Complete clean-up of a map: How to?

[Ouguiya]

Hello everyone!

I have been trying for the past few days (unsucessfully) to switch from WEU to JassNewGen and EGUI.

The problem? Plenty: Much unused and garbage code, variables which are completely useless, "Advanced" spells and the like which are not useable any more and so forth and so on.

Also, Jasshelper reports some strange syntax errors which I am completely unable to fix.

I have tried various things, but all have either failed, or didn't bring me much further (I should mention that I am quite a newbie when it comes to the technical stuff)

This is why I would like to try something a bit more... radical: Simply create a new map, and import everything which is important, and leave out everything from WEU.

This is where I need help, however.

If anyone could tell me all the files I would have to export from the Map-MPQ, and reimport in a new map (which has the correct boundaries), and which then would lead to the map saving itself correctly (without the garbage), I would be very grateful.

Likewise, if anyone has a simpler solution to this problem, I would also be glad to hear it.

Thanks in advance and of course +rep for the one who provides the solution.

Yours,

Ouguiya

 

[Lightstalker]

In WEU, is there an option that tells you what WEU features are being used by your map? If so, then just delete or change every WEU feature your map uses and import it.

 

[Ouguiya]

Hi there!

Not that I know of, unfortunatly.

WEU has this really weird way of going about it's business, by for example deleting the entire map header if you tell it to remove all WEU-stuff.

This leads to the map becoming unplayable.

I gave up looking for a "reverse" button in World Editor unlimited when it became obvious that the creator(s) of WEU didn't think that somebody would ever want to remove all the stuff from WEU.

Thus, my hope currently is that I simply export everything relevant from the map, and reimport everything later on then. This includes all the object data, trigger, placement of units, doodads, and rects, terrain and advanced game settings and gameplay constants, as well as player properties and map description.

what I would need to know for such a step is the files in which Warcraft saves all this, or, if Jassnewgen has such an option, how to access it.

Thanks again.

Yours,

Ouguiya

 

[wellwish3r]

can you maybe post the map, so we can play around with it? Maybe somebody figures out an easier way then redoing/im/exporting a lot of stuff.

 

[Ouguiya]

Hello again wellwish3r

I would prefer not to upload the map. Even though this might make solving the problem more difficult, I am sure you can understand that I don't necessarily want to upload into the internet a completely "naked" map.

I also hope that someone figures out an easier way to clean the map up, because right now, I am quite frustrated at being forced to continue to use WEU, since switching causes a lot of errors, and the loss of a few triggers which I all have to redo.

Thanks in advance,

Yours,

Ouguiya

 

[Ouguiya]

Bump.

Can anyone please give any more ideas?

Thanks

Yours,

Ouguiya