I was working on a new short film project, and I was wondering if there is any way of capturing video of the whole DOTA map, then slowly zooming in to a lane?
This would be in spectator/replay mode. I want to be able to zoom out completely for a bird's eye view of the whole playing arena.
I tried using dota_camera_distance 5000 but that "wraps the map in clouds" and I can't see any aspect of the map.
Additionally, is there a way of hiding the top bar with hero icons, and the HUD?
For hiding the bars I remember that I could use the following commands:
dota_hud_hide_topbar
dota_hud_hide_mainhud
dota_hud_hide_minimap
For removing any unnecessary graphic, you can override vpk and create the files you want to override. More info on how you can do that can be found here.
I have tried this a while back when trying to optimize the fps and it worked. I'm not sure now.
Good luck with your movie!
I am not sure if it's possible to do that within DOTA
but if dota_camera_distance 5000 does
wraps the map in clouds
which is the fog of war, then you can try disabling it. Try these commands
allvision
normalvision -allvision
normalvision dota_allvision_enable
dota_allvision_disable Gives vision for both teams. Use -normalvision to undo this change.
On the other side, the approach I have seen done to achieve this effect is with SFM (Source film maker)
which I recommend you use to make your movie
Yes, you kinda have to learn something new, but you get more artistic control and better graphic results
