Ability Effects
Ability Effects are separated into small pieces of related functionality, and can be chained together like building blocks to build up quite complex spells. The 3 main groups of functionality are:
- 1.Attached effects are tracked by the CharacterStats class on the actual character, have a length that can be extended or refreshed, and are capable of both directly affecting a character's stats, and performing additional effects over their lifetime.
- 2.Targeting and timing effects are responsible for deciding when and where to trigger additional effects. They may choose valid targets from a group of targets, direct the motion of physical prefabs, and determine how long spell effects remain in the game before they are destroyed. They cannot perform any direct action on a character, but can call any other effect, including effects which can perform actions on characters.
- 3.Action effects perform actions on characters. Current action capabilities include resurrection, teleportation, healing, and damage dealing.
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