Want to change some units' stats

[Erenussocrates]

Hey guys, I've just recently registered here. I've always wanted to make some small modifications to my Battle.net Edition campaigns. That's what I wanted to do.
Namely 5 tides of darkness heroes, uther, lothar, zuljin, chogall and guldan, I want to make some changes in their stats in those campaign missions, and if possible, maybe even add some of them to the beyond the dark portal campaign maps as well.
I've thought that this kind of modification might be an easy task.

So, is there anyone who could show me the ropes and show me how I can learn to do it?

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You could extract the map out of mpq make the unit changes and put then back into mpq

[Erenussocrates]

Hmm. How could I do that?

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Get a MPQ editor.

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/tools-560/ladiks-mpq-editor-32bit-249562/
http://www.zezula.net/en/mpq/download.html

Open Ladik's MPQ Editor for example. Click the tools tab > click add > navigate to the path where you downloaded the ATTACHED list file below > click ok



Time to edit WarCraft II!

File > Open MPQ > Go to where WarCraft II is installed > Open war2dat.mpq



You can extract these maps and change them and place them back. BOOM done. Go play your custom campaigns. If you would like to change other things such as text, you would need a .bin editor.

[Erenussocrates]

It gave me that error when I tried to implement war2_data.txt

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Try to run mpq as admin??? Hmmm

[SmurfKinG]

tupac can a unit or building cost or buildtime be modified from within the core of the game. (i.e. not in just one pud)

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Pretty sure never really tried, but you would drop unless someone had your custom exe.

[Erenussocrates]

Try to run mpq as admin??? Hmmm

I cannot run it as administrator. I can only add it to MPQEditor.
I mean, it's not a program by itself anyways.
Edit: I tried running MPQ Editor as administrator, but the result didn't change.

I wonder what are the pcx and xxx files.

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Yes try to run mpq editor as admin.. okay the file looks broken for you for some reason. Try a different mpq editor or list file. Once it works those files become known and listed correctly. It Explains all the different files in there. The games uses these files and most of then can be edited.

Edit that screen shot showed you you opened the mpq from war2 then tried to add the listfile... that might cause the error don't open it unless you setup the listfile...

List files http://www.zezula.net/download/listfiles.zip

[Erenussocrates]

Sorry for the late reply. I will try my hand at this once again. I want to download the game from your site (I had downloaded it from somewhere else years ago, and that might have been the problem), but the downloads are gone from the download section? (print screen in the attachment)

[mousEtopher]

The FTP server is currently down, here's an alternate link.

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If you need more help let me know.

[Erenussocrates]

Okay. I am able to extract those files, but I don't know how to put them back in the same .mpq file again. If I can change those files, and put them back to the .mpq together with the listfile, maybe I can retain both the changes I made to the map, and both the original scenario objectives. Because when I attempt to play those campaign maps in custom game, they had no scenario objectives anymore.

Edit: I tried deleting the old campaign map in .mpq, and readding the modified .pud into .mpq. But when I tried to open the mission in campaign, it gives critical error and crashes.

Edit 2: This time, I didn't open any maps with world editor. I opened 1st mission of orc tides of darkness campaign with udtaed, and made some unit stat modifications only, to see if it would work this time. But when try to open the mission it still gives the same critical error. My work is getting desperate here.


Plus, I didn't understand what exactly I have to do with the listfile. Do I have to add it to .mpq each time I opened/made a modification in .mpq file? Also I see multiple listfiles, one belonging to the original game, and one that you probably sent me. It's confusing.

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Shows me some screen shots, or maybe we can TeamViewer and I will see your problem.