SC2 Map Analyzer - StarCraft 2 Maps

SC2 Map Analyzer analyzes melee maps and creates PNG images and CSV spreadsheets with the results. It measures shortest paths between key locations, computes "openness" around the map and measures positional balance! Use it to gather data on the official maps or help develop your own.

Download release 1.4.3

What's new?

The whole usage model has changed; the analyzer is no longer intended to ever be run as a command line tool. Instead config files control the analyzer and you double-click the executable (or a shortcut to it) to start it up.
Map formats from beta phase 1, beta phase 2 and post-release are supported now.
The analyzer's model for pathing is much more precise; just compare the ramps in the before and after above. The analyzer also recognizes pathing fills and the painted pathing layer.
The footprints.txt config file allows pathing footprints to be defined for any unit or doodad. With some help from the community we can fill this file out until the analyzer is aware of every bitty doodad that can affect pathing. For now it has the resources, watchtowers and destructibles.

Read the manual here and check out details about what the analysis calculates and the FAQ.

If you have any feature requests or do something cool with SC2 Map Analyzer, let me know!

-dimfish

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saltydog87 Aug 03, 2011 at 10:55 UTC - 0 likes
I'm setting the output path to a legitimate path - C:\Users\*\Documents\StarCraft II\Maps\sc2mapanalyzer-release-1.4.3. I am getting the error message "warning, unrecognised output option" followed by above path etc..etc.

Can't fin anthing in the search, can anyone help?
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dimfish Sep 18, 2010 at 23:05 UTC - 0 likes
Khalan3: it works fine with Blizzard maps. Several people have tried to run the tool and it didn't work on Blizzard maps that they downloaded from websites.

Here is a sure-fire way to analyze the Blizzard maps:

1. Open the SC2 Editor. 2. Go to open a file and at the top of the dialog there is a tab for Battle.net files. 3. Sign into Battle.net when prompted. 4. Choose a Blizzard map, Blistering Sands say, and it will open it in the editor. 5. Save this opened map to your hard drive and then configure the map analyzer's to-analyze.txt with a path to that saved version. 6. Viola!

A burrowed zergling is watching you... right now!
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Khalan3 Sep 18, 2010 at 22:45 UTC - 0 likes
Great tool, but can't get it to work for Blizzard maps (Blistering Sands etc);

nvm got it to work :)

Last edited Sep 18, 2010 by Khalan3
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Sixen Sep 14, 2010 at 22:10 UTC - 0 likes
Looks great, dim, ;).

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dimfish Sep 03, 2010 at 22:08 UTC - 0 likes
The analyzer has always detected destructible rocks and it can do computations with them present or not, and in the most recent version of the tool they ARE rendered in the summary image. Let me just tinker with a new release that will render the rocks in other output images as well...
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Sixen Sep 03, 2010 at 21:54 UTC - 0 likes
Just to get this straight, it currently displays destructible rocks on the image? If not, it should, I haven't checked a map with a rock, :p.
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dimfish Sep 01, 2010 at 22:14 UTC - 0 likes
Terren05, the analyzer does detect destructible rocks. In the output image is shows you the shortest paths with rocks because most people want to know the rush distances which are really important early game, before armies can effectively knock down rocks. If you use the tool to enable the CSV per map (a spreadsheet file) it will spit out the shortest path distances with and without rocks.

If you really want the images without rocks too I could add a quick feature for that.
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Terren05 Sep 01, 2010 at 20:49 UTC - 0 likes
Would be nice for it to detect desctructible rocks, when creating the shortest paths.
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dimfish Aug 03, 2010 at 16:18 UTC - 0 likes
blushades,

I have gotten the new formats sorted out (with as many maps as I can test, anyway) but I am knee-deep in some major improvements as well. I won't put out a new release until the tool is "put back together" basically, and some day job stuff flared up where I worked over the last two weekends.

Short version: I got busy, but I'm back on the analyzer and there will be a nice new format+new feature release coming!
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blushades Aug 02, 2010 at 08:47 UTC - 0 likes
I find ver1.2 works with the beta maps and 1.3.2 to work with the newer maps. Seems like the issues have been sorted out?