Report, edit, etc...Posted by Yoshi da Sniper on 2004-03-28 at 20:23:13
Our friends at Stormcoast have just brought out the next version of SCMdraft. I have to say, Scmdraft 2 v0.4.5 is THE map editor. Its now more user friendly, and I'm beginning to get WAY more comfortable with.
One of the things that most impressed me (it wasn't an accually mapping function, but I thought it was really cool) was this when you selected things:
Selecting a building brings a green wireframe in the lower left corner. It doesn't take much to impress me
<ul><br />
<li>Unit properties window recoded to change behaivior, selected units now displayed with yellow selection circles in the map display, also no changes are applied until the corresponding checkboxes are hit.<br />
<li>Terran addons now are properly displayed as connected as well as properly linked ingame.<br />
<li>General settings dialog.<br />
<li>Status bar now displays relavent information.<br />
<li>Terrain types now also in the left bar, also terrain type hints in terrain palette.<br />
<li>All settings are now remembered between sessions.<br />
<li>Protoss buildings which are powered are now shown with a green selection circle.<br />
<li>More grid sizes and colors, also unit, sprite snap to grid features.<br />
<li>Option to check for an updated version automatically once a day.<br />
<li>Program now warns when changes to the exe are detected (file corruption, worms, virii, etc)<br />
<li>Ability to hide all placed map revealers.<br />
<li>All unit shadows and overlays are now displayed.<br />
<li>Arbiter cloaked units are shown as cloaked.<br />
<li>Ability to use keys 1-8 to switch players as well as owner of currently selected units.<br />
<li>Optionaly disables placing of minerals too close to resource depots and vice versa.<br />
<li>Sprites now placable for all players.<br />
<li>Sprite property dialog.<br />
<li>Ability to resize left splitter.<br />
<li>Current map is now autosaved every 5 minutes to temporary file. (NewMap.scx or oldfilename.scm.autosave in current directory)<br />
<li>Improved creep display.<br />
<li>When holding down control unit life is shown. Also when holding down control in the fog of war layer, fog of war for all players is changed.<br />
<li>Improved unit selection with shift and control mod keys.<br />
<li>Fixed 2 crash bugs(fog of war over the edge of the map, restore unit defaults without a unit selected) as well as a few minor display bugs.<br />
<li>Removed all memory leaks.<br />
<li>Alot of other minor and cosmetic changesI am too tired to remember.<br />
</ul><br />
I kid you not. This is a must download
DOWNLOAD NOW
One of the things that most impressed me (it wasn't an accually mapping function, but I thought it was really cool) was this when you selected things:
Selecting a building brings a green wireframe in the lower left corner. It doesn't take much to impress me
<ul><br />
<li>Unit properties window recoded to change behaivior, selected units now displayed with yellow selection circles in the map display, also no changes are applied until the corresponding checkboxes are hit.<br />
<li>Terran addons now are properly displayed as connected as well as properly linked ingame.<br />
<li>General settings dialog.<br />
<li>Status bar now displays relavent information.<br />
<li>Terrain types now also in the left bar, also terrain type hints in terrain palette.<br />
<li>All settings are now remembered between sessions.<br />
<li>Protoss buildings which are powered are now shown with a green selection circle.<br />
<li>More grid sizes and colors, also unit, sprite snap to grid features.<br />
<li>Option to check for an updated version automatically once a day.<br />
<li>Program now warns when changes to the exe are detected (file corruption, worms, virii, etc)<br />
<li>Ability to hide all placed map revealers.<br />
<li>All unit shadows and overlays are now displayed.<br />
<li>Arbiter cloaked units are shown as cloaked.<br />
<li>Ability to use keys 1-8 to switch players as well as owner of currently selected units.<br />
<li>Optionaly disables placing of minerals too close to resource depots and vice versa.<br />
<li>Sprites now placable for all players.<br />
<li>Sprite property dialog.<br />
<li>Ability to resize left splitter.<br />
<li>Current map is now autosaved every 5 minutes to temporary file. (NewMap.scx or oldfilename.scm.autosave in current directory)<br />
<li>Improved creep display.<br />
<li>When holding down control unit life is shown. Also when holding down control in the fog of war layer, fog of war for all players is changed.<br />
<li>Improved unit selection with shift and control mod keys.<br />
<li>Fixed 2 crash bugs(fog of war over the edge of the map, restore unit defaults without a unit selected) as well as a few minor display bugs.<br />
<li>Removed all memory leaks.<br />
<li>Alot of other minor and cosmetic changesI am too tired to remember.<br />
</ul><br />
I kid you not. This is a must download
DOWNLOAD NOW
Report, edit, etc...Posted by dashrike on 2004-03-28 at 20:48:23
w00t mine doesn't work because I don't have bw... 
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Nozomu on 2004-03-28 at 21:10:17
Sweetness! But I'm dying without a trigger editor in there somewhere. Any plans to put TrigEdit in the next release, SI?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Yoshi da Sniper on 2004-03-28 at 21:25:28
On his page, he says it will be in his next release.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by dashrike on 2004-03-28 at 21:28:49
*dling bw*
(I prob should get the real thing, but dc++ makes this more convenient, and cheaper)
(I prob should get the real thing, but dc++ makes this more convenient, and cheaper)
Report, edit, etc...Posted by SI on 2004-03-29 at 01:42:20
QUOTE(Nozomu @ Mar 28 2004, 09:10 PM)
Sweetness! But I'm dying without a trigger editor in there somewhere. Any plans to put TrigEdit in the next release, SI?
hopefully I can release it seperately next weekend, or the weekend afterwards.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Revelade on 2004-03-29 at 01:44:01
I love how you can take map pictures... that alone makes it wonderful. I also find the terrain editor one of the BEST because it doesn't change back to diaganol anymore, and it goes from both diaganol and square FLAWLESSLY when compared to Starforge. This is very good terrain editor, good job Mr. Insanity.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Rayne on 2004-03-29 at 08:11:32
A Trig Edit would be be nice but so far this new version looks to be damn good. Now I have a better tool to use 
Report, edit, etc...Posted by SI on 2004-03-29 at 17:34:17
nice to know you guys like it.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2004-03-30 at 16:51:40
HOLY CRAP this is the cooolest program out there...I know i sound gay but when i started it up i fainted....STACKIN MINERALS SO COOL...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by dashrike on 2004-03-30 at 16:53:21
Yay now if only I could get bw,,,
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mini Moose 2707 on 2004-03-30 at 17:12:12
Great. Someone's going to make more money maps. -_-
Report, edit, etc...Posted by dashrike on 2004-03-30 at 17:13:53
QUOTE(Mini Moose 2707 @ Mar 30 2004, 04:12 PM)
Great. Someone's going to make more money maps. -_-
Yep that happens... I did a few of those...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by SI on 2004-03-30 at 17:41:36
You can try it with SC 1.10, I have no idea what will happen tho. it may even work if you dont use BW features.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2004-03-30 at 18:10:34
umm suicidal insanity i think thats wut every1 has been makin maps on version 1.10....duh
Report, edit, etc...Posted by dashrike on 2004-03-30 at 18:16:04
QUOTE(Jedi_knight_z @ Mar 30 2004, 05:10 PM)
umm suicidal insanity i think thats wut every1 has been makin maps on version 1.10....duh
*points to top of page*
That was the point of this thread... Introducing the next version...
Edit: btw I dled scmdraft v1.1 off your site, and it won't run. It gives me "File Access Denied" errors whenever I try to do anything (including exit the program...)
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mini Moose 2707 on 2004-03-30 at 19:47:57
StarDraft 2 apparently uses the MPQ files. If you don't have BroodWar, then you don't have the MPQs, then you can't run SCMD:2.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by flaming_X on 2004-03-30 at 19:54:47
LOL! It really needs that trigger editor/maker/whatever in there! I hated that in the old one and I will probably hate that in the new one. However, I do think that having no trigger editor beats the StarForge trigger editor (SUX 
) Well, That is about all I have to say! Time to DL.....
Wait, I do have something more to say, MAKE THE ONE WITH TRIGGERS, FOR GOD SAKES!! and god, save all the sheep on my farm! I know it doesn't sound like something most people would ask for, but I also have asked for a monkey, world peace, an alien to kill bush, penguins to take over the earth, one million people to riot in Russia (Sounds funny), World War III to start and end in less than a minute, twenty-seven cows to become fish, an alien gun, three fish eggs stuffed into a poor kids mouth, five thousand six hundred ninty seven moths to die, and about 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 dollars...this is only a small part of the ever continuing list, so please, make a version with triggers, it is one small thing, right? PLEASE! You make me feel so sad, I sometimes wonder if my angle lost his/her wings (I can't see that guy/gal)
) Well, That is about all I have to say! Time to DL.....Wait, I do have something more to say, MAKE THE ONE WITH TRIGGERS, FOR GOD SAKES!! and god, save all the sheep on my farm! I know it doesn't sound like something most people would ask for, but I also have asked for a monkey, world peace, an alien to kill bush, penguins to take over the earth, one million people to riot in Russia (Sounds funny), World War III to start and end in less than a minute, twenty-seven cows to become fish, an alien gun, three fish eggs stuffed into a poor kids mouth, five thousand six hundred ninty seven moths to die, and about 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 dollars...this is only a small part of the ever continuing list, so please, make a version with triggers, it is one small thing, right? PLEASE! You make me feel so sad, I sometimes wonder if my angle lost his/her wings (I can't see that guy/gal)
Report, edit, etc...Posted by dashrike on 2004-03-30 at 20:46:55
QUOTE(Mini Moose 2707 @ Mar 30 2004, 06:47 PM)
StarDraft 2 apparently uses the MPQ files. If you don't have BroodWar, then you don't have the MPQs, then you can't run SCMD:2.
My point was that scmdraft v1.10 doesn't work either...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2004-03-30 at 21:19:38
hmmm i have a an awesome poto but this site dont allow .bmp files...only gif...ahhh oh well...but im goin start makin money maps and a mario party with board!!!whoa... if u wanna help or have any questions feel free to ask...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Yoshi da Sniper on 2004-03-30 at 21:32:57
BMP files are not allowed because they take up way more space then they should. Get photoshop or a BMP to JPG converter.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Deathknight on 2004-03-30 at 21:39:39
QUOTE
(I prob should get the real thing, but dc++ makes this more convenient, and cheaper)
Go out and buy it. NOW!
Report, edit, etc...Posted by dashrike on 2004-03-30 at 22:21:07
QUOTE(Yoshi da Sniper @ Mar 30 2004, 08:32 PM)
Get photoshop or a BMP to JPG converter.
Like Paint, for example...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2004-03-30 at 22:23:40
hey yoshi how did you make the screenshot come out like that?
and how do you take screenshots in it
and how do you take screenshots in it
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Yoshi da Sniper on 2004-03-30 at 23:55:20
QUOTE(predieanalien @ Mar 30 2004, 10:23 PM)
hey yoshi how did you make the screenshot come out like that?
and how do you take screenshots in it
and how do you take screenshots in it
Find some sort of program that saves into jpg or png, (HERES ONE YOU CAN TRY!) and save. Now you can upload to the best mapping site in the universe. Thank you.