Hello everyone! Quick question : So, if I publish a map and lock it I can't change can I? At least that's something to what I heard. I'm not sure about this subject, because how then can you update your map?
If you lock your map, it means that nobody else can download your map from battle.net. If you leave the map unlocked, anybody can open up the editor and download your entire map. The only reason you would want to leave the map unlocked is if you want other people to be able to download it and see how it works.
If you lock a map, you can still change it. It just means you won't be able to download it from blizzard servers in the event that, say, your hard drive fails and you loose the local copy you have. You can still make changes by opening the file you have locally (just like you always do) and re-publish the map again under the same name and it'll update.
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Dropbox is fantastic, I highly recommend it (that's my referral link, feel free to use that if you wanna sign up so I get free storage ;) ). You get 2 GB of cloud storage for free, and it's easily set up on your computer. The files are stored locally and synched up with a cloud. It's what I use to work on my own maps and share them with members of the same development team.
But yeah, emailing it to yourself would accomplish the same thing, although maps are pretty large files to be emailing.
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Hello everyone! Quick question : So, if I publish a map and lock it I can't change can I? At least that's something to what I heard. I'm not sure about this subject, because how then can you update your map?
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Curse PremiumI know, it's a little confusing at first :)
If you lock your map, it means that nobody else can download your map from battle.net. If you leave the map unlocked, anybody can open up the editor and download your entire map. The only reason you would want to leave the map unlocked is if you want other people to be able to download it and see how it works.
If you lock a map, you can still change it. It just means you won't be able to download it from blizzard servers in the event that, say, your hard drive fails and you loose the local copy you have. You can still make changes by opening the file you have locally (just like you always do) and re-publish the map again under the same name and it'll update.
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Hmm, so can I send the map to my own email, so that just in case my hard drive fails as you said, I still have it somewhere else stored?
Dropbox works well.
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Curse PremiumDropbox is fantastic, I highly recommend it (that's my referral link, feel free to use that if you wanna sign up so I get free storage ;) ). You get 2 GB of cloud storage for free, and it's easily set up on your computer. The files are stored locally and synched up with a cloud. It's what I use to work on my own maps and share them with members of the same development team.
But yeah, emailing it to yourself would accomplish the same thing, although maps are pretty large files to be emailing.
@zeldarules28: Go Ohhh you... jumping to help in order to get more storage space.
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