Hiding a portion of the .j file

[black.sheep]

I have heard somewhere (Can't remember where) that its possible to hide the .j file of a wc3 map. However this is reversible, and is easily detected.
However, would it be possible to only hide a small portion of the file, meaning I could hide triggers that would uncover a secret item, while leaving the rest opened.

 

[saw792]

'Hiding' means moving it to Scripts\war3map.j instead of war3map.j in the map MPQ. Except that now does virtually nothing, since everyone expects it to be done. No, you cannot split up your .j file.

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[Azlier]

I think it would be fun to see if hiding everything except the main and config functions inside blizzard.j would actually work .

 

[Jesus4Lyf]

I think it would be fun to see if hiding everything except the main and config functions inside blizzard.j would actually work .

Hell yea! I reckon you could decrease your map load time for free by moving everything from war3map.j to blizzard.j except init and main.

As long as you ban BJs.
Completely.

 

[black.sheep]

'Hiding' means moving it to Scripts\war3map.j instead of war3map.j in the map MPQ. Except that now does virtually nothing, since everyone expects it to be done. No, you cannot split up your .j file.

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Damn, that ruins my plan to sneakily hide a sneaky secret item in my game.
Okay... Is it possible to make a item ID harder to find?

 

[saw792]

Change it from 'I000' or whatever to it's actual base 10 equivalent?

call BJDebugMsg(I2S('I000'))

to get the actual integer. Otherwise you could sum some random numbers together to make the id...

 

[black.sheep]

Yeah, I think the coversion idea would work. Any other ways to make the string harder to read?

 

[Viikuna]

Make some shit as long novel length text with thousands of characters and use several Substrings to get right characters out of it and use those to contruct the string you need.

Lol, protection like this seems kinda useless to me, because if someone really wants to breake it he eventually does. I just dont know why someone would like to do it in the first place.

 

[lovexylitol]

Change it from 'I000' or whatever to it's actual base 10 equivalent?

call BJDebugMsg(I2S('I000'))

to get the actual integer. Otherwise you could sum some random numbers together to make the id...

Just in case, Vextorian's Map Optimizer can do this for you. Moreover, there are several tweeks availible to make your code quite un-readable.

 

[Tru_Power22]

You could also obfuscate you jass, making it a pain in the ass to read.

 

[Jesus4Lyf]

Don't worry, if I want your secret item, I'll still get it.
(Search for CreateItem.)

 

[WilliamPa]

Get hex editor and fuck up the map header most haxers will be pissed off then x)

I am not included in those people, since i can open it anyways