HiveWE

About

Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos is a 2002 real-time strategy game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment, the third game in the Warcraft series and the first rendered in 3D, followed by The Frozen Throne expansion in 2003. HiveWE is a third-party World Editor replacement for Warcraft III, focused on speed and ease of use when editing large custom maps. It offers substantially faster load times than the original World Editor, renders maps at up to 120 fps, and adds direct editing of the pathing map, global tile pathing, water height, and heightmap import, among other tools.

Getting started

Prebuilt binaries are available from the project's releases page; building from source instead requires Visual Studio 17.14 or newer with C++20 module support and the vcpkg package manager to fetch dependencies.

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Other

The project links to companion community tools for other Warcraft III modding tasks, including trigger editing (a TypeScript tool) and 3D model editing (a 3ds Max plugin and a standalone model editor).