Why start?

[Demi666]

ok i have a question to you all

Question:
Why Did You Start Mapping?:


Answer:
my internet was broken during spring holiday, and my grandmother was here..
so i played azeroth td that blizzard made solo ofc i couldt make it..

so i opened WE and tryied to make so i had infinite gold
when i sucsessed with that i continued to try to modify,
in time i tryied to make own triggers,

then own maps. then i made my first map lighters vs darkers . actully fun map, dont have it still anyways will be fun to hear ur reasons

Or how you started<3

 

[Uberplayer]

I started to map, because I've always loved to build things.. from a scratch.

I started making few spells.. units.. and terrain ^^, for Tower Defense.

 

[Demi666]

you started making trigger spells when you just started :O?

lal thats good

 

[Uberplayer]

If I remember right.. I started to make a spell from item spell.. That point I threw my mouse through window.. I said that the window was already broken, but I had to pay for it..

 

[Demi666]

lol.. u threw mouse at the window?... mr.pshycic lol


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[AceHart]

Strange question really. I bought W3 precisely because it comes with an editor...

 

[Demi666]

yeah but, where did you start ace?

i mean you couldt just go in the editor and start making a complicated jass spell?

 

[mase]

I started bc I thought it would be fun to play my own maps that I made even though I never made a real map.

 

[Demi666]

how did you start* where did you start?

i started by editing azeroth td...

 

[Oninuva]

I started with the trigger editor.

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[Tonks]

I started because I was testing the public beta of the game, and that included the World Editor.

 

[Tom Jones]

yeah but, where did you start ace?

i mean you couldt just go in the editor and start making a complicated jass spell?

Why not? It's not that complicated.

I actually started in the starcraft days, I made a melee free resource map, and a modification of Terran Test Survial. When Wc3 arrived, I mainly played ladder games. I actually became pretty good, I had the red dragon icon, and were ranked number 26 on the 3v3 teams ladder, together with the current leader of MYM's nordic team AgNoN, and a guy named RaveCharmer. When RaveCharmer retired, I started map modding once again. I think that's about five years ago or so.

 

[SFilip]

> couldt just go in the editor and start making a complicated jass spell?
You do realize it's AceHart you're talking about here?

I think I edited some melee map to add Archimonde there so that my brother could beat Insane computers.
Didn't help him much though so I had to edit some more to make his spells stronger...
Then at some point (a year later or so) I started seeing maps that automatically spawn units (wow!)...how did they do that? And what the hell is that Trigger Editor thing? And how come Rexxar can level up to level 15 in the campaign but not if I spawn him in a map?
So I googled a bit, found some nice site with tutorials, helped me quite a bit. Thought it would be nice to "meet" the people who wrote them, ask a question maybe, so I clicked on the Forum button and registered...and here I am.
Afterwards I noticed that what I was about to ask was already answered somewhere on the first page, there were even some questions I could answer myself thanks to those tutorials so I guess I can take a five minutes or so...

And there you go, a (not so) brief history of time (that I spent modding).

 

[Miz]

I starting making maps because my friend said I couldn't do it (he edited SC maps) and I proved him wrong

 

[Pineapple]

Interesting, I have no idea why or how I started. Think I need to check that out?
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[U are a noob]

I started in RoC when i barely knew anything but i remembering trying to put the spells critical and bash on a blademaster to make a "Critical-Bash" which was really stupid but it was how i started. Did any one ever remember the game "Between the Worlds" well that game i think was made by blizzard because it had spells from TFT like berserk correct me if im wrong

 

[Whitesock]

I wondered what the map icon at the bottom of the Warcraft 3 folder was.

 

[Cheddar]

I guess I got into mapmaking the way most people I expect would.

I opened up one of the Melee maps, ooh lookie here, I can go put a ton of Knights and towers and creeps on my side. That's probably the only way I was ever able to beat one of the computers in a melee map without using cheats.

After that, I played around with the Terrain Editor, I tried to make a couple of mazes and ended up making a small map with Naga heroes and different innate spells put into one (I think I had a Naga Siren hero that had Rain of Fire, Flame Strike, Firebolt, and Volcano)

Then I discovered the Object Editor, created my own Non-triggered spells, and found out that I could change tints, models, and abilities. I started a Melee map called "Critter Wars", I made a small Racoon race with special colors and found out I could edit the Techtree so I needed a Red and Yellow training camp to make an Orange camp, or Blue and Yellow for Green, etc.

And then came the trigger editor, the fundamentals of just about near all questions in this World Editor Help Zone. I don't know how I did it, I made a Trigger-edited spell and from there on I decided this was what I liked to do. Eventually I got familiar with most actions in the triggers and, voila.

My future for the World Editor? Eventually I'll get off my butt and start learning this foreign language we call JASS. And keep on helping until... well... people stop asking questions I know the answer to.

 

[Duwenbasden]

Back in the WC2 days... and carried on to SC, and then WC3 -- I've always loved building things from tools.

 

[Monsterous]

My friend made a simple, fun map called Sit and Chat. So i decided to play around with it

Then afterwards i tried my hand at a Maze. I got through it good. Half-way, BANG! ""Level Info- Missing or Invalid"". I got pretty p****d

Then i started many other maps. I tried my hand at a Hero Arena, TD, Another Maze, and a Campaign

Then i tried my hand at Custom Spells which i loved

Then i did my first Custom Hero.

Then i went back to my Campaign (which i still am)