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• 07Dec

  How to open the Warcraft 3 World Editor?

  All Posts, Tutorial, Warcraft, World Editor

  Almost everyone knows how to open the World Editor. But there are still people who could use a few suggestions.

  Here is a screenshot of me, opening the editor from my Start Menu:

  

  How to open the World Editor

  You can also open the World Editor from the Warcraft III install path:

  

  World Editor.exe in the Warcraft 3 folder

  To verify that the World Editor is running, press CTRL+ALT+DEL and find worldedit.exe on the second tab's list:

  

  Check for worldedit.exe in the Task Manager

  If you don't have the CD, worry not! Patching the game to any version above 1.21b will allow you to play without the CD in your drive. Download the latest patch from Blizzard: link.

  Protected maps will crash your editor if you try opening them. This is not a bug. Read about map protection here. Examples: DotA, RPGs, 3ICE's Maze Designer, and most of my other maps. None of these maps will open in the World Editor. Deprotection is possible. Map makers usually protect their maps to prevent content theft or rigging.

  –3ICE

  Posted by 3ICE @ 2:14 pm

4 Responses

• ShadeZ Says:
  October 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am

  lol, kinda obvious o.o

• 3ICE Says:
  October 20th, 2010 at 1:24 am

  Not to the hundreds of people who emailed me about it so far. On average I get two emails a day asking how to open the editor.

  A lot of people are incredibly stupid.

  Or maybe I shouldn't say stupid…

  "A lot of people are incredibly inexperienced with computers."

  There we go, I can be sympathetic too.

• Erik Says:
  February 15th, 2011 at 10:09 am

  You gave a detailed explanation, but there is one problem: you assume that everyone playing the game is running a Windows OS. What about us that are running Mac OSX?

• 3ICE Says:
  February 15th, 2011 at 12:29 pm

  Hi Erik,

  Mac people should be able to run the Optimizer from inside a Windows emulator. I have never tried that though, as I don't have access to Macs anywhere. (Work/School/home - they all use PCs.)

  There are also MPQ editors available for Mac OSX, like MPQ Extractor:
  

  –3ICE

  Edited by 3ICE: It might be better to grab MPQKit and MPQFS instead. (From the same website.)
  And these MPQ editors are only useful if you choose to do manual protection.

  Edit #2: I remember reading that game development on a Mac is like hell, due to the lack of tools. Most map makers prefer Windows.

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