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StarCraft 2 Galaxy Scripting

[Reference] {Triggers} Placement of Game Text
Posted in Guides / Galaxy Scripting by Shadow_Templar 9 with 5 comments (2010-04-22)

Within the SC II editor are the following options for displaying text to players:

-Chat
-Cinematic
-Debug
-Directive
-Error
-Objective
-Subtitle
-Warning

Here is a sample trigger I made in 1 minute, that is designed to show a message to only the player when he presses any key:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/nibbits/gallery%2Fimages%2F20100422194755%2FTrigger_for_Text_Display.1024x768.jpg

With this trigger, you can test where text displays.

As you can see from the followin...
Writing your own StarCraft II AI
Posted in Guides / Galaxy Scripting by Turdburgler 4 with 11 comments (2010-03-20)

Writing your own StarCraft II AI

I recommend you use the stock Blizzard AI and not a custom one for this tutorial.

Basics

Galaxy is a spin-off of ANSI C. Any C/C++ programmers will feel at home. If you're not from a programming background, it's going to take you a while to get a hold of things. But basic build orders should be easily within your grasp.

A few things to remember:

Variables must be defined at the top of functions
"//" is the only acceptable comment syntax
St...

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