AD Draft AutoShot - automatic draft screenshot

Takes the Ability Draft screenshot automatically at the exact moment the game switches from drafting to STRATEGY TIME. No hotkey needed anymore: draft ends, screenshot happens, your Streamlabs overlay updates itself.

Works while playing (not only spectating): it uses Dota's official Game State Integration, which reports your own game's phase changes. No game files are modified and it is completely allowed (no anti-cheat risk, this is a Valve-provided feature for streamers).

Download: click the green Code button above > Download ZIP, then unzip it anywhere.

Files

• autoshot.ps1 - the listener that waits for the phase change and takes the screenshot. Pure Windows PowerShell, nothing to install.
• start_autoshot.bat - starts the listener. This is the only thing you run.
• gamestate_integration_autoshot.cfg - the config that tells Dota to report game phases. Goes into your Dota folder (step 2).

Setup

Step 1: Put this folder somewhere permanent

For example C:\screenshot\. If you already have a manual screenshot hotkey setup (e.g. an AutoHotkey script), put these files in the SAME folder: the automatic screenshot is saved as screenshot.png right next to autoshot.ps1, so your existing Streamlabs image sources keep working without any change. The hotkey keeps working too, as a manual backup.

If you set up fresh: in Streamlabs/OBS add Image sources pointing at screenshot.png in this folder (typically one source per team, cropped to the Radiant / Dire half of the draft screen).

Step 2: Install the Dota config (this is "installing GSI", one-time)

1. Open Steam > Library > right-click Dota 2 > Manage > Browse local files. A folder opens.
2. In that folder, go into: game > dota > cfg > gamestate_integration. If the gamestate_integration folder does not exist, create it (right-click > New > Folder, name it exactly gamestate_integration).
3. Copy gamestate_integration_autoshot.cfg from this kit into that folder.
4. Restart Dota if it was running.

That's all GSI is: one config file that tells Dota "report the game phase to this local address". Dota does the rest by itself.

Step 3: Start the listener

Double-click start_autoshot.bat. A console window opens and logs what's happening. Leave it open (minimized is fine). Screenshot triggers only work while this window is running.

Autostart with Windows (optional): press Win+R, type shell:startup, Enter, and put a shortcut to start_autoshot.bat into the folder that opens.

Test it (2 minutes)

Start the listener, then create a bot match / lobby in Ability Draft mode and draft. The console window logs every phase change, and the moment the game jumps to STRATEGY TIME you'll see "screenshot saved". Done.

Troubleshooting

• Console shows nothing during a game: the .cfg is not in the right folder, or Dota wasn't restarted after copying it.
• Window closes immediately on start: start start_autoshot.bat again; if it keeps happening, another program is using port 3211. Change $Port at the top of autoshot.ps1 AND the port in the .cfg to e.g. 3212.
• Screenshot is black: switch Dota from Exclusive Fullscreen to Borderless Window (Video settings).
• Wrong monitor: the capture takes the primary monitor. Dota must run on the primary monitor.

Tuning (top of autoshot.ps1)

• $DelayMs - wait after the phase flip before capturing (default 500 ms)
• $CooldownSec - re-trigger guard (default 60 s)

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Built by BloppBOT for the Ability Draft community. MIT licensed: use it, share it, break it, fix it.