[JASS] Overriding blizzard.j for modding?

[PiesOfNorth]

Hi. From what I understand, the way to go about overlaying mods over the game is to simply copy the files with their path to the game directory. (ex: Warcraft III\Scripts\blizzard.j)

So I've done that, and figured I'd start with simple modifications. So I opened up my copy of blizzard.j that I grabbed from CascView into JassCraft and changed the value of bj_MELEE_STARTING_GOLD_V1 to 900. When I went to try a single player custom game with this change, any map with melee triggers would give a message saying "There was an error reading the map file." and so I couldn't start the game.

This seems like it should be a simple enough thing to mess with, what might I be doing wrong?

 

[Pyrogasm]

You can modify the constants directly by setting them with a jass script that runs before you run the melee init stuff.

 

[PiesOfNorth]

You can modify the constants directly by setting them with a jass script that runs before you run the melee init stuff.

Would it be possible to modify the Upkeep Food levels and maximum food cap with jass as well? (I know you can do it through gameplay constants, but wondering if it's possible this way as well, or with the new modding features in general)

EDIT: Turns out you can modify these by simply overriding 'war3mapMisc.txt' directly in the game root directory.