RotD (cry for help)

[DarkestKnight1]

Hey can anyone help me?

I resently downloaded Return of the Dragon and i have been very impressed with it but then on the 3rd map (the one you get to choose your dragon) i did the WHOLE mission then I picked a dragon and it played a cimamatic of it zooming into the tunnel, then it when to the single player menu and i couldnt play the next mission. What happened?

and also the Goblin's 'Ahlcemy' ability screwed up does that have anything to do with it?

 

[HappyTauren]

stupid bug -.- there are tons of them in rotd if ya didnt know.. darky said he will be working on rotd, but he abandoned...

 

[Mechanical Man]

I also could not finish that campaign (played long ago), because wc3 crashed. I think that was really on 3rd map.

But it was possible to avoid it? (i mean for players)

 

[Rui]

Open every map and re-save them. They don't work because they belong to older patches. You will also notice that map 1, 2, and 4 work because the dragons don't appear there.
There is a variable on Acid Rain that no longer exists, so using Acid Rain will cause a crash.

 

[DarkestKnight1]

So all I have to do is open the maps in world editor and hit the save button? (and avoid picking the dragon with acid rain)

 

[Daelin]

The problem had nothing to do with Ysera when I last played it. It's not enough to simply save the map. The problem is in the code. The map worked until patch... 1.12 I think, when "lightning" widget was added. Darky actually called a variable lightning (which now is a restricted keyword). Therefore, the code is invalid, and it causes crash.

-Daelin

 

[Wolverabid]

Pesky Bug

This problem has been going on for so long that it may have prevented far more players from completing the campaign than those who actually did.

I managed to make it all the way through a few years ago using a version of the .w3n that I had downloaded from Darky's site; unfortunately, I now posses only a version that I grabbed (I believe) from a German site in the late summer of 2006.

If one were to do a fresh install of RoC/TFT direct from genuine Blizzard Cds, (say on a spare computer) could the campaign then be completed successfully?

After briefly reviewing the files, I can not find any variable named "lightning." In several maps, however, there are two variables named:

• LightningStrike Floating Text Array (1)
• LightningStrikeEff Special Effect Array (1)

Would it be possible for a player to rename these GUI variables and play the campaign under TFTv1.20 without having to edit any of the Jass code?

 

[Daelin]

All codes are in JASS. You need to modify the name. I believe what you got from the site is a modified version, because I suppose it does not cause any crash if you play a "dragon map". I encountered this problem after playing the 5th map (as that's when I got the version upgrade) and I was simply stupefied to see that I had a crash. So I'm positive that the map was fixed.

~Daelin

 

[Mechanical Man]

This is one of many reasons i hate JASS.

 

[Daelin]

Hell no... don't hate JASS. It's a blessing. Many efficient spells would be impossible (or horribly coded) without it. Oh, and btw, GUI is based on JASS, so if there were no JASS, there would be no GUI. Got the idea?

~Daelin

 

[PrinceofIce]

In this case Daelin is right and you are wrong end of story there is nothing you can say to what he just said.

 

[benicio]

Nature's Call - Return of the Dragons

To my understanding this was once avalible on w3sear.ch but as all you know is no longer working. So I was wondering if someone would up load this campeign or somehow notify me a. where to get or b. send it to be.

 

[Wolverabid]

To the best of my knowledge Return of the Dragons may no longer be available. At certain times copies of it appear on the internet in various places. Due to patches released by Blizzard (I believe starting with 1.16 or thereabout) the campaign may not be playable by users running the most recent versions of Warcraft III.

The only way that The Hive Workshop will make this fine campaign available is if its original author submits it to our site.

[self="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=360"]benicio: please introduce yourself to the Hive![/self]

 

[Ralle]

I will look in my archives if I can find it.

 

[Wolverabid]

I remembered where it was and have tracked it down.

The currently available version may be found here.

As mentioned, bugs abound, according to Daelin starting with Warcraft III version 1.12. Users running earlier versions may be able to successfully complete the campaign. The bug issues relating to the campaign should be discussed in that thread.

*edit*

~ Question answered, thread closed.

 

[Daelin]

The problem comes from Darky's coding, more specifically, Nozdramus' abilities. Some of them have local variables with the logical name "lightning". Unfortunately, in 1.12 or maybe earlier/later versions, the object type lightning was introduced by Blizzard. Therefore, the map crashes because the trigger is not disabled (even though you don't select Nozdramus, the bug still exists because the code exists in the map). Only maps 1,2,3 and 5 do not cause the bug, as they do not contain any dragon, and therefore, the spells triggers do not exist.

More explicit explanation of the bug: Since patch 1.12, "lightning" has becomed a reserved name, part of the syntax. Therefore, no variables may be initialised with this name (it is not the case of global variables as their name is udg_name => udg_lightning0).

To fix the bug, someone would have to enter the maps and modify this. I've done it in the past to be able to replay the campaign. I'll look into it. I still have the campaign on my harddisk. All I need to do now would be to fix the bugs and place the map on the server.

-Daelin

 

[blazing-inferno]

Natures call Return of the Dragons

I have no idea where on the forums I should ask this question so i decided to post it here. Anyone remember this campaign? well i just recently found it in my maps folder and remembed that on the map where you get to choose a egg for a dragon the game crashes. My questions is does anyone know how to fix this?

 

[NoNZealot]

I think its just not done properly. It's a project that is left on the pages of past.

 

[Wolverabid]

This issue has come up many times in the past. I'll merge this thread so you can review all the available information.

People have tried to repair the bug, so far successfully.

~ Three threads merged.

 

[blazing-inferno]

its just a shame such a great campaign doesn't work.