How to make a Simple State machine

SilverPlatinum

I have been wondering how to make a simple state machine ( like for movement, jumping, attacking, etc. ). I was wondering if someone could show me an example of one (just with movement + jumping )? I have tried watching a video on how to make one, but it didn't do the best job explaining it. Thanks for any help! :)

cybereality

At the basic level, you can have an enum of states (MOVING, JUMPING, ATTACKING, etc.) and then your main player update function has a match statement (switch in other languages) on the "current_state" variable and does the unique code for that state. See this article for some ideas (note, it gets more advanced at the end, but the part on enums would be good enough for simple games).

https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/state.html

SilverPlatinum

@cybereality said: At the basic level, you can have an enum of states (MOVING, JUMPING, ATTACKING, etc.) and then your main player update function has a match statement (switch in other languages) on the "current_state" variable and does the unique code for that state. See this article for some ideas (note, it gets more advanced at the end, but the part on enums would be good enough for simple games).

https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/state.html

thanks