Warcraft III Campaign

[Berb]

I just found out that you can actually open the WarCraft III campaigns by using an MPQ Editor and opening war3.mpq. For some reason I thought that these files were encrypted or something.

If anybody wants to know how to open them, simply use MPQMaster (or another MPQ viewing software) and open up war3.mpq. In the maps folder there is another folder, campaign, which includes the different campaign maps. Their triggers are available to view, though they're nothing special.

I can't seem to be able to find an equivalent for the Frozen Throne campaign files. I imagine if you were to change the source maps and re-import them into the MPQ you could do a lot of damage on the campaign though.

 

[takakenji]

people have known this for... years

 

[WOWWARS]

lol but helpful

 

[Teelo]

Lol I remember opening them years ago, cause I wanted to know how the lightning bolts worked on one of the humanX levels

 

[Pharaoh_]

Yeah, this is kind of known. But if you find it new, someone else also will, so I encourage you to post this info in the Tutorials Submission.
It will go down and down in this chaotic forum and it will be not really useful, unless someone performs a search.

 

[Berb]

Another useful section to add to the imaginary Frequently Asked Questions sticky. Its not useful enough (nor significant enough) to find its way into the tutorials section, though it is still "useful" in some sense. Too bad.

 

[Pharaoh_]

It really is simple; well, you can ask a moderator and if it is indeed to simple, you can add some extra features concerning the theme you are about to "teach" people.

 

[Berb]

The only tutorial I could find on this site regarding MPQs is a tutorial on how to extract files from an MPQ. I really don't know a whole lot about MPQs, but there really isn't much to know, so I suppose I could explain it explicitly for the uber-newbs.

 

[Teelo]

My understanding is its just a Blizzard version of a .zip or .rar file?

 

[Berb]

I guess so. Its just a library of game-data that is specific to blizzard entertainment. They seem to have a lot of their "own" formats. MPQs really aren't stressful enough to require their own tutorial though, since MPQs are pretty much just a list of files.

 

[Teelo]

Hmm. Did you ever find the campaign files for frozen throne?
I'm trying to look up one of the levels, but they don't seem to be in war3x.mpq

Edit: Okay thats because they're in war3xlocal.mpq and need a complete listfile to see them.

 

[Eonflare]

Now if only someone would say how to actually make a custom campaign out of the original campaign files. As they are, they'll always try to load the original campaign maps even if they aren't on your custom campaign list.
Haven't seen an answer to that one for years.