Weird..

08-22-2002, 04:37 PM

On a Roper interview, he said this:

Quote:

Do you support the release of tool-kits and code to allow players to modify games? We support the community creating new content for our games. We do not, however, allow add-ons or expansions for our games to be made and commercially distributed. The World Editor in Warcraft III is far advanced over the one we shipped with StarCraft, and our designers feel it is the best tool they have worked with. You can now script any behaviour or game event you want by using the extensive scripting language. There's also an easy-to-use 3D editor that anyone can utilise to make maps. New sound effects or speech files can be placed into any map, and players can even create movies within the game engine to tell their own stories.

A 3D editor? Is this coming soon? Did I miss something? Or is this so called 3D editor just the regular unit editor, where you just change the color and size of a unit...?

08-22-2002, 07:35 PM

Guest

"There's also an easy-to-use 3D editor that anyone can utilise to make maps. New sound effects or speech files can be placed into any map, and players can even create movies within the game engine to tell their own stories."

All of that stuff is already in the editor at launch. The "3D editor" refers to world edit itself (the terrain editing part), and it is in fact a 3D editor. It allows you to modify terrain, place units, doodads, etc. in a 3D environment. In contrast, the starcraft editor wasn't truely a 3D editor, it only created the illusion of 3D by using an isometric view.