Hey, wasn't sure where to make this topic so this will have to do.
I'm the creator of a fairly popular SC2 arcade map (Tech Wars 2). For a long time I didn't have any time to update it but now I do so I thought I'd make some minor changes.
Small problem: I don't have the map file any more.
I worked on this project with a co-creator, one of my oldest (internet) friends. He disappeared mysteriously about a year ago (I'm worried yes but no idea how to find him - I think he just decided to leave the internet and change everything irl), and all the map backups were on a shared google drive folder that he created. Now it's gone. Meanwhile, my macbook died a few months ago so I lost whatever was on there. I don't have *any* versions of the map as far as I know. Maybe a really old one on a harddrive somewhere in my parents' house 10,000km away :p
So obviously the map is still up on bnet and people are playing it, so it still exists. The question is - is there any way I can download my map from blizzard and open it for editing? The map is locked, unfortunately (actually I did unlock it a few versions ago but the other guy must have locked it again on an update).
Go to the download cache where the bnet maps go and locate the file for your map (it ends with .s2ma). Copy it to be worked on and use MPQ Editor to transfer all the elements (data terrain and text) to a new map. The map script can also be copied and inserted as galaxy into the new map but all the GUI stuff will need to be recreated. Function declarations will also need to be renamed.
Hey, wasn't sure where to make this topic so this will have to do.
I'm the creator of a fairly popular SC2 arcade map (Tech Wars 2). For a long time I didn't have any time to update it but now I do so I thought I'd make some minor changes.
Small problem: I don't have the map file any more.
I worked on this project with a co-creator, one of my oldest (internet) friends. He disappeared mysteriously about a year ago (I'm worried yes but no idea how to find him - I think he just decided to leave the internet and change everything irl), and all the map backups were on a shared google drive folder that he created. Now it's gone. Meanwhile, my macbook died a few months ago so I lost whatever was on there. I don't have *any* versions of the map as far as I know. Maybe a really old one on a harddrive somewhere in my parents' house 10,000km away :p
So obviously the map is still up on bnet and people are playing it, so it still exists. The question is - is there any way I can download my map from blizzard and open it for editing? The map is locked, unfortunately (actually I did unlock it a few versions ago but the other guy must have locked it again on an update).
Any suggestions, any ways around this?
Cheers,
Alex
Go to the download cache where the bnet maps go and locate the file for your map (it ends with .s2ma). Copy it to be worked on and use MPQ Editor to transfer all the elements (data terrain and text) to a new map. The map script can also be copied and inserted as galaxy into the new map but all the GUI stuff will need to be recreated. Function declarations will also need to be renamed.
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