Class statemachine
Method to turn an entity into a simple finite state machine.
Defined in: statemachine.js.
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statemachine(entity)
Allows you to give any game entity multiple update, draw, and event handling routines, and switch between them quickly and easily.
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Class Detail
statemachine(entity)
Allows you to give any game entity multiple update, draw, and event handling routines, and switch between them quickly and easily. Furnishes your entity with a new method "set_state(name)" which sets the state and methods to that name. For example, if you have a method running_draw() and a method standing_draw(), when you call set_state("running") the running_draw() method will be set as the main draw() method. This is true of any method prefixed with "running_" e.g. running_update() and running_keyDown_37() for example. The named init method (e.g. "running_init") for each state will also get called when you transition to that state.
- Parameters:
- entity
- is the game entity you want to turn into a finite state machine.