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To download Composite Editor 0.9 BETA,

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, then immediately click "Download File".



The Improved Editor was getting old.
Chariots were pwning it.
The Market and Pit upgrades were not good enough.
It had a bad acronym.
There was only one choice left...
Upgrade to Composite Editor.

All features made by patching the original .dat.

The purpose of Composite Editor is to provide designers of Age of Empires and Rise of Rome Expansion scenarios a tool to unlock the restrictions from the games' Scenario Builders, while the scenarios edited using Composite Editor are compatible with the original, unmodified ("vanilla") game. This allows the designer to ship the scenario or campaign without having to include a mod. Any feature that requires installing a mod to work is outside the scope of Composite Editor.

Again, feature requests are welcome.

Wish list:
- Automatic Terrain Rendering
- Invisible unit control (flares, cliffs, IDs, etc.)
- Paint hidden terrains
- Paint water on elevations
- Unit placement on Fog and any other restricted terrains
- Place building foundations
- Separate file with snapping to grid enabled

(things to fix)
- Walls taking priority when selecting
- Cliffs/shallows covering up other units

Progress so far: (AoE)
- All units unhidden
- All units may be placed freely on all normal terrains
- All units including buildings unlocked from grid
- All units place-able to the edge of the map
- All units can be placed and overlapped densely
- Random generation of terrain objects disabled
- - Direct painting of walkable water
- - Custom forests and minimap painting without having to delete random junk
- Complete Missile control: place, move, rotate (except catapult balls because they're circular), delete
- "Jumping" rotation of tree stump disabled
- Dead units can be moved and rotated
- Invisible units revealed and can be moved
- Trees can now be moved
- flag rotation
- shallows rotation
- cliffs control - move, rotate - including invisibility control and unlocked hidden angle

Progress so far: (RoR)
- All units unhidden
- Units can be placed on any terrain regardless of type (except for certain hidden terrains)
- Units unlocked from grid
- - Buildings unlocked from grid
- Units placeable to the edge of the map
- Units can be placed densely, overlapping and other effects
- Random generation of terrain units disabled
- - Direct painting of walkable water
- - Simplified minimap painting (you don't have to delete random junk anymore)
- Random rotation of tree stump disabled (it won't jump anymore)
- Full dead unit control
- Full Shallows control
- Full Flag control
- Full Cliffs control
- - Toggle invisibility
- - Unlock hidden angle
- Full control of missiles (except for invisible missiles)
- All regular units and some other special units also have full control.
("Full control" means you can freely place, move, rotate and delete a unit almost anywhere without restriction, down to one unit per pixel. Note some units have only one angle so there isn't anything to rotate. Units cannot be placed or moved onto certain hidden terrains.)

Current version: 0.9

Anticipated release date of next version: No updates will be released until after my science fiction campaign is released (reconsidering this).
Also, I will not update Composite Editor or anything during a designing contest, to be fair to those who have to finish early for whatever reason.
(There is a contest - Obscure Historical Campaign Contest - going on right now. Entries are due by January 31, 2010 (exact words "Deadline is the END OF JANUARY 2010 "), but there is talk of extending it.)
^{Voting weights for release time decision Shareholder: weight (reason) Gumble: 4.5 (established precedent) MRCHEEZE: 3 (cheeze rhymeze withze threeze) Ninetails: ~4.5 (9 tails times 50% average on coin flip - actually anywhere between 0 and 9 as determined by nine coin tosses) zapdotep: ∞ (final decision)}
If you didn't use the huge link above,
(Download Composite Editor from Granary here
http://aoe.heavengames.com/dl-php/showfile.php?fileid=2150)

There are many units in AoE, and lots of complex data. Though I go through the lists with great care, there is still a small chance that I missed something. If I seem to have missed anything, please post here. This is why it is still "BETA". It's not finished yet. If they're not brought to my attention, any bugs and omissions I don't notice could be left in the final product.

Many thanks go to Trisolo aka Scenario_T_C for inspiring and making this possible with his awesome Enhanced Editor and AoedRoRd utilities!

[This message has been edited by zapdotep (edited 11-15-2013 @ 03:57 AM).]