JBL's Map Making Help Service

kk, just do what I first told you to and it should be fine.

 

I saved it as a different name then opened this differently named map in the normal editor. i did this to prevent it from deleting improperly placed units on my actual one. then i went to the trigger editor and i changed one of the triggers that was not on always display to always display. i opened this differently changed map in starforge, and checked the new trigger. strangely enough, instead of 4, it had 5 as the always display code.

 

That's very strange indeed... I always remember having "4" to do "always display"

however, I've not used Starforge since late 05/early 06 so maybe it got changed in a later version of Starforge.. or maybe i was wrong.. it's been almost 2 years...

 

nah i remember using 4 most of the time too...

 

Yeah, that's what I remember too.. hmm it's weird.. anyway.. the important is that you get your map working. right?

 

it totally worked when i used 5 as the alwaysdisplay code. and i have fixed all the bugs i could find.

 

Great stuff.. that's a map for imagine's map making contest?

I can't wait to see it.

 

I couldn't find a tutorial on how to make beacons "flash"-where you can only see the glow in the center of the beacon and where you cannot select it. can you tell me/make a tutorial?

 

Will do, btw it works on many other units.. the beacon is simply CLOAKED!

hmm? power up?

 

hey JBL. how can you make a team have that same particular color always when making campaign maps?

 

There is a tutorial posted on these forums on how to cloak beacons, check it out here.

 

Only way to make all players or selected few players have same colors is using a outside program, for instead Guedit this is a very old map protecting program that let you change players colors. So you could be player 1, player 2 and have color white which is Player 7. So you need to find a program which allows you to change players colors.

 

He actually requested that before I make the tutorial... lol

Moogle: thx for doing my job, I can't be active all the time hehe.

josh: I suggest you start using another map editor.. such as Xtra Editor 2.5, SCMDraft 2 or Starforge.

 

Anyway i submitted my map its STARCRAFT FINAL BATTLE http://www.starcraft2forum.org/forums/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item42 , the only thing i dont know is how the others can put the image view of the entire map ???

 

:O scpicturemapper is what i think the program is called. i havent used it, so i dont know how it works, but that is what i was told to use.

 

oh crap. my starforge is uninstalled. anybody got a link on where to download starforge?

 

To make an overhead image view of your map, download SCM to JPEG. I have compiled a list (with some help) of StarCraft Map Editing utilities into a topic, please refer to the topic by clicking here.

You can find both the SCM to JPEG and StarForge download links in the topic.

 

there's something wrong with starforge. i can't get it to work. and xtra editor is crap. i can't understand how to get it to extract.

 

What isyour point there lol what Starforge do you mean lol ???

 

the program is lacking important files. so i can't it to run.