Instrucitons for making a custom loading screen

Required software:

• Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne
• Blizzard's Warcraft 3 World Editor
• The latest patch for the game
• Wc3 Image Extractor II
• An image editor like Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, or GIMP
• This file: LoadingScreen.mdx

Instructions:

• Use your image editing software to make an image that's 512x512 pixels
• Save it with whatever filename you want, as a .tga, 32bit
• Open the .tga you just saved with Wc3 Image Extractor II
• Save the image and call it FullScreen.blp
• Open the Import Manager in the World Editor
• Import LoadingScreen.mdx (download above) and FullScreen.blp into your map
• Delete the paths so it just shows the files

Example files and images forthcoming.

last modified 14 May 2005