| ModCraft, RoC, Shark Tank, Camera Click, LTW |
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03 Sep 2010 |
| Some random things You have some nice replay you'd like to share? Check out the sc2replayed contest :) Also if you have questions concerning the Galaxy Scripting language, Motive made a FAQ about it There will be a Custom Live today at 6 PM Paris time. Give your maps :) Publishing Limit Increased Great news from Blizzard :) Quote:As part of our ongoing efforts to foster a productive and happy StarCraft II mapmaking community, we recently asked players to share their thoughts and ideas on how... |
| Contest, Data WASD, Headquarters, Thunderhawk, Level Up Bound |
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02 Sep 2010 |
| Unfortunatly there are map hackers on Starcraft 2 :( But now with camera informations being stored in the replays it's becoming a lot easier to track them down! Contest - Epic Battle Scene Long time without any contest! In this new one you are about to make an epic battle fight. It can be made by any known method of creating cinematic (unit manipulation, cinematic cutscene ...). Make sure to follow these rule: Your fights must be scripted, no further user input is required after the fight... |
| Popularity List, Structure Placement, City Sky, Corsair Reaver |
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01 Sep 2010 |
| Glomby is getting a moment of fame! His video of a World of Warcraft-like terrain is being featured by many websites including Blizzard (Starcraft Facebook / Twitter, Warcraft Facebook / Twitter, Escapist Magazine and Kotaku). The video already has 150k views :) Congratz Combined Popularity List by Gimpexe Gimpexe started a nice forum post where regularly people will post the popularity listing on the various regions. This will let you see what are the maps played around the world :)... |
| 3DSMax Stream by Otixia |
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01 Sep 2010 |
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| RPG UI, Kerrigan, Orbital Decay, Wc3 Armor |
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31 Aug 2010 |
| RPG Interface by Sweepingzero It's been a long time since I didn't news any cool interface. Sweepingzero is working on a RPG and has done a pretty good job at recreating from scratch the whole interface. He is looking for talented people in order to work on the map :) Kerrigan Model by Underp4ntz This is the first released edited model! Take nova, put some hairs and glows and you get Kerrigan :) The model tools are becoming a lot more evolved and stable, you should now be able to work on... |
| Tournament, WoW-like, Destructible Island, Terrain Showcase |
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31 Aug 2010 |
| Custom Live Tournament - Nexus Wars Since the last tournament had to be cancelled Tinman decided to launch a new one, and with $300 prizes! The tournament will be in two weeks, just to give people time to set up teams and practice. The date will be September 11th at 4 PM Paris time (7 AM San Francisco, 10 AM New York). The tournament will be casted live by yours truly on the Custom Live stream. I hope this will bring more interest in custom maps, so everyone who can should sign up. Game Mode... |
| Featured, Barracks, Virtua Racing, Black Space, Fan Arts |
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29 Aug 2010 |
| Blizzard Featured Maps Another round of featured maps has come. US Level Up Bound by Chrinux Desert Strike by Squarely Circle Europe Baneling Arena by lotsofcolors THE Card Game by Clord Barracks of the Dead: Space Slaugther by d3operator You liked House of the Dead or Time Crisis type of game, you will be really pleased to see that this kind of game can be ported on Starcraft 2! We just need to plug a gun on the computer and the experience will be fantastic :) Virtua SC2 Racing by Doubotis... |
| Patch 1.1 Preview, Doodad Hunt, Volcanic Elevation, Interface Contest |
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28 Aug 2010 |
| You guys may have all noticed, but we did a slight forum restructure. That means any previous links to the Project Workplace or Tutorials Forums have been broken and need to be fixed! Please make a note of this! We will do our best to redirect the old links to the new ones, but there is no ETA on this just yet. The first MLG Starcraft 2 tournament is running and you can view it on the live stream shoutcasted by HD and Husky :) Patch 1.1 Preview by Blizzard Blizzard has released a preview of... |
| Custom Live |
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28 Aug 2010 |
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| Mario, Last Marine, Editor Q, KR, Blizzcon, Kerrigan |
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27 Aug 2010 |
| Update: Blizzard has released a preview of the patch notes for their next major patch, 1.1. In this patch is fixes for GalaxyEdit and some changes to how the Custom Games system currently works. Read the full set on their blog. We've just added a new poll: What are you thoughts on the Marketplace. Note that they said in April that this was planned for about one year after release. So don't expect it to be really soon :) Another Custom Live is going to happen tomorrow starting at 6 PM Paris... |
| PartyCraft, Combo Arena, Guide to Galaxy, M3 Blender, WoF |
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27 Aug 2010 |
| Party Craft Review by DarkRevenantX DRX has reviewed one of the Blizzard Featured Maps. Be sure to check the thread as he goes in depth within his review and gives ratings to different parts of the map. Combo Arena System by zenx1 zenx1 was thinking of creating a really unique hero arena. The idea is to create a hero arena with combo spell system. In the video hero has 3 spells which can be used to make 5 different spells. Guide to Galaxy Scripting Tutorial by AzothHyjal The purpose of this... |
| Fringe, Haunted Temple Review, Mapster Cinematic & Vent |
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27 Aug 2010 |
| Just wanted to let everyone know, our lovely new staffies have put up stickies in the Map Development forums for now, to make things run a little smoother. I'd recommend reading both the Guidelines for Asking Questions and Getting Answers and the Map Development Forum Rules before posting (or continuing to post)! Fringe RPG by Nashadun Fringe is a coop RPG map recently released on EU servers. It is designed to put a focus on action, avoiding much of the tediousness of RPGs. Fringe takes place... |
| Ventrilo, Tournament, Haunted, FPS Engine, Legends |
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27 Aug 2010 |
| Mapster Ventrilo by iMisu I would like to thanks iMisu for setting up a ventrilo server that everyone in mapster can use. Come on and talk with fellow map makers :) SC2Mapsters Ventrilo Hostname : vent2.gameservers.com Port : 4220 Garden of Aiur Tournament GardenOfAiur has been an active member making various great maps and artworks and in order to promote his blog he decided to launch a Starcraft 2 tournament. You may wonder why I news it, it's because he is going to make show off matches on... |
| G4TV |
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25 Aug 2010 |
| G4TV Your maps have been featured on a video from G4TV. Even if they can't spell the authors names right (progRammer instead of progammer and maulu05 instead of malu05) it's quite remarkable and I'm glad they chose your maps! Today's news continues ... read below! |
| Magic Arrow, Play Cinematic, God's Grove, DAG, First Contact |
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22 Aug 2010 |
| UPDATE: Xaragoth and Tinman are going to host a map session instead of the tournament. It's being called Custom Live. If you made a map you want them to play tell them! They will be really happy to do so. Due to the lack of participants, the SotiS tournament is cancelled!. I realize that having only 2 days to find a team of 3 is a bit too hard. I am sorry for those who wanted to join and watch :( In September 2010 Issue of PCGamer sc2mapster has been featured in the useful links for a mapping... |
| Moderators, Reverse, TCG Shoutcast, Dustin |
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21 Aug 2010 |
| The EU SotiS 3v3 tournament on sunday is still waiting for you guys to come and play. Even if you don't like/never played the map you probably want to join it anyway as it's a good way to play together custom maps and doing a event in common! If you are looking for people to play with you, you probably want to check out Paranoiks attempt to form a SotiS team. Featured Map on Battle.net Important Update The first action from Blizzard since the release of the game towards the map popularity... |
| Custom Map Tournament #2 |
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20 Aug 2010 |
| I'm going to post a real news later on, I just want to post this tournament post now as it is this sunday, in 2 days. I want you to have the time to make teams and join it :) If you can "like" this post on bnet (even if you have a US account, it works too) so it is being featured that would be awesome. Thanks! Custom Map Tournament As the first tournament was a great success, we are going to hold a new one :) It will be shoutcasted by both Xaragoth and Tinman. The tournament will start this... |
| Machinima Workshop #2 |
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19 Aug 2010 |
| Quote by Gorandor:I've decided to just do a little workshop via Livestream & Skype with those that might be interested. This Workshop will teach you the basics on how to create the scenes for SC2 Machinima in the same way I did with The Hunt For Gabriel Tosh. This will only be about setting up scenes, timing animations, doing camerawork & how to record them. Everything in regards to using Vegas or Adobe Premiere has to be learned somewhere else ;) Also this will not be about SC2 Cinematic you... |
| Wiki, Hide, Fan Vid, Tinman, Diablo 3 |
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19 Aug 2010 |
| To begin with, a little image by Gorandor that made me laugh. The moderator applications are now closed :) Thanks for all the ones who applied! Wiki As you probably know, we have a wiki but so far it hasn't been useful as it was abandonned. And since a wiki can be really useful we decided to revive it! We are going to do it step by step and the first one is the trigger section. All the triggers are now available on the wiki. So far there is nothing more than what's in the editor BUT it's up... |
| Driving System, Mercenary Battle, Sotis Comment |
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18 Aug 2010 |
| I don't usually watch sc2 replays but this one is so epic! It's a game versus TT1 and MasterAsia that lasts an hour with a lot of action! It's commented by HDStarcraft and is really worth to see. You really want to stay up to the end :) Driving System by HaggisNZ HaggisNZ just released a proof of concept map about cars. He made a driving system using physics law that looks really nice. If you want to impress your players, just add it inside your map :) Mercenary Battle by Redfox777 Redfox is... |
