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I would add state machines to any list of amazing techniques

• p1necone 7y ago
  Definitely. Behaviour trees are kind of a special case/evolution of regular ol state machines, but I find both useful in different situations.
  • gentleman11 7y ago
    I was considering learning them soon for enemy ai. Are they useful in other situations too?
    • p1necone 7y ago
      Basic state machines are useful for controlling flow between different menus/game screens - this "current mode" state exists across iterations of the game loop so you need some kind of data based state machine. e.g. in say a jrpg you have "new game/continue" menu -> world map -> battles and character menu and back again. Edit: oh I misunderstood you - you were asking about behaviour trees. I haven't used them for anything other than controlling game unit behaviour (although not necessarily just enemy ai - one other example is using them to combine a bunch of simple actions into one thing that the user can tell a unit to do - so like an attack move in an RTS is actually "loop (is enemy nearby? -> no -> move towards location -> yes -> attack (which is probably it's own behaviour tree))