Map Updater

[TigerMax]

Good evening.
I have played some good maps on v. 1.24.
Now they don't work.
Is there any program that can update maps or smth like that?
Sorry if i have posted this thread in wrong forum.

 

[GreeN!X]

hmm. what about updating your warcraft to 1.26? some people are still updating their maps so maybe their new updates need v1.26

 

[TigerMax]

Of course i have 1.26!
Mapmaker has closed developing.
I have maps from 1.24 and i want to convert them on 1.26

 

[Dr Super Good]

Fix all the triggers that used the return bug (typecasting exploit) to use the features now available to us. That is the only way.

 

[Furiion52]

Most old maps should work from version to version. Hell I was playing 1.19 maps on 1.26 with no problem.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Depends if they used the type casting exploit or not.

 

[Arhowk]

Most old maps should work from version to version. Hell I was playing 1.19 maps on 1.26 with no problem.

the typecasting exploit wasnt discovered untill 1.23

 

[Dr Super Good]

Type casting was used ages before then I recall.

 

[Furiion52]

I have no idea what typecasting is so yeah...

 

[Dr Super Good]

The good old example of it.

function H2I takes handle h returns integer
    return h // I think this is correct order
    return 0
endfunction

This function had identical behaviour to the GetHandleId function but was slower. GetHandleId was added to compensate for the removal of the type casting exploit (the above function will now throw a syntax error).

 

[DracoL1ch]

it wasnt slower, but it was an exploit, which could be used in bad ways. it has been fixed to prevent abusing.

 

[Dr Super Good]

it wasnt slower

I recall people at WC3C saying it was slower than GetHandleId, but not that much slower. This is probably due to it being a native while the other was a function. I do agree that resolving the function name used to be faster as H2I is a lot shorter than GetHandleId and JASS interprets every name every time it is referenced.

 

[Kitabatake]

Fix all the triggers that used the return bug (typecasting exploit) to use the features now available to us. That is the only way.

Some maps that did not use that exploit have also stopped working after certain patches.
Usually to fix these maps it's enough to open the map in the newest version of world editor and save them with that editor.