Tonight was one of those amazing, work til your eyes bleed kind of nights. Not only have we all been pumped about the galaxy editor, but more so the fact that it's supposed to be released this week. Well, it turned out the patch 9 was already ready for public consumption, as long as you knew how to get to the dinner table :)
So, after a few hours struggling to figure out what others had already done weeks before us, we got a hold of the patch, and applied it successfully. For the curious:
- Download the patch files.
- One at a time, put them in Support\ within your install directory.
- Rename the file to sc2-patch.mpq.
- Run Blizzard Updater.exe.
- Repeat for any file that is part of the patch.
(You'll have to find the patch on your own, but if you pop on IRC we'll gladly point you in the right direction)
Anyways, the Galaxy Editor seems to be a variant of WarCraft 3's WorldEdit. It's very similar, so if you're familiar with that, you'll feel right at home. Right now it feels to be a very early draft, but will definitely make it possible to build terrain and edit various pieces of the maps that were just too complicated to do by hand. It also has the ability to import maps from SC1 and WC3, which is a nice bonus.
We will update the site with pictures and more information as it comes out :)
quick tip, if you have the client just run it and it should patch up to patch 10 which includes the editor in patch 9
edit: getting this error when trying to patch
The patch "'base\Mods\Liberty.SC2Mod\Base.SC2Data\TriggerLibs\MeleeAI.galaxy' could not be applied. (Invalid source file size: expected 49197, actual 49144.) If this problem persists, you may be able to solve it by uninstalling and then reinstalling the game. If you are unable to correct this problem, please contact Blizzard Technical Support. (BNUpdate::PTCApply)
after installing patch successfully, i get this error (when running starcraft II editor.exe):
220.233.45.xxx
where can I get the link? where is the IRC?
146.182.9.xxx
I gave up on more conversions because:
I does indeed work. Expect many SC1 and War 3 maps to be converted and posted by dcramer and gang before the patch and editor are even properly released :)
Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing the different games people will be able to create now that we have a proper editor. Someone make StarCraft: Ghost the FPS game already!
Burbenog TD converted to SC2 (no triggers): http://sc2.nibbits.com/gallery/images/view/179/
awesome news were gonna have so many custom maps when sc2 actually releases
Unbelievable...Great news.
I am STOKED! Downloading it as we speak. Jum-Jum aka h4ck3r_m4n87
Supposedly the patch should hit today (Thursday).
That's great! What day exactly is Galaxy Editor getting released?
You have to do each file one at a time. So change blah to sc2-patch.mpq, run the updater. Then change blah2 to sc2-patch.mpq, run the updater.
Looks good, I'll download it in a bit, maybe tonight. You say to dl several files but then rename THE file to .mpq? Which do we rename?