StarCraft 2 Modding Tools For Developers

Recently, our guide for StarCraft 2 map editor was about guiding you through the basic components of the detailed software so that you can make your own maps and units. Now while you are creating your own custom map for StarCraft 2 , you might be interested in some of the StarCraft 2 tools that may aid you in different ways.

Star Craft 2 Map Analyzer
Its quite a useful tool modded to analyze the map you have created or any other custom map that has been created using map editor. It can help you in determining the various attributes of the map like:

• Shortest distance or pathway between the two enemy bases.
• Can tell you about the influence zones of the map.
• You can have an idea of resource distribution on the map.
• It can also provide you the balance score of the map. etc

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StarCraft 2 Custom UI Leaderboard
Do you want a leaderboard for your created map? then you will need this tool that can make a leaderboard for your map. All you will have to do is  copy & paste the triggers and some small edits suiting your needs. Custom UI leaderboard offers following things:

• Made for multiplayer
• Dynamically generated accordingly to numbers of playing players
• Changing of theme with a click of a button
• It can obviously update stats/scores

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StarCraft 2 Achievement Dialogs
It gives you the ability to set custom dialogs for achievements you set in the custom maps or mods. It has following features:

• Creation of Achievement Dialog(Text, Dialog Icon)
  Returns a dialog that contains the achievement.
• Grammar Text
  Displays the given achievement (or other dialog) with fade in and fade out effect for player group.
• Show New Achievement(Text, Dialog Icon, Player Group)
  Displays the achievement with the given Text and Dialog Icon for the given player group.

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StarCraft 2 MapCraft 1.5
This tool allows you to play StarCraft 2 multiplayer custom maps over battle.net v2.o. MapCraft tool is specially useful for those using Mac OS X as they don’t have an option on map editor to test the created document. It requires latest Java runtime installed on your computer.

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Starcraft 2 Launcher
This tool allows you to select a map, user settings and after you are done with your settings, your game will be automatically booted from your system just like other game clients.

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StarCraft 2 Map Patcher
It can help you play custom maps over battle.net if you don’t like the other method to play the custom multiplayer maps. Its simple to  use and all players must follow the procedure:

• Create a map named “Lost Temple” on battle.net.
• Launch the Map Patcher and Select the map you want to play.
• Click on patch and then start the game. You will see that the map you are playing is not “Lost Temple” rather it is the one you wanted to play.

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Starcraft 2 Gears
This tool can be used to manage StarCraft 2 replays. Just download the plugin and extract it anywhere on your hard drive and you are good to go.

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League Of Legends Items Icons
Yes you read it right, you can use most of the icons. They are .TGA and .DDS formats so viewing them won’t be a problem.

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Meanwhile if you have come across any bugs or errors in StarCraft 2 lately, you can read our StarCraft 2 Common Bugs and Errors article for workarounds.