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Is it possible to implicate custom-drawn locations? Instead of having to always have square locations, could you program SCMdraft to have drawable locations (you could litteraly select a tool and use it to draw the location in any shape you want)?

No that would not be possible without using a mod but then people without the mod couldnt play your map or starcraft would crash

Locations are automatically defined as 2 points. Starting point and ending point. That is why it is always a rectangle.

I doubt it's possible to mod SC to have "custom-drawn" locations.

Somebody already asked this. The answer is no.

A location's position is stored in the .chk as 4 longs: starting x/y coordinates and ending x/y coordinates. The two points can only specify a rectangle location.

You would need to patch starcraft.exe in order to allow that and it would be a huge pain due to the many places locations are used.

There is only one way to get around this and that is to treat several locations as one logical location. The only drawback (other than wasting several locations) is that you could not move the location unless every location had the same center point.

What about a customizably colorable locations in the editor. That way you could better organize what they were used for. Then a compresser in scd so that when you were finished it lowered size.

yeah that probably would work cause all he would need to do is make it so it adds like <red> or <blue> at end of location name then other editors wouldn't lose it and you could color-organize locations in scmdraft

There are unused flags that can be used for this purpose. I believe SCMDraft 1 did that...