Dota 2 Map Entities

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January 2024

Dota 2 uses many entities and this page want to document these as well as their usage.

Critical Entities

These entities are necessary to run a map. List in no particular order - they're all needed:

info_player_start

Without this entity, your Dota will instantly crash. No data required.

World_bounds

Specifies the total size of your map.

Max Bound is filled with two positive values

Min Bound is filled with two negative values

ent_dota_game_events

Functionbridge to control different events (soundques, animations) on script-events. Not data required.

ent_dota_lightinfo

Controls the whole lightning and can be used to change the lightning for different sides on the map.

Ambient Day Color

Ambient Night Color

Ambient Direction Day

Ambient Directeion Night

Ambient Scale Day

Ambient Scale Night

Day Color

Night Color

Fog Color Day

Fog Color Night

Fog End Day 'Value:' 3000 - Sets your Fogdistance

Fog End Night 'Value:' 3000 - sets your Fogdistance

Fog Height Day

Fog Height Night

Fog Height Color Day

Fog Height Color Night

Fog Start Day 'Value:' 1500

Fog Start Night 'Value:' 1500

Fog of War Color Blue Day 'Value:' 4

Fog of War Color Blue Night 'Value:' 4

Fog of War Color Green Day 'Value:' 3

Fog of War Color Green Night 'Value:' 3

Fog of War Color Red Day 'Value:' 2

Fog of War Color Red Night 'Value:' 2

Fog of War Darkness Day 'Value:' 2.7

Fog of War Darkness Night 'Value:' 2.7

Inner Radius Value: 3500

Light Direction Day Value: 43 313 0

Light Direction Night Value: 43 313 0

Outer Radius Value: 11000

Shadow Color Day

Shadow Color Night

Shadow Ground Scale Day Value: .2

Shadow Ground Scale Night Value: .25

Shadow Scale Day Value: .2

Shadow Scale Night Value: .25

Specular Color Day

Specular Color Night

env_global_light

Lightning entity - controls cloud-shadowing as well.

cloud1speed Value: 120

specularcolor Value: 165 161 255

cloud2direction Value: 0 145 0

specularangles Value: 60 270 0

cloud2speed Value: 80

cloudscale Value: 65000

groundscale Value: 15

Start Disbled Value: No

Light Color

Color Transition Time Value: 0.5

Distance Value: 10000

FOV Value: 5

NearZ Distance Value: 4

North Offset Value: 200

Texture Name Value: effects/blank_clouds_00

Enable Shadows Value: Yes

game_ragdoll_manager

Max Ragdoll Count Value: -1

Max Ragdoll Count DX8 Value -1

env_fog_controller

HDRColorScale Value: 1.0

no_reflection_fog Value: 1

Name Value: goodside_fog - Controller Name for side-dependant lightning

Fog Enable Value: Yes

Fog Blend Value: No

Use Angles for Fog Dir Value: No

Primary Fog Color

Secondary Fog Color

Primary Fog Direction Value: 1 0 0

Fog Start Value: 1500

Fog End Value: 3000

Fog Max Density [0...1] Value: 1

Interpolate Time Value: 5

Far Z Clip Plne Value: -1

water_lod_control

Start Transition to Cheap Water Value: 10000

Start Transition to Cheap Water Value: 20000

env_tonemap_controller

Name Value: tonemapcontroller

logic_auto

Map based scripting entitity. See tutorial-maps for reference, but note that the tutorial maps also have the tutorial logic scripting system running on top which handles a lot of the events.

info_player_start_goodguys

Spawnboxes for Radiant

info_player_start_badguys

Spawnboxes for Dire

You will need at least one Skybox and one displaced brush in order to make a functioning map.

Non-Critical Entities

info_player_start_dota

Spawnbox for players in custom games

Custom Entities

These entities are tied to the gamemechanics, such as runes.

dota_item_rune_spawner

This entity spawns runes on given grid point.

It is cruical to fill in 'Name' with 'dota_item_rune_spawner' in order to fully work. Without given name it doesn't spawn runes.

ent_dota_tree

Used to place working trees with proper ent_fow_blocker_node and cutable with Tangoes or a Quelling Blade.

The models from the Dota-Files are confusing. The only models for the Dire with proper animations and a tree-stump are: dire_tree004.mdl dire_tree004b.mdl dire_tree007.mdl dire_tree008.mdl

In order to show up correctly you have to add following Key:Value: body:1