WC3V

Warcraft 3™ Replay Viewer.

Goal is to simulate enough of wc3 to get a 'birds eye view' of the match from a given replay.

Examples:

Usage

Running the reference wc3v client viewer

(NOTE: in order to show WC3 icons, you must follow the instructions on war3observer and put the resulting icons in the client/assets/wc3icons folder).

navigate to the client directory

run npm install -g http-server to install http-server

run http-server and follow the printed directions to see the locally hosted site

Also see the client README.md for more information

Running the wc3v map parser

note: currently built as a node project for ease of development, will eventually
be ported to web.

run node wc3v.js --replay=[REPLAY NAME]

where REPLAY NAME is the replay file path in the replays folder without any extension

example:

node wc3v.js --replay=happy-vs-grubby

Testing mode

to run wc3v in testing mode against a set of known test maps, run:

node wc3v.js --test

Latest test output:

$ node wc3v.js --test
user args:  [ '--test' ]
parse: 404.044ms
TEST PASSED:  ./replays/test-ch-movement.w3g
parse: 286.320ms
TEST PASSED:  ./replays/test-ei-movement.w3g
parse: 4746.978ms
TEST PASSED:  ./replays/bnet-ud-vs-orc-2.w3g
parse: 4265.524ms
TEST PASSED:  ./replays/happy-vs-grubby.w3g
parse: 8102.156ms
TEST PASSED:  ./replays/grubby-vs-thorzain.w3g
parse: 11543.821ms
TEST PASSED:  ./replays/happy-vs-lucifer.w3g
parse: 7434.809ms
TEST PASSED:  ./replays/cash-vs-foggy.w3g
parse: 2646.344ms
TEST PASSED:  ./replays/foggy-vs-cash-2.w3g
parse: 6350.330ms
TEST PASSED:  ./replays/crow-vs-john.w3g
parse: 8031.555ms
TEST PASSED:  ./replays/chae-vs-hawk.w3g
parse: 6523.733ms
TEST PASSED:  ./replays/soin-vs-chae.w3g
parse: 8551.837ms
TEST PASSED:  ./replays/joker-vs-lil.w3g
parse: 5771.456ms
TEST PASSED:  ./replays/terenas-stand-lv_sonik-vs-tgw.w3g
parse: 10894.642ms
TEST PASSED:  ./replays/2v2-synergy.w3g

Example output

see the happy-vs-grubby.w3g.wc3v file for a pretty-printed JSON dump of the current output for a Happy vs Grubby show match.

How It Works

See the DESIGN.md file

Implemented

• unit selection / deselection
• unit spawning
• skill training, levels
• skill usage - point, object target, summon
• Right Click path tracking
• Hotkey Groups
• Items (partially - registrtion of shop items / giving or dropping)
• Shop tracking
• Game Time simulation
  • unit movement is simulated (turn rates and basic pathing around known buildings and terrian WIP)
  • building construction and upgrading is simulated
• Rendering 'birds eye view' of game play
• Player starting position detection
• Mirror matches

Not implemented

• Neutral Creep tracking
• Item unit spawns
• Gold + Wood resource tracking
• Food / Upkeep tracking

Credits

Replay parsing using:

• https://github.com/PBug90/w3gjs

Replay documentation from:

• https://github.com/scopatz/w3g/blob/master/w3g_format.txt

Icon extraction from:

• https://github.com/warlockbrawl/war3observer

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All software learned from public sources and from rightfully owned copies of the game.

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