WarCom - Multiplayer Mod (Increase Player Limit)

[TriggerHappy]

WarCom
Extended WC3 Multiplayer

Latest Update

Introduction

Warcraft III is getting old and Battle.net is filled with hosting bots and Dota matches. You join a room only to wait endlessly until the match is filled and the host(bot) begins the map. The game isn't quite like it used to be and it seems Blizzard wont be doing much, if any more patches even though wc3 is still exploitable. So with this being the case I've decided to take on a project that will extend the game's multiplayer capabilities, entitled "WarCom". The main focus of the project is to extend the player count and remove the need for pre-hosted games, although those are not the only benefits.

Features

• Increased player count.
• No need for pre-hosted games.
• MySQL functionality to save data on the server (characters).
• No size limit on maps.
• Map verification.

This means that a mmo-type game or even an online competitive mutliplayer map with stats is now possible. The need for save and load codes will be gone and not to mention all of the capabilities of SharpCraft itself. Almost anything will be possible in Warcraft III modding.

How does it work?

The download will include a server executable which must be ran in order for people to play your map online. Map makers will have access to all new JASS natives that will allow them to communicate with the server.

Players will download and start your map just as they would any other except through the SharpCraft executable instead of war3.exe. Locate the game in single player mode and start the map. All other players and units will be synced to your game once the map starts and hopefully all of it will be handled internally unlike the previous version of this project.

FAQ

• How many players can it support?
  That completely depends on your internet speed and how much network traffic your map causes. If you're serious about the mod you're making than you can find some server hosting that could support potentially hundreds of players. DigitalOcean provides hosting for $5 a month.
• Could I make an MMO?
  It's possible. One on the smaller scale is much more likely.
• Can my map be bigger than 8mb?
  Yes, the size limit won't matter anymore.
• Does it work for the latest version of wc3
  Yes and it can be configured for other versions as well.
• I only use GUI, can I make a map with WarCom?
  Currently yes, but it will require a little bit of JASS.

Old Screenshots

WarCom is only possible because of SharpCraft, a managed replacement for Reinventing the Craft. I would especially like to thank MindWorX for all of his hard work on such a great tool.

 

[Ralle]

Holy shit this is cool!

 

[jonhysone]

OMG wtf This is fu**ing rocking wtf wtf wtf @_@

 

[Daffa]

This is madness! It's pretty cool!
I hope this works for 1.26a so we all can use it.

 

[TriggerHappy]

I hope this works for 1.26a so we all can use it.

I am definitely going to look into this.

Maybe Sfilip or MindWorX can release RtC's source..

Holy shit this is cool!

OMG wtf This is fu**ing rocking wtf wtf wtf @_@

 

[PurgeandFire]

Wow awesome! It is really nice to have someone working on this again.

Can't wait for the video!

EDIT: iirc the main "patch-specific" thing dealt with memory addresses that needed to be updated per-patch. I could be wrong though. You should look at the stopwatch natives thread in wc3c, it might have some info on it. Otherwise you can always try messaging SFilip on thehelper, AFAIK he still lurks there.

 

[chobibo]

TriggerHappy, I hope you can do something about those memory addresses.

Edit: Looks like we can't ask SFilip: Last Activity: 07-17-2011 05:40 PM

 

[TriggerHappy]

I'm pretty sure PurgeandFire is correct, but I'll worry about that when I'm closer to having an open beta or until one of them messages me back

 

[chobibo]

I'll try downgrading to 1.24, I wanna try out the vector api lol.

 

[Grievous1]

I'm speechless thats simply amazing! o.o

 

[-Kobas-]

Basically with this you can create real-time based games (check for Clash of Clans for example) or games like WOW

Why wasn't something like this created 5-6 years ago.

 

[chobibo]

IIRC, this was started on 2007 but was released on 2010.

 

[-Kobas-]

IIRC, this was started on 2007 but was released on 2010.

Yeah I done some research, but my point was why we didn't had such resource fully operational back in 2006/7.

 

[chobibo]

Must be their schedules, or it must be because of the engine updates.

 

[muzzel]

Why wasn't something like this created 5-6 years ago.

It was created before, but nobody used it. The great thing about warcraft3 maps is that with Battle.net you have a platform where you can easily reach thousands of players. With a standalone game or a map that cant use Battle.net you will always have problems finding players...

Sorry, nice work but im skeptical that anyone will use it.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

When Bnet dies, I am sure this would prove more useful then Garena if the word spreads around.

Hope you get it working for latest patch.

 

[moyackx]

When Bnet dies, I am sure this would prove more useful then Garena if the word spreads around.

Hope you get it working for latest patch.

That, would require a total rework of RtC. That's a so awesome idea with the big fail of only being valid for 1.24 (and before?).

 

[TriggerHappy]

Yeah, I understand patch 1.26 is a must for release which is a while away, so for now don't worry about it. It shouldn't be too hard to fix (and there's plenty of time for the original RtC devs to message me back).

Anyway I've made a lot of progress since yesterday, I will be posting a video within the next few days (hopefully a live test, not LAN).

Also, in single player the game can be paused and cheats are enabled, so I'm considering making it only available in LAN mode (still single player), any comments on that?

EDIT:

That, would require a total rework of RtC.

I doubt that.

EDIT 2: I forgot RtC has a localized config file with NoCheat and NoPause options, I can just check to make sure those are enabled.

 

[chobibo]

I guess it's better to have it on LAN only, less things to worry about.

 

[Midnighters]

I just jizzed a little.....

 

[Grey Nightmare]

 

[Frotty]

It was created before, but nobody used it. The great thing about warcraft3 maps is that with Battle.net you have a platform where you can easily reach thousands of players. With a standalone game or a map that cant use Battle.net you will always have problems finding players...

Sorry, nice work but im skeptical that anyone will use it.

this.

Guys, guys.
This existed long ago and people used it.
Then MindWorx and SFilip stopped working on it and they didn't hand out the source (yet, I asked)

Is the source code available?
No, it isn't. It might become at some later time though.

Well TriggerHappy, if you're at it you can also fix grimoire (https://svn.code.sf.net/p/w3grimoire/code/), at least for that the source is available. (stuff like war3err and so on )

In the end the hurdle for the "common player" persists.
This was already the problem with projects that forced a mod.exe on every member to avoid the (old) 4MB size limit.
Most people won't do that and/or are too lazy.

Mouse natives are nice, but FPS-maps suffer from the model-disappearing bug with cameras in wc3.

 

[TriggerHappy]

I've been busy the past couple days, but I'm still working on this.

A live demo should be coming pretty soon.

 

[Darkshooter1986]

So is this the RtC mod that you guys are talking about? or something else? I'm testing it out on a map by importing "common.j" to my map and changing the directory name to Scripts/Common.j. I have DLed the RtC 1.0 and it works only with 1.24e beyond that i don't know how to get it to work like intended...

 

[GhostThruster]

how exactly do you create new natives? i mean it can't be as simple as something like open common.j then type up "native GetMouseX" then voila it works in world editor? this project has a lot of potential (and yes i was also aware of its existence since 2010)

 

[chobibo]

I think you need to add it to a certain dll file (your custom native) that the hack injects to warcraft when it's running.

 

[Napoqe]

For me, I left it in patch 1.24 by the following factor. Many maps stopped working after this patch. Not being able to play my (non create by me) Pyramid Escape, who spent hours playing with random. And the Anime Fight, which was my second favorite map (first the DotA), which has versions that worked to play.

Your idea is revolutionary yes you, and can make Warcraft 3 be back played much.

However, I wanted that working up with DotA current, because I would abandoning the DotA 2. The models of Warcraft 3 are more pleasant to me, yet.

 

[chobibo]

TriggerHappy said he was working on making this usable on the latest patch, so no worries.

 

[Napoqe]

TriggerHappy said he was working on making this usable on the latest patch, so no worries.

I had read.

But is that one day, the RPG of Warcraft vain change these modes of save the hero with "-save"?

Will these hacks do not have to do with the story with a patch, that allowing maps with viruses? Soon after, the Blizzard made ​​a patch only to remove it, taking the incompatibility with old maps?

 

[chobibo]

Will these hacks do not have to do with the story with a patch, that allowing maps with viruses? Soon after, the Blizzard made ​​a patch only to remove it, taking the incompatibility with old maps?

Not related to RtC. TriggerHappy is trying to make it work on the latest patch, blizzard already fixed that in the latest patch. Or just use an anti-virus.

But is that one day, the RPG of Warcraft vain change these modes of save the hero with "-save"?

Dunno, maybe custom natives for file I/O for files saves. Depends.

 

[TriggerHappy]

Will these hacks do not have to do with the story with a patch, that allowing maps with viruses? Soon after, the Blizzard made ​​a patch only to remove it, taking the incompatibility with old maps?

Blizzard will not patch the game because of RtC.
They would only patch it when there's a vulnerability in the actual game.

You can make a virus with the preload natives for years now, still no update.

how exactly do you create new natives? i mean it can't be as simple as something like open common.j then type up "native GetMouseX" then voila it works in world editor? this project has a lot of potential (and yes i was also aware of its existence since 2010)

You have to code them with the nAPI that Sfilip has given us.

There's a link to it in the OP.

But is that one day, the RPG of Warcraft vain change these modes of save the hero with "-save"?

I will be adding data saving/load features.

 

[Nestharus]

Hopefully your save/load is just file i/o and nothing else

 

[TriggerHappy]

Hopefully your save/load is just file i/o and nothing else

I was planning on including I/O, but I need to create API to save data on the servers machine.

 

[Nestharus]

oh, yea, sql too, haha my bad ^)^

 

[muzzel]

Blizzard wont patch shit, dont worry. The current version of wc3 is highly abusable and they didnt give a fuck for months...

 

[Rui]

The models of Warcraft 3 are more pleasant to me, yet.

Indeed =P ugly blurry stuff on Dota 2.

 

[Deleted member 212788]

I'm really interested where this goes, if it's still being worked on. Being able to run your own MMO map would be fun as hell. I suppose the 8 Mb Bnet limit will be lifter via this system?

 

[TriggerHappy]

I'm really interested where this goes, if it's still being worked on. Being able to run your own MMO map would be fun as hell. I suppose the 8 Mb Bnet limit will be lifter via this system?

It's still being worked on, and yes the size limit will be removed

 

[Xonok]

This is indeed very useful.

 

[edo494]

you better work on API to get players by IP or by name, because if you treat everyone as player(1), that aint gonna work

 

[Xonok]

you better work on API to get players by IP or by name, because if you treat everyone as player(1), that aint gonna work

Better not IP, unless it's somehow internal.

Because some people share IP.

 

[chobibo]

Or a database Id, but that would require an account.

 

[Xonok]

Or a database Id, but that would require an account.

I guess it would work if each player just used their ingame name. If multiple people have the same name, then they must have separate IP.
If not, then one of them can't connect.
This should be easy enough, I hope.

Would be even better if somehow each computer had a separate ID. Don't want to base it on MAC codes though.

 

[-Kobas-]

Database & log in.

 

[chobibo]

Yeah, database and login.

 

[Elemental91]

This... is insane... Would certainly open up a new age of wc3 ;
At least for RPGs

 

[TriggerHappy]

This project isn't dead, I'm going to be re-writing everything because of a new project that has come up.

Just so you guys know.
I'll update the thread when I've done more.

 

[Chaosy]

I am glad someone creates this. I wish you the best of luck, this is awesome!

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Please finish and make a GUI interface. =P

Good luck also.

 

[EmoBrother]

Thisssssssssssss is super cool !!! I can't wait for it !!