SpellLibrary

Repo for recreating the original dota skills for the use of the Dota2 modding community

If you have any questions regarding the project or if you have found a bug/issue with the spells then feel free to create an issue or PM/Email either Noya or Pizzalol

Emails: martinnoya@gmail.com / dario.siprak@gmail.com

If you wish to contribute then it would be nice to do it in a way that would be readable and recognizable like this http://yrrep.me/dota/dota-standards.html

Forum thread

Progress spreadsheet

Guidelines

• Lua scripts should be separated on a per hero basis

• Use as many AbilitySpecials as possible, do not hardcode the lua file.

• Every ability should be portable (i.e. 0 dependence on each other).

  • If the ability depends on another ability to function (Earth Spirit, Invoker, SF Requiem, etc) leave it for later.

• Don't Use Global Lua Events (related to making the spells portable). Abilities should work without any main addon scripts.

• Dont bother with Cast Animation, Aghs Upgrades or completely dota-hardcoded interactions

• Use default particles and sounds

• If you find an ability that seems hard or impossible to rewrite, ask and document your attempts, others will help you

• Follow this coding style:

For Datadriven KeyValues

"OnSpellStart"
{
"RunScript"
{
"ScriptFile" "heroes/hero_name/ability_name.lua"
"Function" "AbilityName"
}
}

For Lua functions

--[[
Author:
Date: Day.Month.2015.
(Description)
]]
function AbilityName( event )
-- Variables
local caster = event.caster
local ability = event.ability
local value = = ability:GetLevelSpecialValueFor( "value" , ability:GetLevel() - 1 )
-- Try to comment each block of logical actions
-- If the ability handle is not nil, print a message
if ability then
print("RunScript")
end
end

• Modifier Name conventions (very important for automating tooltips later)

  • Start with "modifier_"
  • Then add the spell name (no hero name)
  • Add "_buff" "_debuff" "_stun" or anything when appropiate

Recommended resources

• Tutorials the great tutorials made by Noya

• Dota 2 Modkit great tool when it comes to everything Dota 2 modding related, made by Myll

• Sound editor the sound editor for finding the proper ability sounds, made by pingzing

• Workshop Tools Wiki the official Dota 2 Workshop Tools wiki

• Decompiled particles provided by Toraxxx

Special Thanks

Noya for creating the ability guides

BMD for his libraries

Attero for his npc_abilities splitter

cris9696 for his files joiner

zedor for Custom Errors plugin