Abilities

What are Abilities?

In Nova, abilities are ticking objects that can be assigned to players. They work similar to attachments, except that they have no logic by default.

Creating your own Ability

To create your own ability, inherit from Ability and add your custom handleRemoved and handleTick logic.

class ExampleAbility(player: Player) : Ability(player) {

    override fun handleRemove() {
        // TODO
    }

    override fun handleTick() {
        // TODO
    }

}

Then, register a new ability type for that ability.
We recommend creating a singleton object to store all ability types. These should be registered during Addon initialization.

object ExampleAddon : Addon() {

    override fun init() {
        Items.init()
        Blocks.init()
        Abilities.init()
    }

}

object Abilities {

    val EXAMPLE_ABILITY = AbilityTypeRegistry.register(ExampleAddon, "example_ability", ::MyAbility)

}

Then, give the ability to a player:

AbilityManager.giveAbility(player, Abilities.EXAMPLE_ABILITY)

And this is how you remove an ability:

AbilityManager.takeAbility(player, Abilities.EXAMPLE_ABILITY)