Editors like Warcraft3\Starcraft 2

[Graber]

I want to ask how hard it to make and editor like Warcraft3\Starcraft 2 for a pro dev team?
Coz in these editors u can make good thins easy with tose triggers.
There are other games that are having an Editor but is hard to use couse u nead to know programing.
I could use a Tes SKyim Editor like Starcraft 2 Editor.

 

[fladdermasken]

The Creation Kit is your best bet.

http://www.bethblog.com/2012/01/19/news-on-the-creation-kit-and-game-updates/

You're not getting any charitable response to a request like this. You can sit around and do nothing, or learn programming and get it done yourself. Obviously the latter would conflict with your interest of having everything you want without contributing jock.

Best of luck.

 

[Graber]

I am not requesting anythink, i was just saying some stuff.

 

[Arhowk]

Ew, bethesda.

Anyway, best bet for a professional editor would be UDK

 

[Dr Super Good]

I want to ask how hard it to make and editor like Warcraft3\Starcraft 2 for a pro dev team?

Not very difficult to make such an editor. Just costly like all software.

 

[HFR]

Ew, bethesda.

Go away, you hipster!

 

[GhostWolf]

It really depends on what you want to actually make.
A 3D world with some terraining abilities (such as the basic terrain lowering/raising tools in WE) and placing of models is not too hard.
But what about the models? exporters/importers from common modeling software are needed.
What about a scripting language? which leads to a built-in virtual machine that runs it.
What about placement pathing.
What about adding arbitrary attributes to objects, editing existing ones, referencing everything through the scripting language, etc.

Basically a _level editor_ shouldn't be that hard to make if you have the patience, but an actual game editor requires a whole lot more features, each unique, which a level editor doesn't need.

A 2D game editor is a lot more easier to generalize (pathing (walls, objects) is usually done with predefined shapes (squares, circles, right triangles), the background is created from rotated and scaled sprites, and that's about it).

 

[Dr Super Good]

What about a scripting language? which leads to a built-in virtual machine that runs it.

He was talking about editors. The virtual machine for the scripting language is part of the actual game engine so is not something you have to design. You do however need to design a script parser to validate the script for syntax errors.