Somehow, in Player Properties, all my players have "Random Start Location" allocated to them as their start location. However, they always get to spawn as the same players. How do I make it so that their player number is randomized?

And somehow, the screenshots I had uploaded in the map are gone from the Important module, and on B.net they are shown as pitch black pictures... and I can't find them on my computer anymore. Any ideas on how to get them back from within the map?

"Random Start Location" only randomizes where they start on the map. I don't think you can randomize their player number as that's set in the lobby. What do you want to randomize it for? You can probably cheat it if you wanted by randomizing the player colors (so it looks like they have changed) and then set up variables as the new player numbers.

I have pre-placed a bunch of units on the map for 4 players. As it is right now, the host will always get the same units. I'd like the host (and other players) to get to try the other unit-combos as well.

Make the units owned by the neutral player, put regions around each group, and randomize who gets them at the start. Or create the groups via triggers, instead, and randomize who gets them.

And for screenshots. Do you know how they could have gone to pure black pictures? The files are indeed now absent from the Import module, but how did they get erased?
Also, when I tried uploading some the first time, I remember there was this 800x600 obligatory image size. How comes people are able to publish square images?
My process was: take screenshot, resize to 800x600, add a black area to cover the blank area that's now created by the resize.

If the pictures aren't in the import module, even with "reserved" files displayed, they aren't inside the map file.

How could they have disappeared? Because they used to be there.

And I reuploaded the screenshots. They are now fine.

-But- I had to fix their size once again. Reduced them to 800x600, but it's not the same ratio as the one I play, so I had to fill the space with a blank area again. How comes I seem to be the only one required to do that? How do others upload their full-sized images?

What the F*!

Once again, my screenshots got removed for no apparent reason. They were there last time I opened and published the map. Now, they are gone once again. >_>
What is wrong with the map?

EDIT: Screenies.



Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Dec 2 2012, 11:14 pm by payne.

Did you always import them to a folder with a number as name?

If yes, it might be a bug that you can report. Maybe you can test this and try to recreate this bug.

Nope.
Not sure if I imported them without a folder before. I believe that's how it was the first time I uploaded them.

EDIT: Just realized it's saying the image is "800x450". I uploaded them as 800x600, but from a 800x450 because I had to reduce the initial resolution which was too big. The first time, I then added a black area to fill the gap at the bottom. This last time, I added nothing because I thought the default-white in Paint was fine enough.
Does the PNG extension compress the file a certain way that could prevent the editor to realize it's 800x600 or something?

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Dec 3 2012, 2:31 am by payne.

Once again, this annoying bug hits home.

And this time, it's on a totally different map, and the screenshots were legit 800x600 shots (no added single-color region to fill an empty space). However, I once again used Paint to select a 800x600 region from the initial screenshots.

No one else is experiencing this?

Can't you just use the tool in the arcade info window where you can select those images?
It transforms an image to tga, lets you chose an area of 800x600 within the pic and lets you control where black borders are added.
I used it and it worked fine.

Else, you could post that with the exact steps to recreate on Blizzard's new mapmaking/editor forums.

What the hell, where is that goddamn tool?

Same question: where is that tool?.

It's the folder button with the tooltip "import screenshot".
After selecting a picture from your computer, it opens it in a small editor where you can select the used 800x600 area. Then it imports that as .tga into your map file.

That's going to save me so much work in the futur. Thank you. :3