So, what did you discover about the Galaxy Editor and Starcraft II?

[Statharas]

I discovered that removing a Requirement is bad. Better remove, or edit the requirements instead. With proper configuring, the requirements can be set that way, to make an research RESEARCHABLE ALL OVER AGAIN.

What did you discover?

 

[Rispetto]

I discovered that playing with Terrain on the GE is like working in photoshop =]
Endless possibilities with the combination you use.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I discovered that with a few minutes and some effects you can turn a battleship's yamato cannon into a repeating weapon.

Ability to perodic effect.
Perodic effect to area search.
Area search (1 target) to missle.
Missle to damage.

Also the targets of an ability depend on the validator of the first effect the ability uses and weather that is set to take a point or unit or both as a target.

 

[Statharas]

Ouch. Good one.

 

[rcshaggy]

Any way too make spells in Starcraft II, like Warcraft?

 

[Dr Super Good]

You could not make spells in WC3. You could only alter existing spells to use values you want.

In SC2 you make a spell in 3 stages.
1. Creating an effect chain, this is basically what the spell does like 100 damage or chain fires yamato gun for 10 seconds etc.
2. Create an ability and hook it to the effect chain, this is the interface between unit and effect where cooldown, charges and costs all come into play.
3. Hook the ability to a button on a unit, this is the interface between unit and user using the ability.

Not all ability types are this conventional spell cast sort. You get passive ones which add a behaviour permantly. You get training (barraks) and building (all races) and morphing (larva into drone etc) and ammo (carrier / broodlord) and cargo (bunker / medivac). You get revive and item related abilities. There are a large range but for spells mostly you will be using one of the active ones (usually with target as well).