2.5.1

A skin that borrows from another hero comes in whole

The app reads which heroes a mod dresses from the models it carries, and two things fooled it.
A persona lives in a folder of its own - models/heroes/antimage_female is Anti-Mage's Wei,
invoker_kid is Invoker's Acolyte - so a pack that dresses one hero looked like a pack that
dressed two. And skins hang props from other heroes on themselves: a Clinkz set carries a
Phoenix immortal on its bow, a Sven one wears Disruptor's back piece. That one model counted as
a second hero.

An import that reads as two to four heroes cuts itself into a mod each, so both cases arrived as
two half mods: the bow in one, the hero in the other, each under a name that was half right.

A persona now reads as the hero it belongs to, along with the folder names Dota kept from before
a rename - bard, lanaya, drow, gyro, tuskarr and the rest - and a hero carrying under a quarter
of the leading hero's models reads as lent rather than dressed. Naming and cutting ask the same
question now, so a mod that comes in under the right name also comes in whole. Over 75 mods cut
out of one Skinchanger pack, the number that split themselves goes from three to none.

The piece an item points at instead of shipping

A mod can point a default slot at one of Valve's own models and still be the author's work: he
repaints that item by shipping its textures, and his entry only ever names the model. Tinker's
Deep Sea Robot back is exactly that, and the import threw the entry away because the mod carries
nothing of the model it names, so the back never appeared on the hero at all.

Such an entry is now recognised by the item folder the mod's own textures sit in.

Thanks

hanta made a walkthrough of the manager. His channel has a line in About now, beside the version
and the licence.