StarCraft II Editor - MASTER THREAD

ZacD · Apr 2010

Lets get some info and tutorials written up for this, I'm sure a lot of people want to see how powerful it is.
Its only currently available to beta testers.

Cool sites to look at
http://www.sc2mapster.com/

General UI

The editor is divided in 7 "layers" terrain, Units, Doodads, Points, Regions, Cameras, and Pathing.
And 6 modules Terran, Triggers, Data, Text, Import, and over view.

Terran mode allows the blending of 7 terrain textures, height variation, 3 levels of cliffs (flat, cliffs, high cliffs, and low uplayable canyons) there's also water, and 2 cliff types

Space switches between dropping/drawing and selection mode

Mouse wheel is zoom, ctrl right click is rotate. shift right click is also zoom and alt right click is vertical panning.

Holding down shift "force places" units

Custom Assets INFO

.m3 seems to be the only model type it can import or export, if anyone has any experience with this file type please fill us in and how to export to that file type.

There's some cinematics and animation stuff to mess with in the editor, I don't know if its only game cinematics, or if it allows you to do in game cut scenes like blizzard has show cased.

http://i43.tinypic.com/28ivozm.jpg

Here's 2 cool asset "mods"

custom/replaced? terrain tileset
http://www.sc2mapster.com/assets/coastal-tileset/

Texture replacement for zerg
http://www.sc2mapster.com/assets/frozen-zerg/

cryrid · Apr 2010

Something tells me this wont get used nearly as much as the unreal/marmoset/xnormal threads :P

.m3 seems to be the only model type it can import or export, if anyone has any experience with this file type please fill us in and how to export to that file type.

http://gamesmodding.com/m3-files ?

ZacD · Apr 2010

Blizzard apparently exports to .m3 from 3DS Max, hopefully they release some plug ins, if not people will make their own.

You can easily change the attacks under Data > Weapons +

If you put 2 attacks under the options, it seems to randomly switch between.

Textures are stored as dds

Arkadius · Apr 2010

Interesting stuff I was messing with the editor earlier. It is already looking way better than Warcraft 3's editor.

fullofclovers · Apr 2010

I had no idea this even came out. Thanks for the heads up!

AtlusZMH · Apr 2010

STUCK AT SCHOOL DAMNNNNNN X.x

(am planning to add a lot to this thread :P)

Raymond Arnold · Apr 2010

So, is the editor just available to people in beta? Is there any way to get ahold of it?

Ott · Apr 2010

If you want to start a master thread, can you start by telling me these two things?

#1 How to actually get a map vs. ai working? I can't seem to correctly get the conditions / base positions figured out. Every time I launch to test it, it immediately says I win. The AI is recognized as an enemy, but doesn't actually do anything but stand there and die =( (Pretend I am a total noob at this thing)

#2 Back in "The Old Days" there was a way to set an initial starting base literally RIGHT next to the "super duper awesome ore nodes". Figured out how to do that yet? Or alter the value of the nodes you place?

The color, emissive, post processing, lighting....omg it's all so fluid and easy to make global settings and it's total hawtness.

As far as "getting the editor", anyone who is in the beta gets a copy of the editor as of today. Next week sometime we will be able to publish / share maps supposedly via b.net.

Not in the beta? Go to gamestop.com and pre-order for a beta key. It's as simple as that! (Might be other stores doing beta keys too, but I just heard about this. And yes, you can do it all digitally too)

Neox · Apr 2010

maybe a link to the tool you discuss about would be good in the first poost, i'm too lazy to search for it :P

SpeCter · Apr 2010

I think you get the Map Editor only if you participate in the closed beta.I have in mind that it is delivered through a patch or something.

Correct me if i´m wrong

AtlusZMH · Apr 2010

Looks like somebody made a .m3 IMPORTER if anyone is interested in that.. would need a .MPQ extractor to get to the .m3 files, but it would give some insight on tech specs of all the models without digging through the editor's menus so much

Here's to hoping someone codes an exporter :P

http://www.sc2mapster.com/assets/m3-import-plugin/

renderhjs · Apr 2010

A first nice overview post is kinda missing here. Like a summary of all the important links and sources needed for creating maps for SC2.
Like now this is going in all kinds of directions but what really matters is a good starting point, so please add links like download links, informations etc.

Joao Sapiro · Apr 2010

starEd 1 was awesome to make maps and custom campaigns, really easy to grasp , hope this new editor is even better

doodads.

crazyfingers · Apr 2010

not sure how long it'll last, but some awesome stuff happening here:

http://www.livestream.com/hybred?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=ui-play&utm_campaign=click-bait&utm_content=hybred

guy's already got a unit responding to wasd and camera follow.

ZacD · Apr 2010

renderhjs wrote: »

A first nice overview post is kinda missing here. Like a summary of all the important links and sources needed for creating maps for SC2.
Like now this is going in all kinds of directions but what really matters is a good starting point, so please add links like download links, informations etc.

Sorry it was just launched and their no real official tutorials or videos, I'll clean it up once more info is figured out.

ZacD · Apr 2010

@Ott

1) Try looking under Map > Team placement

2) Shift clicking a mineral next to a base, hit space, double click on the minerals, change its amount

Ott · Apr 2010

Yeah, I figured out how to alter the mineral amounts and customize some of their properties, but Im trying to find the parameter that allows you to basically dump your starting position building right next to the mineral field closer. Like, 1 grid square away.

The other parameter I want to adjust is how many workers can mine from one mineral node at a time. By default it is set to like 2...I want it to be 100

ZacD · Apr 2010

you can shift click a mineral patch anywhere, even on the edge of a cliff, same thing with buildings and units, I'm looking under data and I don't see any worker options, let me mess with it some more.

ZacD · Apr 2010

Here's 2 pretty useful tutorials

http://www.sc2mapster.com/api-docs/getting-started-with-galaxy-edit/

Covers the GUI

http://vimeo.com/11181508

Create a custom map
Adjust the triggers for a non melee game
Add units to the map for human/computer controlled players
Edit the Marine unit to add the Raven's seeker missile ability
Edit the seeker missile ability to target a point/unit instead of just a unit

ZacD · Apr 2010

Oh, I also found out you don't need a key to get the editor, but you need to download the beta client. It'll add the editor when it does patches and you can test and launch maps through that. But I don't know how legal that is.

just google "download starcraft 2 beta client"

ZacD · Apr 2010

Here's a cool racing game with wasd movement.

[ame]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEMWi7NbEcs[/ame]

BradMyers82 · Apr 2010

I'm not on beta.
I feel so left out.

Ged · Apr 2010

sweet little racing game they made, looks like iron man offroad haha nifty editor

ZacD · Apr 2010

And if you thought that was impressive, how about a top down shooter?
[ame]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5-D0_1_rRU[/ame]

Galaga?

[ame]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnCJc1BR2ZI&feature=channel[/ame]

breakneck · Apr 2010

this was brought up:
3ds max (edit) importer.
http://www.sc2mapster.com/assets/m3-import-plugin/

over in this thread:
http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=72273

SnowGhost · Apr 2010

FYI thats a importer not an exporter.

Heres a pretty good site I found with some tutorials on setting up a simple tower defense style map.

www.sc2galexyeditor.com

If anyone has a good link to info on setting up triggers and scripting please send my way.

ZacD · Apr 2010

Physics anyone?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVi-c1flZzg[/ame]

SnowGhost · Apr 2010

Awesome, Zerg should move like that except that there is no uneven ground in blizz made maps...

ZacD · Apr 2010

There's no uneven ground because it causes clipping with the buildings, but its still nice to be able to mess with it, I wonder if they used it in the campaigns much.