Addon Developers - Let's Discuss Expanding the API

[Mist]

Hello everyone, in ProjectKorra (Core) v1.6.0 we will be working to make the addon ability API much more extensive and easy to use. I created the modular ability system back in June, and made it more of a 'learning as I go' though. The API has grown into something huge and dozens of custom abilities have been made with it. I did find, however, upon further investigation into the API that it is missing some features. That's where you guys come in.

Through the course of developing add-on abilities, are there any features you felt the Modular Ability API needed to have? Did you have to find some clever workaround for it?

Please do share all you have.

@Carbogen is responsible for the API development in 1.6.0. I'd like to get the opinions of other addon developers in here as well, so I'll tag them just to send them a notification:

@jedk1 @Blaze590 @OmniCypher @AlexTheCoder @Coolade @SkitzCrafter @Orion_Solus @Fuzzy

 

[SenpaiBlaze]

I love this thread. I have some good ideas that I will post later (on my mobile).

Thanks for including me :3

 

[Helios]

Nice update. Hopefully this'll encourage more people to go into developing moves.

 

[SenpaiBlaze]

Nice update. Hopefully this'll encourage more people to go into developing moves.

I am hoping to start a project korra turtorial series once I get Camtasia on my new laptop

 

[Helios]

I am hoping to start a project korra turtorial series once I get Camtasia on my new laptop

Nice.

 

[Mage_x]

I am hoping to start a project korra turtorial series once I get Camtasia on my new laptop

Will it be on how to mark a move because if so I'm very interested I can code but I've never gotten how to do the animations

 

[SenpaiBlaze]

Will it be on how to mark a move because if so I'm very interested I can code but I've never gotten how to do the animations

Yes, it will be

 

[Joeri]

Jed once said he wanted a method that he could see when abilities go on cooldown, not when they are. so that he could create an Anti Move Spam addon

 

[SenpaiBlaze]

Jed once said he wanted a method that he could see when abilities go on cooldown, not when they are. so that he could create an Anti Move Spam addon

Bending Board has a way of finding out that.

 

[Mist]

Jed once said he wanted a method that he could see when abilities go on cooldown, not when they are. so that he could create an Anti Move Spam addon

We have an event listener for that, it is called the PlayerCooldownChangeEvent. It is called whenever a cooldown is added OR removed. I'm not sure how up to date it is though, and how many abilities work with it, but that might be a decent place to start.

 

[jedk1]

Jed once said he wanted a method that he could see when abilities go on cooldown, not when they are. so that he could create an Anti Move Spam addon

We have an event listener for that, it is called the PlayerCooldownChangeEvent. It is called whenever a cooldown is added OR removed. I'm not sure how up to date it is though, and how many abilities work with it, but that might be a decent place to start.

actually, the idea i want added is a method that tells when a move has been used. not when it goes on cooldown.

 

[Joeri]

actually, the idea i want added is a method that tells when a move has been used. not when it goes on cooldown.

Oh lol

 

[SamuraiSnowman]

I'm not a developer or anything, but is there a 'Being Bloodbent' method or something? A lot of add-on moves don't respect bloodbending and I'm not sure if it exists or not.

 

[SenpaiBlaze]

A method that gets what block the player is standing on. I would love this.

(There are other ways of doing this, but a projectkorra method would be awesome)

 

[jedk1]

A method that gets what block the player is standing on. I would love this.

(There are other ways of doing this, but a projectkorra method would be awesome)

You could easily do

Block block = player.getLocation().clone().add(0, -1, 0).getBlock();

which is really easy :3

 

[SenpaiBlaze]

You could easily do

which is really easy :3

Oh really. Thanks :3

 

[jacklin213]

I think documentation on the methods addon-developers can use would help a lot. That way people will know if methods exist instead of guessing I think

 

[SenpaiBlaze]

A .isWaterBendable method? That might already be a thing tho

 

[jedk1]

A .isWaterBendable method? That might already be a thing tho

Methods.isWaterbendable(block, player); //Yep it exists

 

[SenpaiBlaze]

Methods.isWaterbendable(block, player); //Yep it exists

Haha. All these methods I didnt know existed.. I have to think of some more.