Jasscraft

[Ironside]

Can't Jasscraft open protected maps such as DotA or am I doing something wrong?

 

[Pharaoh_]

JassCraft can't open maps. It's a source for coding.

 

[Ironside]

Yeah, but when I open DotA with MPQ Explorer, normal DotA doesn't even show anything and DotA OMG doesn't allow to view the code...

 

[MortAr]

Why do you need to open DotA anyway?

 

[Ironside]

I'd like to take a look at some spells, as some of them are way above my level. It's a great map to learn from

 

[PurgeandFire]

You would have to open the war3map.j. But all that will give you is a long list of code, and if protected with the mapOptimizer, will turn out as unreadable code. (Well, it will be readable but you probably won't know what is used for which spell)

Anyway, deprotecting/any means of exporting data from maps isn't really supported here. =\

And you probably won't learn much from it, as far as I know most of DotA is GUI converted JASS.

 

[Pharaoh_]

I'm sorry PurgeandFire111, but that's rather inaccurate. DotA has fine vJass code in most cases and vanilla Jass in some cases. Converted GUI can't generate locals, right?

 

[PurplePoot]

DotA's code sucks. It isn't a great map to learn from unless you want to learn bad habits.

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You can't open it in JC's MPQExplorer because it has no listfile (they deleted it) and JC does not support listfileless MPQs.

 

[uberfoop]

On top of the reasons stated before, DotA's code is both long and obfuscated. If you open that 6.67c map script up, you'll see a novel worth of code, with all manipulable names converted into seemingly random blocks of all sorts of letters of the alphabet. There will be no indenting or breaks.



If I wanted to look for certain spells in DotA's jass file, I could probably find them given time, but that's because I would already have a good idea of what I was looking for. If you're trying to figure out how some kind of effect is accomplished, I would recommend looking elsewhere. Like a Warcraft III mapping forum.

 

[Ironside]

Hmm, I guess I'll do so then

 

[Vulcano]

Always funny, people telling that dota code sucks while at the same time saying the dota code is unavailable. Well coded or not, the lag older dota versions had is gone and that's all that matter imo.

More serious, you can still extract war3map.j from (very) old dota maps, but i'm pretty sure most of the crappy code you'll find in it is much more optimised now.

 

[SlayerII]

i cant imaginate which spell would be that great that you want to take a look at...

dota is a great map, maybe not for the avarege hive member, but for the avarege gamer.