Campaign Creations

Maglok wrote: I remember a cinematic taking a few months to finish.

Lavarinth wrote: I think they'll allow it, but it'd most likely require knowledge in animation.

Lavarinth wrote: I think they'll allow it, but it'd most likely require knowledge in animation.

Mantis wrote: If I can get a good story I'll bother to learn the Starcraft editor, because it sounds like its going to be much more powerful then the w3c editor, and I had a lot of trouble trying to get that to work. I got time though, once SC2 come out bye bye to any other games out there.

Desler wrote: Don't be afraid of the editor, but if you are new to editing, don't start out with a campaign right off.  Do one map, make it simple, then do another, maybe try replicating something you saw in a UMS game, and slowly and gradually do more and more maps until you feel comfortable.  Starting out trying to make a campaign with little editor knowledge would be extremely overwhelming for me.

Metzen - In the Deception map, the notorious Kimeran pirates decided to... ahem, liberate whatever data files they could hack from the main computer of a Confederate science facility. The pirates retrieved a number of files--14 in all--and then got out of there. The files actually didn't reference specific technologies so much as specific topics of research and/or experimentation. No doubt some of this work (e.g., "Utilizing Dragoon Technology For Human Reconstruction") had concrete and promising applications, but some of it clearly wouldn't. For instance, "Offspring of Infested Humans"... there's a scary thought: what sort of experiments would you need for that topic? Doubtful that such experiments could have lasted long or gone anywhere: members of the Swarm make dangerous captives, and any offspring--if they could be produced at all--would be irredeemably unbiddable. Other data files had vague and overly ambitious titles that an academic might use in the hopes of bluffing somebody into providing a grant for research... without specifying precisely what he's going to be studying (e.g., "The Origin Of The Species"). In short, we might see references to one or two of these topics in the future, but I wouldn't necessarily count on it. The Kimeran pirates probably turned a tidy profit from selling the data files off and that was that. Who knows where those files are now?