OpenRA

Hi everyone,
solar smash
I'm new to OpenRA and I'd love to create my own custom maps to play with my friends. What tools should I use to design maps, and are there any tips to make them more balanced and fun? Also, can you share how to put your own maps into the game?

Thank you very much!

Hi.

You can use Map Editor found in Main menu when you start game.

This guide by Blackend can help you make symmetric map and general technique which is important to make balanced map: https://youtu.be/3MMlLaOEOZ4?feature=shared

Once you make map, you need to upload it to: https://resource.openra.net/ so other can download it from lobby (they don't need to do it manually).

You can also mod a lot within your custom map by adding few lines to map.yaml:

Rules: ladder-briefing-rules.yaml, ERCC21andBCC11-rules.yaml, bi-balance-rules.yaml, 1v1go-balance-rules.yaml, 1v1go-lobby-rules.yaml
Sequences: ERCC2-sequences.yaml, bi-sequences.yaml
Weapons: bi-weapons.yaml, 1v1go-weapons.yaml
Notifications: bi-notifications.yaml
Voices: bi-voices.yaml

then you just make these files and add values that will override defaults. Defaults example is: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/b ... icles.yaml

.oramap is basically ZIP file so to edit you uncompress > edit > compress > rename from .zip to .oramap copy to appropriate folder and upload to Resource Center.

Example of modified maps: https://oraladder.net/info . Just download map pack from here.