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Simple Custom Ability

Creating Innate Abilities

Making Any Ability Use Charges

Calling Spells with SetCursor

Lua Abilities and Modifiers

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Extending Hero/NPC API

Linken's Sphere & Lotus Orb

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Reutilizing Built-in Modifiers

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All About the Target

Channeling Animations

Invisibility Ability Example

Illusion Ability Example

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Point Channeling AoE Example

Hero & Creep Modifier Durations

Physics Ability Example (Exorcism)

Modifier Properties in Tooltips

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Unit Producing Buildings

Creating Units with a Duration

Adding a Simple AI to Units

Simple Neutral AI

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Custom Mana System

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Making an RPG-like Looting Chest

Scripted Shop Spawning

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Using Dota Filters

Particle Attachment

Vector Math

Precache: Fixing and Avoiding Issues

Custom NetTables

Advanced Looting Chest

Panorama UI

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Inclusive Panorama UI

Panorama UI with TypeScript

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Hammer Tutorials

Making Skip/Clip Blocks from Models

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MDL to VMDL Conversion

Adding Hitbox to Models Without a Bone

Importing Models & Material Editor

Exporting Models & Materials/Textures

Custom Hero Models & Animations

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Particle Tutorial

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Chaos Wave Particle

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Extracting & Compiling VTEX Files

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Simple Custom Ability

I have created a tutorial on making a simple custom ability here:

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