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- Level Master(tm) III for WarCraft(tm) II
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- Instructions
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- To run the Level Master(tm) CD, follow the instructions for
- your operating system below:
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- 1. Type the letter of your CD ROM drive and press Enter.
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- (e.g. "D:", Enter)
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- 2. Type "DOSRUN" and press Enter.
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- **Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups
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- 1. Open File Manager.
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- 2. Change the active drive to your CD-ROM drive.
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- 3. Double-click on the WINRUN.EXE file.
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- 1. Choose File, Run from the Program Manger menus.
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- 2. At the "Command Line" prompt, type "D:\WINRUN.EXE".
- (If your CD-ROM drive is not drive D:, substitute its
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- 1. Choose Run from the Start menu.
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- 2. At the "Command Line" prompt, type "D:\WINRUN.EXE".
- (If your CD-ROM drive is not drive D:, substitute its
- drive letter for "D".)
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- 3. Press Enter.
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- Note: If you have Auto Insert Notification
- active for your CD-ROM drive, the WINRUN program
- will start when you insert the Level Master(tm)
- CD.
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- Tip: Print this file for a handy reference to
- the Level Master CD.
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- Level Master[tm] III for WarCraft[tm] II
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- Welcome to Macmillan Digital Publishing USA's Level
- Master[tm] III for WarCraft[tm] II! This product provides
- you with everything you need to modify WarCraft II worlds
- and create your own. It also provides an excellent
- "construction" guide written by WarCraft pros, sample levels
- to illustrate the concepts covered in the guide, and
- hundreds of free levels that you can use to experiment with
- and play. This document describes the contents of the CD and
- helps you get started. It's a good idea to open this file in
- your word processor and print it for easy access.
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- CONTENTS
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- ***Level Master[tm] III for WarCraft[tm] II Construction
- Guide
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- This electronic guide, by Cordell Falk and David Teran,
- covers all the ins and outs for editing and creating
- WarCraft pud files. The authors provide overall map-design
- philosophy, as well as easy-to-follow instructions for
- actual map editing and construction. They cover both single-
- player missions and multiplayer maps and provide 30 custom
- maps that illustrate all the key concepts covered in the
- guide. (These custom maps are located in the /maps/promaps
- directory.) As a bonus, Cordell and David also include
- general information and tips about WarCraft II gameplay and
- strategy.
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- Note: This guide is provided in TXT format,
- which you can view with any word processor, and
- also in HTML format, so you can choose to view
- it with the Web browser of your choice
- (including the one on this CD). The HTML version
- has hot links for easy navigation. You can find
- the TXT version is in the /guide/txt directory,
- and the HTML version in the /guide/html
- directory.
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- ***30 Instructional Maps from the Pros
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- These maps illustrate the important concepts covered in the
- construction guide, in addition to being excellent levels to
- play. These maps are in the /maps/promaps directory.
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- ***Deluxe Five-Mission, Single-Player Campaign: The Legend
- of Alexstraza
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- This outstanding campaign was designed and implemented by
- the authors of the construction guide and represents some of
- the finest WarCraft II editing seen to date. See the
- readme.txt file in the /maps/legend directory for more
- commentary on this campaign and then see what true "Level
- Masters" can do in WarCraft II!
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- ***Over 320 Other WarCraft II PUD Files
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- These levels come from WarCraft II enthusiasts from around
- the world. This collection of free levels includes over 200
- single-player missions and multiplayer maps for 2 through 8
- players. The levels are organized in the /maps directory by
- number of players: /1player, /2player, /3player, etc. There
- are also directories for levels only for the WC2 expansion
- (/expansn) and another mission series that provides
- interesting multimedia plot development (/revenge). Of
- course, the /maps directory contains all the authors' levels
- (see above).
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- Note: To play custom levels in WarCraft II, you
- need to have the levels and any related files
- that come with them (such as sound or graphics
- files) in your /warcraft directory. Choose the
- Custom option when starting a game, then choose
- the Select option, and select the level you want
- to play from the list.
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- PROGRAMS
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- ***WAR2XED.EXE (/programs/war2xed)
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- War2xEd is an unofficial WarCraft II PUD editor. Using
- War2xEd, you can edit PUDs to an amazing degree: give mages
- dragon breath, make bridges that both land units and sea
- units can cross, use the swamp terrain and all the Expansion
- Set heroes, and select among nearly a hundred AI types! If
- you want to make an exceptional PUD, War2xEd is for you.
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- War2xEd is a 32-bit windows program written for Windows 95.
- To use War2xEd, you need Windows 3.11, Windows 95, or
- Windows NT. If you are using Windows 3.11, be sure to
- install Win32s 1.3.
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- To install War2xEd, copy "war2xed.zip" into your WarCraft II
- directory, and decompress it with subdirectories. You can do
- this with pkunzip by typing "pkunzip -d war2xed.zip", or
- with WinZip 6.0 or above by clicking on "war2xed.zip" and
- then the "extract" button.
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- To run War2xEd, click on War2xEd.exe in your WarCraft II
- directory using Windows 95 or the Windows 3.11 program
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- ***STRED.EXE (/programs/stred)
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- This is one of the most interesting utilities that we've
- ever seen for WarCraft II. This file extracts a text file
- from the game files themselves, which contains the listing
- of names for every unit in the game. You can modify this
- list to your liking and then reintroduce it into the game,
- thus changing the name of the unit as it appears in the
- game. It does not, however, change the text that appears
- when building a unit, as in "train grunt".
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- ***TERRAIN.EXE (/programs/terrain)
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- This is a program you can run from the command prompt that
- allows you to change the terrain type of a mission. If you
- own the WarCraft II expansion CD, it also lets you use the
- swampland terrain. Of course, you cannot use the editor to
- modify a swampland mission without first changing it back to
- normal.
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- ***WC2CRACK.EXE (/programs/wc2crack)
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- This file will alter the resource levels in a saved game to
- two billion of each resource type.
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- ***PUDEDIT.EXE (/programs/pudter)
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- This utility loads up a .pud file by breaking down each
- "square" of the map into hexadecimal codes pertaining to
- various things, such as terrain type and unit A.I. This can
- be confusing to work with at times and requires a strong
- knowledge of placement on a particular mission. In fact, I
- would recommend writing down the X, Y coordinates of the
- areas that you wish to change before toying around. While
- this utility does have some interesting uses, it requires a
- lot of time to make extensive edits.
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- ***PEACE.EXE (/programs/peace)
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- This file contains an executable that can be used to
- "decompile" the files in the game with the .war extension
- (those in your /warcraft/data directory).
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- ***Editing Tools
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- A handful of graphic and sound editors round out your level
- editing toolbox.
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- Alchemy Mindwork's Graphics Work Shop (programs\gws) allows
- you to easily view and convert graphic images, while GIF
- Construction Set let's you test out graphic animations.
- There are three versions of Graphics Work Shop on the CD,
- one for DOS (in the DOS directory), one for Windows 3.1 (run
- the GWSWIN11.EXE setup program), and one for Windows 95 (run
- the GWSW95.EXE setup program).
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- Andrew Bulhak's WHAM (Waveform Hold and Modify) sound editor
- (\programs\wham) let's you professionally master new sounds
- for your new levels.
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- OTHER STUFF
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- ***Keyboard Shortcuts
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- The /misc/keyshort directory contains two files: humans.txt
- and orcs.txt. These two files contain listings for every
- keyboard shortcut that is usable during the game. If you
- prefer to use the keyboard play method, you should print out
- these files and keep them close at hand.
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- ***Altering the Color of Your Name
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- The colors.txt file (/misc/colors) contains instructions for
- how to alter the color that your name will appear in during
- multiplayer games. Alterations must be made through DOS, not
- through Windows, and involves a change to the WAR2.INI file,
- so be careful!
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