these may help with the texture process. http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/workshop/Dota2CharacterTextureGuide.pdf http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/workshop/Dota2CharacterArtGuide.pdf looking awesome so far man keep it coming! -Woog
particles cant be created in dota2, you can only use the once in the game for the specific hero. The information on how to do that is floating around about the last couple of pages in the dota2 workshop thread.