Level Design

Documentation for creating custom maps with the Dota 2 Workshop Tools using the Hammer level editor.

Introduction to Hammer

Hammer is the editor used to create maps for Dota 2. This introductory tutorial is focused on creating a basic map using the Tile Editor within Hammer. This is a good place to start if new to Hammer or the Dota 2 Workshop Tools.

• Getting Started
• Tile Editor Basics: Your First Dota Map
• Compile and Run

Hammer Documentation

Additional Hammer feature documentation. This includes some more advanced concepts such as geometry creation.

• Navigation
• Hammer Overview
• Basic Construction
• Prefabs and Instances
• Mesh Entities
• Tile Editor
• New Tilesets
• Terrain Blending
• World Layers
• Creating A Dota-Style Map

Dota 2 Concepts

Documentation on Dota 2 specific content.

• Grid Navigation Mesh
• Fog of War
• Minimap
• Common Developer Commands
• Lighting
• Performance
• Blocking Heroes' Routes Tutorial

Dota 2 Example Maps

• dota_addons/holdout_example/holdout_example.vmap
• dota_addons/holdout_example/basic.vmap
• dota_addons/dota_pvp/dota_pvp.vmap
• dota_addons/dota_pvp/dota_pvp_tiled.vmap
• dota_addons/dota_pvp/simple_dota_map_example.vmap