Basic way to protect your map in Starcraft 2 Galaxy Editor

[mjllonir]

Hello everybody,

Here is a video I created to help everybody protecting their map in a extremely basic method. All this does is "hide" your triggers from the Galaxy Editor, although they will run perfectly fine when you are in-game.

**NOTICE

I forgot to mention in the video that you will be unable to retrieve the Triggers once they are "deleted". Make sure to save a copy of the original one so you may modify that one and re-protect it afterwards.

If you have any comments or questions, just post, and I'll do my best to help you out.

Mjllonir

 

[real138]

very nice. Im gonna go try and see what i can delete from the files and still work. Thank you
Btw I think blizzard is going to be including a map protection.

 

[mjllonir]

Yeah, after listening to it a few times I realised I forgot to mention a few things...such as the notice I put under the video an that you should save the map under two different names to not mix it up (You expect people to know to do that, but for some they don't think about it, and having it in the tutorial helps...I may have to update it.

 

[Hawkwing]

Nice tutorial.

Out of curiosity, what software did you use to record this?

 

[mjllonir]

One that Ifound today which I think is EXCELLENT. I used Microsoft Expression Encoder 3.

 

[Hawkwing]

It must be. The quality is fantastic.

Edit: Just downloaded it, it's very nice. Thanks.

 

[mrzwach]

Blizzard is including map protection when they allow us to publish maps to B.net.

So sadly, this is kinda useless. :\

 

[real138]

well for the meantime its kinda useful. lets say you want someone to preview your map but not steal stuff.

 

[mjllonir]

Well my guess is that the system will function a bit like the WC3 system. You download the map and automatically the map is in your maps folder. Want to take a peak? Oh look, this map maker didn't protect his map. *Copy idea, modify systems, etc.*

 

[real138]

No no they said all maps will be stored in an online database. Or so i've heard.

 

[JackRCDF]

You can still open the map and save it as a different name and upload yourself, @real138. And there will always be a way to unprotect maps, even blizzard can't stop that.

 

[mjllonir]

Very true. But see, you could also do that in WC3, the goal here is to protect your triggers and systems. Anyways, after the latest patch, you can now publish yuor map while protecting it and "locking it"

 

[real138]

You no longer have a download folder all published maps are stored online. For hosting there are 4 tabs: Most popular, My Published maps, Recently Played, Blizzard. So blizzard has made it much harder to hack other peoples maps.

 

[Arhowk]

I would suggest locking it for now using the galaxy editor because it is too new for there to be DEprotection systems, and by the time DEprortection systems come out for the GE's protection system, a professional will come out with a better system.

 

[mjllonir]

Actually, the only way (For now that is) to play your CUSTOM maps as public is by leaving it UNLOCKED.

This method protects your systems if you intend to play your map online while the BETA is released.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Honestly very pointless. SC2s account locking feature means its impossible to rip a map really as everyone will only play the one submited by you. On top of that when locked maps are added this will lose all meaning.

 

[mjllonir]

I realise that.

If you watched the video, you would have understood that I mentioned MANY TIMES that it is currently a TEMPORARY solution to protecting your map. It is never supposed to be an actual way to protect your map in the future.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Protecting maps is still something people do too often without reason.

The result is prommising maps falling into disrepair, or remaining broken.

 

[mjllonir]

Very true, but if you do it correctly, you shouldn't have that problem

 

[CHA_Owner]

Yea i agree but this is a good feature if you put your map on websites were it cant be locked then it will be protected none the less.

 

[Superz_Ze_Man]

i would have never thought of this method... and creating a video about it.. even better.. +rep

 

[Dr Super Good]

This method is pointless now that the full game has proper protection and that map stealing is near impossible / completly impracticle.

 

[mjllonir]

Thank you for letting us know for the third rime that this method of protection is pointless dr. Doesn't change the fact that it can still be done, and for sharing the maps across websites (not necessarily this one but sc2mapster is a good one), this is a way of "hiding" you stuff in a way. Even these small forms of protection stop a good amount of people from snooping around your map.