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PlayMaker Help & Tips => PlayMaker Help => Topic started by: snowboardman on May 07, 2014, 05:31:38 PM

Title: Is there a limit to the size of an FSM?
Post by: snowboardman on May 07, 2014, 05:31:38 PM

I'm doing sort of a picture book project, with each "page" on a different state of an FSM. Very simple stuff. But before I get too far, I need to know if i'll run into problems by using too many states in my FSM. For example, could I have 500 states? Would it slow down/crash, or is there any other performance issues this might cause (especially on mobile)? Or does the FSM size make no difference at all?


Thankyou for reading.

Title: Re: Is there a limit to the size of an FSM?
Post by: Lane on May 07, 2014, 05:41:18 PM

I've seen some huge fsms. Not 500 states huge but bigger than I would like to manage. No issue in those.

Why not just use one fsm per chapter?

Title: Re: Is there a limit to the size of an FSM?
Post by: snowboardman on May 07, 2014, 09:11:27 PM

The way I have my project setup, it's simpler, especially for saving and loading progress, if I keep it as one big FSM.