Hey guys, long time no see!

I'm implementing (for fun) a board game in Unity.
This is a way for me to learn C#, re-learn Unity, etc.

Since board games are very State based I decided to use Playmaker to track states. Each state will call a Method that I wrote. I'm still at the beginning where I'm setting up the "Game Board".

Things generally work, but I'm getting stuck with some "best practices".

For example I have a method that will "randomly pick a game object and move it to another game object". When that happens I want to have an animation. I'm using DOTweenPro for that.

If I am to just call this Method using Playmaker, he will just do the call and then he will move on, he will not wait for the animations to complete.

So basically my core problem is now to combine Code + Animations + Playmaker Waiting before continuing.

I used ChatGPT to get some suggestions and basically I have something like this:

- Coroutine DrawClone (this will call another Coroutine DrawClonesCoroutine)
- DrawClonesCoroutine
- Playmaker Action that calls "DrawClone". I also have another Coroutine here.

This way my Playmaker Action will wait for his Coroutine to finish.
I am a bit confused about this whole thing... but the thing is that it works. The initial DrawClone wasn't a Coroutine, but ChatGPT made me make that one a Coroutine probably so the Playmaker Action knows when things finish. I think

So my main problem now is...

What is the best way to optimize everything?

I'm thinking that there will be a lot of things I want to animate and I would really like Playmaker to just WAIT for things to complete, or wait for some kind of Event.

I used a Coroutine here and not a "Event" because I can't be sure what FSM is active to receive the Event. This FSM is the GameSetup fsm, but I will use the same DrawClone Action with another FSM for example.

Any suggestions?

Thanks <3

it is! I've been using Godot now in my spare time and geez once you get the hang of it you'll start having so much fun. If I had Playmaker on Godot I would've ported most of my projects from Unity ASAP!

So Unity has pretty much marked the downfall of their business with Sept. 12th's announcement.
Even with the recent announcement (and their shitty response to deleting their TOS page) it showed they can't trusted and will still make up an arbitrary model to charge you money. It burned too many bridges, mine included.

With that said, would it be something the Playmaker team is up to, to port Playmaker to Flax Engine and/or Godot?
Flax has a very, very similar API to Unity's and it seems to be quite a promising Unity alternative. Stride 3D is also quite similar!
It will take some time but with other engines now growing more popular, it would also be a boon to Hutong to get in on that early I suppose.

It's a bit ironic being so reliant on a single software and Unity's decisions have made me realize that. It's healthy to learn other engines, but I'm honestly still quite reliant on Playmaker - I trust Hutong Games wouldn't ever do anything like what Unity did since it isn't a public company and I trust Alex wouldn't be up for it.

I figured it out eventually with some poking from Brokn.

FsmFloats and FsmInts and such just need a .Value to convert them to their native unity type like FsmFloat.Value. I was used to this and didn't realize FsmVars just needed a slightly altered form to work.

FsmVars need that type specified in front of Value in order to be converted directly like:
FsmVar.floatValue

Hope this helps anyone else who might find this later!

Hi.
Did you update unity from an older version.

if so, the best steps to do is :
Update Playmaker and other 3rd party apps.
Then update unity.

Then Redownload and update Playmaker again and possible other 3rd party apps.

for major version there might be different versions of playmaker depending on the unity version. (so for example there can be a PM 1.9.7 for unity 2020 and a PM 1.9.7 for unity 2022)