SC2Mapster

There's a new minor patch (7 meg) on the US, it'll probably hit the other regions soon. daxxar took a nice picture you probably won't see often :)

Moderator Recruitment

Hello,

5 months ago we launched SC2Mapster.com at the start of the Starcraft 2 Beta. The Galaxy Editor had not yet been released at that time and we had to edit the Blizzard Maps we were given by using an MPQ editor and notepad. At that time, we had to do all editing by hand, through XML. We've come a long way since those days, now the editor has been released and the size of the community has tripled, and has been growing every passing day.

With this in mind, we need to expand on our staff in order to keep our community a friendly place! As of right now, we're looking for users to help moderate the forums, though in the future there will be other positions open, such as Wiki Editors, etc. Below is a list of basically, what you would be doing as a moderator...

Responsibilities

• Manage the incoming projects (maps & assets): accept them, tell users what they could do to improve it ...
• Move the threads that are not in the good forums
• Help people with the software: the WikiCreole markup, questions relative to the projects ...
• Handle the reported messages
• Many other things we don't have in mind: basically you are given full rights on the forums to help make them a better place!

Be an active member of the community

We don't want to pick people that are just moderating. We want to have people to help us making Mapster better. As a moderator, you see a lot of what's going on in the community and you are privileged to improve it!

• Be part of the newsing process by telling the cools things that you see.
• Make useful actions such as keeping up to date a sticky topic (a FAQ, Tutorial listing ...) or contributing to the wiki.
• Make things move! You'll get support if you want to organize things such as contests, tournaments ...

How to apply

Send a PM to Sixen and vjeux (at the same time! click the link) with

• Your age and the country you live in.
• The projects you've done (mapping and non-mapping related)
• What you have done on Mapster so far.
• What forums you would like to moderate. (Have in mind that the biggest the forum is, the more work there is to do).
• Give suggestions on how to make Mapster better :)

Make sure you meet those criteria:

• Have more than 20 posts on Mapster. We want people that are active in the community right now :)
• Be motivated to help and have the time to do it properly.

Thanks!

Blue Post

A blue post was made concerning the 30-seconds cooldown. While there's no real content, you may be happy to know they consider revising it :)

Quote:

30 Seconds Cooldown (Source)

Overall, we're not completely satisfied with the current system for launching custom games—the auto-start feature included—and we know that players have concerns, as well. Because of this, we're paying close attention to the feedback we receive each day (from viewers like you) and are currently looking for ways to improve the player experience.

While that might be considered cryptic, we're still working out all the details. We've definitely been listening, though, and will be discussing how best to iterate on custom game lobbies and Battle.net, in general.

WoW Model Exporter by chuanhsing

NiNToxicated has been working on various model im/exporters and the latest one he released was about WoW Models. However the process is really tedious as it involves grabbing files in the mpq, going through 3ds max ...

Hopefully chuanhsing one of the developers of WoWModelViewer decided to add an export to M3 (Starcraft models) feature. The process is now reaaalllyy easy, you browse your WoW models and if you want one you just click the export button. It exports all the textures and models and all you have to do is to drag them into the galaxy importer!

So far it contains the same things as NiNToxicated script: Geometry, Materials, Skin & Bones, Animations. The rest needs to be decrypted :)

Cool Models by Mari0B

Before the release of the game, Mari0B made a nice listing of all cool models that may make into the game as they have been already showed off by Blizzard. Will you be able to tell which ones are available and which ones aren't?

Debates - Troll by Rodrigo

There are trolls everywhere, and especially on Debates. Rodrigo gives us a fun definition of them :)