Programs

SCM Draft 2

Made By: Suicidal Insanity

SCM Draft is the most popular and by-far the best editor out there. Any basic tool available to map makers is in this editor, extended terrain, extended players, perfect stacking, string recycling, if you need it, it's got it.

Fastest Host: Original

Falk's Comment

The most useful tool in a map maker's arsenal, almost no serious maps are made by anything other than SCM Draft, and it's the only editor still being updated.

StarForge

Made By: Heimdal

StarForge features many of the features that SCM Draft has, however, it is slightly unstable, and is known to destroy maps. It's still the best editor when working with sprites, however, and many still use it.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

SCM Draft renders this editor almost completely obsolete, however, it still contains a few small features, such a nice trigger text-editor, that make it still useful. Be sure to back up maps before opening them with this.

X-tra Editor

Made By: General Mengsk

A mod of StarEdit, X-tra editor gives the same feel and basic look of StarEdit, with a few extra features not normally available, it can do close stacking, use hidden AI Scripts, and a few other features.

Fastest Host: Original

Falk's Comment

This editor is really not useful anymore, it's a great editor to begin with, as it gives mappers a bit of a transition from StarEdit, but it's not useful otherwise.

SE Compress

Made By: Heinermann & Spaceboy2000

SE Compress is the best compressor there is, unfortunately, it only compresses Melee maps, and although it has a UMS option, it does not work properly.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

When used on Melee maps, this compressor makes them unbelievably tiny, as a side-effect of this great compression, the map is also given a light protection.

Shadow Protector

Made By: Shadow

The best protection available, this protector is made to protect the map so only storm.dll can read it, while later unprotectors, such as Unused Unprotector or OS Map 2 can open it, OS Map cannot.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

Most map stealers on Battle.net have OS Map, and often an older version of it, so this protection works very nicely against many map stealers. It's in Korean, so the Top Left Button is 'Open Map', the button directly below is 'Protect Map', the button in Top Center is 'Save Map'.

Special Protector

Made By: Special

Another protector that can beat OS Map, however, Unused Unprotector and OS Map 2 can open it. It compresses the map very nicely when protecting it, unlike Shadow Protector, it is in English.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

This protects maps in the same way that Shadow Protector does, although it has a few extra features, such as player colors and map size, and it's in English.

TinyMap

Made By: Farty1billion

TinyMap is a program written, not to protect, but to compress, it generally will give you the smallest map size of any other compressor, and can do both UMS and Melee.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

This is usually the best compressor, although SECompress is better at Melee, it also provides a light protection that stops all editors, but any unprotector can open it.

Uberation 2

Made By: LegacyWeapon

A multipurpose tool, has preset EUD actions, although they are now patched, can edit CUWP slots, can import and export secitons of the CHK. It also can protect and compress maps.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

Although a few of its functions are now out-dated, it is still a useful program, especially when trying to copy sections from one map to another.

Uberation 3

Made By: LegacyWeapon & MindArchon

Uberation 3 can also protect and compress maps, however, it's slightly buggy, and is known to sometimes corrupt maps. It also features string recycling and unrecycling.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

This program is a great utility to add the finishing touches onto your map, and unrecylcing strings can be extremely useful when you have problems switching between editors.

OS Map

Made By: LegacyWeapon

A nice unprotector that can unprotect anything except maps protected by Shadow Protector or Special Protector. Also acts as a very good compressor.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

OS Map has some of the best compression out there, second only to TinyMap, it's a good, simple unprotector.

OS Map 2

Made By: LegacyWeapon

OS Map 2 offers the same unprotection capabilities as OS Map, and even a little better, it can also compress WAV files, but it's protection is a bit less stable than OS Maps.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

OS Map 2 can open the maps protected by Shadow and Special, but you have to first toggle the option to use Storm.dll on. It's also a nice compressor.

StarCraft Map Cracker

Made By: hkkhhk

Recently a few korean protectors have come out that can beat Unused Unprotector, in response, this unprotector was made, which can beat anything out there yet.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

This tool can also protect, with a protection that can't be unprotected without a password, luckily it's in English, even though it was written by a korean.

Unused Unprotector

Made By: Unused

The perfect unprotector, if StarCraft can read it, so can this. No protection out there can keep this program from opening it up, also has different unprotection options.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

While it is not a compressor, like OS Map, this is the unprotector you use if you want to open a map up, nothing can stop it.

DatEdit

Made By: BroodKiller

DatEdit is a modding tool that allows the user to modify the stats of units, and other variables in StarCraft. However, these stats are also extremely useful to know when mapping, so you can use this program as a reference.

Fastest Host: Original

Falk's Comment

People are always asking questions about units stats, but if they had this program and used it, they wouldn't need help, it's like a giant reference list.

MapStats

Made By: Farty1billion

MapStats reads a map and gives you information about the map, such as number of strings, sprites, units, and other information.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

MapStats can be useful when you are trying to see how much space you have before you hit the limits of SC, but if you are making a simple small map you probably won't need it.

PColor

Made By: Farty1billion

PColor allows the user to pick a player number, a tileset, and a unit and see what the color looks like on that unit.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

This helps when you are trying to find that perfect color for your map, and you don't want to test them all out, it's usually correct, but sometimes it has errors, so watch out.

SCMIE

Made By: Clokr

SCMIE stands for StarCraft Map Importer and Exporter, it allows you to pull data from one map to another with ease.

Fastest Host: Other

Falk's Comment

This program works perfectly, except that it cannot transfer custom unit stats, so if that's what you need, you're going to need to do it by hand, or find another program.

String Analyzer

Made By: Mind Archon

String Analyzer gives quick statistics on the strings in the map, with editor such as SCM Draft you can go over the usual 1024 string limit, so this also displays characters used.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

When working on large maps, strings often become a problem, with this program you can keep track of how many you've used, and plan accordingly.

Trigger Viewer 2

Made By: Mind Archon

Sometimes you only want to look at the triggers of a map, but don't want to unprotect the map to do so, this program allows you to view the triggers of a locked map.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

The trigger viewer has a very nice user interface and is great when you just want to glance at the triggers in a map.

W-Mode

Made By: XeNotRoN

This small utility allows you to play Starcraft inside a window, more information can be found in the readme file.

Fastest Host: Falkoner's

Falk's Comment

Being able to see your map in the editor at the same time as in-game is great for testing, and you can easily switch back and forth, a great tool when map making.

MapExp

Made By: Farty1billion

A web version of MapStats, also provides a minimap image, and other information.

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Falk's Comment

A great program for uploading maps to sites and getting information from them, less buggy than MapStats as well.

Hyper Trigger Rate Calculator

Made By: Falkoner

Calculates the number of times per second that the triggers will run when Hyper Triggers have different Wait times.

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Falk's Comment

This program is mainly useful if you are planning on slowing down your Hyper Triggers due to lag and need to know how many times they run per second to adjust Death Counts accordingly.

Text Overlap Generator

Made By: Ar3sgice & Recoded by: Farty1billion

This is a nice javascript program that takes any text you want and will put it into the correct format for overlaps.

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Falk's Comment

Overlaps are unbelievably annoying, so this is extremely useful, it sends them out the same color each time, so be sure to change it to the colors you want.

Wait Rounder

Made By: Falkoner

Another javascript program that takes a wait time and will round it up to the next closest multiple of any number.

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Falk's Comment

In most cases you'll use either 42 or 84, as those are the two values that waits are rounded up to automatically, however you still have the option to do others if you need to.