Beginner's Guide
Written by no_one_only_me, edited by SonGuhun
Greetings, this is an IN-DEPTH tutorial for the Warcraft III map Titan Land Lands of Plenty. While this tutorial is first and foremost for the map, there are parts that apply to other RP maps, especially other versions of Titan Land.
This section really only applies to users that are mostly new to Warcraft III itself, so it is a bit outside the scope of this guide. Please follow this link: Downloading a Warcraft III map.
When you first load into the map, you will find yourself without any units in your starting location. There are 2 types of units in Titan Land: decorations and troops.
Decorations are the units you will have the most of during the game. They can be created by deco builders, which you can buy from the Deco Tents inside of the Titan Palace (in the top right corner of the map).
Troops are trained in production buildings, which are built by racial builders, which you can train from the Race Selector.
To obtain a race selector, you must first get a Wandering Soul, which you can spawn with the -start command.
With your Wandring Soul, you can now builder a Race Selector, which contains multiple submenus for different races.
In this example, we selected the Nihonjin builder from the Human submenu, and then we built the production buildings to make some troops.
One of the most important things you should know regardless of what RP map it is, or even if you are RPing outside of WC3, is what is In Character (IC) and what is Out of Character (OOC). Simply put, In Character is when you are speaking as the character(s) and roleplaying normally. Ideally, most of your game's dialogue should be happening IC. An example of a simple RP quote would be like this:
Out of Character is when you are talking while you are not RPing. This can be use to settle disputes, to make smalltalk or to ask someone for help with a command. In order to express that you are OOC in a fast way that people will understand, you should use “((“ or a similar symbol to show that you aren’t RPing; an example would be like this:
Finally, two last things you should be aware of are actions and metagaming. Actions, also known as emotes, are basically when a character is making some form of physical action. Usually, “*” is used at the start and the end of chat messages to indicate that an action is being taking. For example:
This last aspect of roleplay is one to generally avoid: metagaming. Basically, it's abusing information and/or things that the character should not have: items gained from nowhere, knowing where the enemy will attack without scouting, arriving at somewhere important even if the character had no reason to be there, etc.
Of course, sometimes metagaming is required to make the game more engaging. Maybe your character is too far away from the story in order to contribute anything. In this case, metagaming can be used to get your character closer to where the action is taking place. Usually, it's a good idea to ask people whether you can butt in, if the game has been going on for a long time and you haven't engaged with their story at all.
There are several commands for this map, the most basic of them are related to three things:
- Camera
- Unit Modification Commands
- Miscellaneous
There are a couple camera commands, the two main commands are simple, the zooming, and the third person camera, the first is simple, you type –zoom 0-9999 to zoom in and out, with 1650 being the “default” camera zoom, now…to show this, images:
This is the generic 1650 zoom…but with a simple command of –zoom 3000
You can see that it allows the camera to zoom very far back, allowing the player to see more of the map, but be warned that after zoom 3000, the map becomes a bit darker because of the default Terrain Fog.
The second part, is the third person commands, the simple command is selecting an unit and pressing ESC twice
The third set of commands is the Unit Modification Commands … and there are many. However, before that, there is one command you have to use before anything else: -start. This command allows you to gain a Wandering Soul, which allows you to actually build structures which produce units, you can use this command as much as you wish to get all the racial units that you need.
Now, the GRAND EMPEROR OF DARKNESS is looking good, but he needs his own name, so…lets rename him, this works for all things that you own, so select him and type
-nameunit
Now, we have to make him fly and be massive, as proper Dark Lord should be. In this regard, we will use the –fly and –size commands. For that, we need another unit, the Deco Modifier Special, this guy:
Now, type the command(s) in this case, its –size 250 and –fly 300. Once it's done, click on Unit Modifications on the Deco Modifier and use the corresponding abilities on the unit or building which you want to modify.
Now, hes far bigger! And he floats.
- -anim X: Plays an animation, like -anim death.
- -speed X: Sets up the speed of the animation, so its really fast or slow.
- -rgb (R G B T): Sets the colors the unit have, R G B T is Red,Green, Blue and Transparency, the more of one color it is, the more it has. (Default: 100 100 100 0).
- -face X: Sets up the facing of an unit or building (Default: 270).
- -fly X: Sets an unit to levitate above ground (Default: 0).
- -size X: Sets an unit’s size, most units have 100 size, though some are resized by default (Default: 100).
- -select no: Makes a decoration unselectable. When you are finished with a build, you should make all your decorations unselecable, as this will greatly reduce lag in multiplayer.
- -val (x): Sets the area of the Make Selectable ability and the terrain abilities.
- -remove: Removes all your selected units (that you own) from the game. If you are the Titan, you can remove units that don't belong to you.
- -give (color): Gives an unit or building to a player.
Now…the second part is simple, take the terraining builder who is right on the side of the decoration builder, and move him to the place you want to terrain, to terrain, just pick the terrain type and use –var to cycle by the variations.
Now…lets turn this place into a green heaven, or at least, show how big the grass size can be, and for this, lets use the –val command several times to show sizes.
In order, its -val 1 2 3 and 4 with possible to up to –val 10. The second is the terrain editor, but WARNING, don’t select it while having a spellcaster unit or builder selected, it might cause problems, the commands are –editor terrain to select it, and –editor none to unselect it.