Where is my Vanilla World Editor?

[mildhits13]

Hi, I hope I'm doing this the right way since it's my first time asking in the forums. Last January 29, 2020 I updated my game to Reforged and I know that they have merged the vanilla Warcraft to the Reforged one but I can't seem to access the "vanilla" World Editor. Whenever I open World Editor it goes directly to the Reforged World Editor. Does anybody here know how to open the original WE?

 

[Ragnar9]

I am also looking for a way to open the classic editor as well. Ill let you know if i can find anything

 

[Rahko]

There is no "Vanilla World Editor". It's all in the one and same World Editor. If you want Classic Graphics, you have to go the Editor's options and choose SD as the mode.

 

[Ragnar9]

Where is that located? under which menu?

 

[Rahko]

It's launched from the Battle.Net Desktop App.

Edit: Oh, did you mean the SD graphics? Open the Editor and go to File -> Preferences... -> Asset Mode and choose SD.

 

[Ragnar9]

Sweet! thanks man. yeah i wasnt sure what SD vs HD meant

 

[mildhits13]

Hello everyone, A good person told me how to change the graphics already. Here's how you do it:

1. Open the World Editor thru Battle.net

2. Ontop of it click "File"

3. Now look for Preference and select it.

4. On the Preference you will see the Asset mode selection; in it you can choose HD or SD

HD - Reforged Graphics

SD - Classic Graphics

5. Once you've done that click "Ok" and restart the editor.

And you're good to go!

 

[Cespie]

Sweet! thanks man. yeah i wasnt sure what SD vs HD meant

HD is most likely "High Definition", so I am guessing that SD stands for "Standard Definition".

 

[Chaosy]

It stands for shit definition actually

 

[Cespie]

It stands for shit definition actually

Say that to my face, not online, see what happens!

 

[mildhits13]

SD actually means Supercool Definition

 

[Dr Super Good]

It was a nickname left over from the StarCraft remaster which kind of was in Standard Definition before the remaster. This term never applied to Warcraft III since Warcraft III supported high definition resolutions since launch. Internally it must have stuck around for a long time during development.

Technically the visual mode is "Classic" as opposed to the new visuals which are "Reforged". Both support high definition output unlike StarCraft or Diablo II which were locked to standard definition like resolutions (StarCraft64 existed).