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Hi, I'm trying to copy some terrain from a map into another using ScmDraft. Each time I try my terrain gets corrupted (it's not the same thing that is showing (keeps the old terrain information with new visual) and it crashes starcraft at map loading. Is there a special way to proceed? A better program? Some dos and dont-dos? Please enlighten me!
It can be a lot of things. Maybe you could give us some more information about the maps and what is happening? Screenshots of the editor and in-game would be helpful, and/or post the maps here. As of now I don't completely understand what you are trying to say. What do you mean with "keeps the old terrain informatin with new visual?"
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sounds alot like your copying say... badlands into a jungle map... what are the two terrain types?
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sounds alot like your copying say... badlands into a jungle map... what are the two terrain types?
I'm pretty sure they're the same
And I mean that lets say I copy high jungle on some high elevated jungle, if afterwards I put some high jungle in the copied high jungle high elevated jungle will appear all around it
or if I put water in water copied on anything else it will modify the terrain around it as if I was placing a new water tile
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Ah i see what your saying.
The problem is is you place 1x1 isom of high dirt and copy that to a new map, the new map still thinks it has normal dirt there. Copying terrain is not recognised as valid ISOM by the editor.
I believe SI said he might add this feature in the next version.
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The problem is is you place 1x1 isom of high dirt and copy that to a new map, the new map still thinks it has normal dirt there. Copying terrain is not recognised as valid ISOM by the editor.
I believe SI said he might add this feature in the next version.
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Ex is right about how the terrain is 'keeping it's original properties', but I still have no idea why it would crash when opened..
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Ex is right about how the terrain is 'keeping it's original properties', but I still have no idea why it would crash when opened..
I see, it pretty much means copying terran is useless tough
As for the crash I did alot of stuff (Like resizing) before the test it crashed. it *could* be unrelated
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Oh! Lol, if you have an odd size and you don't play another map first before playing that map it has a tendency to crash.
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Oh! Lol, if you have an odd size and you don't play another map first before playing that map it has a tendency to crash.
Oh, so anything thats not something like 128*128, 256*128, 128*64(or w/e) will crash? Guess I'll need to add more stuff to fit in
As for the terrain if it doesnt crash the map I can manage it, thanks everybody for the answers
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It only crashes if you don't play another map first.
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It only crashes if you don't play another map first.
Yeah but any crashing is bad. It's meant to be use on Bnet and I dont want to randomly crash other players lol
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NudeRaider -- blessed innocent soul knows nothing of the strife we had before EUDs were discovered 
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Ultraviolet -- I suppose we'll likely never know, but my guess would be that they already saw it operating successfully and there was no monetary incentive to finish the original work. And the dev cycle in old school Blizzard was so hectic, it's possible it just got forgotten about after the original game got released. Plus there's an element of existing MPQ files that were packaged with the original discs becoming outdated if they updated it. And it's not like they remade the original MPQs, they just made new ones for BW specifically[2026-6-21. : 4:26 am]
Oh_Man -- so that makes me think maybe the theory they are unfinished is not true and its a deliberate design decision, coz why not finish them wen ur making brood war?[2026-6-21. : 4:25 am]
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NudeRaider -- to clarify: couldn't recall the behavior for every single Protoss building but I was aware the disparity exists.[2026-6-20. : 3:43 pm]
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