I tried to do a search and browsed around a bit, but I didn't see these posted anywhere else, so if they are then I apologize.

This guy named Onetwo did a fantastic video tutorial series. Here are the first five parts of his level zero tutorials, but I'll also add a link to his youtube channel so you can watch the rest if you want.

Here is a link to his youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/OneTwoSC#p

They have been helpful to me so far, so hopefully they will be useful to somebody else as well.

aeoliant

Canada361 Posts

August 13 2010 18:10 GMT

sweet, been looking for something like this

sfdrew

United States201 Posts

August 13 2010 18:16 GMT

I was too, and this guy is the best I've found so far. Blizzard is supposed to be releasing some howto documents in the future, but who wants to wait for that. Also, here are three other videos that just go over all the brushes and stuff for laying terrain (not the guy from above)

I would be interested in holding a map making contest at some point, but I know that most people are still getting used it. A few people have really excelled, but it wouldn't be to fair if a lot of people couldn't compete.

AnodyneSea

Jamaica757 Posts

August 13 2010 19:19 GMT

Awesome, been looking for a good starting point to get into the editor rather then just going and fooling around. This should help thankssss

Tythos

United States18 Posts

August 14 2010 00:57 GMT

Might as well toss in my own contributions. First youtube series, so not the highest quality, but now that the game's out my intention is to release a second version and cover some additional topics.

http://youtube.com/TythosEternal

jrkirby

United States1499 Posts

August 14 2010 03:36 GMT

Are there any good tutorials about the data editor? I can do triggering and such, and terrain is somewhat intuitive, But i've never been able to wrap my head around the data editor and the actors and such, making my other skills rather useless for custom mapmaking (creating new units and triggering animations seems rather dependant on the data editor.)

Sokalo

United States375 Posts

August 14 2010 03:59 GMT

Very helpful videos. Thanks for linking these.

One.two

Canada116 Posts

August 14 2010 04:01 GMT

Cool, someone linked my videos :D

I just released a new data editor tutorial on my channel so that should help ya jrkirby!

Broodie

Canada831 Posts

August 14 2010 04:23 GMT

Sorry for the nub question but i made a map and when i go to play it all the minerals appear on the map as enemies and cannot be harvested from, any suggestions would really help, it's a large 1v1 broodwar style map

Please help me!

One.two

Canada116 Posts

August 14 2010 05:35 GMT

#10

Damnit people are asking me questions here now! Lol JK.

Place your minerals under player 0... or select them all and double click and change them to player 0.

jrkirby

United States1499 Posts

August 15 2010 01:09 GMT

#11

@one.two

Haven't watched it yet, but i think it will help, thanks!

Edit: Nice, I watched it, and it's useful. There are other things It doesn't fully explain, but I think it covers the basics. Can't wait to start mappin with the data editor

One.two

Canada116 Posts

August 15 2010 07:08 GMT

#12

Also, if your beginning, my Simple tower defense tutorial should be helpful; it was done in beta but the concepts are there and triggers are very similar!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBQjnT_96hQ

Broodie

Canada831 Posts

August 17 2010 23:22 GMT

#13

Sorry for being a nag lol

A new problem has arisen: i made a beautiful 1v1 map but the workers on gas glitch, they seem to enter and leave on the wrong side of the gas building, taking their time to walk around, i use 4/5 workers to mine accordingly, any suggestions here?

Think of this thread as a troubleshoot kik

AJMcSpiffy

United States1154 Posts

August 18 2010 02:47 GMT

#14

Exactly the kind of videos/thread I was looking for! The editor is quite daunting at first O.o but now I can actually start working on some multiplayer maps