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This is a Warcraft III emulator made using LibGDX game engine. For obvious reasons, the Warsmash project does not include Warcraft III assets. Instead, in order to run the Warcraft III emulator you need to purchase a valid copy of Warcraft III from Activision Blizzard and then configure Warsmash to use those assets.
Some news websites and social media claimed that Warsmash was taken down in 2022 via a Cease and Desist letter from Activision Blizzard, but that did not happen. The confusion started from a parody video on YouTube that was almost immediately taken down. If you have more concerns on that topic, feel free to join the Warsmash discord server and ask (linked below).
The spread of the unverified false rumor of Warsmash's takedown vastly exceeded the rate of spread of any legitimate technology discussion, and so because of how the modern attention economy works there is not any digital megaphone through which this project and its author(s) can tell their true story to set things right. If you want to support Warsmash, do not hate Activision. Instead, love the Warcraft III modding. It really is probably that simple.
Regardless of whether you want to edit Warsmash from an IDE, run it from command line, or build a binary release, in any case you will run into the problem of the warsmash.ini config file. I maintained the Retera Model Studio project since 2012, and in particular I was constantly updating my code in parallel with Activision Blizzard's Warcraft III leading up to the release of Reforged. The decisions their Classics Games Team made in those years substantially impacted and split apart the Warcraft III modding community. Rather than Reforged releasing all at once and breaking everything, at first from 2017 - 2019 there were a series of patches that dramatically altered and restructured the Warcraft III game, sometimes to an entirely new structure in each patch, all while not using the Reforged label. The first patch in that patch cycle was the Patch 1.27, followed by many others. Originally, in 2017, the fundamental Warcraft III asset loading utilities that I wrote for Retera Model Studio (that I now also use on Warsmash!) were using code that I had written to automatically detect the location of the "one true Warcraft III installation" on the user computer from the Windows registry.
