Abilities

[Byteron]

Discussion and implementation of abilities like healing, curing, regenerating and such for units.

I would approach it similar to the current implementation of attacks.
We have a base Ability Scene (plain Node with Script). For a new Ability, you add a new Node to the Abilities Node in UnitType and attach a script that holds the logic of the wished ability.
New abilities would be script only, extending from a base Ability.gd script to ensure basic functionalities/structure.

[Pentarctagon]

Will this allow more than just an ID? Or would I need to also define separate abilities for healing 8, 12, 16, etc?

[GregoryLundberg]

What about custom abilities? With custom attributes?

[Byteron]

@Pentarctagon This would require to define new abilities for heal 8, 12, 16, etc.

@GregoryLundberg you could of course define custom abilities in a new yaml files.

An ability might look like this:

id:  custom_ability
name: custom
effects:
  - {
      sub: 1
      apply_to: damage 
      affect_self: false
      affect_enemies: true
    }

this would require some "effect" class / structure, but I don't see why that would not be possible.

[YeldhamDev]

About yaml, here's a Godot asset to parse and read them: https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/254

[zozer]

We are aware of that library and have been using it. Its not in the master for a now since we are experimenting with a different approach right now and we are updating the scripts to godot 3.1 features

[Byteron]

YAML was originally planned to be used for UMC, but when we use the godot engine for mod creation (which is the new plan) then I think of a simple inheritation approach.
Say, having a base Ability that a script can inherit from, and have UMC creators overwrite virtual functions in which the logic and values.

[Byteron]

Updated, as YAML is ruled out.

[Byteron]

Abilities are supported now.