The World Editor Tutorial Site - FAQ, Tutorials, and More
This is the map making tutorial page for Warcraft III and The Frozen Throne. Here you can find vast knowledge about the Warcraft III World Editor and Warcraft 3 itself. These comprehensive Warcraft III World Editor tutorials will aid you in the Warcraft 3 map development process and also facilitate the learning of the advanced abilities of the Warcraft 3 Editor.

World Editor FAQ
Frequently asked questions about the World Editor.

Tutorial News and Updates
All tutorial news, updates and announcements are posted in our World Editor News forum.

Tutorial Submission
We accept submitted tutorials from the community. Upon approval, all tutorials are subject to revision for clarity and for web formatting. Credit is given to the original author when the work is approved.

You should write the tutorial in text and submit your screenshots with it all zipped up (mark where the screenshots go in the text). If your tutorial needs revisions, we will work with you to get it posted.

Many Thanks,
-SD_Ryoko and TheHelper.net community.

QUESTIONS POSTED IN THIS THREAD WILL NOT BE ANSWERED YOU MUST START A NEW THREAD!!!

• Do not post questions in this thread.
• Do not post telling others not to post.

In summary: It's a work in progress! :-)

And yeah I know I'm silly to ask you wtf hero taverns were before reading the tute site, my bad :-)

nice. r u gonna add more? cause that is very nice. i wish there was a way people could find it without having to come to this site tho. cause it is very useful.


and the second con of map protecting. u said that people can't learn from ur map. people really won't care if any one else learns. i hate that cause i have tryed to learn so many different things but i couldn't.




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o yea and i found out every time u go to the site the vistitor number goes up by 2. cause i wanted to see if u did that thing that checks the comps serial number so that if the same guy keeps coming then the number doesn't go higher for him. but it kept going up by 2?

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Yes, it stores IP number and doesn't go up if its the same.

I need to move it to an index page, because its on every page as it stands. Its ok for today though.

It goes up by two because someone else is browsing it.

Small tweak.

It was a quick conversion of CGI to PHP, and I'm new to PHP. Give it time

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Dont worry about people finding it. TheHelper is doing a great job of promoting the site on outside sources & search engines. When theres more complete, I will advertise it on other forums as well.

I am pretty sick. I slept from 6:00pm to about 3am last night. Sleepless, I posted a new tutorial on loading screens.

If that interests you, check it out.

k i want to check that out.





dude most comps have it so their settibg is obtain ip adress automaticly. mine changes every month. but the counter is nothing so its all good. lol


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nice loadng screen tutorial. i know now how to make one. thx so much.


btw it is gonna suck when some of those websites go under construction and it sends u to the page that says the page could not be found. cause even after its done with construction u may need to find a new site to get the tools to dl.

Ya when it comes down to it, experience shows that a small hit counter like that will NEVER be the same as the actual hits, as hits come from allover the place & search engines. Even if I used the cookie-counter I have, which uses cookies, it won't be the same.

It just looks cool

YW loading screen.

Yes I know the links may not be good forever, but we've pretty much decided not to use our side as an upload/download site, for bandwidth and space reasons.

k yea. but then later it won't be cool. if u can't get the tools. cause even the loading screen thing can never be done without the tools.

I added a new tutorial about importing models to the site.

This tutorial is hard core, and if you ever had questions about importing models, this should answer it.

In the event it DOESN'T, I'll add to it. Mu ha ha ha !

just wondering if you can still have the campane words over the loading custom screen?
RL-STYLE

You know what? I didn't try it.

Once we have an answer I will make a small revision.

yes.

Attached Images

 

yea u can. hey thats my loading screen. sorta. cause i m having problems with size but i will make sure to look at ur website and see if there is anything that will help me.

Your tutorial realy helps!
Thanks a lot!
Hope you could help me to make a trigger for...
Enemy computer spawned in a region then attack move to a region.
The spawn start should be triggered after the last human player picked its hero.(I learned how to make arena from you also
While, the succeding spawns and attack of the next enemy units should be triggered by the death of all the previously spawned units.
Please help master! I have the Idea how it will work but i dont know how to put it into programs.
I hope you could help me finish my map... I will thank you also there to give you credit ofcourse for helping newbie like me.

Check out this thread.
http://www.thehelper.net/forums/sho...ighlight=common

I don't have a write up for movement units / aos / td yet.

Leaderboards and stuff near future.

Is the tutorial site you made down, SD_Ryoko? I have been trying to access it for the last 2 days, but it comes up telling me this page does not exist =/

Yes, there was some type of domain screwup or hack, and we had 3 sites down.

TheHelper is working on it; Apologies for any inconvenience.

The tutorials site is back up and running.

The latest addition is a World Editor TD Tutorial

Great site the tutorials are great... except one the one on skins

in it u show how to edit using ulead, and u say certain areas are already outlined (this seems only true for ulead) i am using photoshop 7 (it can open and save tga) and these out lines dont appear, what do u click on to make them appear?

other then that amazing site.

Why doesnt the leaderboard in your tutorial work?
I copied it perfect but it didnt work it only showed the player number and NOT the kills. i used darg's leaderboard and it worked great and found out the problem with urs. im not going to tell you because as you said ''people have to figure it out themself'' so thats that.

Btw ur maps are really cool.

Thts for Sd_Ryoko

ULEAD was the only program I've used so far that saves the selected areas like that. This is why I use and recommend it.
Perhaps Photoshop can save a selection area, but if it doesn't show them when you open the file, odds are it cannot.



Its working for me right now. Something might have gotton mixed a little on accident when I reformated it to HTML. Also the conditions are map specific. I did change it around a little; my map keeps tabs on four teams.

Sorry but you will have to repost - Make a new post in the forum and not in response to this thread. Thank You. The Helper

I discovered the World Edit Tutorial before the helper!!!!
I googled editor help, or something like that... and the tutorial site was on the google list, and then i linked from that site to the helper.net

Just so you know that the search engines are nifty for the tutorial site.

Nice websites all around

Hello, I just joined this forum because I looked at the whole site and it is very kick ass! The World Editor Tutorials are very nicely put together and very helpful.

(Question moved to another thread - Ryoko)

G'day.

Some short comments about the tutorial site.

The tutorial site has also gotton some new looks & news. I've added some new artwork and features. A lot of time has been spent working on this site, and hopefully our users apreciate the time spent. So check it out when you have some spare time.

As you may know, we've added a new tutorial recently. If your impressed, take the time to post a nice comment or hand out a rep point to the author. Our writers spend a lot of time on these for others in the community.

Remember we do accept submitted materials and artwork for the site. If you have any ideas please ask first.

Any comments, suggestions or feedback is always welcome. If you have any technical problems with the site, please inform us.

Happy Mapping.

After reviewing a few tutorials I managed to figure out how to make cutscenes pretty well, thing is whenever I create a custom unit whom is the source of the scene the portrait is blank afterwards. I have no idea how this is. Also, I can't seem to figure out how to do certain quests. Such as a Hunting quest, or a quest where you have to mark the first requirement as completed. I can't figure out how to do that either that and it's frustrating me to no end trying to figure it out, I know I might have to use variables to get the quests down but I haven't figured out how they work yet...and I'm clueless as to why the game protraits of the units that speak in cutscenes appear as blank in the gameworld.

Is anybody planning to ever make a tutorial for the ability/buff/effect editor? I know it's a ton of work, but personally, I'm "ability-challenged" and could use some help. Is there anybody else out there that is in my situation?

Ability challenged, haha. I'm pretty much finished with the Cinematics Tutorial, which I haven't submitted yet because the damn website is eating up all my time. There's another thing to add to the demo map.

Also, check my thread 'Channel Tutorial'. That should help ya.

Silverhawk: start a new thread and tell us what you are trying to do and maybe we can help.

Is there any demand out there for a tutorial on multiboards? I thought if there was I would write one. Post back and let me know.

I think Ryoko has done something about it somewhere, but I haven't read it yet. I was going to do something after I got my new comp. But you seem like a cool guy and all so if you've got free time then go for your life :-)

Another guy was working on one too, but I havn't heard any results for a longgggg time.

1. I don't care who submits first, I'm hot for it, and still havn't gotton one.

2. Here is a post I made, with good pictures you might wanna use.
http://www.thehelper.net/forums/sho...mple+multiboard

3. There is an example in my Free Trigger Code thread map (second to last post?) It does names, Icons, Kills. If you DL it, pick it apart, and use it for the tutorial, that would be wonderfull and correlate very well with the sample.

4. When we do a tutorial like that, we copy-paste the link to that (post or attachment file) and include it in the tutorial, saying something like "Please see example map found in Free Trigger Code thread"

Ok then. I guess I'll write one when I'm finished with my map. Don't know how long that will take though; depends on how soon I fix the abilities...

I see you found the new smilie we uploaded yesterday :-) Many of us will be making great use of it :-)

looking forward to your contributions re: tutorials

Just a general question, probably for Ryoko:

To write a tutorial, do we have to write it in HTML or anything like that? Any particular guidelines (besides accuracy obviously)?

I can answer generally - you should write the tutorial in text and submit your screenshots with it all zipped up (mark where the screenshots go in the text). If it seems good I am sure the World Editor Tutorial guys would work with you to get your tutorial up. They are going to want it in there format though so no point in you HTML'ing it unless you can use the exact same style that is currently used.

How do I make a regular unit such as a peasant worker get experience from killing things and leveling up like that? And how would I make his skills be available to him when he levels like a hero would? Can someone help me please!

koolkid343 Make a separate Topic looking for help.. no one is gonna find it here.