Map Ranges

[Blizard Of Oz]

Anyone have an idea any ideas or facts on how big the range of the maps will be for the galaxy editor? I'm hoping they let us go farther than wc did. I will lol happily finding out it supports something like a 512x512. . So what do you guys (think/know) it supports.

 

[Hawkwing]

I think it will be the same as Warcraft III, maybe a tiny bit bigger (but not much). This is total guestimation though.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i hope that it will be possible to design galaxy sized maps. it is after all called a galaxy editor.

 

[The World Is Flat]

i hope that it will be possible to design galaxy sized maps. it is after all called a galaxy editor.

you could do that in wc3.

 

[bboy-tiger-]

I am not quite sure but I think they stated that they wont support sizes larger than wc3 ones. Tho you probbly will be able to go slightly over 256x . As there are tools in wc3 where you can make 486x or something maps.

 

[Alevice]

I don't see the point of such huge maps. They make compuetsr slower, makes it a pain for the developer to get shit done, and takes too much for travel.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Unless you are parceling out areas for rooms in buildings, or diffferent regions..

 

[Robbepop]

hiho,

blizzard said that it will definantly be 256² like wc3.
but im sure that there will be some special editors which will allow us to size up the map bounds for about 512². =)

well in wc3 i tried to make a huge RPG (GoH2) with 480².
hours and hours of work for the terrain and after some weeks it was about 60% finished. 0.o

-> i would NOT recommend anyone to make such a big map. xD

Robbepop

 

[The World Is Flat]

Ok... but for my map... i am going to need a LOT of space... because i have to have a couple larde regions (mostly bare though, so it should'nt take too long...)

Are you still working on guilds of Hyppos 2? out of curiousity?

 

[Robbepop]

hiho,

no im not working on it anymore.
it was just too big - the project...

thats why i really recommend you NOT to start such big maps.
you wont finish them. xD

Robbepop

 

[Alevice]

thats why i really recommend you NOT to start such big maps.
you wont finish them. xD

exactly. unpractical in nearly every sense of the word. awesome in theory.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Unless you have alot of people working with you, and there is alot of open space on your map... and you REALLY acually NEED the space. not to say you have to use it all at once...

 

[Alevice]

Succesful modding team work is rare. If the SC2 editor is like wc3's, you can always expand and reotuch if needed. Much more practical. Otherwise it will be a pain.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Maybe. I've had good experience with teams however.

 

[Lemming3000]

how big will the maps be in terms of mb/kb , i mean some ppl i know have difficulty dling warcraft 3 maps quickly

 

[Alevice]

Depends on actual contet. Current sc2 melee maps average on 1 mb

 

[JakeCake]

how big will the maps be in terms of mb/kb , i mean some ppl i know have difficulty dling warcraft 3 maps quickly

Well a map-size of 512x512 is like a perfect-pixel image of 512x512 and those are about 250kb, I guess only texture-type and z-height shall be saved, so that is a maximum of 500kb for the heightmap..

What I hope, is that they make jumping from map-to-map online, like a wc3 campaign is going to be possible, that way we don't need to create such huge maps, and they won't take 20minutes to load.

 

[SomeRandomDeleted Dr. Cabbage0]

Well a map-size of 512x512 is like a perfect-pixel image of 512x512 and those are about 250kb, I guess only texture-type and z-height shall be saved, so that is a maximum of 500kb for the heightmap..

What I hope, is that they make jumping from map-to-map online, like a wc3 campaign is going to be possible, that way we don't need to create such huge maps, and they won't take 20minutes to load.

word, t'would be awesome, imagine rpg maps

 

[JakeCake]

word, t'would be awesome, imagine rpg maps

My guess is that this will not be posible for SC2:WOL, but for the expansion, it's a guess though, it might come with the editor, or in an soon to come update..

 

[Dark.Revenant]

I thought they had already confirmed it to be possible...

 

[JakeCake]

I thought they had already confirmed it to be possible...

I'm pretty sure they said that they might do it sometime, some day.. Which is why I think they'll do it for an expansion.. It's a huge thing indeed