How do i Protect a map, and open a protected map ?

I wondered over, how do you even protect your map so NONE can open your map, and how you then can open a protected map, i wanna know how, so i made this topic

pls answar





!!!REMIMDER!!!

I will not use this for hacks, or for my own greadyness.

There is no way to make your map 100% unopenable by everyone, if wc3 can play it then it can be opened to be edited with the right stuff
To protect your map from most people you can use this http://www.wc3c.net/showthread.php?t=79326 i dont know if it still works but it should

Make sure everything is checked in that program when you save the map, also make sure you save the map with a different name so you cant confuse it with or overwrite the original map
I liked to put prot- in the name
That program will also decrease the size of your map so you can make the map larger then the max wc3 can play as long as it becomes less then that max after you use that program


Im not going to tell you how to deprotect a map, just dont lose your original and youll never need to deprot
Even if you did deprot your original it would all be in jass and would be unreadable to you, especially if you used the GUI to make all the triggers because GUI triggers in jass turn out using variables that wont make sense, even to people that know jass

ok ty pat

why even protect a map these days. What a person going to do with a stolen map.....

i dont know, change the path, the name, the units and the runners = new map :p

i think bacon was getting at something different haha

and pat, are triggers hand written in jass re-written into more blizzardy jass after deprotecting?

Most hand written jass is left as is, its all put into 1 big trigger though so theres no organization to any of it

Certain functions are changed, i cant remember which but i know the ones from blizzard.j are
Those are still readable by someone experienced in jass though

Its the variables that the editor makes that get changed into unreadable nonsense
Like if you create a unit group without manually declaring a variable for it that group is a variable created by the editor in the jass but you wont know what its referring to because its not in the location where the unit group is made and its name wont be helpful at all


But it is a lot easier to read hand written jass from a deprot map then it is to read GUI converted jass