StarCraft Programming

[RogueIce]

I had an idea on some StarCraft level I'd like to make, and I was wondering if any of you could suggest a good editor that can do the following with as little of a "learning curve" as possible:

• Change unit colors (you know, those numbers, like, say, to 220 or something).
• Change unit armerment [sp] (IOW, give weapons to something, like, say, a Terran Civilian, or increase range on a Marine's weapon, change a Firebat to a machine gun, etc).
• Change unit ranks (really only needed for the Terrans I guess...those Marines deserve to be more than Privates!).

That's about all I can think of off the top of my head...any suggestions? And the learning curve requirement, while helpful, isn't as required since I can either figure it out or ask you again.

Oh, and how do I get a CWAD to work?

That's all I got for now, though more will come later I'm sure.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

I believe Emerald is capable of all of that, though I haven't used it in some time and I've since forgotten where to get it. You may be able to Google it however.

[Anarchist Bunny]

First one isn't hard to do, I've seen 4 different people all with the same color, just have to find the right program, just do a search for starcraft utilities.

The other two will require full on mod work, thats not something you will be able to edit and then just throw on bnet, you'll have to make the mod, put up a site to get followers and then play with that small group of people.

[DPDarkPrimus]

I believe Emerald is capable of all of that, though I haven't used it in some time and I've since forgotten where to get it. You may be able to Google it however.

Emerald is NOT able to do all of that. None of that, in fact.

In any case, the X-tra editor is vastly superior to Emerald.

X-tra editor can be downloaded here.

As for the questions themselves:

1) Unit colors? I just do hex editing. Basic tutorial and listing of colors is here.
Difficulty: medium.

2) Modifying unit attacks? Well, the examples you listed have several different ways...

Giving a unit with an attack a different weapon, or modifying weapon range: Able to be done in Arsenal 3.
Difficulty: Easy to medium/

Giving a unit WITHOUT an attack an attack: requires Stargraft editing, giving the unit an attack button, Arsenal 3 editing, to give the unit a weapon setting, and ICE editing, to give the unit an attack animation.
Difficulty: advanced.

3) Changing unit ranks? Can be done in Arsenal 2 (available built-in with Stardraft). It's really the only use for Stardraft these days.
Difficulty: easy.


EDIT: CWDs only work with Starcraft version 1.08. Either reinstall and update it to that, or do a dual install.

EDIT, Mark II: So you know... I am to Starcraft editing what Spanky and Utsanomiko are to Evangelion.

[RogueIce]

EDIT: CWDs only work with Starcraft version 1.08. Either reinstall and update it to that, or do a dual install.

I do believe that is my version if I'm right...

Anyway, my main problem is that I don't know where to put it or what to do with it. I'm a total newbie at this.

[DPDarkPrimus]

In any case, CWDs suck. Take the dat files from your CWD and save them to an outside folder, then use either MPQ2k or WinMPQ to put them in an MPQ, then use MPQDraft to make your very own custom EXE, compatible with all Starcraft versions except 1.10. But that's okay, since 1.10 sucked anyway.

And IMHO, MPQ2k is much better than WinMPQ.

[RogueIce]

In any case, CWDs suck. Take the dat files from your CWD and save them to an outside folder, then use either MPQ2k or WinMPQ to put them in an MPQ, then use MPQDraft to make your very own custom EXE, compatible with all Starcraft versions except 1.10. But that's okay, since 1.10 sucked anyway.

And IMHO, MPQ2k is much better than WinMPQ.

Ah well... Any way you could be found on AIM or something similar? Probably better than going through here and trying to sort things out...

I'm really into making this level...which will be single player, by the way. At least at the moment until/unless I figure out a good way to make it into Multiplayer.

[DPDarkPrimus]

I am still in Japan until the 8th.

[DPDarkPrimus]

FYI, I am back now. Fire away the questions.