Game logic - Skill – Ylands

Description

• Allows creators to make their own custom skills and actions
• You can assign a skill to any player role or assign it to player via visual scripting
• If there are skill present in your game, you can see a skill list in your inventory screen and you can change hotbar to skill hotbar by pressing ~

Properties

Description

• A short description of your skill

Icon

• Skill icon that will represent the skill in skill list and hotbar

Overrides mode

• Enable this if you want the skill execution to completely override player motion input and state (e.g., walking, flying)
• If you enable this option, it might be a good idea to add an animation, since no default animation will show
• Note: This option muset be enabled if you want the "Movement" element to work!

Duration

• Determines how long the skill lasts (will also affect the timeline)
• Note: If you have elements on the timeline and set the duration to be shorter than the position of those elements, they will be deleted!

Cooldown

• Set cooldown - how long you have to wait until the same skill can be used again

Entry condition

• Set up condition a player must meet to execute the skill

Entry cost

• Resource cost required to enter skill. Set up target resource and how much skill execution costs

Interruption

• Set up what will interupt this skill

Is Charged

• Turns on charge settings, where you can set up individual charge states and their duration

Loops in

• Sets up whether the skill loops and in which state
• None - skill does not loop
• Last charge state - Last charge state loops as long as the button is held
• Skill execution - Skill execution loops as long as the button is held

Is Modal

• Turns on modal settings, where you can set up modal states
• You are able to select modal skills in the skill hotbar to enter a "mode" from which you can execute elements on timeline via default action button.(Default LMB on PC)

Elements

• This is a list of elements creator can put on the timeline to create their custom skill

Marker

• Serves as a reference point for visual scripting
• Put it anywhere on a timeline to run custom script at specified time

Sound

• Plays chosen sound effect
• Can be instant or looped (switch is located top left, above properties)

Full Body Animation

• Adds a full body animation chosen from the list
• When chosen, animation is automatically set to its default duration
• You can shorten or lengthen the animation
• When shortening, the animation will cut off at the end point
• When lengthening, the character will be stuck in the last animation frame until it ends
• If you lengthen the animation, the part that is longer than its default duration will be highlighted in red

Upper Body Animation

• Same as full body animation, but only affects the upper part of character's body

Movement

• Note: You have to check the Override mode option in properties for this element to work!
• Movement is a timeline element that moves characters based on set time and velocity (X,Y,Z)
• If you set up one movement element on timeline, start and end of timeline will be considered a zero vector and player will move between them and its element.
• If you set up two ore more movement elements on timeline, you will move based on set velocity and time between those elements. Imagine setting up a first movement element at time 1, velocity (0,0,0) and second element at time 2, velocity (0,10,0). At time 1, player will start moving and during the 1 second, they will move 10 units up.

Particle

• Plays chosen particle effect
• You can either choose a particle effect in the editor and edit it, or choose a prepared template from game logic

Melee hit

• Element that lets you define a sector around player that returns entities in that sector.
• You can then manipulate those entities in visual scripting
• Melee hit will detect obstructions and will not hit entities behind items and walls

Movement restriction

• Allows restricting player movement
• No running or no moving

Change Speed

• Allows making player faster or slower

Hide Item

• Hides any item currently held in hand

Aiming Mode

• Switches to aiming mode, shows crosshair to see where exactly character is looking, useful for raycasts and projectiles

Raycast Hit

• Casts a ray in camera direction or direction of the crosshair when aiming mode is active
• You can manipulate objects or position hit by your raycast in visual scripting

Projectile

• Shoots a projectile from player position, either in direction of where character is looking, or crosshair in aiming mode
• Choose entity that will be used as a projectile by selecting a entity template
• You can specify what will happen after projectile hits/misses/hits ground in visual scripting

Shape Hit

• Element that lets you define a sector around player that returns entities in that sector.
• You can then manipulate those entities in visual scripting
• Shape hit will not detect obstructions and will hit entities behind walls.

Modify Resource

• Modifies chosen resource (adds or subtracts value)

Resource Cost

• Checks if player has enough of resource to continue executing skill
• If they do, specified resource value is subtracted and skill continues
• If they don't , skill is interrupted

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