Dota 2 Workshop Tools Alpha Update - December 17Th, 2014

[Brick Tamland]

• Improved performance and memory used when playing custom games

• Added support for playing custom games on 32bit Windows [XP]

• Added Direct3D 9 support

• Added ability to blend between tile sets in the tile editor using override materials.

• Added additional materials and blending between tile sets in the example dota_pvp_tiled map.

• Added additional controls for adjusting the rotation and pitch of trees in the tile editor.

• Added ability to swap existing plant placements in the tile editor in the same way trees could already be swapped.

• Added functionality to look up a tile in a tile set by right clicking it while in the tile editor.

• Added high contrast lighting mode option in Hammer viewports.

• Added a new alternate desert tile set which can be applied to maps built using the tile editor.

• Modified the multiblend shader so all four layers can have independent rotation and scale while using world space UVs.

• Fixed Hammer bug where if a map failed to load the progress bar would never go away.

• Fixed bug where objects using the world space UVs option of the multiblend shader would sometimes flicker.

• Fixed particle bug related to delays on nested child particle systems

• Added texture sequence preview to assetbrowser and PET texture picker

• Fixed bug with Hammer particle preview where control point entities were normally ignored (as soon as the system was restarted)

• Change particles to use the new KV3 compiler & resource version (content format is unchanged for now)

• Initial support for hitboxes in PET

• Assetbrowser honors texture alpha channel, has a channel selector

• Made placement of data-driven units in Hammer more robust

• Fixed a number of visual bugs in particle effects

• Fixed bugs in portrait rendering, including rendering multiple selected units correctly

• Increased connection timeout to 3 minutes

 

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