W3Protect - Jass and Lua map optimizer

Frotty · Aug 31, 2022

Thank you for your interest, we are in the progress of rolling out ultimate, but it's still taking a bit to get all features right.

Free user registration has been enabled for a while now.

Regarding account sharing - sure, I suppose it all relies on good faith - just like the uploading part.

Perhaps supporting independent software developers instead of million dollar corporations could be some incentive to not account share.

Donach · Sep 11, 2022

Frotty said:
Thank you for your interest, we are in the progress of rolling out ultimate, but it's still taking a bit to get all features right.

Free user registration has been enabled for a while now.

Regarding account sharing - sure, I suppose it all relies on good faith - just like the uploading part.

Perhaps supporting independent software developers instead of million dollar corporations could be some incentive to not account share.

I would say you might be best off to offer both time-based sub and count-based one...
Like for me, it would make sense to buy count-based, as I would use the "basic" protection (free one) for testing maps, and for releases, I'd use the full-blown one...

Frotty · Sep 21, 2022

LazZ said:
I tried to run the old w3p because the website could not analyze my map.

Obscure escape sequences are now supported.

Donach said:
I would say you might be best off to offer both time-based sub and count-based one...
Like for me, it would make sense to buy count-based, as I would use the "basic" protection (free one) for testing maps, and for releases, I'd use the full-blown one...

Thanks for the suggestion.

Tal'Rarity · Sep 21, 2022

This seems like a scam more than ever now, does this do anything more than the usual make the script file so corrupted that it'd be better to remake the script oneself?

Edit: Is there a latest fully corrupted sample I could check out?

Frotty · Sep 22, 2022

Dat-C3 said:
This seems like a scam more than ever now, does this do anything more than the usual make the script file so corrupted that it'd be better to remake the script oneself?

Not sure where you're getting that vibe from. This is a free, reforged compatible jass/lua map protector (which afaik doesn't exist otherwise, and contains tons of custom code) with some announced paid features which you don't have to opt-in to at all.

Of course the ultimate features offer additional protection - they should be pretty self explanatory. E.g. encrypting strings will make all strings in the script file unreadable, asserting handle properties will prevent easy object modifications from the editor, etc.

Tal'Rarity · Sep 22, 2022

Frotty said:
Not sure where you're getting that vibe from. This is a free, reforged compatible jass/lua map protector (which afaik doesn't exist otherwise, and contains tons of custom code) with some announced paid features which you don't have to opt-in to at all.

Of course the ultimate features offer additional protection - they should be pretty self explanatory. E.g. encrypting strings will make all strings in the script file unreadable, asserting handle properties will prevent easy object modifications from the editor, etc.

Hmm... Could I see an ultimate corrupted jass map and a lua map?

z4o7l99z · Oct 11, 2022

Please update W3Protect to support wc3 1.33 patch!

Frotty · Oct 13, 2022

z4o7l99z said:
Please update W3Protect to support wc3 1.33 patch!

It does support 1.33 patch.

z4o7l99z · Oct 16, 2022

Frotty said:
It does support 1.33 patch.

A: Can you make W3Protect to .jar programs? like old version of your W3Protect 0.7.1.jar.

B: If i use W3Protect on your website, it will store my maps?

Frotty · Oct 19, 2022

z4o7l99z said:
A: Can you make W3Protect to .jar programs? like old version of your W3Protect 0.7.1.jar.

No

z4o7l99z said:
B: If i use W3Protect on your website, it will store my maps?

Source maps aren't stored, protected maps are stored for a limited time to download.

tlstkwjr · Oct 30, 2022

After 1.33 patch, vexorian's optimizer throws an error when I turn on the 'optimize spring usage' option in my map. Since then, my map has been having several desync issues. The 1.33 patch itself may be the problem, but I'm guessing optimizer problem. Does this optimizer do vexorian's 'optimize spring usage' function for maps?

Frotty · Oct 30, 2022

It does, the analogous option is "Inline Trigger Strings". However I highly doubt this will fix your desync issue.

InSaNe_97 · Nov 7, 2022

I am also having that problem - Parsing Script. As BradPitLord found it works if Inline Trigger Strings is turned off.

Frotty · May 26, 2023

InSaNe_97 said:
I am also having that problem - Parsing Script. As BradPitLord found it works if Inline Trigger Strings is turned off.

Some fixes have been implemented regarding this is during the time since your post. Have you retried with Inline Trigger Strings option enabled? If it still doesn't work you could provide me your map in DM to check for the issue.

InSaNe_97 · Jun 1, 2023

Frotty said:
Some fixes have been implemented regarding this is during the time since your post. Have you retried with Inline Trigger Strings option enabled? If it still doesn't work you could provide me your map in DM to check for the issue.

I have not tried again, I do not make maps currently.

hi1 · Jun 11, 2023

Does this support 1.36? My map fails to upload half way through.

Frotty · Jun 11, 2023

As the first post says

Frotty said:
compatible with the latest Warcraft 3 Reforged patch

If your upload fails then that's most likely related to your network speed/stability.
We increased the upload timeout to 10 minutes with the most recent update. Please try again.

hi1 · Jun 11, 2023

Works like a charm! Thanks for the prompt update :grin:

Dark-Zalor · Jun 12, 2023

I tried it, and it works fine.
:infl_thumbs_up:

tlstkwjr · Jun 25, 2023

My map crashed after running this protect. When the cannon fires and makes a sound, it causes a crash. :cry:

Frotty · Jun 26, 2023

tlstkwjr said:
My map crashed after running this protect. When the cannon fires and makes a sound, it causes a crash.

I currently cant test due to bizzard server issues, but I observe that your map has been incorrectly changed from w3m to w3x by W3P which looks like a Bug. Consider changing your map to w3x and trying again, w3m maps might not be fully supported.

tlstkwjr · Jun 26, 2023

Frotty said:
I currently cant test due to bizzard server issues, but I observe that your map has been incorrectly changed from w3m to w3x by W3P which looks like a Bug. Consider changing your map to w3x and trying again, w3m maps might not be fully supported.

This is just a test map applied for testing purposes. Of course, the original map, which is w3x from the beginning, also crashes.
I think something is wrong with this protector in compressing the custom sound.

Frotty · Jun 27, 2023

tlstkwjr said:
This is just a test map applied for testing purposes. Of course, the original map, which is w3x from the beginning, also crashes.
I think something is wrong with this protector in compressing the custom sound.

Yes there seems to be an issue due to the .wav file. Since .wav files inside a map prevent any meaningful compression anyway, you can turn off the "recompress" option, then the protected map does not crash for me. Will probably add a note for this in a future update.

InSaNe_97 · Jul 19, 2023

Where is software for downloading?

Jaccouille · Jul 20, 2023

InSaNe_97 said:
Where is software for downloading?

As far as I understand, there is no software to download, you create an account on https://w3protect.eu/, log in, then you should be able to use the application from your browser.

InSaNe_97 · Jul 20, 2023

Jaccouille said:
As far as I understand, there is no software to download, you create an account on https://w3protect.eu/, log in, then you should be able to use the application from your browser.

When it was removed?

wannaknowledgemore · Jul 24, 2023

Jaccouille said:
As far as I understand, there is no software to download, you create an account on https://w3protect.eu/, log in, then you should be able to use the application from your ~~browser.~~

and ultimate edition does not purchasable right now?

Jaccouille · Jul 24, 2023

InSaNe_97 said:
When it was removed?

Was there any downloadable application in the first place? I don't remember.

wannaknowledgemore said:
and ultimate edition does not purchasable right now?

Doesn't seem so, but do you really need it?

Frotty · Jul 24, 2023

wannaknowledgemore said:
and ultimate edition does not purchasable right now?

It's not yet fully completed, but we hope to release it soon.

Jaccouille said:
Doesn't seem so, but do you really need it?

If you want better protection and additional features such as real time anti cheat and more, yes.

InSaNe_97 · Jul 24, 2023

Jaccouille said:
Was there any downloadable application in the first place? I don't remember.

Yes.

Frotty · Jul 24, 2023

@InSaNe_97 The downloadable client was an early alpha version. It is not available anymore and didn't work with reforged anyway. We have moved to a web based approach to provide a better user and development experience.

InSaNe_97 · Jul 25, 2023

Frotty said:
@InSaNe_97 The downloadable client was an early alpha version. It is not available anymore and didn't work with reforged anyway. We have moved to a web based approach to provide a better user and development experience.

Fine. Ic thanke thee.

Nazujin · Sep 9, 2023

Hello, why can't download my map after I protect it at the website?
It stays stuck at the download... I tryed to go to map protected list, and even there I can't download.

Regards

Ricola3D · Sep 10, 2023

My map Xnd Hero Siege seems to work fine with options:

Recompress
Make read-only
Remove World Editor Data
Protect Script
Remove Error Logs

It's a map with only GUI/Jass/vJass. Size goes down from 1.6MB to 1MB. Trying to open with WE fails with "Missing or invalid unit data".

However I cannot use "Inline Trigger Strings", otherwise my dialog buttons & some texts are empty.

Frotty · Sep 10, 2023

Nazujin said:
Hello, why can't download my map after I protect it at the website?
It stays stuck at the download... I tryed to go to map protected list, and even there I can't download.

Regards

Dunno, sounds like a weird problem on your end which has not been reported by anyone before. Perhaps you disabled downloads from our site or something similar. You could check the console to see if there is anything logged.

Ricola3D said:
My map Xnd Hero Siege seems to work fine with options:

Recompress

Make read-only

Remove World Editor Data

Protect Script

Remove Error Logs

It's a map with only GUI/Jass/vJass. Size goes down from 1.6MB to 1MB. Trying to open with WE fails with "Missing or invalid unit data".

However I cannot use "Inline Trigger Strings", otherwise my dialog buttons & some texts are empty.

Some people have reported issues with that option, if you send me the map I could take a further look. Are only texts affected that you are creating via triggers/code, or also others?

Ricola3D · Sep 10, 2023

Frotty said:
Dunno, sounds like a weird problem on your end which has not been reported by anyone before. Perhaps you disabled downloads from our site or something similar. You could check the console to see if there is anything logged.

Some people have reported issues with that option, if you send me the map I could take a further look. Are only texts affected that you are creating via triggers/code, or also others?

I think it was only constant strings created from GUI triggers. The map from this link can be opened in W3 Reforged World Editor. I unprotected my map when Reforged was released (due to the protection tools being broken), and never protected it again ^^

In the case of my map for example, it was the custom dialog buttons on start text & the text at the circle at the bottom right of the castle building.

Frotty · Sep 10, 2023

Ricola3D said:
I think it was only constant strings created from GUI triggers. The map from this link can be opened in W3 Reforged World Editor. I unprotected my map when Reforged was released (due to the protection tools being broken), and never protected it again ^^

In the case of my map for example, it was the custom dialog buttons on start text & the text at the circle at the bottom right of the castle building.

Thanks for the example. Your map actually did not work correctly, hence the missing strings. Your script contains a number that is above the maximum integer number (9999999999) which I guess Jass allows, though is pretty much an error.
We added support for larger numbers and also improved error handling in the new W3Protect version deployed today.
Feel free to re-test your map with the "Inline Trigger Strings" option enabled now.

Ricola3D · Sep 11, 2023

Frotty said:
Thanks for the example. Your map actually did not work correctly, hence the missing strings. Your script contains a number that is above the maximum integer number (9999999999) which I guess Jass allows, though is pretty much an error.
We added support for larger numbers and also improved error handling in the new W3Protect version deployed today.
Feel free to re-test your map with the "Inline Trigger Strings" option enabled now.

Oh thanks for the feedback ! it's a piece of code I got from an old dota map. What's max integer normaly ? 2^(4*8-1) = 2147483648 ?

Frotty · Sep 11, 2023

Ricola3D said:
Oh thanks for the feedback ! it's a piece of code I got from an old dota map. What's max integer normaly ? 2^(4*8-1) = 2147483648 ?

You're welcome. It should be -2147483648 to 2147483647. Did you retest your map with the "Inline Trigger Strings" option enabled?

hexhound · Sep 13, 2023

just tested this on a lua map. All free version options checked produced error ("Please send in map"), then tested with only Recompress, make read-only and remove WE data. This produced a map that's playable on bnet and unopenable by editor, but it seems some functionality went missing. I buy a hero and the camera no longer centers on the purchased hero(move camera line now missing). that's the only difference i noticed in a 2-minute test run but it seems like a weird simple thing to get removed when much more complex systems in the map still seem to function smoothly.

Frotty · Sep 13, 2023

If code protection isn't checked, the script should only be altered by the "inline trigger strings" option. So you could try it without and see if that was the cause. Would need the map for further troubleshooting.

hexhound · Sep 14, 2023

Frotty said:
If code protection isn't checked, the script should only be altered by the "inline trigger strings" option. So you could try it without and see if that was the cause. Would need the map for further troubleshooting.

PM:d you with specifics and the map.

edit. turns out i was comparing against the wrong version of my own map open in editor the whole time. Embarrassing.

Dark-Zalor · Sep 18, 2023

Hello,

The site returned to me the following error.

Can I know the reasons of the bug? How can I solve that?
Have a nice day.

Frotty · Sep 18, 2023

Dark-Zalor said:
Hello,

The site returned to me the following error.

View attachment 448027

Can I know the reasons of the bug? How can I solve that?
Have a nice day.

You can send in your map. Though in your case, I was able to check the logs and see that your map script contains problematic code (ExecuteFunc with non-constant string parameter). Your map most likely has always had this error, but in the previous w3p version this just meant the script would not be protected in the output map. Now it throws an error so you know your script is actually not protected. You can disable script protection which would be the same result as before or adjust your code to not contain the offending ExecuteFunc calls.
The reason this is an error is that the optimizer can not properly minify names if ExecuteFunc is used with dynamic arguments. In the future, we might offer more fine-grained control to still optimize the code but not minify names if such offending code is detected.

Dark-Zalor · Sep 18, 2023

Thanks for your response. Script not protected what does that mean? Is the script readable in te editor? Is itbpossible to insert hacks? Is the map openable and updatable?
I've checked the world editor can't open my map.
Should be good at this point that the tool lists what has been protected and not. I would really know before that my script has never been protected. Even if I don't know the consequences. (At least that I can ask you the question, if I know it.)
And finallly returns some logs of the operation.
Btw thanks for the good job you make.
I hope you can make a fix for the minifying system.

Frotty · Sep 18, 2023

Dark-Zalor said:
Thanks for your response. Script not protected what does that mean? Is the script readable in te editor? Is itbpossible to insert hacks? Is the map openable and updatable?
I've checked the world editor can't open my map.
Should be good at this point that the tool lists what has been protected and not. I would really know before that my script has never been protected. Even if I don't know the consequences. (At least that I can ask you the question, if I know it.)
And finallly returns some logs of the operation.
Btw thanks for the good job you make.
I hope you can make a fix for the minifying system.

It means the war3map.j file which contains your entire map's code, will not be optimized/protected by w3p. Not being able to open in world editor is done by the "Remove World Editor Data" option.

Dark-Zalor · Sep 20, 2023

Hello @Frotty , thanks for your answer
Can you tell me wich example will work please:

Code:

// 1
globals
constant string MY_FUNC_NAME = "FUNC_NAME"
endglobals

function execute1 takes nothing returns nothing
  call ExecuteFunc(MY_FUNC_NAME)
endfunction


// 2
function execute2 takes string funcName returns nothing
  if funcName != "" then
    call ExecuteFunc(funcName)
  endif
endfunction


// 3
function execute3 takes nothing returns nothing
  local string funcName = "MY_FUNC"

  call ExecuteFunc(funcName)
endfunction


// 4
function execute4 takes nothing returns nothing
  local string funcName = "MY_FUNC-" + I2S(12)

  call ExecuteFunc(funcName)
endfunction


// 5, THAT ONE DOES NOT WORK
function execute5 takes integer num returns nothing
  call ExecuteFunc("funcName-" + I2S(num))
endfunction


// 6
function getFuncNameByNum takes integer num returns string
  return "MyFuncName-" + I2S(num)
endfunction

function execute6 takes integer num returns nothing
  call ExecuteFunc(getFuncNameByNum(num))
endfunction

I wrote all the different cases so if you want to test it in a map, you can see when it break if you want to test.

Please give credits if you use it or update it lol (just joking)

I've tried with a blank map all theses scripts and I had every time an error. Can you see in your logs, what's happen. Thanks.

Frotty · Sep 20, 2023

Only ExecuteFunc("someString") is supported because then the minifier can easily replace "someString" with the generated small name for the function that is intended to be called. Therefore, none of your cases are supported.
Case 1 could be in theory supported because the string variable is constant, but then you might as well just inline the string.
Case 3 could in theory be supported as well, but it would require an analysis of whether the local string variable is ever changed, because it is not constant, and might as well be inlined.
All other cases are not easily supported because the produced function name is dynamic.
I could add an option to ignore the error and for the user to provide a list of functions that should not be minified, but then it wouldn't be easy to use, might result in strange errors and be less protected.
ExecuteFunc in general, is basically never necessary. It should be easy to replace it with other means. The only downside is that some hive libraries make (pointless) use of it.

Luashine · Sep 21, 2023

ExecuteFunc has some advanced usage examples in the vJass documentation, and a pretty peculiar implementation.
For how it works, I suggest the map author is shown which line (with ExecuteFunc) blocks the script obfuscation to deal with it.

I oppose map protections.

Frotty · Sep 21, 2023

Luashine said:
ExecuteFunc has some advanced usage examples in the vJass documentation, and a pretty peculiar implementation.
For how it works, I suggest the map author is shown which line (with ExecuteFunc) blocks the script obfuscation to deal with it.

I oppose map protections.

Judging from the manual, it is only used for doing init stuff in another thread to prevent op limit from crashing it. This can be achieved with other means, e.g. TriggerEvaluate or ForForce which don't rely on string based evaluation. Also, in most cases from the manual the argument is a constant string anyway, which wouldn't cause problems.
As mentioned before, error communication could be improved in the future, but for now it's more important that it doesn't fail silently and outputs a non-protected map.
It's fine if you oppose map protection, most of my maps are completely open source on GitHub. However, it can be a great annoyance if people modify maps without permission and then spread those versions without any indication that it's not an official version. And while resources available on hacking/de-protection are quite vast, there isn't much available for the actual protection side to aid developers, which is why I made W3P. While I would prefer an official solution by blizzard to know if a map is authentic and up to date, I doubt this will happen for reforged.
As stated before, this is more of a project of passion and exercise in running an online service. But I also prefer to give cheaters a harder time to cause ruckus in maps that aim to be competitive or make use of save/load.

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