modding EaW?

[dreadlordnyax]

so, to complement the "will you be buying eaw" poll in the other forum, this is the "will you be modding eaw (or trying)" poll. personally, i'm probably gonna go in and tweak around a few things for fun, but i don't know if i'll be actually releasing a mod.

[Trans]

Maybe because I am going to need to concentrate on a I am doing for SWBF2 but if they release some very user-friendly mod tools I might make a personal map/mod just for fun but I am not planning on doing anything big.

[Alpha]

I doubt they will release mod tools, it doesn't usually happen for RTS games, especially Star Wars ones. Ykkrosh at Heavegames made tools for Age of Empires and consiquently Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, which made modding possible then, but nothing was officially released. And hopefully this will be much easier to mod since they're using 3D models and not frame by frame BMPs.

[Leviathan]

Alpha, you should perhaps consult this Empire At War-dedicated site, and especially the section named "ANNOUNCEMENT: Petroglyph-EAW NEXUS Q&A"...

[BeBop]

I doubt they will release mod tools, it doesn't usually happen for RTS games, especially Star Wars ones. Ykkrosh at Heavegames made tools for Age of Empires and consiquently Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, which made modding possible then, but nothing was officially released. And hopefully this will be much easier to mod since they're using 3D models and not frame by frame BMPs.

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Of course, all of what you said may yet be a moot point. Petroglyph has expressed that the game will be rather easy to mod. And that they are trying to get the okay from LA to release mod tools after release.

Check out this site for all sorts of EAW info straight from the devs: Petroyglyph Fan Forums

[-=Sithicalohiny=-]

But hasn't there always been mapmakers for such games?

[Leviathan]

Yes, I think... You just have to launch a search on Google in order to find some mapping tools for Star Wars : Galactic Battlegrounds, Age Of Empires and all others...

[dreadlordnyax]

actually, galactic battlegrounds came with an editor.

i'm sure we'll be getting many of custom maps for eaw as well.

[guru]

looks like the engine is very moddbale, this will be a geat challenge and lots of fun! Id sell my friends cat for a demo lol.

[EraOfDesann]

actually, galactic battlegrounds came with an editor.

i'm sure we'll be getting many of custom maps for eaw as well.

Geez. Looking back at the map editors for Galactic Battlegrounds and Age Of Empires they seem so easy to use now that I've been doing maps for Battlefront (which obviously is much more difficult). I just hated those stupid triggers...

[Alpha]

I was referring to things other than the built in scenario editor, that was a given in those two games (AOE2 and SWBG) And yeah, Desann, I hated triggers. *shivers* I wish they would come out with a demo, too, that would be nice.

[dreadlordnyax]

i was talking to leviathan. and i didn't think triggers weren't that hard, except for the fact that you couldn't copy them, so it got sooooooo repetitive.

btw, sorry there's no "I won't be modding eaw" option in the poll, it took it off for some reason. i had one originally

[BeBop]

Well, they still claim that that a demo will be out sometime between 1/13/06 and 1/20/06 depending on when Lucasarts gets around to distributing it. However, Petroglyph warns that the demo will not be in any condition to mod... of course, that's what alot of developers say about lots of demos... *evil grin*

[Foshjedi2004]

I'm doing it atm

[Juggernaut1985]

I'll be modding EaW for sure.

[Leviathan]

dreadlord', do you know whether Star Wars : Galactic Battlegrounds editing tool has been updated, or if an alternative one has been developed ? (Except Heaven Games'...)

[dreadlordnyax]

not a clue, heavengames was the only swgb site i paid much attention to.

hopefully eaw's modding tools will be easier and more flexible than gb's...

[-=Sithicalohiny=-]

What was wrong with gb's mod tools?

[geoman777]

im hex modding it, already done some cool stuff in the demo

[guru]

I use notepad, its super cool mod tools , lol.