if your aim is around making dotaesque maps with like heros then check out onetwosc on youtube. and their is around 5 sc2 editing communitys about that might have resources or tips or tutes that can help, otherwise trial and error is good way to learn
lets see hahaha onetwosc(http://www.youtube.com/user/OneTwoSC?blend=4&ob=5#p/c/173BF2C00B5085DB/0/1et41pqbJsM) has a lot of helpful tutorials or scmapster.com have fun its not that hard once you get the basic ability creation down :)
you made me think about this again then i went to look to see if i had my t4/t5 list and BAM, lame i lost my tier4 and tier5 monster list, and went to check dead link removed and bam its not up anymore :( wonder where robbepop went
dont think so. i would enjoy it if trigger or epic continued such a map. maybe in next installment of warcraft series :) can only hope :P or take it up ourselves :S
ye ye +1 to daves response. search ability kinda thingy that does damage of "KILL" its an option in their think its with the spell/splash/ options.
beside all that what was wrong with enters a distance from "blah zergling" or whatever? hwat problems were you running into too
you make the upgrade. then you make a ability of type - research and inside that ability you give it the buttons and upgrades that are linked together in the abilities-info+ option, then you give that ability to your building(unit) in the abilities - abilities+ option and in the abilities -...
since no body answer, ill give it a shot.. but you probs fixed it by now.
2nd problem - maybe make it a area effect and make its radius large so on impact it has a area effect.
1st problem - impact explosion your referring to is the animation ? im guessing you need to set it to where the...
i thought they needed upgrades but thats going the wrong way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1et41pqbJsM
onetwosc is good source of tutorials
http://forums.sc2mapster.com/resources/tutorials/16087-complete-noobs-guide-to-dota-style-maps-part-2/
this guy has another tutorial
also note: for...
hmmm not sure what your aiming to do. if its just changing color of parts of a dds i think you dl a plugin to allow it to be opened in adobe photoshop i think.
dont think you need to resize it for any matter. im not sure if resizing will have an effect on the dds that is placed onto units but it...
was looking at a site and seems like you need an event every (number) of seconds of game time
then action set the timer window for timer
but i didn't really look deep into it. plus i think i also heard that map init starts during the maps load screen(not sure how reliable this is) haha maybe...
for 1 just remove requirements
for 2 its probs under units- stats- repair time
for 3 just work your way off of the already in place upgrades(this is simple once you understand how it works)
just need the affected unit by upgrade
how much upgrade costs
and the add or set type of the upgrade and...
if it was to be trigger it would be something like
event: every 1 sec of game time
but this is bad practice making a trigger that fires every 1 second via triggers