Simple Questions/Answers - Page 155

On April 17 2015 15:13 Gwavajuice wrote:



Okay I thought discussion was about expression and confronting opinions to try to understand each others, I was wrong apparently. If you have not seen that the sumatra asylum coment was said with tongue in cheek I'm sorry, I ll try to write better next time (too bad I can't use k a p p a on this site, you may have understood then - tongue in cheek again *hint hint*)

I hope for you that Echo will have as much intersesting pro games on it that Merry go round or KSS and that it is truely a good map which was not voted for because of new aestetics. But there will be tons of death balls esp in PvP, just like anywhere else, it's just that the clash will not happen in the center...


Open centers doesn't favor death balls it favors creative engagements, surrounds and spliting army. If you play terran or zerg, you don't want to engage a P deathball in a chocky bumpy area, you want space to manouver on. You talk about data but each time you're just refering to Protosses which is the race that doesn't like open areas, that just want terrain they can forcefield and chockes to maximise their colo/HT play.

But this goes beyond sheer units and game play, it's about strategy i.e. identifying the key spot of the map your army must take control in order to take.


But anyway, as I said I just wanted things explained to me, but apparently all I'll get is "Uvantak has super data that prooves it kills death ball and you should shut the f up you scrub" you're a genius I'm a scrub, I don't even know why I dare speaking to you. have a good day.

On April 18 2015 08:31 TheFish7 wrote:
Here's a quick crash course in awesome looking doodads with proper placement.

Firstly, V switches between in-game view and editor view.
While in editor view, ctrl+shift+H shows the placement grid, very useful.
Also in editor view, G toggles the grid on and off.



By holding shift while placing the doodad, you are checking the box "Ignore placement requirements" which forces the use of the placement footprint, similar to how a worker must build a structure on the grid.

Position is the doodad's x-y coordinates on the map grid.

Height allows you to move the doodad up or down on the Z axis, very useful for creating scenes using multiple doodads, or when placing objects on the side of cliffs.

Holding control lets you change the Rotation of the doodad (or a value can be entered manually), good for making doodads appear random/natural

Pitch makes the doodad face up/down, like how an airplane climbs/lands

Roll spins the doodad "do a barrel roll"

Scale is one of the most useful options, you can make big objects small, small objects big, etc. If you uncheck uniform Z you can stretch a doodad taller or squish it down, uniform Y is the same along the Y axis.

Variation - doodads can have multiple different versions of it, i.e. different shapes of rock. You can specify which one to use, or select a doodad and use , and . to switch back and forth

Custom Color is a fun option, notably this was used to great effect in Cloud Kingdom to match doodads to the color scheme of the map. HDR multiplier changes the intensity of the color.

Disable Sound Emitters is good for those obnoxious waterfall and junkyard objects that make too much noise for competition.

Disable No-Fly zone - some doodads (usually Giant ones like rock towers) prevent units flying overhead - this can be disabled.

Force Occlusion Hide - makes the doodad go transparent when a unit is hiding behind it.

I don't know what boosted cliff level does.

On April 14 2015 10:08 TheFish7 wrote:
I've been searching, but I can't find anyone that is making a Warcraft 2 mod for sc2. I could find WC3, WC4, and other Warcraft future game mods, but no WC2. Blizzard just took out 90% of the work involved by adding in all these wc3 assets. Might be fun to do a remake of the campaign. Only things really missing are some water units and buildings; oil tankers, platforms, foundries, and of course the boat functionality but theres workarounds for that. Has anyone done this or started something like a wc2 remake?

On April 16 2015 16:09 LComteVarauG wrote:
I was not sure where to ask this as I have no idea what it means, but I see it a lot in the Custom Maps forum - why do people post "--- NUKED ---" / what does it mean? Thanks!

On April 16 2015 16:32 Meavis wrote:
it means the post was removed by a mod, so likely a spam bot.

On April 17 2015 05:07 Gwavajuice wrote:
I might be wrong but' -nuked-' is the most extreme ban the mods have, account and all post are deleted and you can't ever come back again on TL (with same IP and/or email adress that is...)
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On April 17 2015 05:22 The_Templar wrote:


It doesn't delete anything, it just replaces all posts with --nuked-- and permanently bans your account. Sometimes you can return on the same IP afaik.

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On April 18 2015 02:20 Uvantak wrote:
You are taking it on a bad light, internet does not convey the tone words have, I was not being aggressive, I was being curious.