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PlayMaker Feedback => Feature Requests => Topic started by: Andrew.Lukasik on September 18, 2012, 03:32:23 PM
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Hi guys,
I want to propose this surely not new idea of Global / shared FSM's. Meaning:
(http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/6600/mysharedfsm.jpg)
Problem it's solving:
I have 20 characters and updating their numerous identical FSM's after any minor change is quite unnecessary necessity.
What do you think?
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I like your idea. instanced fsms may really help on large scale things. They may even boost performance by quite a bit if one could couple them with arrays (containing all the objects that should use the fsm).
Until then, you could manually emulate that though, again with arrays :)
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Fascinating. I didn't knew that. You mean emulating - as making single FSM that crawl through list of objects and processes/updates their states or something like this? I must admit I have no idea how to do it yet (~coder).
I presume this is not a master-level concept but yet I think PM would stay consistent if casual users/designers were not asked to learn it in order to achieve this fabulous functionality :)
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Public Service Announcement:
To whom that don't know yet - this lovely feature is coming very probably in next release and is enjoyed by beta testers as we speak :D
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Stop reminding me! I freak out every time someone mentions this and the anticipation is killing me.
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Yep Love the idea!
I've been finagling my way through using arraymaker to loop though gameobjects to accomplish some of this functionality, but of course if you run any action that lands on an action using every frame or does anything that is not instant it falls apart. Presently I just do the above to effect vars on prefabs that have FSMs.