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Hello Everyone-- An introduction, and a small announcement

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Forum » General Discussion » Hello Everyone-- An introduction, and a small announcement 2 posts - page 1 of 1
Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by DemonSkye » January 20, 2012 10:18pm | Report
Hello Everyone, I'm DemonSkye, long term HON / LOL player, a bit new to DOTA but all the heroes seem so familiar given my background.

A while back when I played HON there was an application that allowed you to select a hero and it would automatically bring up a guide for that hero. I thought it was a pretty cool idea, and I haven't seen it done for HON yet. I found a whole ton of HonGuides on here and I've been incorporating them into a program that will let you open guides more quickly (all the guides are hosted on DotaFire.)

It's a simple vb.net program, but I'm wondering if anyone is genuinely interested in trying it. It's going to be a compiled Exe, but fwiw, I can send out the Source code if anyone really doesn't trust it. I've only completed the basic layout and heroes A - D at this time.

Aside from that I'm looking for some good generic guides that a new player might want to look into. Jungling, Juking, Warding, etc.

Any recommendations would be pretty awesome. Screenshots incoming in the next hour or so when I get things more cleaned up and semi-presentable.

And a screenshot of my progress: http://i.imgur.com/EVbaL.jpg (Removed nested image tags so not to stretch the forums)

P.S. The primary reason I've found this useful is for when I random a character and don't know what to buy / what to use, I usually fire this up and I can just click on the character.

P.P.S. The panels with hero names are hidden by default, they only show when you click the corresponding letters and all that, the bg image is also stretched since I need more room to manage all the panels and such.

P.P.P.S. I'm coding it live on my twitch.tv channel, it's pretty boring to watch though =/.

http://www.twitch.tv/demonskye


Edit: File is complete and is available for download here:
http://www.filedropper.com/showdownload.php/dota2guides

Note this is version 0.01, it should work on most / if not all versions of windows. It may / may not require the .net framework (due to the System.Diagnostics.Process.Start calls)

I'll add more guides and make it look prettier at a later time.

Virus Scan:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/6a45d280745962c6e5c073da22ffed37e681dde6b5cea685a4fe29647fa3b6da/analysis/1327132165/

DemonSkye



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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Leech » January 21, 2012 12:13pm | Report
best of luck!

Leech


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