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What is the DotA Theme Manager?

The DotA Theme Manager - short: DTM - is a useful tool that allows you
to change the ingame appearance of your Warcraft III.
It is focused on changing the terrain of DotA, so it might look bad
if you play other maps with the DTM activated, but the appearance can be
restored easily. If you play DotA using the DTM, the terrain looks differently, but gameplay-technical nothing changed - only textures are changed.
The advantage of the DotA Theme Manager: Only you see the changes while you
can still play with other players who do not use the DotA Theme Manager!
The Gallery shows some screenshots of the terrain changes.

Information for Leagues and Communities

This information is meant for League- and Community Admins.

Some Leagues and Communities are unsure whether they should accept the DotA Theme Manager or not.
They fear that the DTM will somehow affect fairness, for example by making trees easily clickable
or by making enemies standing out due to the contrast with the terrain.

To that, I can only say:
-Since I only change the tree's textures, they can be clicked equally well at any time
-I will always keep the program fair - no UI-Hiding, "transparent trees" or anything comparable
-The idea that a hero stands out due to contrast can hardly be called gamebreaking.
In my opinion, you can see heroes good enough in any case - it never happened to me that any hero
suddenly appeared next to me and I just did not see him while he walked to me visibly.

I promise to you that the only goal of the DotA Theme Manager is to make DotA visually more attractive
and diversified.

If you have any questions regarding fairness, just contact me.

Links

Here is a list of useful links:
official DotA download
official DotA website
IceFrog's Blog
playdota.com forums thread about the DTM
DotA-Allstars.com forums thread about the DTM