Dota 2 Workshop Tools ALPHA update for 12/17/14 (12/18/14 UTC)

[wickedplayer494]

Via [url=http://store.steampowered.com/news/15306/]the Steam store[/url]:

[quote=Valve]- 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[/quote]

Rumor has it:

- Protobufs: [url]https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking/commit/eb74489b1b80d0ad3ebaac771ef65658126bc373[/url]

[slayer20]

My main client is getting a 3.1GB update. Is this supposed to be it? That seems incredibly massive for a workshop update...

[aydin690]

[QUOTE=slayer20;46739417]My main client is getting a 3.1GB update. Is this supposed to be it? That seems incredibly massive for a workshop update...[/QUOTE]

Opt out of alpha. Mine was only 22mb.

[editline]17th December 2014[/editline]

Large update size was prolly because of this:

[QUOTE]Added Direct3D 9 support[/QUOTE]

[metalhand]

I really hope at some point the editor reaches Warcraft 3 levels of accesibility and not crashiness.
Like, my inspiration quickly died out after a project crashed several times.