Therefore, its best to keep terrain in playable areas generally at plateau heights, and also quite flat, because buildings require almost perfectly flat ground to be placed.

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It is worth looking through before you begin creating maps as it will help you avoid common pitfalls people encounter.

Stronghold 2 Map Editor Guide Trial And Error

In particular, the Landscape section contains information that will save a lot of trial and error when testing out your maps.

To open the Stronghold Crusader 2 Map Editor, open your Steam client, click on Library and then Tools from the dropdown list.

When you open the editor, click File then New in the dropdown.

Small is best to start with, as larger maps take exponentially longer to finish.

Stronghold 2 Map Editor Guide Free The Camera

Before you begin, its a good idea to free the camera with the Free Camera button.

This unlocks it from the boundaries of the in-game camera, letting you move it to any angle and position.

You can move the camera around by: - left clicking and dragging, to push the map in different directions - right clicking and dragging, to rotate the camera around the point its aiming at on the ground - scrolling the mouse wheel, to zoom the camera in and out.

If you ever lose track of where the camera is you can reset its location by selecting Tools, then Reset Camera.

All the different tabs used to shape and edit the map that you see on the left (e.g.

Buildings, Texture, Resources) are contained in the overarching Tools tab.

Next to it in the bottom left corner of the window is the Objects tab.

This is empty at the start, but once you begin to populate the map it will show a list of all the entities in it.

This can be helpful when you want to select a particular object without searching through the whole map for it.

On the right edge of the main window there is a collapsed Object Properties tab.

This can be ignored most of the time but for some particular objects, such as carter posts, you will need it.

Editing the map or placing any kind of entity in it is done with ctrl left or right click.

With the Units or Buildings tab opened, multiple entities can be selected by ctrl left click (and hold) and dragging the mouse to create a selection box.

Under the Landscape tab youll find both Freestyle and Plateau sub-tabs.

The heights in SC2 are based around a plateau system of several fixed landscape heights.

Walls will always snap to the closest plateau height below them, and range bonuses are calculated based on how many plateaus up a unit is compared to its target (rounded down to the nearest half plateau).