Both terms refer to a single map designed with StarEdit. The terms 'mission' and 'scenario' are used interchangeably in this book. You can make completely typical missions (a straightforward fight between the Terrans and Zerg, for example), or highly unusual ones (a bizarre game of interstellar football). Mac scmdraft requirements will be announced when it enters alpha.StarEdit is a powerful editor that allows you to modify most aspects of a StarCraft mission and build new ones from scratch. It may be possible to run scmdraft on slower hardware. Note, these are the minimum specs scmdraft has been tested on. Starcraft installation (Alternatively stardat.mpq and patch_rt.mpq from patch 1.04 or higher, however testing is done with broodwar installed and this is recommended.).Some notable features include opening multiple maps, zoom, brushes, copying terrain, units, doodads, and sprites between maps, and many more. View the feature matrix for a rough comparison of these editors. This is the codebase the current version is based on, where, roughly 3 years after the first release, any feature imaginable has been implemented.Ĭurrently, ScmDraft 2 can do everything staredit and all the various SCXE modes can do as well as a number of things not possible with either of these programs. These however were abandened because video cards stopped supported 256 color textures which were required in order to acheive decent speed. There also were experiments in using direct3d, directdraw, and opengl to render the maps.

While this started out only being able to edit terrain, it quickly grew to cover all other layers. However, In summer 2003 work was restarted on understanding the algorithm behind isometrical tile matching, after this was done the first versions of ScmDraft 2 were written and released. Due to frustration while trying to implement this work was stopped for almost a year. However a key feature, isometrical terrain, was missing. This version was updated and improved for roughly 2 years, until it was able to match staredit in terms of features and capabilities. The original mapeditor was started in december 2001, and was written in delphi.

Scmdraft is the first third party mapeditor for starcraft.

History - Feature Comparison - Version History - Screenshots - Downloads - Requirements The goal of this project was to allow map editing without requiring multiple programs in order to edit maps, while simultaneously providing all features possible with the map format. Scmdraft is the first and oldest third party map editor for Starcraft.

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