Protecting a map

[bowser499]

Hi all.
Please say me how to protect a map in the way that MPQ editors just can't open it?

 

[Ghan]

There is no way I know of to protect a map such that the MPQ file is unreadable. Warcraft III must be able to read the MPQ file in order to play the map, and consequently, an MPQ editor will be able to as well. You can obfuscate the map file such that the world editor cannot open it, however.

 

[Romek]

I remember reading something a while back about there being a value in the header of MPQ files which stores how many files there are in the archive, which only MPQ editors use.

Edit: http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php/152954-map-protection?p=1263877#post1263877