[StarCraft II] Optimizer

[Rispetto]

As many of you may know, the beta editor has been released!

I'm not sure about the rest of you guys who got your editor, but the first thing I did was start creating maps. In fact I think it was about 15 minutes after the patch release when I opened the editor for the first time.

As some may realize, we need an optimzer. I tried the WC3 Otimizer just for the lulz (obviously no effect) and thus we need one for StarCraft II. I would personally like to start pumping out maps ASAP, but I don't want to unless they've been optimized.

I'm not exactly sure how long until someone decides to make one. Hell I think it took WC3 a year before someone stepped up and created one for fellow map makers.

I'm hoping this is the optimizer is publicly accessible before the game actually released. I want my maps out there for custom game lovers across the globe to hit SC2 with an immense new custom map experience.

Anyways, if someone could PM me with an optimizer link or maybe an update as to whether they actually plan on making one, so I know that one is at least coming, that would be awesome. Thanks guys.

Edit: Before you start nerdraging; yes I googled it. So far I cannot find any optimizers made to date (obviously, the editor game out yesterday)

 

[QueloR]

Good thing you read up on whats to come from Blizzard.

The SC2 gameplay panel gave more info on the editor:

- New water tools. No longer tied to cliff level. Can be animated, like raising/lowering.
- Lighting editor - Used to create the dark red glowing effect on the lava planet when lava rises.
- Multiple cliff types can be connected together.
- Alpha texture blending. No more tiles, you can paint multiple textures then blend them together.
- Roads - Paint roads by click-n-dragging.
- Terrain foliage - Doodads are created automatically on top of certain textures, like grass and bushes on grass textures.
- Physics mainly used visually, but can be used for damage/blocking stuff in mods.
- Libraries. Makes it so multiple people can work on the same map at the same time.
- No included model editor, you still need 3DStudio or similar.
- Map protection and other features to prevent map stealing etc...
- Customizable UI, you can add buttons, dialogs, images as desired.
- Banks - Can save data in maps which is stored locally on your system (can be used for savegames, so you simply load your progress the next time the map is played). In multiplayer you can retrieve the bank from any player (through triggers).
- Editor available in beta (probably not from day 1)
- Easy to make interesting mods using the data editor, mod examples:

 

[Element of Water]

He doesn't mean just map protection -- an optimizer should optimize code and reduce the file size of the map too.

I guess it wouldn't be too hard as we already have mpq access to the map files and some of the wc3's code could be reused without having to change much, e.g. script optimization.

 

[QueloR]

I thought it did that by itself juding by this option.

Either way, he put the question as if someone would steal he's maps.

 

[Colonel Lance]

If you look in the overview manager (F12) it looks something like this:

As you can see it has a "size" and a "Size (Compressed)" so maybe it does it automatically /shrug.

 

[Element of Water]

Nah, compressed is just in the MPQ, even wc3 does that automatically.

It's the removing of uneccessary data that the wc3 optimizer does.

 

[Rispetto]

Nah, compressed is just in the MPQ, even wc3 does that automatically.

It's the removing of uneccessary data that the wc3 optimizer does.

Yes like removing regions and other unecessary data from the map that only the Editor needs to read. It's a protection / save file space thing.

 

[Statharas]

5MB to 70KB is prety awesome. No compression needed. No unused data exist.