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Dota 2 AI Quick Start
Dota 2 7.00 (The New Journey) introduced Bots API, which is quite good news for people like me. I am a fan of the game but I never manage to have enough skills or APM to compete with online players. So being able to write my own bots must be a lot of fun. However the official document is very bare bone and unfriendly for people who are new to Dota 2 modding. So here is a simple quick start for people who want to start writing Dota 2 bots.
Your Working Directory
Find your Dota 2 installation directory, let’s call it $DOTA . Go to $DOTA\dota 2 beta\game\dota\scripts\vscripts and you will find a bots_example directory. Make a copy of that, rename it to bots — all bots code resides inside that directory. If you start a practice match with bots, it should read bot scripts from that location.
Now you can take a look at official reference (minus the reference, just read the introduction). Here is TL;DR:
- Bot scripts can be either overr >$DOTA\dota 2 beta\game\dota\scripts\npc , which is a good reference. Game item names can be found here, which is not mentioned on the wiki.
Start a Bot vs. Bot Match
Enable Dota 2 console by adding – console launching options.
For bot vs. bot match to work, the example script need to be modified. Open hero_selection. lua and you can see the script tries to select 0-4 for radiant and 5-9 for dire. However, this is only true if you are in the game. For bot vs. bot match, 0-1 is reserved (maybe for coaches?) so radiant is 2-6 and dire is 7-11 .
Create a lobby (Play Dota -> Create Lobby) and edit lobby settings. Choose Local Dev Script for Radiant and choose any difficulty except none. Also tick Enable Cheats.
Make yourself either a coach or unassigned player and start the match.
Speed Up Development
Show console: after you have added – console launch options, you can toggle console with a hotkey (default is \ ). You can find all the debug info in console, including your print() statement in Lua script, which is very useful.
Reload code: after you change your bot scripts, it will not automatically reload if you have an on-going game. You can use dota_bot_reload_scripts command in console to reload your bot scripts. The is the single most important trick I’ve learned and I am surprised that it is not mentioned in the wiki.
Also please note there is a bug in recent Dota 2 (as of writing) that will crash the game if reload bot scripts in bot vs. bot lobby game. So for now you can start a practice match instead.
Speed up game: if you are testing your bot strategies, you might want to speed up the game. Use host_timescale 4.0 to make the game run at 4x speed. You can change the 4 to anything you prefer. You have to enable cheats to achieve this (use sv_cheats 1 ).
Thread: Test/Cheat Commands
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Test/Cheat Commands
Test/Cheat Commands
When hosting practice match, you’ll need to “enable cheats” for these to work.
When in game, press enter and type.
| Command | Example | Equivalent Console Command | Description/Notes |
| -lvlup n | -lvlup 9000 | dota_hero_level n | Levels up your hero. |
| -levelbots n | -levelbots 5 | dota_bot_give_level n | Levels up all bots. |
| -gold n | -gold 15000 | dota_give_gold | Gives you gold. |
| -refresh | -refresh | dota_hero_refresh | Resets cooldowns and gives full hp/mana. Enable cheat dota 2 bot command |
| -respawn | -respawn | dota_hero_respawn | Respawns your hero. |
| -spawncreeps | -spawncreeps | dota_spawn_creeps | Spawns creeps instantly. |
| -spawnneutrals | -spawnneutrals | dota_spawn_neutrals | Spawns neutrals instantly. |
| -disablecreepspawn -enablecreepspawn | -disablecreepspawn -enablecreepspawn | dota_creeps_no_spawning_enable dota_creeps_no_spawning_disable | Disables lane creep spawning. Use – enablecreepspawn to undo this change. |
| -startgame | -startgame | dota_start_game | Sets timer to 0:00, creeps spawns. game starts. |
| -allvision -normalvision | -allvision -normalvision | dota_all_vision_enable dota_all_vision_disable | Gives vision for both teams. Use – normalvision to undo this change. |
| -clearwards | -clearwards | dota_clear_wards | Destroys all wards. |
| -wtf -unwtf | -wtf -unwtf | dota_ability_debug_enable dota_ability_debug_disable | Removes cooldown, Mana cost etc. Use – unwtf to undo this change. |
| -dumpbots | -dumpbots | dota_bot_dump_state | Displays AI status. |
| -timescale n | host_timescale | ||
| -createhero [enemy] | -createhero npc_dota_hero_antimage -createhero npc_dota_hero_antimage enemy -createhero antimage -createhero anti -createhero npc_dota_goodguys_siege -createhero goodguys_siege enemy | dota_create_unit | Creates the specified unit [as an enemy]. |
You can create up to 5 Dire heroes with this command, and up to 22 heroes in total.
The prefixes behind the defining hero/unit names can be left out like in the given examples.
The hero names can also be truncated.
Warning: Do not use uppercase. Give it a try to see what happens.
List: See above.
This command can be used in a non-cheat game, too.
Spawn spot and/or the rune type cannot be manipulated.
An alphabetical item list provided by bridger.
If you know more commands/console commands, please let me know. I will add them in here.
Special thanks to ThoAppelsin and budwing for providing some updates to the list.
Last edited by CvP; 02-15-2014 at 10:46 PM .
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