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Starcraft Building sizes

Mar 18 2009, 12:16 pm
By: Dakota_Fanning

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Mar 18 2009, 12:16 pm Dakota_Fanning Post #1

Hi!

I'm the author of BWHF Agent, and I want to improve it by adding some maphack detection.

For this I would need the list of starcraft buildings with their sizes in matrices.
Like
Pylon 2x2

I know I could experiment all of it, but I'd like to avoid this since I'm sure others have already done this.

Can anyone help me out with this?
Thanks.

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Mar 18 2009, 3:02 pm

Falkoner Post #2

You can use SCM Draft 2 to see the size of the buildings, just turn on the normal grid size and place the building, and then you can just see how many spaces it takes up.

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Mar 19 2009, 1:26 am

Fisty Post #3

Download Datedit and you can view the size in pixels

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Mar 20 2009, 3:56 am

O)FaRTy1billion[MM] Post #4

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Size in tiles or size in pixels? I don't think there is any written list... I can think of any arbitrary building and tell the size in tiles. ;o (I don't feel like taking the time to list them all, though)

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[2026-6-23. : 3:29 am]

DarkenedFantasies -- Probably just didn't care. For example, at some point before release, they've updated the graphics of some of the Protoss buildings (Forge, CyberCore, Citadel, Observatory, Arbiter Tribunal), but instead of properly re-rendering them with edited 3D models, they did crappy copy-paste jobs on the rendered graphics.

[2026-6-22. : 8:35 pm]

Ultraviolet -- :wob:

[2026-6-21. : 11:38 pm]

Symmetry -- :wob:

[2026-6-21. : 4:56 am]

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 Plus there's an element of existing MPQ files that were packaged with the original discs becoming outdated if they updated it.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]

Oh_Man -- the thing is thos buildings are from classic. that means they went ahead and made brood war without ever finishing the 'unfinished' buildings

[2026-6-20. : 6:15 pm]

Ultraviolet -- Yeah he's talked about a lot of that stuff in his casts before. It seems plausible. Especially knowing how Blizzard of yesteryear operated.

[2026-6-20. : 3:47 pm]

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]

NudeRaider -- Contained nothing new for me. Didn't know all building's behavior, but very much all unit's. Also Terran balance whine - also nothing new :lol:

[2026-6-19. : 9:57 am]

Oh_Man -- makes me wonder if SEN knows anything about the topic

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