Addon tutorials

Below you will find a list of useful links and tutorials for making dota 2 addons.

Lua Tutorials

Basic Dota 2 Addon lua scripting
Short explanation of dota 2 lua and some tips n' tricks.

Advice on coding lua with multiple people
Some advice and thoughts on working on one project with multiple programmers, taken from my education and experience.

Version control and dota 2 mods
A more extensive guide than I planned to make on version control in combination with dota 2 modding.

Simple Dota AI with Lua
A very simple guide to making basic AI in dota 2 lua.

General KV + lua tutorials

Moddota tutorial list
A collection of great tutorials, mostly written by Noya on KV modding and basic lua.

Useful Lua libraries

Pseudo random number generators by Perry - Provides pseudo random number generator objects with arbitrary probability.
Physics by BMD - An all-purpose physics library.
Timers by BMD - A library that allows for the creation of timers.
RTS Building by Myll - Provides basic RTS-style building possibilities.

Resources

Decompiled valve particles by Toraxxx. You can open these in the particle editor!

Other useful stuff

Addon Wiki: Workshop tools wiki

Dota 2 modding reddit: http://reddit.com/r/Dota2Modding/

Moddota forums: http://moddota.com/forum

Some dumps and lots of useful lists: hex6.se/dota/

IRC: irc.gamesurge.net:6667
Channel: #dota2modhelpdesk

Open-source addons:
- Nian (yearbeast) fixed by Ash47
- Frota by Ash47
- Trolls and Elves by SinZ
- Reflex by BMD
- Barebones by BMD
- Slide Ninja Slide by a_dizzle
- Sheep Tag by a_dizzle
- Element TD by a bunch of guys (see github page).
- Try searching on github for addon names, there are a lot on there!

Sublime Text 2&3 Dota 2 snippets by Morphined:
- Dota 2 Lua snippets
- Dota 2 KV snippets

Dota 2 Scaleform [DEPRECATED]

Making a custom UI
Make your own flash UI to add custom functionality to the HUD.

Animate your UI using Tweens
Explanation on how to use a tweening library to make your UI more dynamic.

Valve-made scaleform component list
A list of valve elements that might be useful. List put together by SinZ

Valve-made UI documentation
Documentation built from a dump of the complete valve UI, provided by SinZ using Ash47's dumper.

Valve-made UI proportion cheatsheet
A cheatsheet expressing width of basic elements in percentage of the screen width, and height in percentage of screen height. Useful for positioning your own UI elements.