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Introduction

What's the point? (TLDR)

kuniwar is a command-line utility for checking, modifying, and compiling maps. With it you can edit a map in any editor, hook up third-party modules, use git, and generally it's just convenient.

Advantages:

  • Ease of use
  • Open source
  • Module support
  • Auto-downloads needed components (jasshelper, w3x2lni, etc...)
  • Create a map from scratch without using an editor
  • Cross-platform development (Works on Linux; wine is needed to run .exe files)
  • Unpack an existing map into a project (no need to start from scratch)
  • Easy dependency management
  • Work in normal code editors

Disadvantages:

  • Not all maps can be unpacked (probably temporary)
  • Won't work correctly with protected maps (most likely temporary)
  • Does not support Reforged (maybe temporary? and do you even need it...)
  • No MacOS support (probably the author doesn't have one)
  • Can't repack unpacked triggers (temporary)
  • Maybe some other stuff, I don't know