Thanks for making such great sprites! They're one of the first ones I reach for when prototyping. I'm happy you don't mind me using them in a video like this

I feel like I've used your dinos for prototyping every platformer I've made, you're a legend within my group

THANK YOU!

Im confused, so is it supposed to be _process and _physics_process like in the video, or Process and Physics_Process like in the comment?

@@zysdota The main issue for me was my Exit and Enter functions weren't' capitalized

a good idea. Thank you for your great video. Ill propably input an "EnemyState" extending "State" as for my navigation code i am working with a NavMesh and the export values are already exploding

@@zysdotaas far as i understood he is using "Process" because it gives him more control as in the State Manager he then assignes _process() state_process is just a better name to differenciate it from the base godot class

​@@impregnat0rjust write good code lulz (obv joke is obv)

😂😂😂

Can I get a side of garlic bread with that spaghetti code? 🍝 🍝 🍝

⁠@@impregnat0rI mean if you are coding you should take it into consideration yourself. Also, most people don’t start coding with GDScript. Surely some do, but not the majority. In those instances they should already be familiar with scripts working in conjunction with one another. I’ve never thought to put all my lines in one single script, but I also am in school for computer science and have had an advantage of learning good habits because of that.

@@impregnat0r also the approach of using dictionaries in this tutorial is an inefficient method.

this is what everyone needs to adopt!

I concur. This youtuber has the good stuff in regards to teaching absolute beginners to understand things like State, Finite Machine State, etc. This channel is a treasure for indie godot devs.

definitely not a beginner tutorial, way too fast and didn't explain a lot of things, or maybe i'm just slow

@@PhotoBomber unfortunately tutorials are very general and you wont find perfectly catered material online or even in a classroom the only way you can achieve that is with a 1 on 1 tutor. i will say if it didnt make sense to come back to it after taking some notes and see if it comes together better with a different perspective. remember that learning how to code or really any skill has less to do with curriculum and more with immersion. aka if you want to learn how to code a game, the most efficient way is to actually code a game. along the way you will be able to identify what you know / don't know and then tutorials like this will become much more useful.

@@OHTASISAN I'm using chatgpt to learn to code, it's quite the 1 on 1 tutor, and catered to my preferences

Wait how did you get past the error with the transition?

@@soundrogue4472 What do you mean. Signals handle state transitions as per the video

I'm actually working on more videos! I'm just a terrible procrastinator

yeah! go go go@@Bitlytic

@@Bitlytic Please make a "Utility AI" tutorial video. I know how to create a Utility AI in Unity, but Godot structure is different and really mess with my way of thinking.

For me, the next step was to define hierarchical states so that shared behavior can be defined in ancestor states. For example, WalkState inherits TravelState. TravelState exports a speed property that it uses to determine velocity along with the input_direction property that it inherits from the DirectionInput state. Most of my states also are descended from an AnimationState which exports a property for the animation name, the animated sprite node, and starts the animation in the enter method. The downside to this approach in Godot 4 is that since there is no longer any implicit super() call, you need to remember to call that anytime you override one of the state methods, and as well check if the superclass logic returned a new state that you should transition to instead. Lastly, there's also no reason your StateMachine class can't also inherit State and be a state of its own with its own child states to further modularize your behavior, especially if there's cases you want to consider some external conditions and don't want to bloat your root state machine.

​​@@zarblitz Do you guys use gdscript or C# for your code? Would writing state machines be better in one or the other? Do you have source code for your method? I'm just interested in learning how your method works.

not yet.... not enough memes

In that case is it best for the machine itself to decide which state to transition to?

@@entropywilldestroyusall1323 you could either extend the state machine class for more complicated ai, or you could create an event listener that waits for a condition or a set of conditions ( probably just a signal) and then asks the standing to transition to another state

No problem :)