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no there is not.

Strings max out at 1024 but triggers don't max out. Not at a low number such as 2000 anyway.

People have copied thousands of blank triggers into maps. No trigger limits.

ya ive noticed that lol

Uhh whats the ETA on completion?
Looking good Yoshi

ETA on completion, those questions will be ignored!
Well, don't it up, thats all im going to say, and if you hit problems on the MPQ, i can help.

I remember once I was making a map called "The Sims". I was using 6 players as an upgrade from Kck's previous version and I added much more stuff. Since every trigger was independantly from all the other players, it counted as singles.

It stopped allowing me to make triggers after one point. I just couldn't press the "new" button.

MAYBE it was the strings, but I highly doubt it.


ETA on completition is this summer. Expect a alpha demo next week hopefully.

An alpha, things moving fast then! Any actual "gameplay" completed or just some good old fun...

Also i think i fun idea would be to make a side project, which is just like a battle game, with characters and spells and such, that would get a lot of play on B.Net.

Your unit will sacrifice speed in order to have the chance of dodging attacks from enemies for a split second.

lvl1 - 25%
lvl2 - 50%
lvl3 - 75%

Drains a lot of energy, but powerful at high levels.

The effect is great by the way. Units shoot at you without doing damage at you

Awesome......Now i can dodge Bullets and kick at the Same time
17%....long way to go....

How do you know exactly how far you are in the map?

You try to plan out what you're putting into the map beforehand and then you take an estimate.

I have a word document with all my secert plans.The EST % complete (the triggers and terrain) is 17%. Deathknight is about 60% done the city, but not doing anything on it currently. Bug him



Check my signature. I'm hoping for a release this summer, and an alpha release to everyone in a week or two.



I got homework and exams. Education comes first. When my school ends it'll go so much faster.

Education first, bah! Its all about Time Management!

Hmmm, I feel your pain Yoshi. But then again, I cannot spend more than 6-8 hours a day working on my map. And come on, every once in a while it feels good to actually play a game, y'know? I get a kick out of it!

I, myself, now have alot of time on my hands....School is over for me and won't start till august for me But....Too lazy...

I currently make maps at about the rate of 2 hours a week. Then every once in a while i'll spend a long time working on a map. (normaly something new to be abbandonded later)

I usually find that pacing yourself is inducive to good quality. Plus, you won't get ticked off at that certain bug and spend all day trying to fix it.

The production of this map has slowly down drasticly mainly because of my school. Matrix is pretty complex so sometimes I dont feel like doing it. It doesn't mean im going to quit though

While I've been working on Mario and Luigi, I find that I'm constantly changing ideas to better streamline gameplay, which essentially means rebuilding already finished parts of my map. And since I do about a a feature or two a day, this really hampers development.

One example is of how I handled spell selection. Originally, it was simply moving a civilian to the desired beacon. But due to the amount of abilities (roughly 10), I've recently changed it to units in bunkers who, when exited, trigger the spell as they are going right back in.


If I had a percentage bar in my sig for my map, it would constantly be going up and down...

Civillian spell systems are old and stinky now. They're inconvienent.

The dropship system im using is much better. You hotkey them, and you can activate them by unloading the unit. Thus, not requiring you to move your screen or anything.

Yep, thats essentially how my bunker system works, except with bunkers .

Civilian systems still have their uses, ecspecially for choices which wouldn't need to be made during combat and are used so little that it would be a waste to use a hotkey on it.

Alot of times with bugs its best to ignore it for a few days then review the triggers again later with a fresh mind.

Bunker systems are good if there is in a point in your game where the user would like to dump all their abilities in one click. Like a huge mass of bombs or spawning units or something. Other than that, go with dropships for a few reasons:

• They can hold many more units
• They can have differenet sized units
• They're floating, so it's easier to trigger

Oh, and another downside is that you'll lose a transport. Not that big of a problem, but, a downside nonetheless. Though I would find it worse to lose the bunker, which is really unreplacable.

In my map, I have no use for bunkers, whereas I will have to use my transports.

And honestly, unless you were somehow going to have to use more than four different spells per hot-key, it would just become inevitable hassle to remember exactly which units in which bunker/transport would work for what, and since the only possible way would be to look at the are where the transport is (if you indeed wanted to waste that many units on a visual outline of 11+ spells), you'd be negating the entire purpose of the selection system.

Yes, you'd be losing your bunker, but in the end I feel it looks a lot cleaner than having dropships for each player huddled around their own patch of land.

Dropships are better, because mainly u can just hotkey(der..) and look at what the spells are by placing ur cursor over the unit inside, and bunker is the same thing, but bunker cannot hold a Zealot, nor can it hold a Zergling...