SC2Mapster

Days Before Starcraft 2 - 26

Creature Contest

This one is a fun contest and using one of the most exciting new feature of the Galaxy Editor: Attachements!

What to do?

You have to make a creature combining existing models. Do you remember the Uberlisk from Blizzard, well it's now your time to combine models together to make fun creatures. You can use any part of the editor you want (attachements, triggers, ...) but it must follow those rules:

• The creature must not be static: it should walk and attack!
• Custom models are NOT allowed. You can only combine existing models.
• You can submit as many entries as wanted as long as they are all differents.

What you have to give

• You have to provide a youtube video
• You have to attach the map used to take the video

Help

If you don't know how to start, ProzaicMuze made a step by step tutorial: How to make an Uberlisk. Don't be afraid by the length of it, it really goes into great detail to explain why things were done, it takes no more than 10 minutes to do the Uberlisk.

Deadlines

You have 8 days to complete this contest.

• End of the submissions: Wednesday, July 7th - Midnight PDT (Los Angeles) [Thursday, July 8th - 9 AM GMT (Paris)]
• A public vote will be held after the end of the submissions to decide who wins.

Reward

The main goal of the contest is to further community development within GalaxyEdit. The rewards can be see as follows:

• First: 1-year Curse Premium
• Second: 6-month Curse Premium
• Third: 3-month Curse Premium
• Everyone else: 1-month Curse Premium

Matchmaking - The Game by progammer

progammer that worked on the maps ChessCraft and Lag Painter is back with a new map concept. Matchmaking - The Game allies a board game where you have to chose 2 similar units, and their distance will determine the number of units sent to battle. Add some micro and some random and you get a sweet game! Will you defeat all the waves?

Wacraft 3 Models in SC2 by NiNToxicated

NiNToxicated who works on the model im/exporter plugin for 3DSMax just updated a Warcraft 3 model importer made by Philip Laing in 2002. It means you can now import any unit or doodad from Warcraft 3 for your Starcraft 2 maps! Here is a sum up of what he is handling right now.

• Warcraft 3 -> 3DSMax
• Starcraft 2 -> 3DSMax
• 3DSMax -> Starcraft 2

In the next versions we should see a World of Warcraft -> 3DSMax and more model stuff like ribbons and particul emitters (all the fancy explosions, aura and such things ...)