SC2Mapster is quite empty unlike last year and before but I will post two systems I made recently and that I would like to share.
LotV League MMR Promotion / Demotion System
In 2011 or 2012 I created a system for promotion and demotion with league icon that was based on Win rate and adding some random points for gaining next league. Years ago, I already updated the system to use MMR value but it was far from the way it is made in the LotV ladder. Around training some control I decided to update the system based on the Ladder Revamp that Blizzard made last year.
What is the system?
A GUI-based system made with triggers to track stats for any game you wish to use the system on. Can be used online and offline via Handle Of Player.
What use does it have?
The same as the use you have for using SC2Bank files to track wins and losses. If you also like having stats and deciding things the ladder way, then you might find use in it. It could be good for melee based mods and maps.
Improvements & Features
The triggers have been improved a lot in comparison to the needless repeating of actions that was in the first releases
League and MMR system with placement UI the same way as LotV Ranked Ladder
Just like there is no mid-season demotion, there is no mid-game demotion, it will update in the beginning another time when the map is launched
Promotion happens when the MMR is reached based on the mentioned ranges
The actual battle net system has more complexity such as uncertainty factor and others but to make the best of it offline, with a variable in the formula, one can determine if much more or less MMR can be rewarded or lost.
Requires only few changes to implement into a map – you only need to set the Int. Victory to the winning player and run CareerStatsChange definition. It can be adjusted for team to win, I have done that in the past but in that case Victory can be replaced by a group.
Includes a mini-game that mostly you may not be interested in training but for the purpose to test the system, it is In the map.
This system is for campaign maps and used in my missions. It is probably the only way to use your own system time for the lighting in-game. Day/Night isn’t something new, you can have different times based on Elapsed Time events with Blend from one lighting to another. Years ago I felt like making the lighting based on my local time. So, if it is evening, I liked if entering the map, also to be evening. I didn’t know how to do that, since triggers cannot use your Windows system time.
What use does it have?
It is mostly for offline play, unless you find use to implement it online per player for various environment reasons.
Besides using it as a way to play different time of the day based on your time, so it feels more immersive, this is also a proper application of resources I submitted last year. Switching the Skybox model in-game distorted the texture mapping and it did not look well, so I had to use a Doodad of the Skybox to TextureSelectById the Skybox to the day and night version. Now, the day, sunset, night Skyboxes also change along with the light based on your local time of the day. There are 3 Skyboxes for the city, though, the lights are more.
I use them for Korhal, and I know one would say it would not be necessarily behaving like Earth around the Sun. Still, I think the concept of Korhal is that of a planet in the habitable zone with environment similar to that of the Earth.
Features
Lights to use based on your local time
Different times of changing the light based on a season
Opportunity to have a constant light in one place, while the Day/Night changes outside (some lights cover the whole map, only in 3 lights more than one region is used - at Sunset, Dusk and Night you will see the other region)
Update (August 2018), Final
What's New
Added blending between the current and the next light for around 10 minutes (14 game time mins) before the next light starts. The definition can be run often with Periodic Event or other that launches it often, if one wants the light really to change over time than only on game start based on the system day time.
Added dusk to switch from night to that one before sunrise.
The sky changes during the time of blending as well.
Update with Patch 4.4.0
What's New
The use of external utility to 'inject' a bank file with system time is no longer needed thanks to the natives added with Patch 4.4.0 and the workarounds have been removed!
The use of Bank for this system no longer needed
Although the natives allow you to set light based on Morning/Afternoon/Evening, the system retained its more complex state based on season and more than 3 lights of the day
Season is no longer manually added due to being 'rarely changed', now it is read every time by the N calendar days since January 1st
All hours and minutes are not read from a bank but directly from the system/server time at each load
How to use
Copy the EnvironmentOfPlanet action definition and variable set to some skybox doodad and apply to your map's actions, link the correct lights if not using the same that are included.
Updated with the new patch 4.4.0. I don't know if they got the idea from this thread but it could have nice game mode ideas based on time, so it was good addition.
Updated (August 2018), now blends close to when it is time to switch from one light to another, one more light added and the sky changes for the blending too.
SC2Mapster is quite empty unlike last year and before but I will post two systems I made recently and that I would like to share.
LotV League MMR Promotion / Demotion System
In 2011 or 2012 I created a system for promotion and demotion with league icon that was based on Win rate and adding some random points for gaining next league. Years ago, I already updated the system to use MMR value but it was far from the way it is made in the LotV ladder. Around training some control I decided to update the system based on the Ladder Revamp that Blizzard made last year.
What is the system?
A GUI-based system made with triggers to track stats for any game you wish to use the system on. Can be used online and offline via Handle Of Player.
What use does it have?
The same as the use you have for using SC2Bank files to track wins and losses. If you also like having stats and deciding things the ladder way, then you might find use in it. It could be good for melee based mods and maps.
Improvements & Features
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Link Removed: http://www.mediafire.com/file/0wnd4k12lo265qy/0KorhalTestingGroundsMulti.SC2Map
Day/Night Cycle From Local Time
This system is for campaign maps and used in my missions.
It is probably the only way to use your own system time for the lighting in-game.Day/Night isn’t something new, you can have different times based on Elapsed Time events with Blend from one lighting to another. Years ago I felt like making the lighting based on my local time. So, if it is evening, I liked if entering the map, also to be evening.I didn’t know how to do that, since triggers cannot use your Windows system time.What use does it have?
It is mostly for offline play, unless you find use to implement it online per player for various environment reasons.
Besides using it as a way to play different time of the day based on your time, so it feels more immersive, this is also a proper application of resources I submitted last year. Switching the Skybox model in-game distorted the texture mapping and it did not look well, so I had to use a Doodad of the Skybox to TextureSelectById the Skybox to the day and night version. Now, the day, sunset, night Skyboxes also change along with the light based on your local time of the day. There are 3 Skyboxes for the city, though, the lights are more.
I use them for Korhal, and I know one would say it would not be necessarily behaving like Earth around the Sun. Still, I think the concept of Korhal is that of a planet in the habitable zone with environment similar to that of the Earth.
Features
Update (August 2018), Final
What's New
Update with Patch 4.4.0
What's New
How to use
DOWNLOAD
Link Removed: http://www.mediafire.com/file/n9ipai0mmrm3su4/0KorhalTestingGroundsDNC.SC2Map/file
Updated with the new patch 4.4.0. I don't know if they got the idea from this thread but it could have nice game mode ideas based on time, so it was good addition.
Updated (August 2018), now blends close to when it is time to switch from one light to another, one more light added and the sky changes for the blending too.