I'm hoping I can continue using chkdraft for this because, my understanding of strings is it's per character that determines how many bytes are used, and Korean words use far fewer characters than English words. Thus, as I'm going through, my used string bytes should, by my understanding, actually go DOWN.

EDIT: I should note that the trigger editor is crashing a lot when I go to paste in my updated code. Not when pressing compile, but merely by pasting.

EDIT: Something is going on with the filesize of my map whenever I am compiling it through your program. It started at 95MB and it has since risen to 146MB! I fear what the final size will be when this process is complete! What's going on here??

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jun 23 2020, 6:59 pm by Oh_Man.

Is any of this recognisable to you?

I noticed this pop up during one of my tests, and I searched my triggers for some of the text present here but zero results found.

Never encountered something like this before. Seems to have happened independent of any triggers.

Weird stuff is going on with the strings now. Even though I've only changed the text in display text message only, some of the locations which shared these texts are being changed as well. This is creating compilation errors as the triggers are still searching for the English-named locations which have been changed into korean for some reason automatically by chkdraft. It's not really korean it's like that "machine code" korean too...:


Actually, opening up my map in SCMDraft, I see string limit is now at 101.1% (662270 bytes). Maybe chkdraft is going whacky because of this?

Your maps listfile was incomplete/corrupt - there were several files inside your map which were not listed in the listfile and many which were not used anywhere in the map. Because StormLib was unable to identify several of the files it refused to attempt compacting the map. I wrote a utility and posted it for you in discord to cleanup your map file which in my tests took your map size from 93mb to 63mb and stopped the growth-on-save issue.

The rest of the issues you raised I'll have to tackle at a later date as I'm presently out of time.

This release fixes all of the bugs raised by Oh Man as well as several others, in addition to implementing string usage statistics. As a reminder I do not yet support remastered and maps using remastered features (such as new terrain, player colors, or expanded in-game strings) should not be re-saved through Chkdraft.

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Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Aug 10 2020, 1:22 am by jjf28.

Hi there,

When creating a new scenario from scratch, I get a blank map and there's nothing on the minimap either.
I can freely place units and make triggers, just not terrain. I've got all 3 mpqs linked to the tool and existing maps open just fine.
If I open the map in scmdraft, add some terrain, I get the "mpq optimise failed, map size larger than necessary" or so when saving.
I've never really used chkdraft until recently and I can't estimate what dependencies, if any, I might be missing.

That is expected, I don't yet have ISOM terrain support so I can't generate map terrain like Staredit/Scmdraft at this time. You can change the dropdown on the toolbar to "tileset indexed" to place individual tiles; though I recommend terraining in Scmdraft for now.


Pretty sure that's Scmdraft's issue and not mine, I reported it there

Edit: With the latest Chkdraft and Scmdraft the above mpq optimization issue is no longer present.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jun 5 2023, 5:10 am by jjf28.

Release 1.02 / Update 2023-06-05 - Download Latest

Feature Changes:
- Support for loading StarCraft data from remastered data files (or optionally from 1.16.1)
- Support for loading and saving remastered maps without corruption
- Support for STRx, CRGB, rectangular remastered terrain

Bug/Error fixes:
- Stabilized all pre-existing features (hasn't been this stable since starting the 2018 refactor)
- No error dialog when cancelling open-map
- Saves from Chkdraft no longer cause Scmdraft to fail to optimize maps
- idk, tons

Code changes:
- Incorporated CascLib & RareCpp, updated StormLib
- Scenario is now a very simple, reasonably intuitive data structure, Sections.h/.cpp removed, section indirection removed, now serialized with the help of reflection

You can also now get the latest release (or a past release) from git releases

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jun 5 2023, 5:24 am by jjf28.

Quick hotfix for the above, this update is solely to fix a critical bug where resaving some maps (not all) resulted in an invalid MPQ. Download Latest

As always, see the chkd/Backups folder to recover your map as it was before it was saved if you need to.

Release 1.04 / Update 2024-02-10 - Download Latest

Feature Changes:
- ISOM terran editing completed
- Doodad layer completed
- Sprite layer completed
- Unit placement/paste options completed
- Fog layer completed
- Cut-copy-paste layer completed
- Context menus completed
- Mission briefing editor completed
- Dimensions/resize window completed (except "smooth terrain", which was deferred till after more ISOM documentation/research)
- Sprite properties window completed
- Several more little items completed

Bug/Error fixes/Code changes:
- Lots more bufixes/QA than I'm willing to document, though I'll give two special mentions: fixed GDI leaks (black screen/instability after extended use) which involved encapsulating all use of HDCs, and huge amounts of QOL/stabilization applied to triggers

Thank you, your work is very helpful.

Good work! Here's some suggestions for having greater sprite/unit customization for EUD maps.

• Option to change a sprite/unit's iscript.
  
• Option to change a sprite/unit's direction so specific frames may be viewed.
  
• Option to change an image's draw function.
  
• Option to change an image's color. Normally restricted with draw function but one system allows for RGB 188, 184, 52. 132, 4, 4. and 0, 0, 0.
  
• Option to change elevation of a sprite/unit.
  
• Distinction between draw function 12 being shown in SD vs it being invisible in HD.
  
• Option to freeze transitional cloaking animations.
  
• Option to get the center coordinates of a placed sprite/unit so the location may be pinpointed.
  
• Within map settings>map properties>color display the actual colors alongside the name of the color.
  
• Option to add stars to null tiles in non-platform tilesets.
  
• When making a new map have an option for null terrain type.
  
• Option for EUD plugins for things such as matching the placement of sprites from the editor to in-game.
  
• Icon or preview when hovering over a doodad/sprite name. Because these don't have official names we have no idea what they are before they are selected.
  

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Mar 7 2025, 11:39 pm by Sie_Sayoka.

Release 1.06 / Update 2024-09-06 - Download Latest

Feature Changes:
- StarCraft Remastered Skin Support - you can now switch to SC:R SD, HD2/HD and Carbot HD2/HD skins from the view/skins menu or with hotkeys alt+1 through alt+7

Bug/Error fixes/Code changes:
- Chkdraft was moved from a visual-studios based solution to a cmake/vcpkg project - this aids greatly with managing dependencies and is a step towards becoming more cross-platform
- All existing dependencies (GTest, ICU, CascLib, and StormLib) were moved to vcpkg, and a few new dependencies (related to graphics) were added: GLAD (OpenGL loading), GLM (matrix & other graphics math), FreeType & Harfbuzz (text rendering)
- Clipboard, selections & undos were refactored to rely less on redundant access control
- Fixed a bug related to asset loading
- Fixed a crash which occurred when the minimap attempted to draw a unit owned by player id 16
- Fix crash in briefing trigger editing

woah we can look at remastered graphics in map editor now?? that's huge!

Release 1.07 / Update 2024-09-26 - Download Latest

(Unit Properties if you've opened the advanced tab)


Feature Changes:
- Add the ability to manage unit links (nydus/addons) from unit properties
- Add an advanced tab to unit properties for manually editing hidden flags/data
- Adjust string editor so 11 lines are visible without scrolling (same as in a few places in StarCraft)

Bug/Error fixes/Code changes:
- Fix a critical issue related to setting unit field values for units placed in chkdraft not showing up in starcraft
- Fix allowing for use of unicode characters in several places: file backups, the chkd files, string export, sound extraction, and opening raw-scenario (.chk) files
- Fix errant selection rectangle graphics & various smaller fixes
- For additional details see: #194

Release 1.08 / Update 2024-10-23 - Download Latest

Bug/Error fixes/Code changes:
- Fix for inability to enter "Switch 256" in text triggers
- Fix for buggy suggestions window/general triggering after closing and reopening the triggers window

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This release is to fix two high priority bugs, as far as feature development goes work on animation remains priority & is ongoing.

Release 1.09 / Update 2025-03-06 - Download Latest

Feature Changes:
- Ability to move selected units/sprites using ctrl (grid) or shift (pixel) + arrow keys
- Now shows location number on location dialog
- Layer is not updated when selecting top-level tree nodes

Bug Fixes/QOL improvements:
- Fix critical bug where the GDI (default) skin wasn't always rendering after selection changes
- Location name selected by default when opening the location dialog
- All dialogs centered by default
- Repeat pasting blocked when a held cursor has yet to leave the current grid-node
- Fixed a bug where quick-paste selections could change when a map refresh was performed
- Map window is now always focused when clicked
- Fixed a bug where minimap could not be scrolled while holding modifier keys

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Animation work is ongoing/partially blocked by larger refactoring to enable elegant synchronization & data-history related features.

Release 1.10 / Update 2025-04-29 - Download Latest

Feature Changes:
- Enable selecting quick-paste tiles while tileset index is opened with ctrl+click
- Extend tileset indexed palette to include all remastered tiles
- Jump to focused/selected unit/sprite on the map from the unit/sprite list

Bug Fixes:
- Fix some tile paste offsets/graphic offsets so odd-sized pastes are centered
- Fix crashes related to remastered skins & the tileset indexed window

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This patch was to fix critical bugs/crashes and a few small things that could hop on to the same release.

Release 2.00 / Update 2025-08-03 - Download Latest

Feature Changes:
- Animation for units & sprites
- New icon for chkdraft (credit to Sayoka)
- Ability to undo/redo any change to scenario + any change to sound files & configurable history size limits
- History tree (bottom-left of program) displaying all changes made & undo/redo status
- First version of UI for graphic element previewing (unit advanced properties & sprite properties "Graphics..." button)
- Classic GL made the default skin, classic GDI skin is deprecated but still present; default skin made configurable
- Added "sprite unit" tree to the sprite groups for placing sprite units directly
- Sound editor now able to display orphaned sound files in the MPQ and allow deletion from within Chkdraft
- Remastered scx made the default save type if remastered dat files are in use (otherwise hybrid scm remains the default save type)

Bug/QOL fixes:
- Classic GL & remastered skins now use the appropriate player colors for rendering
- Classic GL sprites now loads GRP frames on-demand allowing maps to initially load the skin near instantaneously
- Improved classic GL & remastered skin FPS by performing remapping on the GPU
- Fix for junk pixels at the end of classic GL grps

Code changes:
- A version of the scenario/mapfile API akin to the code prior to this release were split into "LiteMap" and "LiteScenario" for potential untracked usage by other projects
- Most data from scenario and some data from map file moved to the "MapData" class, scenario inherits from Tracked<MapData> such that all changes to this data are tracked, undo/redoable and renderable
- Old undo/redo system (as well as the unused commander system) entirely removed, core selection data also now owned by Tracked<MapData>
- Simplification of LButtonDown and brushing logic, special grouping code to ensure brushes come under a single tracked action
- Move change asterisk logic on to a system using Tracked<MapData>
- Change notifications bubble up from Tracked<MapData>, used heavily for units and sprites to ensure graphics is always appropriately updated