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Manukineko4 years ago

I didn't look into Truestate Plus yet, but reading your post I guess I can use it for my camera state ?

Like :

Behaviour layer. Where I put stuff like zoom, views type, follow, based on player's actions
Effect layer. Where a can trigger shaking, shaders and other fun stuff based on player's reaction to danger or player's condition (is poisonned, low life, full power mode, etc)

Am I right ?

Pixelated Pope3 years ago

I suppose it could be used like that. Basically any time you can have two states at the same time, you can use those for layers.
Another example would be for Samus from Metroid. Samus can stand run and jump, but all the while her gun can be aiming in multiple directions and be in multiple modes like missile or gun mode.. Now those things could just be an instance variable, but then it would need to be managed in every single state. With layers you can just handler her gun in its own state machine while her running and jumping is handled in the other.

Manukineko3 years ago

Precisely what I though.

I got another question :
- If I want to use the Draw Gui event, is it safe to add a TRUESTATE_DRAWGUI macro and a truestate_drawgui function in the system or is it better to put the truestate_draw function in the Draw Gui event ?

Pixelated Pope3 years ago

You can easily extend the system to support any events you need!

Manukineko3 years ago

Hehe. Just to be sure :D
Thanks.

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