Warcraft 3 Maps

[Lida Rick]

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I have made a Sc2 map using the Wow character model package made by Zarakk You have a choice between playing as The Lich King, or, Lady SylvanasI have no knowledge of this game because i have a very bad internet connection (Hughes-net)so i cant do much.So for anyone who loves Wow but got a bad connection or don't want to pay the money?== THIS IS THE MAP FOR YOU!! ==Hope you like.

GOOD NEWS just found how big the file is and its only 11MB! oh and something i forgot to mention is its not exactly like wow its got good terrian the characters some buildings but there are no spells or any thing like that but if anyone wants to make it better feel free to d so.try joining my team mapmakers of starcraft 2. well have a lot of fun making maps and stuff there is also my forum for the team hoe you join!

um ill have it ready soon but no Promises when.You see like i said i have a very bad network that gives you a limited amount of MB you can download(300MB)so i cant upload or download much.i have a great gigabyte video card with awesome processer and loaded with memory.and i cant play this map because its too big for my memory.So what i'm going to try to do is get my brother to upload it to here because hes got cable.If everything works out ill have it ready for you this weekend but if not....very sorry...ill maybye get it to you in TWO WEEKS!!If anyone knows how to check to see how big a map is that would be == VERY ==helpful and then i maybye get it to you sooner i dont know though.

Getting into the issue, the problem regards the Warcraft 2 - Tides of Darkness/Beyond the Dark Portal. The game is running fine, the sound works fine, ten missions cleared (the first five of each race, in the Tides of Darkness) and no glich nor bug, nor crash found. Everything is beautyfull.

Now, the problem is when you choose "single player" and "custom scenario". As you may know, the game gives you the option to select "Built-in scenarios" or "Custom Scenarios" (being this ones, the ones you can create or edit using the War2Edit.exe).

Here is the issue: when I select "Custom Scenarios", the list is empty, and i cant click on the "Go one folder up" button. The built-in ones work fine.

The question would be, half game related, half dosbox related.

Yes, i'm using DosBox, version 0.72.

The emulation works 100%, in fact i'm very pleased to see that i've managed to avoid some really commun issues that other players have with this particullar game (constant crashs, no sound, insert cd prompt, etc)

However i didnt find anyone talking about playing custom maps.

The maps i cant seem to "find" are the ones that the program (warcraft II) loads from files that are outside of the game. Each of this maps is a diferent file, on a diferent folder.

I didn't try to play custom maps yet, but this looks like a mounting error. You're mounting "c:\juegos\warcraftii\war2" as c:\, which means the directory the game is installed to becomes c:\. But the game probably expects to be installed in a subdirectory of c:\, so you could try to mount "c:\juegos\warcraftii\" as c:\. This is just a guess, but trying the alternate mount may be worth a shot.

EDIT: just launched my copy of WC2, and it works as expected (i see all scenarios). I've installed the game to "c:\games\war2", where my virtual c:\ root is a folder on my hd i'm using like a hd. Damn, this is hard to explain in english (; - what i mean is that all my games are in a folder like "c:\dosgames", and i'm mounting that folder as c:\ in DOSBox. Beneath that folder there is the "games" directory with all games installed in separate folders (like "war2" in this case). In the WC2 config file, there are no references to the directory structure on the hd, there's only a reference to the CD drive letter, which is not relevant here, as the PUD's are supposed to be on the hd.

Thanks a lot for all your help. It was, indeed, a mount error, conclusion to wich i would never arrived by myself.

When i followed the last instrucctions given it recognised both "up folder button" and pud scenarios.

Im sorry but I have got exactly the same error as yourself. However I am less computer literate than you and am struggling to understand how this error was fixed. I have been trying despearatly for the last 2 days but cant my head round it.

I mount only my c:dosgames and then click cd until I get my war 2 folder but then when the game loads it doesnt recognise the cd. To fix this I have to only mount the whole folder then it loads but doesnt load puds. Is there a way I can fix this or I am doing it incoerrectly. Please Please help I so despearatly want to use the custom maps and I am sure there is a solution.

Hello-this makes the 2nd time I've posted to a blog so please be patient with me in case there's some protocol I'm not following well. I've got a question about a PCGame (War Craft II Tides of Darkness ((or TOD)) & Beyond the Dark Portal ((or BTDP)) Expansion Set). I downloaded the TOD first and played it but soon encountered inconsistent program shut down to the desktop, no warning or the game still playing. The same thing happened when I downloaded and got 3-4 campaigns into the BTDP expansion set. For both games, I'm to the point at each respective scenario I can't proceed b/c the game shuts down within 10 seconds to a black screen and then the desktop appears. Can anybody help me out??? Thanks if you can! I'm willing to pay money if someone has a solution. My f-in-law told me to reduce/change the graphics, which I did but to no solution. Please help!

Get a legit copy, that's probably a good start, also, you don't state if you're running it under DosBox or Windows or what, since you say it takes you to the desktop...

Warcraft 2 graphics can't be fiddled with, as far as I recall.

Like the poster above me stated, you should seriously get a legit copy. I myself would recommend the Battle.Net edition, as it runs natively on Windows, it doesn't have any of the speed issues that the DOS version has, the multiplayer has been improved, and the expansion pack is on the same disc as the base game, so there's no disc-swapping! Also, it's quite easy to find on Ebay, and it shouldn't run you more than 25 bucks. ?

It is important to note that most commonly used Tournament maps have a 2-letter abbreviation used by players when listing or discussing maps (e.g. AI for Ancient Isles, AZ for Amazonia, EI for Echo Isles, etc).

Or a Califonia or an Alaska map. All three are some of the biggest states the US has.

California is easy: remember the Barrens before Cataclysm? Walk and walk and walk...Biggest and diverse zone.

Yeah, I know that Alaska is the biggest state, but it's just Icecrown.

Who drew up the borders of these small east coast states again? I could do better drunk. Anyway, removed These Wow-style maps looks great!

Edit: It was criticism of the U.S that got removed. I do indeed think that the WoW-style maps looks great.

Starcraft 1.5: Fusion is a series of totally converted Warcraft III custom maps designed to feel and play exactly the same as Starcraft. The project currently has single player and multiplayer maps designed and based on the original and newest Starcraft games.

How are we all going? Well its been like 2 years since I did any work on my Starcraft maps project and that 2 year holiday break from making maps, I have been overseas and started working full time hours have enjoyed every minute of it.

As most of you know or should remember me saying on various sites that my maps project was completely lost in a graphics card failure which I stupidly formatted my main hard drive with everything I had worked on in the project, gone in seconds and the overwhelming headache of trying to resurrect the project from stretch was too much for me to deal with and so I basically left the maps in as they were in an unfinished state.

So fast forward to a week or so ago and while I was searching through so old files on my secondary hard drive (Which i used as a backup), What do you know, I found an unopened version of the Neo Lost Temple map which I could now edit and resurrect my maps project:). I have had a little play with the old maps just to see how well it fairs and there is plenty of work to be done but I am willing to try and improve the map further and I have already begun editing the old map and I have a few new ideas I would like to try out in the new map versions to make the maps more balanced and more fun to play.

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