fellow warcrafters i need help!!!!!!

[AHREN34]

i have ROC and im get TFT soon buy i need help i am missing some triggers so i have to go to my old maps and get the triggers but i hade the triggers less than a week ogo why are they gone now?????? :twak::twak::twak:

[Mindslaver]

What triggers are you missing, and did you modify any Warcraft mpq files?

[AHREN34]

no but i did try to inport a spell from wc3sear.com and i could not get it on it was the costum move storms.im missing triggers like set variable and every thing for unit group is gone

[Zipsco]

WHY
I have experienced this before aswell... When you use the import function in world edit, you will, and i repeat WILL reset all triggers, units aso. currently in the map. The explanation is that the WE(world editor) keep track of all components (spells, units triggers aso.) with "serial" numbers, these are not made up random, for instance, first custom unit will have the serial : unit_0001 (not sure if the exsact name is correct but something like it)... i also found out that a pure text translation of this unit's unit-type, was this serial... (convert to string(unit-type)) (something like that, used it in a td, ended up having to write all the unit-types manually... here i was thinking i was smart :P)...

WHAT TO DO?
My best advice is what i found out later on, that you CAN have multiple maps open in WE at the time, under the tab "window" (next to files edit show, aso.) you have control of which map you look at... now, go to the map you wanted something exported (in this case ill use triggers)... to be quick you place all the triggers you need in 1 folder, since you can only ctrl-copy 1 folder at a time, then name all of your triggers originalFolderName-TriggerName... so you can keep track... After this just use the ctrl-copy(ctrl-C) and ctrl-paste(ctrl-V) functions and paste the copied triggers into the other map which you can easily and quick change to by using the window tab as explained earliere. This is true for units aso. too. The reason this is possible, is that the WE recognizes their type, and place them with the next serial in the "row"... this is kinda stupid since their export and import functions should have giving you this choice aswell, wouldn't you think so? :rolleyes:...

Hope this helps, Zipsco

Edit: Though there is limits i believe, like for sounds and more... (not sure since i havent tried them all, in a long time!