Before i get yelled at, these are MY maps i’m talking about. I’ve been gone for 10+ years as has most of the community and would like to edit the maps i made. Unfortunately with the time that passed i don’t have the same computer and therefore all of my unprotected versions are gone… Is there a tool that is used that actually works to unprotect maps?
i know it has been done, but you probably need to ask around on sites like hive workshop.
So, this is not allowed to be discussed on the Hive workshop. It is against site rules to discuss this topic, and has been for a long time.
Maybe join the Hive discord and other Wc3 discord servers and pick out users who might be able to help you, then quietly approach them in private. I wouldn’t see much good in becoming a public violator of site rules.
The concept of map protection, by the by, is somewhat bogus. It depends on making the World Editor crash on your input data but making the game not crash. And there are multiple ways to corrupt a map file. Helping you would be difficult without knowing what way you corrupted the map.
Since this isn’t the Hive workshop I’ll admit that I have helped a user once or twice before on discord a little bit in this regard, but what I found was that I know means to modify their map without the World Editor quite easily but that getting them to do what I was doing is not so easy. Furthermore, rebuilding the map as a World Editor input file might not be easy. I did not expressly do that for them, because in some cases it might not be possible to use an automated solution to regenerate World Editor information if that information actually no longer exists.
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General Rule is that you cannot unprotect a map. You can Deprotect it, what is something different. Alot of data, especially from the object editor might have been widgetized and usually can’t be converted back to be readable by editor convienantly. But you can ofcourse restore gui/jass and your terrain.
Thanks for the input guys, i’ll keep researching.
Depends on the map difficulty. If you are trying to deprotect the hardest maps you will need months of learning just to be able to do it…