Whiteboarding
March 26, 2007
Whiteboarding, originally uploaded by Red Fly Studio.
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It is a detailed plan for our finite state machine architecture that is meant to be a replacement for switch statements in common FSM-using functionality such as animation controllers. Basically, we want to make sure that we don’t instantiate a new FSM and set of states for every object that uses an FSM, so our solution to that was to have the object store a class dedicated to instance data for stuff that is relevant to the FSM. The instance data along with the object would be manipulated by a shared FSM object holding all of those shared states. The end result is that all FSM-using objects get the benefit of being able to run its insides through a shared finite state machine. – Kain Shin, Lead Programmer, Red Fly Studio
