Wow, that is different.

[tagg1080]

I was scrolling through the editor this morning, got my beta yesterday.


There is a LOT of stuff, and it is done in drastically different ways than War3 in a decent amount of places.

I did have to laugh though when I saw that the GUI icons and format was almost identical, it is so out of place!



I actually like the fact that is looks scary to noobs, maybe the map quality will not fall to the noobs that open up the editor and do random stuff...

 

[elfian]

Scary to noobs? This is the most user-friendly modding program ever. It's way too friendlier than it should be. Try modding Dawn of War >_> And that ain't enough scary either.

 

[tagg1080]

Scary to noobs? This is the most user-friendly modding program ever. It's way too friendlier than it should be. Try modding Dawn of War >_> And that ain't enough scary either.

In comparison to War3, it is a lot more work.

I just changed one ability: had to make the ability, make the effect, add the ability, add the button, THEN trigger it.

That is a lot more effort than War3 was.

Plus there are a lot more options to edit.


To me, that seems like something that noobs will stay away from, but that is just me...

 

[elfian]

Just wait, there will be an infinite amount of noobs before you know it...

 

[Weep]

Scary to noobs? This is the most user-friendly modding program ever.

Bahaha. Never used Anvil and Forge before, I take it? Easy as pie. The WC3 World Editor was pretty daunting in comparison. But, that was a simpler game from simpler times...

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

It is still unbelieveable how you cant see simple things like Unit's height, have to go through lots to change the model, triggers such as Unit of Type as event response, various other definitions of a unit in a trigger and yet has some Unit in group that you cant exclude.

 

[tagg1080]

It is still unbelieveable how you cant see simple things like Unit's height, have to go through lots to change the model, triggers such as Unit of Type as event response, various other definitions of a unit in a trigger and yet has some Unit in group that you cant exclude.

Very well said, some things are EASY, and other things are extremely difficult.

I just hope that the scripting language is a little more robust than the the GUI, it is more lacking than the War3 GUI sometimes.

 

[Pharaoh_]

It seems like you believe that the release of the Editor was the Starcraft's full release. Guys, it's a beta, it's far from complete. There are many disadvantages we can't even discover currently (because we are not familiar with it). You can't expect the first beta to be flawless or mirror the final version of the editor.

 

[Cr34p]

like blizzard said in the last Q&A there won't be any userfriendly enhancement ... so all noobs got pwned

 

[Robbepop]

hiho,

yeah sure, they got pwned in the beginning.
but just wait a few months or even weeks and you will see sooo many nice tutorials for noobs so that there will be still some - well at least a little bit less than in wc3.^^

Robbepop

 

[Dr Super Good]

Making abilities mirrors triggering spells from WC3. They are not as easy to make now but they are more easilly customized. For example you can make yamato cannon throw units out from the centre much more easilly and less buggy than you could in WC3 where a knockback system + custom spell would be needed.