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1.03 Warcraft III Data Format

Warcraft III Data Format has 8 differants format type.

• Integers

Integers are 4 bytes in Little Endian Order
Example : 1234 Not Equal [00 00 04 D2]h
1234 Equal [D2 04 00 00]h

• Small Integers

Small integers are from -16384 to 16383. They take 2 bytes and are in Little Endian Order.

• Reals

Reals are Floats. They take 4 bytes and are in Little Endian Order.
Example : 7654.32 ~ [8F 32 EF 45]h ~ 7654.319824
The last number is the closest number to 7654.32

• Arrays

1 Array take 1 byte

• UnitIds

UnitId Integers takes 32 bytes. (46656 possibilities, they are like normal Integers)

• Flags

Boolean, or "Flags", take 4 bytes. In those 4 bytes, there are 32 bit, which can contains 32 flags. Each Flag can contain only the value 0 (False) or 1 (True).

• Water

Water Level (In the terrain) takes 4 bytes every cell, it handles 2 bytes for a total of 16 flags, and the 2 lasts for the closest number to the Water Level.

• Custom Handles

An integer or a flag may share themselves some bytes. A byte may handle two or more differant data.

• Structured Handles

Unknown. They have various size.

• Strings / Trigger Strings

Strings are just like arrays of chars finished with a null char (From C++ : "\0").
But, Blizzard uses a special coloring code to change the color of the text shown, these starts with "|c00", and finishes with "|r", most of the times. An example is "|c00BBGGRR|r", in which you replace by the percentage value "BB", "GG", "RR", by the percentage value you want. They are hexadecimal values (0123456789ABCDEF), using 2 digits each, BB = Blue, GG = Green, RR = Red.
In Trigger Strings, if it starts with "TRIGSTR_", with a sensitive case, it is a Trigger String. Trigger Strings are ever keep in the virtual memory when you play a map, which is loaded at the map initalization, as a name of "TRIGSTR_***". Instead of writing the TRIGSTR_<WHATEVER> thing, Warcraft III get a look in the string table, and displays the correct trigger string. They work only for files inside a .w3m or .w3x map, but not with the exception of WTS files, which is used for Trigger Strings files itself. If the following number after "TRIGSTR_" is negative, it will be considered as the first one, called "TRIGSTR_000". And when there are letters, they will be considered as 0, or if an example of "5aa", as 5.
At all, they takes :

• Strings : (String Length + 1) bytes (Because of the finishing char)
• Trigger Strings : 12 bytes (Note Trigger Strings handles Strings, so the total is Trigger Strings + Strings)