Controls

Controls

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Key	Default	What it does
Ability 1-5	R, G, V, B, N	The ability on that key. Sneak + the key is the ability on the key's second slot.
Change Look	H	The next look of your element (Sneak + H goes back; for a firebender or the Avatar, Sneak + H changes the colour of the fire: normal, blue, and rainbow once Ran and Shaw have blessed you).
Meditate	M	Press to sit and meditate, again (or move) to stand: opens the chakras. A right-click on a Meditation Point sits you on it.
Bending Scroll	K	Opens the Bending Scroll: your abilities, your points and your keys. (Your element's scroll item opens it too.)

Rebind them under Options → Controls → Enlightened Bending.

The panel

The panel in the top-left corner shows:

• your element and your look, with the look key;
• one line per key: the ability on it and, after a slash, the one on its Sneak slot; each with its level in stars (★☆☆ novice, ★★☆ adept, ★★★ master) and its state: the seconds of a cooldown, ON or OFF for a toggle, holding (rocks, a bloodbent creature), charging (lightning, a fire ball), gliding, out of body;
• your points and the experience toward the next, with the scroll key;
• for a waterbender, the water he carries;
• whether your bending was taken from you, and for how long;
• for an airbender, whether he is tetherless.

Kinds of abilities

• Press: the ability acts when you press the key (a rock throw, a wall, a fire ring).
• Hold: it acts while you hold the key (the fire fist, the fire whip, suffocation). The fire ball is a hold too: a tap for a small one, a held key for the big one.
• Toggle: the key switches it on and off (the armours, the shields, the octopus form, the scooter, flight).
• Passive: it works by itself and sits on no key (the skins, the air bubble, the water of plants).

A key with nothing on it says so; open the scroll to put an ability there.

Right-click the Air Glider opens or folds its wings. Octopus Form: the key lashes while the form is up, a held key folds it.

A double tap of a direction (or of Jump) is a step for a bender who learned his element's; a sequence of casts within three seconds may be a combo.

Body language

Every bender acts their bending: a stomp and a punch for a rock, both palms thrust for an air blast, water drawn from the side and lashed, a fist chambered at the hip and driven for a fire ball, the arms circling for lightning; the fire fist punches in turn, a lifted rock rides on an open palm, bloodbending claws its hands at its victim. Tetherless flight and the glider lean the body into the wind, the scooter into the ride. Your own hands move the same way in first person. Each nation walks and sprints in its own way (the earthbender heavy, the airbender bouncy, the waterbender flowing, the firebender leaning in). The client config (the mod's config screen) has the switches: animations, reduced motion (no trembles or drift), effects (flames at the fists, dust at a stomp), first-person hands.

The panel's style

The bending panel can be drawn in six styles. Choose one in the settings (Mods, Enlightened, Config, Bending panel, Panel style), or bind the key Change the Bending Panel's Style in the controls and press it to go through them.

Style	What it is
Scroll (the default)	A scroll pinned to the corner: your element's seal, a line per key with the ability's symbol and level, a brush stroke for its cooldown, your chakras as beads. Hold Sneak and every line turns over to the ability on its Sneak slot.
Classic	The text panel in the top-left corner, as in every version until now.
Key stack	One bar per key; a cooldown drains across the bar, and the stack folds to the keys alone after five quiet seconds.
Dial	The abilities' symbols fanned around your element's emblem.
Comic panels	A slanted name banner and one cell per key that fills with ink as it recharges.
Cluster	A small cluster of symbols and nothing else.

The new styles sit in the top-right corner (Panel on the right off: top-left), under the status effect icons, and follow the Reduced motion setting.

The ability wheel: U (hold). Shows all ten of your abilities (the ones on Sneak too) as a wheel around your face; point at one to read its name, level, key and state. Let go to close it. It only shows: nothing is cast from it.

Playing with Enhanced

Enlightened and Enhanced can be installed together. A player who is a bender and one of Enhanced's heroes has both mods' abilities on the same keys, so the keys go to one of the two at a time: Enhanced's key ` (the key left of 1) switches between the hero and the bending. The panel of the one you are using is shown, with a one-line reminder of the other under it.