Theres obviously a method to put porn on starcraft.. and its been done several times. from dirty tank D and sexypics collection to the new Strip Jessica Alba.. and i was thinkin.. man... .bmp to .scx, kool. is there a way to create maps that have animated tiles? if this sounds completely nub dont claim my to be, i have logic. lol. you can see that in a desert map the bubbles in tar are made.. thats an animated tile. and with shore in most tilesets with water, you can see the waves... once again oviously animated. can you animate any tile like this with some method without modding or tilediting? that opens up a whole new possibility for starcraft porn... ER eh.. he he. *wipes sweat off forehead* i mean, starcraft mapping. ty

No, you cannot. However, you can make seem as if the terrain has changed on your screen (not minimap.) See this topic.
I did have an idea where you could use player colors as a cinematic on the minimap, if you created and removed units really quickly. However, you cannot animate the tiles.

I dont see a way of changing the tiles in game. The only way is really using player colors, there are a variety of them above 12 but Im not sure how well this would work...

You can change the player color in scmdraft, therefore allowing you to choose different colors.

kool, thanks that link was a good idea... heh i guess, *topic closed* eh?

True, but in order to still have Orange, Red, Blue, Teal, etc, you'd need to use Players 9-12 and above, unless you choose a palette of 12 colors and just use those.

There are no true animated tiles. The tileset ones (tar, water, magma, etc) are just palette animations (they just cycle some pixels through a given sequence of colors).

The minimap update rate is quite slow. That's the biggest problem for minimap cinematics that use units.

you would have to say the player that he has to hold the TAB button to refresh the minimap faster.

Yeah, but what kind of picture quality would it be with a palette of 12 colors? Any other players can't be affected via triggers, so that's all you could use, and only 8 of those you can change.

naked stick figures! an animated minimap xD

Naked stick figures? Is that possible? Aren't stick figures already naked?

You could try to find some shades of grey, or mod SC to change the player colors. That way a blank and white animation could look quite good.

They wear tights xD

Shades of gray? A black and white animation would still be cool though. You could black, white, and a couple other colors, such as red or whatever. I think it would really take sc map making to the limit of we did make a minimap animation. Who's up to do all the triggers?

Someone a while back did a little Mario movie by giving pylons, but obviously it was Mario and so it was 8 bit graphics

It's not necessarily per-pixel, it is per-palette. The pixels stay exactly the same. The palette actually changes.

I was just trying to explain palette animations so he could understand them

The options menu even refers to it as 'Color Cycling'.

Me and Falkoner know the same person. The guy who made that map I met awhile ago when I was (U) (he was a former member that still came on once a month or so)... this must be 3-4 years ago that I talked to the guy, if some one can remember his name I will recognize it.

Anyway, he showed me his mario map, and I was pretty interested in it. So he showed me a project he was working on. It was a map that was a recreation of the windows 3D maze screen saver, and it lasted for several minutes. He basically constructed a program that would take a file and put it into a minimap movie form (using a pylon grid). I remember glancing at the triggers and I believe he used a unit death counter system. I asked him when he was going to release the program, unfortunately he said he probably wasn't going to because he really didn't want to see sexy pics turn into sexy movies. The map is most likely on my computer that just got wiped last week. I know some one else (also from (U) I believe) was in the game watching... so someone probably has it.

So to answer your question more simply:
Yes, it is possible- but it will have poor resolution and framerate.

Who cares? It would still be a kick ass map.

EDIT: Does anybody have that mario map? If so, can they post it?

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