My friends and I have started doing a starcraft roleplay over Skype, kind of like D&D but using the starcraft universe. Basically what I want to have is a map that acts like a set that the dm can control to spawn units (I envision an observer thats invisible to the players) and has our cool characters. I'm finding it difficult even to change the colors of existing units in the game, much less make custom units. They are really just going to be there as placeholders, so we can visually see where things are, they don't need to do damage to the enemies, as that will be calculated apart from the map. We have several different characters, mine for example is a dark zealot. How do I edit the portrait colors and the units? If someone enjoys making maps i would appreciate it if you just made this map for me.
draw up the geography on paint and i'll terrain it
do you want the units to not have weapons? or you are spawning enemies that don't attack
i think there are some turn based maps out there/final fantasy like maps is what you are looking for
My friends and I have started doing a starcraft roleplay over Skype, kind of like D&D but using the starcraft universe. Basically what I want to have is a map that acts like a set that the dm can control to spawn units (I envision an observer thats invisible to the players) and has our cool characters. I'm finding it difficult even to change the colors of existing units in the game, much less make custom units. They are really just going to be there as placeholders, so we can visually see where things are, they don't need to do damage to the enemies, as that will be calculated apart from the map. We have several different characters, mine for example is a dark zealot. How do I edit the portrait colors and the units? If someone enjoys making maps i would appreciate it if you just made this map for me.
draw up the geography on paint and i'll terrain it do you want the units to not have weapons? or you are spawning enemies that don't attack i think there are some turn based maps out there/final fantasy like maps is what you are looking for
Isn't this exactly what the Cortex maps/library are made for? Literally, I think it has what you want, pretty much down to the letter.