Instructions for making a custom campaign screen background

Note that this will not be an animated background.

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

Instructions:

• With your image editing software, make one large image, 1024x768 pixels
• Break it into four seperate files:
  • The top portions will each need to be 512x512 pixels
  • The bottom portions will each need to be 512x256 pixels
• Save all four as .tga, 32 bit, and name them thusly:
  • Credits-Loading-BotLeft.tga
  • Credits-Loading-BotRight.tga
  • Credits-Loading-TopLeft.tga
  • Credits-Loading-TopRight.tga
• Open each image in Wc3 Image Extractor II, and in turn save them as .blp, using the same name as the .tga's
• example: Credits-Loading-BotLeft.blp
• In the World Editor's Campaign Editor, import all four .blp's
• Change the path to read:
  • UI\glues\loading\backgrounds\load-credits\
  • example: UI\glues\loading\backgrounds\load-credits\Credits-Loading-BotLeft.blp
• On the Loading Screen tab, under Background Screen, choose Game Screen
• Scroll down the list and choose Loading-Credits

Example files and images forthcoming.

last modified 14 May 2005