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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 time. If you have some cool maps you want them to play, please give it to them!

Mario - Sprites by DrHu

rrowland sprite demo gave some inspiration to DrHu. He made a demo of a mario map using this technique. This looks really nice :)

The Last Marine - Trailer by Refraction Entertainment

The Last Marine will be a 8-player horror map and a trailer is already available. It shows some really nice use of the lightning abilities of Starcraft 2.

Battle.net - Starcraft 2 Editor Questions

There's a new sticky on the Battle.net Map Development forum called Starcraft 2 Editor Questions. I really don't understand what they are trying to do there. I mean having a single sticky thread for questions when there are like 500 posts on the mapster map development forum a day ... If you have ideas!

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Calling all veteran and aspiring map developers! Do you have any questions regarding the creation of player-made maps or usability of the StarCraft II Editor? If so, we encourage you to post your inquiries in this thread.

As this discussion is only intended for questions related to the StarCraft II Editor and map creation process, for general feedback regarding the custom map system, we ask that you please continue to post here: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/248107291

Thank you!

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Hey everyone, we've been seeing some great questions in here and we do want to try to answer more of these for you as soon as we can. We want to make sure that we're providing you answers to your questions here as well as putting together a more comprehensive guide for using the new editor. These things take time though, so we won't be able to provide immediate answers, but we'll be doing what we can.

We'd like to thank those that have taken the time to participate in the thread and would like to encourage others to take part as well. Your input and questions will help us to better shape our responses and available information.

Please remember, feedback about the editor itself or bugs should go in the feedback thread also stickied in this forum. This thread should focus on asking questions about the use of the editor itself and how all the moving parts (or non-moving parts) work.

KR Battle.net Custom Maps Show Off

It looks like the Korean version of Battle.net is more active than the others. They already have made two blog posts about the custom maps.

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First Review

• Colossus Survival
• The Temple Crush
• Tauren Space Marines
• Zombie Defense
• SotiS

Second Review

• Castle Defense by Electron
• Terran Defense Renewal by 프라임김하링

As a side note, Blizzard is organizing a Starcraft 2 Tournament with $40 000 cash prize. With the $10 000 Custom map contest, they have money to spend!

Blizzcon Stream

If you can't attend to Blizzcon, you can watch it from your home using the Blizzcon stream. It costs 30 euros

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Everyone who attends this year's BlizzCon or purchases the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket will receive an exclusive set of murlocalyptic in-game items for World of Warcraft and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.

You'll also be able to display your tidal pride in StarCraft II with a Murloc Marine character portrait and a pair of deep-sea decals to emblazon on your units, each with a different terran, protoss, and zerg design.

Kerrigan Statue

I'm pretty sure you like behind the scenes. Here's how to make a Kerrigan Statue :)

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 :)

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 custom games during the breaks. So if you want to participate and win up to $300, you know what to do :)

Haunted Temple by Bounty_98

I newsed the map recently Haunted Temple. It was played in the latest Custom Live and was reviewed by DarkRevenantX. Bounty_98 took many of your feedbacks and improved the map accordingly. He releases a new video to show us the latest version :)

FPS Engine by BacklitAvenger

Making a FPS takes a good amount of time and basically it's always the same thing. You have to make a WASD movement system and a traceline. Instead of doing it from scratch all over again, BacklitAvenger released a FPS engine free to use :) Your feedback is welcome!

Legends by Cedergren Productions

Blizzard games are not only great games but inspiring people to make great things. All your work on Starcraft 2 is really awesome and I want to feature today a World of Warcraft related work. It's a one hour machinima called Legends by Cedergren Productions. And, this is only the first of a serie! If you have the time, please watch it :)

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 at the start of the Second Great War, on a fringe world under attack by the Zerg. With the Dominion retreating back to the core worlds, the only chance of survival a group of six soldiers have is to find a ship and leave the planet before it is fully engulfed by the Zerg.

Haunted Temple Review by DarkRevenantX

Yet another great review by DRX as part of his Central Review Conglomerate. Thus far, the Haunted Temple has received the highest score: Silver! Be sure to check the thread as he goes in depth within his review and gives ratings to different parts of the map.

Another Mapster Intro by Otixa

Otixa decided he wanted to take his hand at making a better intro cinematic for SC2Mapster. In fact, his is the only one currently that relates/ties into our new Halloween colored theme, so yay for him! Feel free to help promote SC2Mapster with the other various Mapster assets you can use, found here.

Mapster Ventrilo/TeamSpeak by Taz

This had been brought up once before and the general response was, "i'm too busy making my map to talk." However, i'm putting it here in the news so we can get everyone's opinion on the matter, so please go leave some feedback! After all, we're here for you, so if you thinking making a Ventrilo/TeamSpeak server would help the community as a whole, consider it done.

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 guide is to acclimate people with the Galaxy language and custom scripting in Starcraft II. This guide is not intended as reference and as such will build up from simple to more complicated concepts. The beginning parts of this guide are aimed at beginners to programming. Later portions will assume that you understand the earlier material and do less hand holding.

Azoth did a really great job with this Scripting Tutorial. scripting is becoming more and more popular, and in the near future will become somewhat common.

Blender M3 Plugin by stante

This one's pretty self explanatory. Stante is doing a great job with his new M3 Plugin for Blender. It does exactly what NiNToxicated's tool did for 3DS Max, except his is for Blender!

War of Finality by Tyrannical

This map is made up of 3 Teams. Teams 1 and 2 consist of 1 Builder and 2 Heroes. Team 3 consists of 3 Computers: Terran, Protoss, and Zerg. The goal for Teams 1 and 2 is to destroy the other team's builder, while the job of the heroes is to defend the builder from the initial computer attacks and capture the control points. The job of the Builder is to build up an army strong enough to support your heroes as they destroy the other player controlled side.

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 issues is to make featured maps. We don't know anything yet about how many maps will be featured, for how long ... But it's live!

Update2: The official announcement about Map Spotlights has gone up! Check here for the article.

New Moderators

As you have probably noticed, a lot of new people have an orange name. That means they are moderators. They have been selected among the most active members of sc2mapster in order to make the forums a better place to be. I hope you will like them :)

• General: Zarakk
• Map Review: DarkRevenantX
• Map Development: PatchOne, progammer, Grogian, Twinmold20, Alcoholix, Molsterr
• Terrain: Mozared
• Galaxy: s3rius
• Artist Tavern: xcorbo
• Project Workplace: EternalWraith, gh0st00
• Tutorials: ProzaicMuze, ZeroAme

WoW Models in your maps by Molsterr

Molsterr made a quick video and a tutorial to show you how easy it is to import WoW models inside Starcraft 2 using the WoWModelViewer export option. Zarakk also setup a thread where you can download and ask for model packs.

Reverse Animation by Skoite

Skoite wanted a cool revive hero animation but he couldn't find any and did not want to edit the model. He found a way to reverse an animation and it looks really exciting!

THE Card Game shoutcast

If you missed the first tournament, TheAlmaity shoutcasted one of the game from the final. You can get more shoutcasts from him: IntoStarcraft on Youtube

Dustin Browder Getting Free Couch by progammer

By digging around the mpq files, progammer just found out two fun videos of Blizzard. Here's one where Dustin Browder is stealing a couch :) They are are campaign easter egg and in the "Castanar Monitor Large" doodad variations 6 and 7. (Thanks Efluv)

• Update: If anyone's interested in discussing the Custom Maps Contest by Blizzard, visit the thread in our forums.

• There's an article on GameReplays talking about the mapping and quoting us :)
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein & Enemy Territory source code are now available. You might be interested :)

Blizzard Custom Map Contest

Blizzard is launching its first custom map contest and the rewards are huge: $5000 and 1 pass + travel + hotel for the 2010 Blizzcon where they will show off your map in the demo room. There are no specific rules about the map, any map is good!

You have been making awesome maps for months now so you clearly have a huge advantage. It would be so amazing to have winners from the sc2mapster community :) Go ahead and win!

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You've conquered the single-player campaign and climbed the multiplayer ladder, but do you have what it takes to be a StarCraft II custom map designer?

In Blizzard's first-ever StarCraft II Custom Map Contest, they're challenging you to craft the most fun, creative, and polished custom map that the galaxy’s ever seen.

If you think you've got the skills, fire up the StarCraft II Editor that came with your copy of the game and get started. The Editor is a powerful, robust, and complete development tool, and it's everything you'll need to build your creation. Keep in mind that we’re looking for originality, innovation, and fun, so whether you want to make the next DotA, craft a mini-RPG, or concoct a third-person shooter, let your imagination run wild.

Even if you've got some experience creating custom maps, you'll want to kick your efforts into overdrive for this one, because the stakes are high.

Deadlines & Submission

• Map makers will have until September 11 to submit their entries.
• US entries may be submitted here.
• EU entries may be submitted here.

Rules

• Entry rules can be found here.
• Must be in English and not feature explicit or obscene language.
• By submitting the map you grant licensing rights to Blizzard Entertainment, and will not display, post, or share it until after the contest closes on September 11, 2010.
• Must only feature music from Blizzard products or of my own original composition.
• Must only contain images, sounds, voice tracks, designs, and other copyrighted content that you obtained from Blizzard, is your original creation, or that you have properly licensed for use in the map.
• Must follows the game's End User License Agreement and Terms of Use from which it was taken, as well as the Blizzard Video Policy.
• By submitting the map you grant licensing rights to Blizzard Entertainment, and will not display, post, or share it until after the contest closes on September 11, 2010.
• Must be under 10mb.

Reward

Three (3) qualified entrants will be chosen by Sponsor as the "Grand Prize Winners," and will each win a prize package consisting of the following:

• One (1) check in the amount of $5,000.00.
• One (1) trip to BlizzCon 2010 in Anaheim, California that includes round trip coach air fare from the regional airport nearest the Winner's residence.
• Two (2) nights lodging at a hotel in Anaheim chose by Blizzard, with an aggregate approximate value for the trip of $600.00
• One (1) ticket to "BlizzCon 2010" with an approximate retail value of $150.00.
• Your map featured in the BlizzCon 2010 SC2 Demo area.
• As an added bonus, if you promote SC2Mapster, we'll throw in a full year's worth of Curse Premium and be proud of you :)

THE Card Game Tournament

This is the first time I organize a tournament and I'm really happy as it went really well. I would like to thanks TinMan for the streaming, he was the only one from europe that accepted to stream and I found him 3 hours before the start of the event. There were technical difficulties but there will be gone for the next tournament :) Thanks to the 20 teams who participated (40 people!), I really hope you enjoyed it.

Here's the final score:

• First: Smeargle STFU (Forsen.298, Hjälten.780)
• Second: Losers of Life (Antiga.940, fietstas.277)

• Third: Time Jumper (Trikx.818, Asuma.759)
• Third: Team MerryMakers (Phaaze.598, enraze.406)
• Third: The Crabs (Horrorplant.727, tedde93.205)

If you were'nt there, you can hear me and my super sexy french accent :) commenting the show off match between me and Clord, the map maker, versus the winners!

Puzzle TD by gemGreg

While validating the maps I found out Puzzle TD. This is the first time I see a TD on a terrain that is not all square. Also there's a fun concept, your worker can also deposit mineral, and you have to build probes to gather minerals. This is interesting. It's currently in Alpha but I like the ideas :)

Fan Arts

Three new Starcraft fan arts have been added to the Blizzard section.

Everyone who plans on participating in the Custom Map Tournament today, be ready around 6:30PM as vjeux will be setting things up at that time. Keep in mind, this tourny is EU only as of right now, but we'll definitely be doing US tournies in the near future, ;).

Interface Contest

Yes, this was supposed to be over today... I have the feeling a lot of you are hesitant to participate because of a simply amazing submission early on. Don't be scared! Go for it! Keep in mind, these contests are for fun and to help create things people have never done before on GalaxyEdit. We want to extend the current knowledge we have! With that in mind, i'm going to extend the contest for a short time. For now, the extension will be one day. We will update the newspost with more information in a few hours.

Weekly Terraining Exercise #2: To be king you don't need a castle by Mozared

This week, the theme will be "To be king you don't need a castle" (cookie for the reference). What does this mean, you ask? Well, it means you're supposed to make the house, camp, spawning place or what-have-you of the leader/boss of a faction. This can be a home of a mining operations' overseer, the 'home' of an embedded Zerg cerebrate or the temple of a highly-ranked Protoss templar. Or even Mengsk's palace, if you feel so inclined. Go wild, I'd love to see what you make of this. Here's a few entries thus far, there's quite a few more, and the exercise has just started! Stay tuned for a future update on the exercise.

Character / Hero Selection Tutorial by Shinoogie12

This is an awesome tutorial about creating a hero/character selection dialog... Think Super Smash Bros or an RPG where you want to choose a character to play in-game. Not much else to say about it, other than check it out!!

Corpses by Bibendus

This is an horror map designed to make you scream and run in fear :P You must control your hero and survive longer as possible against the incoming waves of zombies. The idea is taken from Call of Duty Nazi Zombies mod.

• Update: Patch 1.02 was released today. You can see the Undocumented Editor changes for Patch 0-1.02 here and the full patch notes here.

Today, Blizzard did a reset of the popularity. I hope it has boosted your maps!

Reminder: Minigame Contest Last Vote: 2 days left, Interface Contest: 7 days left!

Inappropriate Content Policies

We now know the real reason for Ultimate Tank Defense deletion: it was because the units were forming a nazi swastika on the minimap. Blizzard released Inappropriate Content Policies to tell what's authorized and what isn't. Here are the main topics. Thanks to RodrigoAlves for the recap :)

• Racial/Ethnic/National
• Extreme Sexuality/Violence
• Sexual Orientation
• Obscene/Vulgar
• Harassing or Defamatory
• Blizzard Employees
• Inappropriate
• Advertising
• Trademark

Campaigns Abilities by progammer

You probably played the campaign but did you notice all the amazing stuff that Blizzard did? Probably not! progammer made a nice video explaining a lot of stuff we missed, and there's probably more :)

Chat Rooms by Kanaru

As you know, there aren't any chat rooms available in Battle.net. Instead Blizzard gave us maps. Kanaru had the nice idea of making a chat room map so people have a place to talk anyway :) This is less than idea, but it's a start!

Random Dungeon Map - Inventory by Helral

Helral is working on a random dungeon map, and is now featuring his inventory that is directly borrowed from Diablo.

• Update: SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY VJEUX! Also, Blizzard just setup a Custom Map-related feedback thread. Make sure all of your feedback on the Custom Maps systems goes in there. That means, Map/Mod size/limit per account, popularity system feedback, everything and anything related to Custom Maps and Battle.net goes here.

Today is special for me, it's my 21th Birthday! :)

ffxivcore.com is organizing a Final Fantasy 14 Beta key giveaway, I thought you might be interested :)

SC2Replayed

Together with Sixen we have been working hard on mapster for the last several months to create a mapping community. Our co-workers at Curse on their side spent their time developping a new website: sc2replayed.com.

We've spent a hard time working on the search function so you are able to browse the thousands of replays available and find those you really want to see. It has been a complex task but I think it is fairly good right now.

Also, we have figured out the replay format and are able to extract meaningful data from it. As we wanted to release the website for Starcraft 2 launch, we only have basic things like the build order. However we are planning to add more interesting stuff and even let you download a readable version of the replays so the theorycrafters you are can get factual data.

Finally we added some statistics for fun and forums :)

I really hope you will like this website as we put a lot of efforts in making it user friendly. You can add some of your replays and see from yourself!

Third Person Shooter by iWaNN

I would like to news this work made by iWaNN as it is a complete non-intrusive library to do Third Person Shooter for your map. You just have to put the few triggers in there and your pretty much done. Also, a great thing is that you are still in control of your unit and can cast spells, have the UI ... You should check it out :)

Interface Contest

If you come to mapster often you have probably noticed all the different maps with custom UI. It's time to make it a contest ! You have to make a custom interface element. It can be anything you want including action bars, player frame, menu panel ...

• You are allowed to use both dialogs and .SC2Layout modifications
• You must not re-use previous work (please be honest :) )
• You can submit as many entries as wanted as long as they are all differents.

You have 8 days to complete this contest. You have to provide a video and the associated map.

Reward

The main goal of the contest is to further community development within GalaxyEdit. The rewards can be see as follows:

• First: 1-year Curse Premium
• Second: 6-month Curse Premium
• Third: 3-month Curse Premium
• Everyone else: 1-month Curse Premium

Minigame Contest

This will be the last vote for the minigame contest :)

Congrats to the two winners ArcadeRenegade and depthsofchaos, those minigame really deserve to be extended to full playable maps :)

• 3 - Baneling Burstout by progammer - 12
• 4 - Depot Snake by progammer - 10
• 5 - Dodge the Explosions by Helral - 6
• 5 - BlockDodge by Tharrakor - 6
• 5 - Baneling Run by wOlfLisK - 6
• 8 - Marine Absorption by Andernerd - 4
• 9 - Nuke the Speedling by YiffMaster - 3

Blizz Blues

There have been somewhat interesting blue posts on Battle.net forums.

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Has anyone heard the word on Blizzard Custom maps?

We have more information planned to share on the creating custom maps and will adding new maps of our own to the system over time. (I can't answer as to when.)

As we release information, we'll be sure to highlight it on the front blog and as always, we're keeping an eye out for any great community created guides or helpful hints that we can highlight and share with the community as well. We're also going to be keeping an eye out for great community created maps; and much like we've been doing with the Reconnaissance Report, we're hoping to highlight those maps in on the blog as well.

Idea: Why not let the community decide what maps it likes?

That's our intent. We'll be looking for recommendations of maps that the community is enjoying and look into potentially highlighting them in a post on the community site. We'll let everyone know further details on how we would like submissions sent our way etc. We'll also be taking a close look at those maps before we point them out, but we know that we have some amazing and creative community members that we're looking forward to seeing more of.

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To better consolidate constructive feedback on issues or concerns with the custom maps and features, we would like to encourage everyone to use this thread. We will be actively working to redirect additional or new posts on this topic to this thread so that we can better track feedback as well. Thanks.

• Update: Patch 1.01 has been released. Check out the Undocumented Editor Changes for Patch 0-1.01 and the full patch notes.

Attention! The first map stealing has occurred on Turret Defense from Galois1. We are looking for solutions with Blizzard to handle these issues. If you are getting this happening to you too, the right thing to do is talk about it! Keep posted for further news on this subject.

MLG Tournament on Starcraft 2

Even if you come to mapster, you are probably interested on the normal game anyway. Note that our partner MLG is starting tournaments for Starcraft 2. The first event will be in Raleigh August 27-29. You can join the tournament or just buy tickets right now :) Click the image for more infos.

Campaign Models Listing by Zarakk

You've probably played the campaign and saw the high-poly models. Did you know that all those scenes are maps done within the editor? And you can even use the models! They are probably too heavy for Battle.net but could be useful for cinematics. You can get a listing of all those done by Zarakk.

Voice Great Destroyer by IskatuMesk

I've seen many people working on maps, models, artwork but that's the first time I see someone making voices. IskatuMesk is giving us a preview of the voices of his main character: The Great Destroyer. It is really well done, I couldn't say that it was made by a fan!

Cardcraft SC by BeLugh

I am going to promote your maps that are released on Battle.net and we start with Cardcraft by BeLugh. It's a game that let you play cards with a real time fight associated. It's a pretty cool concept and even playable with AI if you can't find anyone due to the popularity system :)

Islands at War by depthsofchaos

Another map available on EU. This is a really cool concept, you create buildings on islands and try to control the whole map. It also features an automatic border detection which is pretty nice.

Tutorials Part 1/2

During the few weeks of the beta, a lot of tutorials have been written by you! They cover a wide range of things from introduction to the editor to advanced stuff. Since I want to show off your awesome work, I am going to post in two days all the tutorials. I'm sure it will help a lot of people! Keep up the great job!

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Editing for Beginners

• Understanding Trigger Elements by Maul2
• Getting Started with Galaxy Edit by Bifuu
• [Video] Tips & Tricks by Bifuu
• Beginner's guide to Trigger, Variables, Arrays, Constants, and Creating custom functions by NeoDeathXp
• [Video] Understanding the Editor by Onetwo
• [Video] Zerg Invasion by Onetwo
• [Video] Beginner Guide by mikelat
• [Video] Beginner Tutorial by brcosm
• [Video] Loooong Tutorial ... (2.5 hours) by StarcraftScientist
• [Video] Video Tutorials by Beider

Customizing the Editor

• [Video] Map Publishing by Onetwo
• Mac - Launch Custom Game by MotiveMe
• How to play online by limezor
• Getting official maps by vjeux
• Fix Localization by Hati

Icons

• [Video] Icon Tutorial by Th3LaughingMan
• [Video] Import Custom Icons by JackRCDF

Models

• [Video] Importing Custom Models and Using Them by Bifuu
• Converting EVE Online Models by Th3LaughingMan

Textures

• Import your own textures by Alcoholix

Galaxy Language

• Writing code in Pure Galaxy by MotiveMe
• CatalogFieldValue by Sholdak

Terrain Editing

Lighting

• [Video] Lightning Day & Light Data System by Bifuu

Terrain

• Terraining for Dummies 1.0 by Mozared
• [Video] Basic Terrain and Pathing by ZeroAme
• [Video] Prettying up Terrain by Onetwo
• [Video] Water & Magma by ZeroAme
• Mineral Editing - Fast Map Style by PatchOne
• Understanding Ground Texture Mixture by lala_future

Trigger Editing

• Make Lava/Water that raises and lowers by LagKillsMaps
• Converting Speed #'s from War3 to SC2 by RodOfNOD
• Simple Leap function by SCMapper
• Cat 'N Mouse. Lets rescue some mice by limezor
• Attaching unit to each other by Flirer
• How to Uberlisk by Hati
• [Video] Basic Functions, Action & Condition Definitions by Quickshot14
• Healing Aura - Fountain of Health by Clord
• Income System by WraithChaser
• Dynamic Tower Sell by Shakeslol
• [Video] Presets/Custom-Script Presets & Multi-Diminsional Arrays by Quickshot14

AI

• [Video] Automatically Train Units (Also contains a Trigger only version) by Helral
• [Video] Automatically Train Units (Also contains a Data only version) by Customstarcraft
• Team Force Building by Aizuu
• Multithreading and AI by Thalassicus
• [Video] Custom Alerts by Quickshot14
• Creating Objectives & Transmissions by WraithChaser

User Interface

• How to not use GUI by ACB1
• Utilizing the power of functions with GUI by SCMapper
• RPG Interface Tips by Aenigma
• Boss Bars by Volsky
• Dialog for Race & Class Selection by Voxglhf

Camera and Cinematics

• [Video] Camera, Lighting, and Cinematics by Onetwo
• [Video] Voting, Creep Trails, & Camera by Onetwo
• [Video] WoW Camera & Controls by Onetwo
• 3rd person movement by Kylegar
• Target with Mouselook Tracelines by rrowland

WASD

• WASD Movement, The S key and you by deliverancelost
• Simple WASD Movement by rrowland

I realize that this isn't Mapping news, but it's pretty important to anyone interested in Melee competition or eSports itself... And from what I gather, there's quite a few of us interested in that. Without further a due...Our friends at MLGPro.com have sent us an announcement about a major Starcraft 2 event kicking off in August! Take a look:

Starcraft 2 Added to 2010 MLG Pro Circuit Starting in Raleigh

Major League Gaming is thrilled to announce the addition of Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty to the 2010 MLG Pro Circuit. Starting with our Raleigh Pro Circuit Competition, August 27-29, the highly anticipated sequel to Blizzard Entertainment's real-time strategy game will join the MLG Pro Circuit as an open registration title. Blizzard has selected MLG as its Official North American Partner for Starcraft 2, and we're tremendously excited to extend our relationship with them and foster a competitive tournament experience in this game as well as in World of Warcraft.

The First Live North American Starcraft 2 Event Kicks Off at MLG Raleigh:

• 1v1 format
• Open registration
• Double-elimination format
• Over $5,000 in cash prizes
• Passes are $60 per player
• Registration opens Tuesday at 7pm ET on MLGPro.com
• Culminates in National Championship in Dallas, November 5-7

Join us in Raleigh and Be a Part of Starcraft 2's First Live Tournament!

• August 27-29
• Raleigh Marriott City Center (more info)
• Open Competitions in Halo 3, Tekken 6, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, World of Warcraft, and Starcraft 2 (more info)
• Spectator passes are $25 for the weekend
• Get a free spectator pass by wearing an MLG UMAD? Hot Topic t-shirt (more info)

The inaugural Starcraft 2 Pro Circuit Season will surely boast an unbelievable array of epic matches and historic events. More information regarding Starcraft 2 will be released in the coming weeks. Get your build orders ready and your hotkeys set, and we'll see you in Raleigh.

For more information on this and other MLG events visit: www.mlgpro.com

• Update: Online Planetary Boss video has changed: it's now a multiplayer footage!
• Update: The minigame thread is now working. Sorry ...

Many of you have experienced issues with the dependencies (1, 2, 3, 4). These will be fixed in the next content patch (I have no ETA though). Also, Blizzard is aware of our huge concerns about the publishing system, let's just hope changes will be made soon!

While playing custom maps on Battle.net, I have seen many of you add "sc2mapster" either in the map description or loading screen. I would really like to thank you for doing that :)

Planetary Boss by Bounty

If you have been following mapster, you have probably heard of this map. Today Bounty is releasing a multiplayer version on Battle.net called "Planetary Boss - Valdar the Vindicator"! You can play it on the NA servers and contact him: Bounty.820. Have fun :)

Diablo - The Curse of Tristram by egodbout

The Diablo remake by egodbout keeps growing. The new video features Weapons, Potion Bar, Party Screen, Character Stats, Alt Item/Show/Pickup. As a side note, there's a Diablo model as an easter egg in the campaign. It will probably be of great use for all of your maps :)

Minigame Vote

The Minigame Contest is now closed. There have been 30 entries so that will be 3 votes with 10 maps each. Each vote will lasts 3 days. There will be no final round :)

There are entries missing either videos / maps. You have 3 days to find people to help you out making the video/upload the map or unfortunatly you won't enter the contest :(

Missing Video

• Avoid Being Walked Over by Hayena
• Archon Xing by NuclearNuke
• 5 maps by yukaboy
• Baneling Sweeper by CptCutter
• Drone Dash by Alec0124

Since many of you are new to mapster, you probably don't know about the contests. They are organised to feature some interesting aspects of the Galaxy Editor. To get an idea, here is the listing of all the contests and their respective winners!

Creature Contest

Wallpaper Contest

Spell Contest

Modeling Contest

Cut Scene Contest

Clock Contest

EDIT: There was a bug with the IRC Channel Flags last night so only registered users could join the channel. It's all fixed now, the channel is open to anyone and everyone.

Beta ends tomorrow! (19th July). This second phase has been really bad for the mappers. Many of the maps broke in some way or another, the popularity boost has been removed but the system hasn't changed, Europe did not get custom map publishing and leaderboards textures are messed up.

Let's hope Blizzard will make a smoother release and give more attentions to the custom maps.

Wild Aiurfrica by 38dedo

I've seen many many maps since I first played Wacraft 3 custom games and I have to say, this one is really a total new concept. Instead of controlling a hero or lead an army, you are in the skin of an animal in Africa. This is an incredible concept! You have to balance your hunger, thirst and rest with some nice mechanisms. For example in order to eat you have to stealth next to some buzards and "capture" one.

Animated Textures by Corbo

Starcraft 2 supports videos as textures. The Exporter Plugin now handles them great and you can see the result in this short video made by Corbo.

Voting Library by ArcadeRenegade

You probably want to use a voting system in your map to choose the difficulty, to kick someone ... ArcadeRenegade made a nice library that allows you to do just that in a few lines of code. This is pretty handy and supports synchronisation!

EDIT2: Patch 18 has gone live for US, not for EU just yet. No patch notes or anything of the sort yet. Any Undocumented Editor Changes can be found here.

EDIT: Blizzard has also released an FAQ regarding common Real ID questions that have been popping up since it's inception. We recommend checking out it, as it's a rather informative read. Click here for the thread.

Rocket Arena Deluxe - RAD by Acemore

You have probably seen the first Rocket Arena Deluxe Dev Diary, Acemore has been doing some great work since then. The map is now playable on Battle.net and this is really so much fun. He added new power-ups like shields and invisibility, and is looking for your inputs (in comments) for new ones!

Since the map is really good and fun, I invite you to play it on Battle.net. And here is the deal: if the map goes to page 1 (it's around page 3 atm) I will promote your Battle.net maps at a faster pace (like 2 maps a week or something).

Psyborg by ProzaicMuze

ProzaicMuze missed the Creature Contest deadline. So he decided to release a video of his creature anyway: the Psyborg. This is really amazing the combination of so many parts which ends up looking extremly great. If you want to know how he did the little missiles you should check out his new tutorial: Customized Projectiles.

Starship Troopers Arachnid by kinkycactus

For his first model, kinkycactus decided to do the Starship Trooper Arachnid. This is really well done with all the required animations: Stand, Walk, (Un)burrow and Attack. He used the M3 Exporter plugin if you wonder how he added it in Starcraft 2. I hope to see more models made by you in the future :)

Patch 17 has been released today. You can see the entire set of patch notes here. You can also check out the Undocumented Editor Changes to see what's new with the Editor itself. It's time for a recap of what has changed in the Galaxy Editor landscape with patch 16. Feel free to comment this news if you have more things to add :)

Mac Editor

The Galaxy Editor is now available on Mac (Patch 17) :) Thanks to Motive for the tip and screenshot.

Random Facts

Many of you spotted undocumented changes. Here's a list of the ones that are the most important.

• New icon set. Mille25
• New sounds: "headshot", "first blood", "ganked!", "green", "red", "GG", "locked", "goal!", "left", "T", "Z", and much more ... Search for "modutilityvoice" in the sound panel to see them all. 38dedo
• The map is no longer revealed during cinematic mode. ChewableProzac
• Hitting Esc during cinematic mode (but not during regular game) brings up the F10 menu. ChewableProzac
• Added actual weapon speed to the UI. zifoon
• "Map Info > Map Name" now has a button to copy to all locals. progammer
• List item now sorted by order they were created. progammer
• All of the difficulties are in, 6 in total. Sixen
• New Revive event.
• Units that have stated gold bounty's now display the bounty with some blue floating text when killed. Jinxxx123

New Natives

Patch 16 introduced new natives and there are two main focus: Inventory and Cheating. There are many other small functions added too.

Inventory

• int UnitInventoryContainer(unit p1);
• unitgroup UnitInventoryGroup(unit p1);
• int UnitInventoryIndex(unit p1);
• unit UnitInventoryItem(unit p1, int p2);
• void UnitInventoryMove(unit p1, int p2, int p3);
• int UnitInventorySlot(unit p1);
• unit UnitInventoryUnit(unit p1);
• void TriggerAddEventUnitInventoryChange(trigger p1, unitref p2, int p3, unitref p4);
• unit EventUnitInventoryItem();
• int EventUnitInventoryItemContainer();
• int EventUnitInventoryItemSlot();
• point EventUnitInventoryItemTargetPoint();
• unit EventUnitInventoryItemTargetUnit();

Cheating

• bool GameMapIsBlizzard();
• void GameCheatAllow(int p1, bool p2);
• bool GameCheatsEnabled(int p1);
• void TriggerAddEventSaveGameDone(trigger p1);
• void TriggerAddEventCheatUsed(trigger p1, int p2, int p3);
• int EventCheatUsed();

Others

• See all the added and removed natives

New Art by GardenOfAiur and SC2Legacy

A bunch of new images have been added to the game and GardenOfAiur together with SC2Legacy posted a nice compilation of what has been added. I've made a small selection of new content, click the links to see the whole thing!

Wireframes

Buttons

Icons

Upgrades

Decals

Textures

Models