Release Date Announced!
Starcraft 2 has finally been given a release date. It is set to hit the shelves July 27. Check here for full info and new release vid.
Categories: Release News Tags: date, release, sc2
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 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
Legacy Map Converter Overview
With the galaxy editor released just yesterday, one of the first things that caught my eye was a "convert legacy map" option that appears under the "file" menu in the sc2 editor. I decided to do some experiments to see which maps it easily converted.
Categories: Preview Tags: converter, editor, Galaxy Editor, legacy, map, sc2, starcraft, warcraft 3
Changing Player Win Conditions
By default each custom map that you create will probably have the Melee (a standard starcraft match) rules in place, that means, if you have no buildings when you launch your map, you will automatically lose. You will want to change this!
The Galaxy Editor is Out!
Starting today it seems like players will be able to download the Galaxy Editor and map their own custom maps!
Categories: Release News Tags: Galaxy Editor, map editor, released, sc2