Start an ability

Let's bind our ability start to some user input. To achieve this, we need to modify our client.ts file, so that it could listen to user input and start the skill we need.

Then, when a user makes an input it should get the replicated character wrap, get the skill and request the launch by calling Start.

TypeScript

client.ts

import { Players, UserInputService } from "@rbxts/services";
import { Character } from "@rbxts/wcs";
import { Attack } from "shared/skills/attack";

// get the replicated character wrap of local player's current character
function getCurrentWCS_Character() {
	const characterModel = Players.LocalPlayer.Character;
	if (!characterModel) return;

	return Character.GetCharacterFromInstance(characterModel);
}

UserInputService.InputBegan.Connect((Input, GameProcessed) => {
	if (GameProcessed) return;
	if (Input.UserInputType === Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1) {
		// get and start the "attack" when we left click
		const character = getCurrentWCS_Character();
		character?.GetSkillFromConstructor(Attack)?.Start();
	}
});

Luau

client.lua

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")

local WCS = require(ReplicatedStorage.WCS)
local Attack = require(ReplicatedStorage.Skills.Attack)
local Character = WCS.Character

function getCurrentWCS_Character()
	local characterModel = Players.LocalPlayer.Character
	if not characterModel then return end

	return Character.GetCharacterFromInstance(characterModel)
end

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(Input, GameProcessed)
	if GameProcessed then return end
	if Input.UserInputState ~= Enum.UserInputState.Begin then return end

	if Input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
		local character = getCurrentWCS_Character()
		if not character then return end

		character:GetSkillFromConstructor(Attack):Start()
	end
end)

note

Remember that if you request an action like Start or End on client, it will just make a remote request to server for it to perform the action.