Createhero with facet

[inland zephyr]

DebugCreateHeroWithVariant is no longer spawning a hero with facet, doesn't matter what number I put in. I know some heroes have new FacetID as 3, 4, 5... But not a single hero is working. Did Valve changed how FacetIDs are defined?

[hushed harbor]

for me working normal

[honest junco]

Probably you passing old pre patch format, now they use some "FacetIDv2" that basicly packed hero id + old facet id into single int

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[inland zephyr]

Wait, so what base variant number I should use?

[inland zephyr]

Is this one in java?

What about lua?

WTF is Valve doing

It doesn't make sense, why make all this just to break it down again?

[honest junco]

iWas posted js solution

[honest junco]

Its to save network traffic and instead of sending 8 bytes (4 byte hero id + 4 byte facet id) they send 4 bytes (hero id + facet id in single int)

[inland zephyr]

But I still don't undestand what to do on lua?

[honest junco]

local facetId = 1
local heroId = 35
local facetIdV2 = (heroId << 32) + facetId)

I wrote that in web ide and this might not work in dota (<< might require 5.3 lua while dota have only 5.1 lua), but seems correct

[inland zephyr]

I found a pure code to implement on version 5.1 to make bitwise operations.

Gotta hold to this one. I have a feeling I'll be using this a lot in the future

[hushed harbor]

ask chatgpt to rewrite js to lua

function parseVariant(variant)
    local num = tonumber(variant)
    if not num then return nil end
    local hex = string.format("%x", num)
    hex = string.rep("0", 10 - #hex) .. hex
    local last2 = string.sub(hex, -2)
    return tonumber(last2, 16)
end

[inland zephyr]

I'm still getting heroes with no facets

I have a list of all usable FacetIDs of all heroes, I made it manually considering deprecated facets.

I wan't heroes to spawn with random facets, I made a custom pick screen and everything

I printed everything and it returns all values correctly

[inland zephyr]

Is this correct?

[hushed harbor]

    local hHero = PlayerResource:GetSelectedHeroEntity(0)
    local hPlayer = PlayerResource:GetPlayer(0)
    DebugCreateHeroWithVariant( hPlayer, "npc_dota_hero_pudge", 1, DOTA_TEAM_GOODGUYS, false,
        function( hEnemy )
            hEnemy:SetControllableByPlayer( 0, false )
            hEnemy:SetRespawnPosition( hHero:GetAbsOrigin() )
            FindClearSpaceForUnit( hEnemy, hHero:GetAbsOrigin(), false )
            hEnemy:Hold()
            hEnemy:SetIdleAcquire( false )
            hEnemy:SetAcquisitionRange( 0 )
        end )

copied from hero demo and working normal

[inland zephyr]

Ok, I tried one thing different

in DebugCreateHeroWithVariant you need to choose what team the hero first spawn in. I was choosing team 0 and moving to the player's team after. So I changed it to 6 before moving, and now it spawns with the random facet