It requires some form of selection method in game. This is time consuming but is useful for creating more than four races.
METHOD 2 - Copy: This is where you take a race, and copy all the units. METHOD 1 - Edit: This is where you take a race, and edit all the unit's, structure's and ability's to create your custom race, useful if you don't need the starting races, as it provides a easy selection method. When you have planned your race you can start to create it, there are three methods: Ease of Creation: if your race requires lots of custom data, its going to be hard to create, even if you are a brilliant modeler, you wont want to spend all your time modeling, if your a can make brilliant triggers, you wont want to be creating triggers all the time, even if you did, the file size of the map would be huge!
Ease of Use: If your race is to hard to use, people wont want to play it, if its too easy they wont want to play it.
DESIGN PROCESSīefore you start, ask yourself a few questions about your race: What is the strengths/weaknesses of your race: If your new race is Invincible, why would people play any other? What is unique about your Race: If all four races are exactly the same, it will get boring quickly.