Adding a whole new race?

Everyone was so helpful with my last question that I can't resist...

How do I go about adding a completely new race to my map? Is this even possible?

Yes and no.

If you want to add a race, all you need to do is decide what buildings and units the race will have, create them, and then provide a way for a person to have the race (a wisp selection system, or whathaveyou).

You cannot actually create a race with a new distinction. In other words, you won't be able to alter the drop-down box in the game creation screen to add another race in. Nor will your new race show up as different in the scorescreen, unless it's a single-player map and you alter the Gameplay Interface.

However, if what's in-game is what matters to you, then you're fine.

Ok, you described pretty much what I want.

Assuming I have all the units and building imported, then what? I mean, it seems like I need to make a tech tree and assign the units/buildings/tech tree/etc to something, right?

Sorry if this is noobish -- any help is appreciated.

Yep. At this point, you should think about what abilities should require an upgrade to be used, and what levels of building improvements should be required before you can research ability upgrades or build higher end units.
Move freely between the Ability, Unit, and Upgrade editors.

yea, the only problem with making a new race is balancing, and trying to make the difference in races noticable, by the way, wats the new race?

I'm playing around with the idea of adding Gnomes.

Ok, so I can add new units and buildings, but is there a way to separate them out into their own race? Right now they're all showing up as additional human units. The object editor looks something like this:

Custom Units (3)
---Human(3)
------Melee (3)
---------Units(2)
------------Custom Unit 1
------------Custom Unit 2
---------Buildings(1)
------------Custom Building 1

That kinda sucks. What I really want is all my custom stuff grouped under Custom Units/Gnomes/Melee/Units. Possible?

im pretty sure u cant, b/c that's wat they are, custom units.