Channeling Abilities?

How to make?

Does anyone know of any channeling ability .entity files I can look at to see how to make one?

 

I want to make embargo a channelign ability and reduce its effectiveness but Im not sure how to make channeling abilities.

Any help is appreciated!

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AbilityPhaseGateCapital (Antorak's phase gate ultimate), AbilityMissileBarrage (Marza's missile barrage), AbilityBuffBlast (Radiance Cleaning Brilliance), AbilityDisintegration (Vulkoras Disintegration).

Off the top of my head.. it's in the buff files themselves, not the ability file:

isInterruptable TRUE
isChannelling TRUE

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What do you mean by chanelling ability??

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As in, the casting ship needs to sit still to channel the ability that does something (like damage) over time. That means it can be interrupted by phase out/other ship disabling abilities.

Cleansing Brilliance is a channeled ability, for example. It shoots the beam for 8 seconds, and each second does 250 damage. If the ship moves or is interrupted early, only that much damage is done and the ability stops.

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Yeah Annatar has it. I was going to make the universal Advent ability two channeling abilities. 1 would be a ruthlessness but as a channeled ability and the other would be a channeled embargo. The player would need to choose between one or the other for their fleet and ships.

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Now that's interesting ;)

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What I'm not sure about is how you'll force the choice.. unless you want access to both, but only one active at a time which channeling will do just peachy.

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Yeah its gonna be channeling for both so its only one at a time... or neither if preferred