Fancy buildorders! ( work in progress )

Made a BIG step for archiving and sorting the buildorders. I now have cut out about 80% of the work involved with it and found a way to export the buildorders to a web ready file that any up to date browser can see.

1. Completely overhauled the website and am now using this test server as a template for my own domain as well.
2. Named my buildorder tool SC2 Mirage
3. Tinkered out with the website a bit so that the site is not only about Mirage but has the capabilities to become much more.
4. Dropped dead on the couch because i worked for the last 18 hours straight on this ( xD )

Was quite busy trying to get the flowcharts setup on my own newly created domain and started to mess around with wordpress a little bit. So far it seems i still have to manually add in all the buildorders. This will probably something i will have to figure out once i can hire someone that knows more about php and all this stuff.

So i had to redirect the flowcharts to a seperate directory for now to keep it up and running. So i updated the posts link to the new link

Stopped working on the tool for a few days because i was getting tunnelvision and started to work on it today again for an hour or two.

1. Remade the timeline to have a better visual on the time itself.
2. Made all the build times future proof by using a time scale i.e. 1 second is 5 pixels
3. Added horizontal/vertical anchors to 'lock' the chart into place without me eyeballing it
4. Locked the x and y for all blocks so that they are all grouped together nicely.
5. Created a replay template on how to add buildorders to the charts quicker.

for a new view of the template look at : New Template

At this point in time i could really apreciate any feedback on the readability and overview of the buildorders itself, since once i start churning out builds in a more constant timing, redoing anything because people don't like it would take me weeks.

leave any feedback through a pm to me on the teamliquid forums, or a reply to my blog post or reddit post.

Added in the second part of the 2-2-2 TL guide

which can be found here: Stargate 2-2-2

Both of the 2-2-2 variations can be accessed from the forge fast expand : Forge Fast expand

Started to change the look of the tool and seperated the tool into a more "fancy clickthrough" version and a overview version. both which you can access from the main site.

Added in a buildorder that was taken from the barely 30 minute old Teamliquid.net strategy team that posts awesome guides!
go check that one out here: 2-2-2

Teamliquid guide link: TL guide link

I've reworked the layout of the builds inside the flowchart so that extra notes etc are not scattered around anymore. Now above the middle timeline i have buildings to build and general notes, below the middle timeline i have macro notes and units to build. Also added in the second 2-2-2 build with the new cleaned up build overview.

I did that to clean up the look and give the build itself a better overview. for an example look at
Cleaned up build order

Cleaned up alot my global resources ( racial building/unit build times etc ) so the format is now consistent across the board.

Added in alot more buildorders and therefor the protoss buildorders are all done now. meaning a basic set has been added for all Protoss matchups.

fixed some build time problems where i didn't have the correct build time displayed.
if you notice a mistake in the buildorders please do contact me so i can fix it.

Hellow fellow TL folks.

So where do i start, i had a crazy idea about 2 months back about the current strategy section and how buildorders were presented. And one of the things i really disliked is, that's it's really hard to keep track of a buildorder in a huge wall of text while also playing a game, whether it be versus an A.I. or in a real ladder/custom game against a real opponent.

So i started to think, and think i did!

"Now what did you make" i hear you say. Well this is what i made:

FLOWCHARTS

Flowcharts are generally used in a business enviroment for seeing different flows of processes and an overview of simultaneous processes.

Current working builds that are implemented as a flowchart are:

PvP 4 gate rush
PvP Sase's 2 gate agressive expand
PvT 1 gate expand

Now how does this apply to Starcraft 2 and buildorders?

A simple buildorder in the fashion we are now used in seeing gives you a basic understanding of the build, but lacks visualization and overview.

This tool i'm currently developing is a work in progress and not yet finished at all. In it's current form it's only that, a visual buildorder right in front of you instead of following numbers. Once the tool works as i want it to, and i have a private webpage where i have more HTML/PHP/SQL options available to me, i will start adding in more extra features.

Some of the features which i want to implement are:

1.Personal notes on buildorders
2.Able to download replays from the buildorder itself
3.See deviations in buildorder + replays to back the deviation up ( i.e. you scout something different then you expect, then you should change x and y in your build and proceed differently )
4.Export to PDF function
5.Browser support so that you can use all flowcharts functions like zoom in / zoom out without using the webviewer that i currently use.
6. Upload function for replays to attach to buildorders for your own use.
7. Good colour coding scheme suited for everyone
8. Create a webbased tool for people that create buildorders to make it and upload it