Dota 2 Workshop Tools modding tutorial part 1. (2015)

This tutorial will show how to create a simple Dota 2 mod that makes every hero that loads level 25 and all the skills are leveled up.

I am no professional modder, I only started learning this yesterday. but the lack of tutorials on this subject has led me to make me this guide .

I will focus on the scripting side because there are plenty of tutorials on level designing . I will not use barebones (a tool that helps with scripting) becuase I want to make this more simple and if you follow this tutorial you'll know how to work with barebones. if you want to learn how to use barebones use this tutorial, it helped me a lot.

Lets go

  

1. Download Dota 2 Reborn. this will allow you to run Dota 2 Workshop tools. 

2. 

Create an empty addon (1)
name it d2tutorial (2)
make sure its default and selected and launch it (3, 4)

3.
on this screen you can select wich map your mod will be on. we will use the regular dota map
type in dota in the search bar
double click dota.vmap

this will load the map in the Hammer tool

4.
save the map (first image)
and build it (second image)

the build should take some time, you'll know its done when the map is loaded in the dota2 client that it opened automatically earlier.

I'm not really going into details because these steps are not really important for this tutorial.
OK. now we have the addon ready for editing.

PART 2 - SCRIPTING