Time to learn how to model!! Are these tools available for anything other than 3ds max?

Just a little late, Blizzard. Just a little late.

What? They have been out since february. How is it "just a little late?" They were late back then anyway, but I am just pointing out that they have been accesible fo almost half a year now.

Also they're pretty cool, you should stop talking and try them.

Indeed. They invited everyone that asked in their threads... in EU, the last invitations occured 10 days ago.

Now, someone make me Diablo, goatmen, Pedestal of Blood or hell dungeon walls or any kind of doodad objects I can use or spell effects.

StarCraft II's been out since 2010 if I recall correctly. Three years later...art tools released.

It seems like they released it around the time HotS came out, which is reasonable to me: new toys come with the expansion; in fact, they said these were the tools developed specifically for the expansion, so the release timing makes sense. They did the same thing with the World Editor in Warcraft III: TFT (vastly improved customization for the model editor) and even Brood War (increasing location limit, for example).

I don't think anyone was particularly demanding Blizzard to offer their own proprietary art tools, either, and Blizzard has no obligation to publicize internal tools (they probably had to go out of their way presentationally before releasing the tools to the public, as internal tools are almost never polished to begin with); it was just a nice gesture toward the mapmaking community to release them. Let's not hate them for it.

The release timing does not make sense and it's clear that Blizzard does not support custom content by delaying the release of their half-assed broken art tools by three years.