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# Abilities

### What is an Ability?

Abilities are really whatever you code them to be. The Agent system will work with the Animator to callback `Begin` and `Use` timing but those methods are `abstract` and ready to be overridden with whatever you want to do.

The Basic function: They create VFX prefabs in the world at the right times.

More Better: They create VFX, apply damage, attach modifiers and push monsters off of cliffs.

Ideal Best: Whatever you want to happen, happens, because you coded it that way.

The demo provides some standard abilities that are fairly normal in games today. They're made as examples - such as teleporting, applying modifiers like -50% str, applying locomotion changes in a radius, or causing AoE damage at a specific location. You can take a look at how these work and pretty easily create new abilities that do more custom behaviors to suit your game's needs.

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