Starcraft 2 Map Editor - Creating a new Unit

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Using my current custom map i show you the basics of making a unit that isnt just an edit of a unit all ready in the game! Kinda...

If you have questions or things do not work out feel free to comment so if anyone else has the problem they can see what I post as a solution :]

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hi everyone and welcome to the starcraft
2 world editor and this tutorial acts
feel like it had been a video that
hasn't been a video for ages and i just
haven't been in the mood which is really
bad but I can't help it I don't want to
do a video where I might go out this is
robert bloch so I'm but i have been
doing lately is working on my map as
I've been really enjoying it so for what
better to do than a tutorial on the map
editor circle another sim there's quite
a few out there but I'm gonna do one
today that hopefully isn't out there in
video form i can find it but we're going
to make a unit from scratch
theoretically and you may be thinking
Daniel what you know what gives you the
right to be good enough to tell us you
know how to do this and this is my map
and a lot of stuff on the floor here is
edits of stuff that was already in the
game but the latest few things I've done
I have been no other these templates to
turn living what i find it better
I'll grab it now can't find a
comfortable flight now there is right
so boom I've made the laser battery and
here but you'll see it may look like a
missile turret but it is in fact not an
edit of the missile turret because
there's the missile turret and I've also
edited the fusion reactor from my map
but then I've also created a nuclear
version and changed the graphic so these
two are like stuff that was not in the
game at all you know obviously the
models
I'm done any of that but you understand
what I mean hopefully it's from all that
pop but right so what I'm going to do is
make a new auto to it so I'm going to
take you through
starting off the unit going to show you
that it's not as easy as just kind of
copying a unit and then it being there
because you need to create that unit and
an individual actor i'm going to go
through some weapon creation and how
some projects are weapons work and i'm a
few bits that hopefully will get your
own custom map rocking with a few more
extra units and things that you've
designed yourself or for yourself
we're going to jump straight and go to
the data register and I'm going to do
this tutorial a slight pace so i would
suggest if this is your first time on
the editor this tutorial probably isn't
for you unless you're very good at
following things quickly but we say
anyway so we're gonna go to the unit
stabbed I'm going to right-click in in
the industry but we're going to add a
unit so when a few the tutorials and
lessons I saw for creating a comunit all
had you duplicating a unit and then
going into it and changing or where's
this is like reasonably brand-new and
then you just copied from something
similar to what you're making
so i'm making am I don't know so i would
just suggest that so I'm making a new
Auto track called the bulk gun and which
revenge
eventually i will be getting a new model
for that anyway so you should know what
you want to make so you're going to put
you the name in of whatever you're
making
you can leave leave all of this and
object you're gonna be my only the
moment I'm just put on a pointer fingers
Mellie don't think that doesn't mean too
bad then the race you should know erase
its gonna belong to and finally you
should know what it's going to be so if
you you might be making a unit or
resource if you're really brave
so now that Bob see I think you know for
most people you're going to use a unit
or structure someone's structure and I'm
doing structures and gonna be two more
complicated than a unit because the
structure i'm copying from already has a
turret and stuff like that
if you don't know about any of that was
just doing a uniform out just
were you know get some basics down so
i'm going to copy my snow my structure
for monitor so this is different from
duplicating the author terror in the
menu because that's it seems really
messy and I've tried a few times and it
just kind of makes you fire harder to
work with critical duplicates of like
the attack command duplicates of armor
types and all sorts and it's just don't
understand why does that so this is much
better
this basically will create now some
extent the name of bolt gun but with all
the attributes stats and details of the
auto tear apart from the actor so we're
going to go ahead and click ok and it's
gonna turn away from cooks will turn and
there we go we have the bulgur as you
can see we've got our little and the
little graphic their meaning there is
like now icon and stuff on that we've
got everything from my order to it so
like the salvage command and stuff which
they are doing it to work actually
huh and everything is here but just
quickly show you that this is not enough
because then when I first I die for that
be enough
now i have used a few editors in the
past and I was like oh yeah I can you
know I can figure this out and you'll
notice that there's nothing here to
place if i bring it like any of the
unit's I used to go to for example as
soon as I pronounce the map you can see
it you'll notice that our unit the
Vulcan has no graphic no model
let's go back to the at the well there
we go
what we don't have is an actor we've got
all the actors for our weapons to find
out for ourselves command brilliant
you'll have all the actors for like
attacks from your units to fire but we
need is an actor so we're going to open
the active tab if you haven't already
and you're going to go interact us after
my editors stopped turning what
hello it does that sometimes
and what we're gonna do now is create a
new actor so we're going to right-click
in our actor box i'm going to add actor
and i'm going to call this book earn
actor now I live in the name has too
much relevance but I just didn't want to
call it but gun just do you have for
myself not to confuse it and the set
most sensible thing I figured you can do
here is inside and leave the island huh
is a just copy the actor from from your
current now do have to set this down I
destruction so i know not a brightly
than I so I say I'm a bit rough on this
myself to be honest but ok for most of
you going to press you and your go-to
unit but for me and a few of people
you'll be going to s and you'll be
looking for structure structure which is
hiding
excellent oh no no no no move right this
unit is a units clusters a unit in the
outer office for some God known reason
alternate unity but know that this is
also office move tutorial
yes have you learned a lot this one's
finished talking to myself
copy from auto to it or your relevant
unit unit set here name it whatever is
easiest for you leave everything else
alone
ok so interestingly of system in
Thailand because I had figured myself
about actors and stuff and I tried to
you know so out myself until I'm
obviously i just had to have gotten a
book so i was trying to learn myself
that's the best way I learn learn things
and pick things up but then the man
helping hand are needed was know about
this bomb
once you've created your actor i said
we've copied it from ontario surfing 702
it's so for me that works are you making
a marine this will all be the same as
your standard memory and instead of
going back to our unit and allocating
this actor to it you do it the other way
around you allocate the actor to a unit
from the actor so here at the bottom
we've got token and book an actor it's
this is currently assigned itself to the
authors right now we don't also to have
two conflicting active so we're going to
change that so now because you've made
your unit first your unit with its
unique name one of you have caught it
should show up in this list so there's
book gun for click OK this actor will
now have attached itself to the ball gun
now just to check the everyone's got
these boxes and since the foot and this
is my lap
sorry if I'm you've got so far like I'm
got all these text boxes and all these
buns and use these all these should be
on and I i normally switch between
detail view and tableview table views
for like him you know when you don't
scroll for these and you know exactly
what you're after you can click to view
and you can search like you know such
supply and that supply search vitals or
you know so on so forth
right so if we go into units now and we
find our book gun camera once it's
finished loading out which is already
here you'll see that our book and has
the book an actor now this will not work
so we haven't edited it but in any other
ways so it is exactly like an autograph
but there is it looks like not again it
will have the HP of not again it will
have the sounds it will have everything
and most importantly you'll have the UI
will all be working and stuffs them from
my head at first was my you I was like a
lot of squares and it would ensure the
health and sterile his birthday anyway
mhm me just have a sip of the
Englishman's group now this is the fun
bit we now get to design this unit we've
got the unit is now in game and it works
I'm not going to test it because there's
no need to it would work is not certain
you'd be like great that's not too
Daniel what next
so I'm some fun bits now for my map the
book gun and is a variant of the Ottoman
so when in my map the idea soon is that
you can you about to select a load out
before the game starts and part that
loadout choose it you have to choose
between would you like to be able to
build auto turrets or Balkans the
indifference been the book gun has a
slightly less efficient attack but has a
lot more health and is that the teeny
bit more expensive so I'm going to get
to those changes right now so this was
all about earlier with the tableview i'm
going to change the table view and first
thing I look at is cost so I'm just
going to pack box park going to pop that
in the top for saying that and my
mineral cost my Balkan on my little my
little design document in front of made
hundreds way so now that's done we can
look for supply
and in my game map the defensive
structures new supply and supplies
provided by power plants instead of
supply depots fueling units in my mouth
you're loud as many units as you're
willing to buy that's because the quite
fragile and quite expensive said yeah
that's fine i only wanted to use one
power next and so look I wanted to do 10
damage fire rate of one and want to have
six range this is a weapon so now i'm
going to go down to the weapon now i
already have an auto turret using this
weapon so what I don't want to do is oh
so why don't do is edit this weapon
because this will be edited then for the
alternate so we're going to go into the
weapons tab I'm going to add a new
weapon so this will be called the book
turn weapon and which I might have to
change and actually know what I'm gonna
do now is to show you something just in
case the name that shows up I'm just
going to call it the book gun like that
but then in editor prefix i'm just going
to put weapon so what this means now is
when this is created in front of it for
me only on this editor it will just let
me know weapon before the word broken
and I think weapon type and yet so we
should actually just be able to go
autocannon on now so I isn't called that
it's that and now I've got like a copy
thanks i messed up when I was first
making the map that's fine
so bryce and i'm just going to put
starin just in case and we're going to
work ok now to my knowledge this should
be fine
so weapon bargain but you'll see if we
can get the name up in our table view it
should just be called broken
they're so now we have the book my
friend now in my little document i need
150 right and i wanted the range 26
which already is the effect now the
effect here we go we're going to keep
going now with this creating new stuff
so I was acid early outdoor show you
slightly how projectile weapons work now
when to my knowledge and then if this is
all weapons but projectile weapons
aren't fully customizable in just the
weapon tab weapon type is what your
assigned to the unit decides fire right
range and a few of bits and you know the
name that comes up and if you can also
choose the icon that appears on the
unit's you I but the effect is the cause
of the unit also what the know they may
what the weapon causes so damaged slow
you know area-of-effect so on so forth
so the effect for this one it says it's
damaged the effect of this effect is
damaged so combat amount 10 it does 10
damage now luckily for me from the
bolt-gun I wanted to do 10 damage so I
can leave this alone but in the future
if I wanted the book to have a different
amount of damage to the autocannon I
would repeat the steps we've done so far
i would go to the effects tab i would
add a new effect i would call it book
gun damaged or broken damaged effect
whatever I want to call it and I would
make I would copy from auto to it when
autocannons and then I could sign it the
weapon sure i'll show you here so i
think you can actually just gone to the
weapon and look for the effect
yeah and then you can change it and
you'd also change this one to believe
that's the numbers that come up when you
check the weapon
that's that
bummer so as you learn the basics you
know every few of the things flow really
nicely you know it's like like to run so
you doing an ability an ability now but
it is way more complicated but let's
just say you want a copy of blink but
you want to call it teleport you're
gonna go ad ability you can find we're
not gonna find link in that you're going
to find abilities so now this is making
enough attention
I've never done this before in my life
but yet it's it's the same the same way
so hopefully that helps
so now we're going to carry on with the
Fitbit speaking about the Balkan and I
want to find its life if I believe
that's what the variable is called life
yes it's called life love mom so for my
book and my book has considerably more
HP than my alternate fum
yeah if you had to get stuck i'll just
click on something else I'll be fine so
I'm my book one actually has 250 health
and we change the cost earlier we've
already changed the power so that my
book is actually complete but we're
going to do I hate maps that have stuff
of different names different stats and
it looks exactly the same
I cannot stand it so that is why in my
map everything looks different if it is
different and I admit eventually run out
of models but in that case which then
browse the internet for free models and
carry a lot of that but to change the
model it's in your actor so it's kind of
hard really to describe what the activex
controls compared to the actual unit tab
because I'm i haven't explored enough
but obviously upset you know I felt
brave enough to do this tutorial so I'm
around
yeah so when we can literally with the
tableview still selected don't be scared
while these values this entrance there's
no need to look for these values
feet if you know what you have to model
it will come up and like earlier you
know if you put in life of your vitality
. HP it will be a word that is something
to do with what you want so are also
going to my father and what so I have it
as an automatic refund
what's really cool aboard aboard yes
it's gonna be a ball for now save so if
we close this now in place our book gun
it is a ball and i'm going to place it
for player 1 and i'm going to put it
there and we're gonna play
yeah sorry welcome back to the other i
tested it and I did a few things wrong
which is a place the order good as an
enemy so it's shot me it started 450
health which is a easy thing to solve
its myself was engine 20 just correct
wasn't coming up
good what I've done wrong here put out
our yes let's let's change that so i can
actually find it
name change their right but also i had
to create the weapon but i have not gave
it to our broken so we're going to go on
to the weapon me up and we're going to
change that to be the bee
where is it
and now everything goes wrong it's
looking good
no okay the weapon Vulcan named Morgan
try again for gun weapon combat weapon
modify the value was it lets us it's not
like us
oh yeah right to it yep and the
eyewitness is coming up and a weapon
broken which it is just like my fault
that's fine so I'm there's that you good
and then we just go to life now where y
forgot to set was the life starting
amount that would mean you know when you
built it into lockdown just no good
together is that starts one hour to just
turn bottom plating and believe
everything should now be okay so we can
attest this and i'll show you and then
this will be the end of this tutorial
and in the next one we will be making a
button adding it to the SCV build
ability and making as you can build in
game so it's a test
ok so we're in battle won the semi map
starts to get crazy then you can see the
book gun is firing it is doing its 10
damage it has the book gun weapon and
finish our little bit i know i was
testing the fly enemies earlier let's
build a new build my new laser battery
anyone that spread the map will now be
able to see the new laser bachelor
auction so i'm going to put a quick test
command
first built
Oh year laser beams manchild cool so
yeah the Balkan works it's actually
burning out now so i'll fix it yet so CM
it wait because the graphic is a ball
and but you can see to working charge
descriptions to feel like day salvages
there so yeah I've got my book gun
weapon internet so let's change the name
of bits of damage 10-1 speed is one
ranges six compared to auto to which has
10 damage six range and 0.91 speed and
is a 12 millimeter guess is how to setup
yeah ya do
yes that's the the other story are now
just messing around on my own map which
I do a lot for them but yeah so i will
see you later today and enjoy the race