Which editor is better?

[Fang]

So I never use the new editor.
Which one is better UMSWE or the new version of normal WE?

 

[Rahko]

Better to just use the official WE. It’s been updated now so often, that most of the 3rd-party editors aren’t up to date with all the new features and improvements. I doubt they even work currently.

 

[Fang]

Does the new WE have a doodad limit?

 

[mogulkhan1Axe]

 

[Basileus Anthropon]

Or, if you still have an outdated version of Warcraft (in this case 1.29 and lower), you can use SharpCraft World Editor Extended Bundle instead. Else, use the original (vanilla) one.

 

[Fang]

Okay let me see... Wait does that editor have the custom UI thing?

 

[Pyrogasm]

I believe the UI functions were introduced in 1.29 so yes. They were definitely expanded upon and improved in later patches, though.

There aren’t many compelling reasons to use anything but the vanilla editor. It’s quite comprehensive now.

 

[chopinski]

I believe the UI functions were introduced in 1.29 so yes. They were definitely expanded upon and improved in later patches, though.

There aren’t many compelling reasons to use anything but the vanilla editor. It’s quite comprehensive now.

Except that if you create stuff using JASS or Lua you need to use a third party program to create the actual code because its been 1 year since we have no support for Code highlight and completion in the vanilla WE ahha. but @Pyrogasm is right, the new natives added and improvements mek the standart the go to editor.

 

[Pyrogasm]

God forbid you have to copy-paste from np++ occasionally.

 

[Drake53]

God forbid you have to copy-paste from np++ occasionally.

Right, and who needs source control when you can just manually backup all your files occasionally.

Ok serious talk now. The trigger editor is good for GUI, but otherwise you should seriously avoid it. Notepad++ at least has syntax highlighting, though I'd recommend VS Code or Visual Studio, since those have built-in source control as well. Assuming you're using vJass, VS Code should be the best, since I'm not aware of any vJass syntax highlighting plug-ins for Visual Studio.

Now, the problem is getting your source code into the trigger editor, WITHOUT copy-pasting. How to do this? Well, you don't.

What you should use instead is War3Net.Build. It's mainly intended for C#, but it also supports vJass (since it re-uses code from an earlier project of mine). If anyone's interested I can make an .exe for it, since it's only a library now and you have to create a launcher C# project to use it (so you need something like this, but with MapInfo.ScriptLanguage set to Jass instead of Lua).

 

[Swatosj]

If you use Notepad++ for triggers/scripts, @Nestharus has released a vJass plugin with syntax highlighter : JASS in Notepad++

You also benefit from the auto-completion.