HELP MY MAP IS PROTECTED!!!!

HELP MY MAP IS PROTECTED!!!!

Ok if this is the wrong forum just move it, but i was working on my map the other night importing skins and models and stuff, nothing out of the usual, when in the mourning i try to open the map, IT WAS PROTECTED!!!!!! So please please help me if you can, this was my best map and i have been working on for months and months and i dont want all that time of work to be for nothing, *note* i do have other saved ones but those are REALLY OLD, if i used them i would basically be starting the map all over.

what program did you use last on it?

Lol the map can't protect itself. What message did you receive when you tryed to open the map? Did you import invalid trigger data into the map?

-Rui

well it goes to loading map info and then it says level data info missing or invalid.

thats happend to me with a few models, did you import any models?

Open the map with winmpq and delete the imported files. See if that works. We will not go any further into how to unprotect a map. Like mentioned above, maps dont protect themsevles. If it is just a corrupt file or trigger, hopefully just doing that will solve the problem.
-VGsatomi

Yeah i imported quite a few models recently and i think that i can sort through which ones caused the problem, but umm vg. this is going to sound kinda dumb but what is winmpq? Or were do i go to, to find it.

ok i opened it and installed win mpq but I CANT UNDERSTAND WHAT ITS SAYING!, it is in a different language lol. Anything else that i can try?

you have to install winmpq?? i never installed it, and it works. i just open the winmpq.exe
and im pretty sure you can change the lanugage.

Language? It's in english for me. I didn't have to change it.
Install RunPack3 and Vbr4 and it will work i guess.
Then you Open your map, and there's war3map.wgt and all that things. Find the imported models and delete them. Before you do that, i think you should extract the models to somewhere in your system, or you will have to download them again. You should also create a text document and write the paths to the models' skins/textures.

-Rui