Generally used in correlation with a state machine.
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Problem understanding finite state machine
I want to use the finite state machine for the ennemies AI in my game.
I implemented the pattern and it work fine for my first enemy (enemy A):
Enemy is in IdleState by default
When enemy see the ...
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Dealing with future states of predictable entities
I'm developing this AI for a tile-based game. In this game, each turn the actors move a specific distance to their target, consume it if near enough and move on to the next target. If my player wouldn'...
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Unity 5: How to handle stacks of “windows”
I'm having a hard time coming up with a clean and simple way of implementing a window manager of sorts. I have placed some limitations below:
Windows can never move and its positions are fixed at ...
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Managing Discrete Character Animation States
I'm creating a 2D game in which each possible direction of movement for the player, (Up, Down, Left, Right), has its own distinct animation, i.e., they aren't rotations of each other. Currently I am ...
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StateMachineBehaviour.OnStateExit is called before StateMachineBehaviour.OnStateEntered is called
When I start my game I get null-references in my OnStateExit of objects that are initialized in the OnStateEntered. After this it goes smooth, so it only occurs at startup before any conditions for ...
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What component should hold the character movements in ecs and fsm?
In the below code, there's a FSM for CharacterState that will be handled also in CharacterSystem. The problem was, I don't know what component should hold movements data to process in CharacterState ...
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Should I use single state or multiple state of an entity in finite state machine?
In the below code, is the options I've created whether to use single or multiple states for my character or other entity. Still can't decide which one is better inf using state machines.
public enum ...
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Game logic implemented using TPL / async / await, and performance of it
I'm working on a game, and as a typical game (here using Monogame) it uses frame based approach, where all logic happens in Update() method called every frame.
As a consequence, any sequential logic ...
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How to handle global Data within a state machine setup? (C#)
I am currently building a turn-based framework (Unity,C#)
I was tired of my former tight-coupled systems and opted for a state machine this time, basically all components subscribe to the state-Enter ...
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InvalidOperationException when peeking from a stack within custom editor
I've got a simple state machine for handling game states which works using GameObjects that I enable/disable in order to switch the states. Since some states can be loaded additively (such as the ...
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How to make a PROPER main menu (or any other UI windows/modals) in Unity?
So, I'm currently learning both about Unity for the first time as well as the 'new' 2D UI system, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to make windows, modals/dialogs, main menus etc. which are ...
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Managing game states (states flow, controlling the state machine…)
I am currently struggling really bad to make the game states management. Before we dig into the problem, I must point out that I do know about state machines, I do have both implemented (states and ...
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What exactly is a 'set of states'?
Whilst looking into game-oriented applications of programming patterns I discovered a question on this site which suggests that a 'set of states' is superior to a 'stack of states' but does not ...
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Code vs. Configuration in Unity [closed]
I know a thing or two about Unity at this point, but I've still lots of subjective, best practice questions, Such as:
How do you decide what values are obtained via Start/Awake initialization, and ...
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1answer
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Why does my Unity animator state “finish” before the visible motion does?
Example:
The TopAppearing motion - boost the alpha of the sprite from 0 to 1 for total of 2 seconds:
After TopAppearing state has been finished:
The TopAppearing's transition settings:
Question:
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State machines and map transitions
I've implemented a [basic] FSM in my game and it currently does its job very well. Recently I have come across a "problem" that I need to show a "Loading map. Please wait..." screen for as long the ...
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Architecture for game character movements with user input and a finite state machine
I have a JavaScript canvas game setup using Phaser framework. When I first made my character able to run, jump, and crouch, I used lots of if/else conditions and ended up with an ugly, buggy mess. I ...
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Changing the duration of motion state transitions in Animator Controller
Anyone around who is experienced with Unity animation states and the Animation Controller? I wonder is it possible in Unity to change the duration of time it takes between motion transitions in the ...
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Fixing enemy behavior state machine in Unity
I'm working on a state machine for my game's NPC.
The only thing I can't to get work properly is the hit sequence.
The hits register. What I would like to happen is for the attack sequence (animation)...
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States within a GameState?
I ended up coming up with having states within game states. For example:
States
splash
menu
tracks
garage
loading
play
What bothers me is that I now have states within the play state to handle it ...
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State Machine help
I'm using a state machine for my enemy's AI. I've not worked with state machines before & followed Unity's live training on State Machines.
I added a HitState to handle animation sequences. The ...
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How to architect input code to utilise state machine?
I have an InputController which currently handles all user input, so it looks at button states and updates entity intentions according to some simple rules.
I'm looking to add a new state to the game ...
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Animations won't transfer states until entire animation is completed
I am following the survival shooter tutorial and am using Unity 5.
I just completed this video (linked) and I tested played it to see my animations worked but it seems like it will only transition ...
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How to create a state based traffic signal?
I want to create a traffic light for a Unity3D game. I will model it in blender.
What is the best way to control this light in a unity scene?
One way I could think of is to change texture of say ...
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Pausing game with State machine and handling jumps
I am adding pause functionality to my upcoming racing game.The players can jump in it.
Time.timeScale = 0 is obvious solution to pause game.I am avoiding this solution as users can do in app ...
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Game State query — Are Game states and Game Phases the same thing?
I am currently writing a simple board game app.
I have written some basic states which are more to do with global state of the game.
Currently they are just enums, they don't really do anything nor ...
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Legacy GUI - run OnGUI only once
I remember something about onGui being able to be run multiple times per frame, and I also seem to recall that you can check 'which state' the onGUI is being run in, so that you can do all of the ...
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Best way to handle movement input?
I'm currently developing a RPG movement system in c++, and tried to use the State Pattern/State machine for this, but AFAIK I would have to check each movement key in every state.(right?)
Is there a ...
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State Machine class vs function pointers [closed]
What do you guys recommend to use?
A State Machine with function pointers or classes?
Or, in which case one would be better than the other one?
At work we use the state machine with function ...
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In Phaser, how should I be managing state? [closed]
I'm quite new to Phaser and JavaScript really confused about state management.
Phaser has lots of documentation and info on the net, but everyone seems to be doing it a different way.
An example:
...
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1answer
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State system and animation of derived classes
I'm trying to get some kind of state system for my game objects.
I have a base Actor class that is derived by classes like Policeman, Informant or Brawler. Each of those classes describes different ...
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1answer
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How should a Unity object control it's state?
I've been using Unity's component based design, and the biggest problem I've faced is how to control an object's( not component's ) state.
The problem is, some components must act differently based ...
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1answer
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Animation-based Collision Boxes
Background
I'm currently working on a top-down 2D game, roughly similar to something like Zelda for the SNES.
Certain game entities such as the player or a typical enemy will consist of multiple ...
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how to store game state for a multiplayer board game eg. poker
First Approach: Store the state in database and play with database queries. Could a database handle the load, as poker is quite fast paced, and I have to query/update database for each player move.
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How to apply physics when you have sub frame state changes?
I'm currently calculating my physics every 1/100th of a second and using a state machine to manage the current state of the player.
In my main loop I'm checking user input and transitioning the state ...
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How to prevent a circular dependency between an entity and its state? [closed]
I've read this question, and I think it has some good answers and discussion, but it appears to focus primarily on rendering.
I have a different problem in the management of a game entity's state. ...
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Proper way for Player object to communicate with Map object?
I'm writing my first game (in javascript / node over websockets) and am running into a bit of chicken and egg problem, and am afraid how I'm doing it right now won't scale once the game gets more ...
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Should character actions be considered states?
So I've been on a team that has been working on a game for quite a few months now and we're hitting some really nasty bloat problems with our character actions.
Question in bold. Accompanying ...
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Modeling player mechanics with a finite state machine
I have three states
standing
walking
jumping
When I press D standing transitions to walking. The velocity will be set to a defined value and the player moves.
When I release D walking transitions ...
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(Phaser) Preload Future States in Create?
I'm a first time user of Phaser, been trying to make a simple point and click type game. I'm trying to keep things very modular, so I'm defining a list of levels (states) in a JSON, and then every ...
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Maintaining State in Mud Engine
I am currently working on a Mud Engine and have started implementing my state engine. One of the things that has me troubled is maintaining different states at once. For instance, lets say that the ...
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Change players state and controls in-game
I'm using Unity 3D
Let's say the player is an ice cube. You control it like a normal player. On press of a button, ice transforms (with animation) into water. You control it completely different than ...
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Does calling VSSetShader() twice with the same shader have a performance penalty?
Let's say I render 2 objects that are using the same shader (and the same ID3D11VertexShader object). When I call VSSetShader() to set the shader for the 1st object DirectX has to change previous ...
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Synchronizing mob states in online multiplayer game
I'm developing an exploration-based platform game in which from the start there were plans about including local multiplayer support, but recently I've been considering an online multiplayer mode, ...
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How do I change rasterizer state properly?
To set the rasterizer state I have to ID3D11Device::CreateRasterizerState() and then ID3D11DeviceContext::RSSetState. And then I should ID3D11RasterizerState::Release() it, right?
How about when I ...
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What is the correct way to seperate (react) view from state?
I would like to know the correct implementation to declare game logic and view logic:
I see 3 ways of implementing this:
1.Storing (eg writing preprocessing to store the change to a property) ...
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1answer
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Entity's FSM and exposing internals of the entity
I'm trying to implement FSM according to Programming Game AI by Example, it is a pretty standard and straightforward FSM that goes like similarly to this (some stuff omitted and translated from C++ to ...
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How to manage input state in Unity3D?
In Unity3D how do I manage input among many components, especially in relation to "blocking" input messages to certain components?
To make my question clear, an example:
Component 1: Input Manager
...
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Sending state diffs (deltas) and unreliable connections
We're building a realtime multiplayer game, in which each player is responsible for reporting its state on every iteration of the game loop.
The state updates are broadcasted using unreliable UDP.
...
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How to handle Gameflow and Progression
Iam building my own 2D Engine and i try to handle the Progression of my Character.
For Example when the Player got an special Item an Door opens or when he talks with someone and got an Item the ...
