![]() ![]() “C:/THE RACE MOD” was a copy of my Warcraft 3 installation that included a modified “war3patch.mpq” to allow me to play our custom races with family. ![]() The modding that had caused me to reinstall was simply opening “war3patch.mpq” and adding my favorite custom models, which had created numerous issues.So it was about this time that I began making many copies of the game. As I began developing the custom races, this was in a map called “Maps/Download/New Race Test Map Retera.w3x” and soon I created copies like “Maps/Download/New Race Test Map Retera 2.w3x” and I used this as the main staging point for my changes for a very long time.But, we wanted to be able to play the custom races on any map file, so I began experimenting with SEMPQ technology and with modding the game client itself more deliberately. Each of these sub-folders had its own “Download” folder with all of the maps played socially with friends and family. This created an incentive for me to create many copies of the game installation, each with their modified MPQs and different lists of races.Īt some point I had messed with my game too much, so I reinstalled the game and I placed the backup of my old Maps folder in “Maps/FrozenThrone/Maps”.So now, if I wanted to play really old maps, I could go to “Maps/FrozenThrone/Maps/dellmaps/” and if I wanted maps from the more recent era, I could go to “Maps/FrozenThrone/Maps” and if I wanted the latest and most relevant maps I could go to “Maps/”. And in those same directories we had custom maps.This XP computer lasted for a long time and then I started doing like you describe, adding custom races for my cousins/brothers for years. So then if I wanted to play Warchasers, for example, I could go to “Maps/dellmaps/Scenario/(4)Warchasers.w3m” to play it, or also “Maps/Scenario/(4)Warchasers.w3m” to play it. Some of the other family computers had copied folders like “dellmaps” on their desktop or Maps folder, or “testdell”.These migrated into my new Warcraft III Maps folder on my new XP setup when we fixed everything in 2004-2005. We were able to restore some of the maps. Since then, in 2004, I did not mess around with worthless “map protection” file corruption tools.So, in 2004 we had set me up with a new hard drive. The only version of the map that continued to exist was protected, even from myself. In the following months, my computer hard drive died. ![]() ![]() Soon we had a family fleet of computers where each person could play Warcraft 3.This went on for a while, until I created my first favorite big RPG map and I learned how to protect it with a map protector. It was too much fun, so each time the family bought a new better computer we kept the old ones. This is YEARS AND YEARS of work, how do I get them back?EDIT: All my object data is gone too! Okay, no offense Alec2cool but i did something similar and here’s how it went for me:As a kid, I had a dell Windows XP computer where we had Warcraft 3 as a family. However, I did find them in the same folder they’ve always been in and tried to open them up from there but it just loads the blank map from when you start up the world editor. When I go to load them WITHIN the world editor, they dont show up. I add races, remove them, balance them and so on, been doing this for YEARSI found out just now that I can no longer load them on the World Editor, after spending 10+ minutes looking for them mind you. Its just warcraft III melee with more races. I’ve made custom maps for my cousin and brothers and I for years. ![]()
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