jasshelper should detail what the issue is when trying to test/save the map.

 

[SnowYell]

The damage system works on the latest patch. Usually, when people are having issues with adding the system to their map, they either havnt enabled jasshelper or one or more variables got corrupted during copy/pasting. The script error/jasshelper should detail what the issue is when trying to test/save the map.

Yes that's what I experienced. The code said something about texts, probably the damage display text.

I wonder if I should just open the original test map, redo the titles and delete the terrain and work from there to avoid the corruption of files being moved..?

 

[Uncle]

Yes that's what I experienced. The code said something about texts, probably the damage display text.

I wonder if I should just open the original test map, redo the titles and delete the terrain and work from there to avoid the corruption of files being moved..?

Delete the entire Damage Engine folder from your map then enable JassHelper and save. Close the editor for good measure. Then open the Damage Engine map, copy the folder, switch back to your map and paste the folder.

 

[SnowYell]

Delete the entire Damage Engine folder from your map then enable JassHelper and save. Close the editor for good measure. Then open the Damage Engine map, copy the folder, switch back to your map and paste the folder.

Sorry, I am trying to discover how to enable JassHelper. What I read online is its automatically enabled when updating W3, but is that the case for me then?

 

[Remixer]

Sorry, I am trying to discover how to enable JassHelper. What I read online is its automatically enabled when updating W3, but is that the case for me then?

In the trigger editor headline (top of the window), there's a section titled "JassHelper" which has a dropdown menu with option "Enable JassHelper".

 

[Daffa]

Sorry, I am trying to discover how to enable JassHelper. What I read online is its automatically enabled when updating W3, but is that the case for me then?

patch 1.33 broke this iirc, so now it is default turned off for all new maps.

 

[Dr Super Good]

To avoid confusion, the acronym "DDS" should not be used like above in the context of reforged. This is because Reforged supports DirectDraw Surface (.dds) textures. As such the answer to the topic creator's title question would be to make sure that the textures are DXTC5 formatted and to import them, after which they should just work.

Reforged added a whole load of trigger features to improve damage detection systems. It is recommended to use one targeting Reforged and then update the API calls from the spells and systems that used it. This is necessary when dealing with spells and systems that used different damage detection system APIs as you should only have 1 such system inside your map.

 

[Pyrogasm]

patch 1.33 broke this iirc, so now it is default turned off for all new maps.

It’s actually intentional that it’s not enabled, as dumb as that is. MindworX said something to this effect in his capacity as a wc3 team member:

JASSHelper fundamentally changes how some things work and therefore it should always be an intentional choice by the mapmaker to use it.