A Simple TD Part 8, Giving Towers Special Attacks AkA Weapons Tutorial
Since I have been having so much fun with swapping unit attacks and adding them to my towers I thought I would give you guys a heads up on how to do it.
Categories: Map Creation Walkthrough, Tutorials, Videos Tags: 2, a simple td, editor, Galaxy Editor, map, starcraft, Tower special attack, Weapons Tutorial
A Simple TD Part 7: Creating Waves and a Countdown Timer
This tutorial covers creating a timer and displaying it as well as setting up waves of enemies!
Categories: Map Creation Walkthrough, Tutorials Tags: enemy, starcraft 2, td, timer, timer window, tower defense, Tutorials, waves
A Simple TD Part 6: Making Waves Move Properly
This simple walkthrough show you how to order units to move from one point to the next.
Categories: Map Creation Walkthrough, Tutorials Tags: editor, Galaxy Editor, map, move unit to location, move unit to point, pathing, points, regions, starcraft 2, wave
A Simple TD Part 5: Using the Camera to Follow a Unit
There are several different ways you can set up a TD's Camera. You can stick with the default, you could do a zoomed out overview of the map, or pretty much anything that you want. Here is an example
A Simple TD Part 4: Creating a Builder Unit and Data Editor Overview
I am no expert in the Galaxy Editor yet, but after playing around in the Data Editor for several hours I discovered some interesting things, most notably, how to create a custom unit which can create other objects. This is useful for many custom maps such as TDs.
Categories: Map Creation Walkthrough, Tutorials Tags: 2, build unit, create own unit, Data Editor, editor, galaxy, map, Module, starcraft
A Simple TD Part 3: Creating Waypoints for Enemy Units
This tutorial describes using points and regions for a TD map.
Categories: Map Creation Walkthrough, Tutorials Tags: editor, galaxy, points, regions, starcraft, td
A Simple TD Part 2: Setting up Terrain and Creating a Path
This tutorial walks through creating a new map and creating a path for a "Simple TD" map.
Categories: Map Creation Walkthrough, Tutorials Tags: Galaxy Editor, path, road tool, setting up terrain, starcraft 2
A Simple TD Part 1: Setting the Scope
I've decided to go with one of the most commonly created maps in starcraft and warcraft 3, the TD. For those of you who are newer to the map making scene, a TD, which stands for Tower Defense, is a type of map where you build structures to fend off X waves of units.
Categories: Map Creation Walkthrough, Tutorials Tags: Galaxy Editor, map, sc2, scope, td