Dota 2 mynuts

The new heroes started their journey pretty underpowered, not even reaching 45% win rate in their opening days. Players getting acquainted with their skill set and some balance changes have finally made heroes playable in high level pubs and also made it possible to start discussing them, since it is unlikely they will be receiving anything but some minor number tweaks in the nearest future.

The Reach beta has concluded and the team is now working hard towards the Season 1 launch. Here we share some of the details on the upcoming Season, and what players can expect when they log in to play.

The new patch is wild, with all the positive and maybe some negative connotations this word implies. As such, we are trying to be extremely cautious when discussing it so that we don’t unnecessarily invoke some misguided disenchantment from the community.

62 new items are available for finding, not purchasing. You can now build your inventory through jungling and not spending your gold. Is this good? Bad? Who knows, it’s too early to tell.

The Reach Beta has been a valuable month for us at Elo. The feedback from our community has allowed us to make considerable progress in refining the key automated systems of the platform and we couldn’t possibly be more excited to see people begin to play in Season One.

This is going to be less of a stats recap and more of a farewell to a patch, which overstayed its welcome for at least a couple of months. Instead of going over the same heroes once more, we felt it is more appropriate to highlight some of the heroes which were outside of the meta at the tournament’s start, but nevertheless had a great impact in the later stages of MDL Chengdu.

Bounty runes, come back gold, ancient creeps, camps stacking, and more. The economy of Dota keeps growing and growing but how does that affect supports and cores?

We’ve done a lot of testing with our current systems in the Reach league and are finally confident in opening it up to more users. Divine level players may now participate in Reach, effective immediately.

The first major tournament of the season is finally happening. Get up to date with all the teams participating, their odds of winning it all, and more!

Patch 7.22 is certainly overstaying its welcome and it clearly shows in the current professional tournaments. There are almost no new meta developments and for the most part the Summit 11 concentrated on the same exact heroes as the tournaments prior.

Captains and drafters are some of the most revered pros in the scene. The genius drafting strategies and counter picks can win the game before the first bounty runes spawn. Here are some draft ideas to try out for your next battle cup tournament.

Reach had an exciting and informative first week of games, with over 1000 matches played, and over 1200 unique players participating. Here’s the rundown on week 1, and what’s coming down the pipeline.

The idea of a tanky frontline hero in the offlane has been repeated over and over again for the last several months. It makes sense on the professional scene, while working incredibly well in pubs. Building survivability items and allowing yourself to be initiated on has become the go to strategy for a lot of teams and it is unlikely to change until after the new patch is released.

MMR may just be a number but a higher number is superior. Read this article to learn a few tips and tricks on growing your MMR number.

The current meta has been established for a long time but teams still must find their slight edge. At ESL One Hamburg 2019, we saw more of what we’ve been seeing for a few months now.

Did you know you can sign in securely with Steam to access your personal Dota 2 profile?

Dota 2 mynuts

It means, your a highly toxic person with a behavior score of F.

I have 0 reports in 8 years of dota 2.

I guess Valve exaggerated a bit on the different lobby, game, picking modes and options. To many options for a player base which cannot fill all modes in parallel. Recently „strict solo matchmaking“ and new normal game mode turbo split the community once more. But it started with introducing ranked matchmaking, which is a separate mode now for years although the game play is quite the same like in normal. It just splits the player base for public matchmaking in half. At 2013 this was working, but now?

Also community complains about bad manners, language barrier and unfair matchmaking maybe led to higher weights of behavior score, language option and skill bracket width in matchmaking. This is in disfavor for queueing times.

Also I can imagine that because of the toxic community more and more players hide in bot, bot-coop, private lobby and custom game matches because they don‘t have fun in public PvP Dota2. Btw. Bot matches have no queueing time at all and you can pause and even abandon them at any time. Just the right thing for a short match of Dota in between or family guys with obligations. Maybe the Dota community shifts to that kind of players.

I think Valve and the community should think about if they can afford to offer so many modes. This is necessary but a pity, because in fact the versatility in game modes is a positive feature of Dota2. I guess Artifact will split the Dota2 player base some more.

Dota 2 model viewer 3ds

As of the Three Spirits update, users now have public access to the Dota 2 Model Viewer that comes with native support for Dota 2 Models and In-Game Assests and improved Shader support, View Modes and Cloth Physics enabled. This guide will take you through a little course on how to go about using it. I’ll further update it when the SDK is updated in the future.

The Model Viewer is named “hlmv. exe” and can be found in the “bin” folder of your Dota 2 installation.

General locations for the model viewer are –

. \Steam\SteamApps\common\dota 2 beta\bin
. \Steam\SteamApps\common\dota 2 test\bin

Note: As of November 13, 2013, this can be found only in the Dota 2 Test installation and will be available on the Main Client once the update is ported on November 14, 2013.

When you initially launch the “hlmv. exe“, you might face a couple of errors that can be fixed with easily. They are more or less just some missing files in the directory that need to be addressed.

You will need to copy two files before you can get the Model Viewer running.

Gameinfo. txt

dota

gameinfo. txt

dota

bin

The gameinfo. txt should basically have something like this inside. In any case you cannot find it in your folders, just copy the text below and paste it to Notepad and save it as gameinfo. txt and you’ll have your file.

2. scripts/game_sounds_manifest. txt – This file can be found within the VPK’s but I’ll attach it here for sake of easy finding. You need make a new folder within the ‘bin‘ folder called “scripts” and copy this file into that.

Get it here: Dropbox [dl. dropboxusercontent. com]

Once you have both the files copied, Dota 2 Model Viewer should be up and running. Now to get the models working on it.

Note: If you are getting the “Error post-loading model“, go to your gameinfo. txt file and scroll down to the bottom. Find “SearchPaths” and under that look for the second Game column. If it reads “platform” just change it to “dota. Dota 2 model viewer 3ds ” instead and it should fix your issue.

The Model Viewer currently doesn’t directly detect content off the VPK’s so you will have to do it the old-fashioned way of extracting the models first and placing them in the folders to get it working.

So the first step would be to extract the models / materials / animations and other raw content from ins >[nemesis. thewavelength. net] .

Download and install GCFScape. Now visit your Dota 2 folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\dota) and find the “pak01_dir. vpk” which is the parent extraction file that will rip out all the content from all archives attached to it. Open this file in GCFScape and extract all the content to a new folder.

Note: Now make a backup of your entire Dota 2 Installation and copy / experiment with these files there just to be on the safer side. Try not to mess with your default installation.

Once you have them extracted, you will have a new folder created called “root” with a bunch of files inside. Now all you need to do is copy the files inside this folder to the “. \SteamApps\common\dota2 beta\dota” folder.

This will load up the content in the Dota 2 Model Viewer natively. You can also copy just the ‘models‘ and ‘materials‘ files if you’re only looking to view the models.

Now your content is place. All that is left is to launch the “hlmv. exe” and load the models.

There are quite a few benefits to viewing Dota 2 content in the new model viewer when compared to what the CS:GO, Alien Swarm and Source Filmmaker SDK’s offered.

1. Shader Support – To give you a better understanding of how the materials will look inside the game. As you can see in the image below, rim lighting and other material effects load up perfect.

2. Cloth Physics – Models such as Abaddon’s Cape, Lina’s Skirt, Invoker’s Cape, Couriers and more have cloth physics on them and the older model viewers could not simulate this.

You can turn it off and turn it on from the Options menu at the top.

3. New View Modes – There are new view modes available that will allow you to view the models with Normals enabled (two modes) and Value only.

You can check out a preview of what they do below.

4. Unload All – One of the more nifty features now available to users is the option to unload all loaded weapon slots. This should propel your work speed by a good amount.

In addition to this, there are a couple of other nifty features that are semi-functional right now. You can tinker around with them if you wish to. I’ll cover them in more detail in a future gu >

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DOTA2 console commands

The most useful command here is probably dota_force_right_click_attack 1
More will be added as they come. The essentials DO NOT require sv_cheats
and as far as I know do not violate any official competition rules.

Turn on console

In steam, right cilck on “Dota 2” > properties
Click on Set Launcher Options and add – console
Save and start game. The default hotkey is ““ (backtick)

Other Launcher Options

Other useful SET LAUNCH OPTIONS

-window to open in windowed mode
-w

to set window width
– h

to set window height

-noborder for borderless window

concatenate multiple options with a space. (like example below)

Crashing when alt tab? Set options: – window – w 1920 – h 1080 – noborder – console

For what these do, see the list below.

dota_disable_range_finder 0
dota_player_units_auto_attack 0
dota_force_right_click_attack 1

Various commands (original post)

List from the dev. dota2.com (where it was copied from GosuGamers)

dota_minimap_hero_size 700 – will make the size of the hero on the minimap as big as you want. (Default 600)

dota_disable_range_finder 0 – By default you only see the range of spells when you hover your mouse on the spell
icon. With this set to 0 it will show you the range when you actually click to use
the spell on someone. (Default 1)

dota_always_show_player_names – 0 will disable, 1 will enable player name on top of health bars. (Default 0)

dota_hud_healthbars – 1 will make your health smoother without the lines you see on health bars
(the blocks in the health that divides at around 200 life per block).
3 will enable it back on and 0 will make all health bars disappear,
the others do nothing apparently. (Default 3)

dota_unit_use_player_color – Colors player either individually or an unified color by team.
1 Enables individual colors, 0 Team color. (Default 1)

dota_player_units_auto_attack – 0 will stop auto-attacking and only attacks IF you click to attack, whereas 1 will
auto-attack at all possible times. Default = 1.

dota_camera_accelerate 49 – Make the camera stop exactly where you want it, 0 will make you unable to move
your camera. Dota 2 avatar icons for aim (Default unknown)

dota_force_right_click_attack 1 – Enable right-click deny (your creeps HP must be dota_health_per_vertical_marker 250 – This will determine how much health you wish to divide the vertical lines
by. In the demonstration value it will draw a line each 200 health, but you
can choose your own value. (default 250)

Opposing team color combination:
The RGB for the enemy team is dota_enemy_color_r , dota_enemy_color_g , dota_enemy_color_b
(ie: dota_enemy_color_r 1). Below are some colors the enemy team can be:

R, G, B all 0: Black
R, G, B all 1: White
R 1, G 0, B 0: * Red
R 1, G 1, B 0: Yellow
R 1, G 0, B 1: Fuchsia
R 0, G 1, B 1: Cyan

The RGB for the friendly team is dota_friendly_color_r , dota_friendly_color_g , dota_friendly_color_b (ie: dota_friendly_color_r 1). Same colors as above.

To change Avatar

Get into a practice game with bots and type one of the following command in console
and then leave the match:

dota_set_avatar 0 – Default
dota_set_avatar 1 – Crystal Maiden
dota_set_avatar 2 – Kunkka
dota_set_avatar 3 – Faceless Void
dota_set_avatar 4 – Furion
dota_set_avatar 5 – Yurnero
dota_set_avatar 6 – Bloodseeker
dota_set_avatar 7 – Lich
dota_set_avatar 8 – Axe
dota_set_avatar 9 – Pudge
dota_set_avatar 10 – Puck

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Dota WTF

Dota 2 WTF Moments features the best and craziest scenes of Dota 2. Whether Win or Fail, Rampage and Skilled Play or Thug Life and Strange Bugs, Dota WTF has it all. Check out the latest releases and subscribe to the Youtube Channel Dota Watafak. Here you can find the summary of every episode. Tags help you to find the videos with your favorite Heroes. Leave a comment to give your opinion about the Dota 2 WTF Moments. Do you agree with our summary?

This Dota 2 WTF Moments 255 Clip Features:

Tiny plays volleyball with Pangolier (0m14s)

Rubick steals Huskars ulti and keeps one-hitting his foes (1m11s)

Triple Pudge as Morphling morphs into Pudge and Rubick steals his spell (2m50s)

Riki can´t prevent Megacreeps from destroying the Ancient as attacking them doesn´t reveal him (3m48s)

Tiny throws 3 enemies onto a cliff (5m00s)

Lion baits Spirit Breaker (6m07s)

Clockwerks Hookshot through two lines of Storm Spirit Remnants kills him (7m11s)

Io tethers to Pangolier and gets a Rampage (8m28s)

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This Dota 2 WTF Moments 254 Clip Features:

Pangolier flippers to kill Anti-Mage (0m12s)

Spirit Breaker charges at Storm Spirit who places Remnants after each 500 distance and dies (0m44s)

Morphling morphs into Tiny and plays Volleyball with real Tiny (1m13s)

Rubick steal Pangoliers Ulti and starts a race (1m25s)

Yet another Pangolier Ulti Fail (1m52s)

Tiny throws foe after foe as toss has no cooldown any more (2m09s)

Storm Spirit with Kaya rushes from his Ancient to enemies Ancient and kills two (2m28s)

Multiple Walrus Punches by Tusk (2m50s)

Insane Io creep block (3m07s)

Yet another Pangolier flipper kills Phantom Assassin (3m54s)

Pudge hooks both enemie´s bounty runes to his own base (4m23s)

Windranger combines Focus Fire and Winrun to destroy Ancient (5m36s)

Dark Willow uses Terrorize to make foes flee after they killed Roshan. EZ Aegis steal (6m28s)

Treant Protector keeps slapping and rooting Nature´s Prophet (7m30s)

Pangolier Rampage (8m37s)

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This Dota 2 WTF Moments 253 Clip Features:

Dark Willow denies Vengeful Spirit, and Venges Illusion after death kills Dark Willow (0m14s)

Pangolier Flipper (1m10s)

Magnus rushes and saves all foes from beeing killed by Invoker´s Cataclysm (1m28s)

Another Pangolier Flipper (2m28s)

Riki can kill Roshan without being revealed (2m47s)

Yet another Pangolier Flipper (3m22s)

Io tethered to Winter Wyvern is an insane machine gun (3m37s)

Yet another Pangolier Flipper (4m43s)

Triple Cataclysm into Faceless Void´s Chronosphere (5m03s)

Batrider Flaming Lasso Combo with Pangolier´s Ulti (6m13s)

Pangolier Flipper. (7m53s)

Multiple Ghost Ships secure Kunkka Rampage (8m15s)

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This Dota 2 WTF Moments 188 Clip Features:

Triple Blademail Kills Tinker by Reflecting the March of the Machines (0m12s)

Riki Steals Gem of True Sight from Enemies Fountain (0m53s)

Spirit Breaker Targets a Creep to Escape from 2 Enemy Heroes, but when the Creep Falls, he Returns to them (2m00s)

Bristleback Pops his Blademail before Invis Shadow Fiend Casts his Ulti – Shadow Fiend Dies, but Bristle had no Vision before – Strange! (2m52s)

Rubick Stole Spirit Breaker´s Charge and Runs at him, Spirit Breaker Flees with his own Charge, but ends up beeing Stunned by Roshan when Passing the Pit and Dies (3m49s)

Meepo Kills AFK Faceless Void, FV Bitches About it and Meepo let Void Kill him in Return – True Friends (4m43s)

Earthshaker Kills himself with his Ulti because of Blademail (6m00s)

Terrorblade Swaps his Health in the Moment of Lion´s Finger of Death (6m31s)

Techies Suicide Bomb on Nature´s Prophet is Useless because of Ghost Scepter (7m10s)

Please Explain? (7m50s)

Dark Seer Vacuum and Wall of Replica Combo Rampage! (8m06s)

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This Dota 2 WTF Moments 187 Clip Features:

Bloodseeker Baited into Techies Bombs by Clever Morphling Play (0m12s)

Ursa Tricked by Magnus Illusions and Finally Killed by the Real One (1m29s)

Magnus Dies at Fountain Dive (2m21s)

Legion Commander Duels Disruptor. Windranger Blinks in, Plants a Tree with an Iron Branch, Shakles LC to the Tree and Kills him – Pro Play! (2m40s)

Tidehunter Wastes Double Ravage on Sven, who Dodges the First by Blinking Away and the Second with BKB (3m22s)

Kunkka Casts X on Tinker at the Fountain, he Teleports Away and Returns to Recharge – After a Couple Times of Repeating this, Winter Wyvern Casts Winter´s Curse on Tinker before he Returns and Kunkka Slaughters him (3m42s)

Ember Spirit Turned into a Pig when Casting a Remnant – His Remnant is Now a Pig ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (4m33s)

Someone Submits a Video to DotaWTF Thinking he found a Bug – Instead it´s a Simple Creep Kill (5m17s)

Ember Spirit Escapes to his Remnant – Unfortunately for him, Rubick is Waiting there and Placed Tons of Storm Spirit´s Static Remnants (7m38s)

Lion Single Finger of Death Rampage (8m40s)

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This Dota 2 WTF Moments 186 Clip Features:

Rubick keeps Hurling Tinker back (0m12s)

Another Nice Rubick Telekinesis Combo Kills Riki with the Help of Towers (0m43s)

Axe is Seperated from Enchantress by Earthshakers Fissure, but Enemy Spirit Breaker Punches him over to Secure the Kill (1m12s)

Lifestealer Infest Combo with Earthshaker and Spirit Breaker – SB Charges into Enemy Base, the 2 other Team Mates Teleport in with Boots of Travel Lvl 2 -> 5 Heroes Suddenly Appear and Win the Game (1m50s)

Noob Phantom Assassin Teleports to Invoker while he is under Attack of Dragon Knight. PA Dies by Fire Breath (2m49s)

Invis Nature´s Prophet Teleports away from Riki – Riki and Disruptor Think he is still there and Waste Time, Spells and Dust (3m50s)

Ember Spirit Double Escape (4m50s)

Wraith King with Aghanim´s Buys a Rapier. Whenever he Dies he Enters Wraith Form and Delays his Death for 7 Seconds – Enough Time to Teleport back to the Fountain and Keep the Rapier (5m28s)

Pugna Accidentally Casts Life Drain on a Friendly Creep and Dies by Healing the Creep (6m51s)

Tidehunter Fights Bravely but is Killed by Roshan when he Tries to Teleport back from the Roshpit at Ultra Low Health (7m31s)

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Dota 2: DreamLeague Major Day 4 Highlights

Two more teams were eliminated from the Major yesterday. In addition to that, Team Secret were finally brought down to their knees after an impressive performance by the StarLadder Minor champions Vici Gaming. Today, another two teams had to pack up and go home. One of them was definitely not expected. Let’s take a look at what happened.

Lower Bracket

Ninjas In Pyjamas vs. Forward Gaming

As expected in those deadly best-of-ones, both teams got some of their most familiar heroes.

The laning stage was relatively slow even though the two teams had one jungler each who could have helped with the ganks. NiP’s offlane did an outstanding job and zoned Resolut1ion out of the lane.

One of the main issues for FG was the healing output from NiP’s lineup. Having Chen, WW and Juggernaut was a bit too much because FG’s damage was just not enough. Slowly but steadily, PPD’s team gained a significant advantage and was able to get a lane of rax.

The NA team was hoping to get some magical Black Hole from their Enigma, but that did not happen. Having no way to counter their enemies, Forward Gaming GG’ed out.

NiP’s next opponent will be Evil Geniuses, which means that PPD will face his old team.

Team Liquid vs. Chaos Esports Club

Undoubtedly the biggest surprise of DreamLeague Season 11 so far was this game. The TI 7 champions got eliminated by Chaos Esports Club after they dropped to the Lower Bracket due to their poor group stage performance. The South American team needed just 22 minutes to completely run down Kuroky and his teammates.

The Ursa + Omni combo is kind of tricky to pull off because it’s hard to recover if you get stomped early on. Luckily this did not happen, and Ursa was having the time of his life. Having over 10k gold advantage just 15 minutes in was a clear sign where this was going.

The next challenge ahead of Chaos Esports Club was Virtus. Pro. We are yet to see if they can do the impossible two times in a row.

Upper Bracket

Evil Geniuses vs. Keen Gaming

SumaiL and his team are well known for their incredible win rating against the Chinese teams. However, today’s result was different.

In game one, EG needed just 23 minutes to finish off eLeVeN and his team-mates. Fly and Co. grabbed the lead early and kept it until the very end. KG’s Phantom assassin was just unable to keep up with Artour’s Naix.

Game two started with a first pick Ursa from EG, something that usually does not go well because the hero can be easily kited. However, probably the most interesting pick was Underlord, who was played by SumaiL in the mid lane.

The NA powerhouse had 3 roots in total after Sumail got Rod of Atos as a first item. This helped them to dominate the early and mid game by constantly ganking their enemies. Despite that, Keen Gaming’s Sven still managed to find enough farm to be the strongest hero on the map.

A very messy fight happened around the 36 minutes that actually went in favor of KG, despite wasting a few buybacks. The Chinese took full advantage of the situation, and after killing EG yet again, they were able to get two lanes of rax and just a few minutes later – the win.

In the third decisive game, Keen Gaming had a way better draft that was able to sweep through EG. The Spectre pick from the NA team was not working at all because the Chinese were just way too aggressive. On top of that, EG’s supports were way too underleveled to do anything noticeable, which also added up to their loss.

EG now have to fight for their survival in the Lower Bracket.

Virtus. Pro vs. Fnatic

In probably the most intriguing series of the day, VP had to face the SEA powerhouse.

The mid matchup in game one was fascinating to watch because No[o]ne’s Shadow Fiend had to fight against Abed’s legendary Templar Assassin.

Both teams did reasonably well for the first 25 minutes of the game, but neither was able to get a clear lead over the other. However, after wiping all five of VP’s players, Fnatic was able to get the Aegis and slowly started to gain an advantage.

VP tried to defend their base, but they just did not have the needed resources to challenge the push of Fnatic. DJ was one of the main reasons for his teams’ success. He was always there when they needed him.

Being just one game away from the victory, Fnatic decided to pick the signature Timbersaw for iceiceice. On the other hand, VP went with a carry that can actually right click, unlike Ember Spirit in game one.

Similar to game one, this one was very even during its early stages. Fnatic had the lead in terms of kills and were the more active team. Despite that, No[o]ne’s Shadow Fiend was sitting on top of the net worth and was something that Fnatic had to take into consideration every time they went into a fight. On the contrary, Ramzess was nowhere to be found. As in game one, the young prodigy was unable to unleash his full potential.

Fnatic were building a small lead, but after yet another 5-man wipe on their opponents, they were able to claim two lanes of Rax, and the game was pretty much lost for VP.

Congratulations to Fnatic, who will advance further to meet their next opponent – Keen Gaming.

Sna dota 2 team banner

This guide will explain how to create a stylized banner for your team in Dota 2.

Before we get started you are going to need a few tools so you can follow along with the guide.

You will need some form of image editor. In this guide I will be using Adobe Photoshop CS5 but other versions of the program should work just fine. You can use GIMP or PAINT. NET as a free alternative to Photoshop as well.

Additionally you are going to need the Dota 2 Banner Templates. You can create everything yourself from scratch but the Dota 2 team have created some pretty great starting points which we will be using in this tutorial.

You can find links to all of the necessary stuff below.

You have four separate spots for branding when you create a team. To edit your team logos navigate to the Community tab on the main menu within Dota 2. Once you are there you will be able to click on the My Teams tab and then choose Edit Logo located at the bottom of the pane.

Below is an explanation of each logo and where they will be placed within the game, along with their corresponding size requirements.

Team Interface Logo:

Team Sponsors: This image will be used to display team sponsorship on a Team Profile panel. It will be re-sized to 250 x 150 pixels. Below is where you will see this image in the game.

Team Base Logo: This logo will be used to decorate your in-game base. It will be re-sized to 256 x 256 pixels. Below is where you will see this image in the game.

Team Banner Logo: This logo will be placed on your in-game banners. It will be re-sized to 256 x 256 pixels. Below is where you will see this image in the game.

The primary focus of this gu >

Before we begin you will need to figure out what it is you want to use for your banners. In this tutorial I will be creating a fake team called “Tiny Cat”. I will be using images of my cat called Matilda, she’s cute.

If you’d like to follow along with this tutorial using the same images I use you can find them below.

Unlike other Source games, Dota 2 handles transparent images in a more native way. Instead of relying on Alpha Channels, Dota 2 is able to import a transparent PNG and have it read it in a way you would expect.

The Interface, Sponsor and Base Logo areas handle transparency normally. The only exception is the Banner Logo. Try to imagine that the banners have no background to them at all. If you imported a transparent image in to the game, the only areas that will render will be the visible parts of the image. In other words the image you are importing is not being layered on to something else, it just floats there.

When I import this image in to Dota 2 without any transparency all I get is a basic rectangle shape for my banner.

If I erase some areas of the image I start to form a different shape, notice that nothing is rendered in the transparent areas.

You’ll also probably notice that only half of the image is being shown. This is because when the image is imported in the game it is draped over a pole. The left side will be displayed from the front and the right side will be displayed from the back. With the default game camera you will primarily see the front side of the pole only. In other words you have 256 x 128 of usable space for the front, and 256 x 128 usable space for the back.

The Dota 2 team has provided some excellent starting points for creating team banners. They have included some basic shapes along with some nice textures which you can use to improve your banner and to make it look good within the game. If you don’t already have the team banner templates you can grab them here.

For this tutorial I will be using the template titled border_invertedarrow_00. Open up the image in Photoshop by going to File > Open and selecting the template.

With the template open the first thing we are going to do is create a new layer. You can do this by going to the Layers panel and selecting the Create New Layer option. I’ve highlighted this selection below.

Once you have created a new layer the next thing we are going to do is move it so it’s underneath the template. You can do this by selecting the layer on the panel and dragging it underneath the existing layer.

Any image imported on this layer will now show up underneath the template.

Open up the image you want to use for your banner and copy it so it’s on your clipboard. Go back to Photoshop and paste it in, you can do this by tapping Control + V or by going to Edit > Paste. You should now have something which looks similar to what I have below.

If you’re using the same images as I am the scale will be way off when you first import it. Click on the Move Tool and make sure you have Show Transform Controls checked at the top. Once this is turned on you will see some areas around the image that you can use to resize it. Grab one of the corners and hold down Shift on your keyboard. This will keep the image constrained perfectly so it’s impossible to make it look squished or deformed.

When you’re done you should have something which looks like this.

You can repeat this process until you have completed making your banner. In my example I didn’t cover the back area of the banner so I created another new layer underneath the template one and imported a second image to fill up all of the white space.

The next part in the process is to remove the excess areas which are outside of the banner template. Because the templates have a thick border this is very easy to do. Make sure you are happy with your banner design before proceeding as it will not be as easy to edit it past this point.

Hold down Shift and select every layer besides the one which has the banner template on it. With everything selected, right click and choose Merge Layers.

Your Layers panel should now look something like this. Both the front and back are all on one layer and the template is on another.

Select the Polygon Lasso tool by right clicking the Lasso tool on the Tools Menu. This will bring up a sub-menu where the Polygon Lasso tool will be an option.

Select the layer which has your design on it and trace around the areas which fall outside of the template. Because the border of the template is thick it doesn’t have to be precise, so long as it doesn’t go inside of the banner. You should have something which looks like this.

Hit Delete on your keyboard and you’re done! If you followed along with this guide exactly you should now have something which looks like this.

All you need to do now is save your work. Go to File > Save As and choose PNG on the drop down menu.

All you need to do now is test it out in Dota 2 to see how it looks. Navigate to your team profile by going to Community > My Teams > Edit Team Info. Import the banner we just created under the Team Banner Logo section.

To test it out on the map create a Private Lobby by going to Play > Create Lobby. When you join a team a drop-down menu will appear at the top which will allow you to select your team. This will activate your team logos on the map.

And there we have it! You have successfully created a stylized team banner to show off your team in-game. Have fun and be creative. See if you can come up with some unique shapes and ideas, think outside the box!