Tonight was one of those amazing, work til your eyes bleed kind of nights. Not only have we all been pumped about the galaxy editor, but more so the fact that it's supposed to be released this week. Well, it turned out the patch 9 was already ready for public consumption, as long as you knew how to get to the dinner table :)

So, after a few hours struggling to figure out what others had already done weeks before us, we got a hold of the patch, and applied it successfully. For the curious:

Download the patch files.



One at a time, put them in Support\ within your install directory.



Rename the file to sc2-patch.mpq.



Run Blizzard Updater.exe.



Repeat for any file that is part of the patch.



(You'll have to find the patch on your own, but if you pop on IRC we'll gladly point you in the right direction)

Anyways, the Galaxy Editor seems to be a variant of WarCraft 3's WorldEdit. It's very similar, so if you're familiar with that, you'll feel right at home. Right now it feels to be a very early draft, but will definitely make it possible to build terrain and edit various pieces of the maps that were just too complicated to do by hand. It also has the ability to import maps from SC1 and WC3, which is a nice bonus.

We will update the site with pictures and more information as it comes out :)

