I want to use a state machine for my game states. This means that the states should execute some logic, so I looked into custom state classes. Unfortunately I had some trouble setting them up because there was no complete example of how to use custom states in a state machine.
This is what I initially tried. It did not throw any errors, but the OnLogic method on the selection state was never called:
internal class GameStateController : IStartable, ITickable
{
private readonly StateMachine<GameState> _stateMachine = new();
public void Start()
{
SelectionState selectionState = new SelectionState();
PlacementState placementState = new PlacementState();
_stateMachine.AddState(selectionState);
_stateMachine.AddState(placementState);
_stateMachine.SetStartState(selectionState);
_stateMachine.Init();
}
public void Tick()
{
_stateMachine.OnLogic();
}
}So I realized it was probably using the instances as a keys but not hooking them up at all. Using the state names as keys seemed to fix the issue:
internal class GameStateController : IStartable, ITickable
{
private readonly StateMachine _stateMachine = new();
public void Start()
{
_stateMachine.AddState(nameof(SelectionState), new SelectionState());
_stateMachine.AddState(nameof(PlacementState), new PlacementState());
_stateMachine.SetStartState(nameof(SelectionState));
_stateMachine.Init();
}
public void Tick()
{
_stateMachine.OnLogic();
}
}This is a bit awkward though. My assumption was that if I just use custom states I wouldn't need an additional enum or string and could just use the state classes directly. Could you maybe flesh out the documentation on this part, or even add some kind of helper that let's us use states directly without having to specify keys?
I want to use a state machine for my game states. This means that the states should execute some logic, so I looked into custom state classes. Unfortunately I had some trouble setting them up because there was no complete example of how to use custom states in a state machine.
This is what I initially tried. It did not throw any errors, but the OnLogic method on the selection state was never called:
So I realized it was probably using the instances as a keys but not hooking them up at all. Using the state names as keys seemed to fix the issue:
This is a bit awkward though. My assumption was that if I just use custom states I wouldn't need an additional enum or string and could just use the state classes directly. Could you maybe flesh out the documentation on this part, or even add some kind of helper that let's us use states directly without having to specify keys?