I’ve made two Modder Maps to help you find inspiration for making mods! These maps are meant to be ‘visual dictionaries’ for you to browse objects and terrain in the scenario editor by seeing them fully rendered instead of scrolling through lists. It’s fun to look around at everything even if you’re not making a mod!
The first map is Modder Map - Layered Terrain [6400 Combos]
This map shows 6,400 combinations of layered terrain in a square grid! Each terrain block has a sign that gives info on the terrain when you click on it. There are also extra features like changing the map’s color mood, and jumping to the opposite terrain block of the one you currently have selected. Here are some screenshots:
Full Map
Examples of Terrain Blocks Zoomed In Close
The second map is Modder Map - All Units and Objects in AoE2
This map shows all of the Heroes, Units, Buildings, Objects, Trees, Plants, and Animals available in the map editor! There are various groups of the units and heroes (e.g. Melee Infantry Heroes, Ranged Infantry Heroes, All Heroes With Unique Sprites, and so on). Each group has a sign next to it that gives info describing the units in the group when you click on it. All objects are placed with little or no visual overlap, and are arranged alphabetically in horizontal and vertical rows & columns so that you can easily move around each group by scrolling or using a single arrow key.
Just for fun, you can also play Micro Madness mode where all the Units and Heroes are given randomly to P1 - P8 I will add more features to Micro Madness over time.
Full Map
Architecture Sets
Heroes with Unique Sprites
Note: The Layered Terrain map takes longer to load than most other maps.
Big shoutout to the developers of AoE2 Scenario Parser. Scenario Parser is an excellent Python tool that I highly recommend to anyone making mods for AoE2. The terrain map and Micro Madness minigame never would have been possible without it.
Thanks for checking these out and please let me know what you think!