Illegal (I'm pretty sure). Using third party programs breaks the EULA, I believe.
The fact is, as everyone has said, no body cares!
People who edit maps without permission are likely to get frowned on by the author, yes. But in my opinion, it's still a strange honour that someone values your map that much. But that's off topic, I'm pretty sure.
should have been givving credits to blizzard on bnet..
its only the terrain blizzard made for a campaing i want to use..
but dont want to loos my account or so..
dint knew mpq editors where 3rth maprty programs..
think i will remake the terrain then..
as best as i can becous i sort of suck at terraining
If you want to use the terrain from a map that blizzard made I don't think they would care about it. Besides, i think all the maps blizzard made are unprotected?
Yes, its ok to use standard wc3 maps and mod them. Thats like blizzard trying to say its bad mojo to modify starcraft maps. How many Temple maps were there? How many BGH mods?
The maps are unprotected and selectable in WE. Use them. Giving credit is a respect thing. Its not required by the ToS for the game. You don't even have to give credit to modelers, iconists, trigger writers or skinners but you will quickly become known as a "skirker?" In otherwords, the community of hard working mappers, etc.. will dislike you and refuse to help you. You may even end up as the butt of the joke on someones map.
When giving credit, you dont have to put it on the loading screen. You can put it in the game or as end game credits. As long as they get credit somewhere, then they should be happy. I wouldnt waste my loading screen on credits when its needed to explain the basics of gameplay or the intro storyline and I wouldnt expect anyone else to sacrifice an idea over a credit.
Thats what end game movie credits are for or periodic text in-game. But the point is, you can modify blizzard maps without any worries. Not sure about campaign maps, but standard melee maps are free game just like starcraft maps.
Ghan has said he has fixed this. Monovertex please confirm this fix. This was only a problem with people that had signatures in the upper levels like not the special members but the respected members.