Where are the maps??

[ElectricSaiyan]

I've searched all over the MPQ's and different folders for the maps. Where are they??

 

[BlinkBoy]

look in Your Documents and find the Starcraft II Beta folder, (not the one of installation) inside of it you'll find GameLogs, Maps and Replays.

 

[ElectricSaiyan]

Yeah I've been looking at that. I've found a folder called Maps with more folders inside, leading to another folder, which finally takes me to a .bin file.

The folders are named randomly with letters and numbers and have a .s2ma extension but act as a folder...So is that the actual map?

 

[Hero_Lief]

The files in the directory "Maps", not any subdirectories, are the actual "map" files. This folder is going to serve as our maps folder from now on, and when custom games are used, most likely a new "Download" folder will appear.

 

[BoneBreaker]

They are found in folders at the directory:

C:\Users\YOUR_NAME\appdata\Local\Blizzard Entertainment\Battle.net\Cache

An example:

at C:\Users\YOUR_NAME\appdata\Local\Blizzard Entertainment\Battle.net\Cache\b2\94 you will find the map "Steppes of War Novice" with the filename being b294f1fa82a604a4b9dce6853e599c2524864126cf33efb1123eb1a845ca4b00.s2ma

 

[Hero_Lief]

Yeah, to find out the file, view it in like Notepad, and it should eventually say the name in an almost random position on the 2nd line. For now games can only read maps name like this, but if you copy the name and rename YOUR map to this, then you can play online, but other players that play with you need to have it done like this as well.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

Again, I wish they were at the same place. Why scattered in 3 places ? 1) Documents\ 2)AppData\Local\.. 3) installation folder

 

[Hero_Lief]

They're all in the AppData place. The Installation folder might have them but that's not where it loads from, and the Documents folder contains the mapcache for each map DURING a game, or something, but not the map itself.