Re: Scripts with pause

["Russell Y. Webb" <rwebb@...>]

On Aug 4, 2005, at 11:57 PM, Jose Marin wrote:

> Good idea, Russell.
>
> I think that, in this case, I must design the scripts
> to act as a state machine.

Well they will likely be a FSM in any case.  The world including the  
actors presumably have state information, but other than that they  
are free from state since they have issued a plan to carry out some  
goal.  When they get called again their first task could be to figure  
out what state they are in now (since they don't know what has  
happened in the world).

Sort of like:

function Hurt(self)
    return world:GetHealth(self) < .3
end

function NextActionPlan(self)
    if self:Hurt() then
        ...
    end
    if self:Hungry() then
        ...
    end
end

Russ