Problems with protecting maps

Problems with protecting maps

everytime i protect a map, i can not get it to load in warcraft, as in the folder i put it in is blank. it wont show up there even though it is there

i have tried w3mutil, heavy locker, and adding the blank text doc named war3map.wtg, and every one of them will now show in in the map selection screen, does anyone know why?

Mtecting is bad. It ruins the data in your map.

wrong forum (skins) -> moved

the programs protect the map, but they are still not available in the list of maps in game so i can not play it......

Never had this problem before.
When protecting with heavy locker though, leave the " opt- "

wow sopho, you are the master... hah that little thing fixed my problem, i was trying to save it as something else, and it wouldnt show up.

when i left the opt- it worked great!
thanks much

Np, when you optimize your map with heavy locker (no map protection) don't then use W3M Map protection. It will crash W3M Map Utilities, rendering your map bugged - up to 2000MB (I did this once and was SHOCKING!)
A bug of course.

strange but now its not working again. i protect the map full lock, and preview mode only with heavy locker, and the map locks fine, but still wont appear in the list of maps when i load the game, even with opt- in the name.

now i dont know what to do again because is nice enough to not want newbie versions of it floating around...and i dont get how to use yamas open source protection

In heavy locker do full lock and leave everything else.

hey thanks for the help but heavy lock is bein jacked up, but luckily i found an even easier way that locks and only takes about 2 seconds to do. with the wtg file! is there any trouble with this method that you know of?

Haven't tried it but in my opinion, it may not be " strong " enough.

what kind of protection to you use? anything becides heavy locker? mine is just deleting the war3mpq.wtg with winmpq, then importing a blank text doc with that name in place of it

I use W3M Level 2 protector

where can i dl that? and the problem was that i had used the name protector in weu it works fins now

You can't download it on wc3sear but you can on wc3campaigns (tools forum)