WC3DataHost

WC3DataHost serving Mpq resources to and processing requests from web browser. Then you use WebBrowser to view War3 resource things.

Update: 2024-10-07: Mpq2Wc3data tool released, its under tool folder

Update: 2024-10-07: English version of wc3hostAssets published, wc3hostAssets of packed from War3 English

What supports

• Browsing W3X, W3M, MPQ, and CASC data in a tree structure and examining their contents.
• Displaying entire map terrains in a 3D view.
• Analyzing object data presented in tabular or textual formats.
• Inspecting core Warcraft data directly within your browser.

Quoting the original author:

This is essentially a rebirth of RMPQEx (if anyone recalls), fully transitioned to a web platform. All operations occur locally in your browser—the map files are never uploaded to the server. Data is cached locally for your convenience. Discover more at: https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/online-wc3-map-data-viewer.310774/

Run mpq viewer

1. Clone this repository
2. Download wc3hostAssets of packed from War3 English and extract it to somewhere. Chinese version: wc3hostAssets of packed from War3 Chinese
3. Add a env to point to the resource files.

export WC3DATA_HOME=~/wc3hostAssets/

• Assuming you append it to the ~/.bashrc, you'd run source ~/.bashrc to make it take effect.
• Then restart IDEA, if IDEA was started from a terminal, also restart the terminal.

4. Also copy the www folder in repository to the path which WC3DATA_HOME point to.
5. Compile and boot WC3DataHost with IDEA. Java version 17 is used to build and run this app.

• Q: But the wc3hostAssets already contains a www?

• A: If downloaed wc3hostAssets contains a www folder, its the initial version, later updates is go with git repository.

• Q: Which version of Warcraft Mpq data is in wc3hostAssets?

• A 1.27.1.7085 is provided for now. To pack your own version, see steps below.

• PS: I m not sure the version is really matched. You'd better be aware of this.

How do I know files prerequisites is satisfied.

Assuming you have set WC3DATA_HOME=~/wc3hostAssets/, also you put two folder there:

• files which is extracted from downloaded all-wc3hostAssets.zip
• www which is copied from this repository

Then you got files structures:

~/wc3hostAssets/
~/wc3hostAssets/files
~/wc3hostAssets/www

You got there if these file exists:

~/wc3hostAssets/files/images.dat
~/wc3hostAssets/www/index.html

How to generate wc3hostAssets by myself?

Files in www folder is dist from repository wc3data web project part.

Files in files folder is created by a tool which is in repository wc3data too.

For original source code of wc3data, see https://github.com/d07RiV/wc3data

By the way, I forked d07RiV/wc3data, to generate the files with forked version, follow the step below:

• Assuming you have a Warcraft III installation. TF version is supported, others is not promised.
• Leverage the bundled Mpq2Wc3data utility.
• Run with passing Warcraft III installation location, and an output location for the generated files.

cd Mpq2Wc3data
./main path/to/warcraft3/installation -o path/to/output/wc3data-files

# Example
./main "/data/WarCraft III/" -b 1.27.1.7085 -o wc3hostAssets

Still some works should be done to make my fork of wc3data available on GitHub. I will publish this tool later.

(Update: 2024-10-07: Mpq2Wc3data tool released, its under tool folder)

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