Logic Driver - Easily Design Gameplay Systems with State Machines

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@Recursoft

So ideally… developer creates New State Class (or New Transition Class) blueprints.

In a state machine blueprint be able to set the state or transition to the created classes. Possibly similar to state machine references. Then be able to set instance values in the details window of each state or transition. And to be clear, you only need instance variables to change, and not the BP logic itself, correct?

To be precise change variables and append logic similar way one can do this in the State editor. Changing internal logic is not needed. Idea is: create a node, append custom logic (aka node with predefined logic), expose variables, use anywhere. Same idea as BTT nodes.

@Recursoft

If I have that right, I’ll consider ways of implementing this (or parts of it). I don’t want to commit to anything yet because you’re right in that the work to do this isn’t trivial and multiple problems would have to be solved like passing the context (and using it from within each state or transition), replication settings, etc. It might be better to see if I can enhance state machine references to set instance values in the details window and then use those as states.

I think that will do.

@Recursoft

But to your first point, this is likely overkill for dialogue systems. I know there are plenty of dialogue editors on the market. Awhile ago I started working on a dialogue system based on logic driver. A blueprint editor where each node is actually a BP graph to construct a dialogue sentence, auto constructed from text or user created. Definitely have me consider working on it again, as a separate plugin or maybe including it in logic driver. I could see mixing state logic with dialogues being handy.

Logic Driver State Machine is indeed very close to the necessary requirements to build a custom logic. By custom I mean being as flexible as possible in building complex interactive scripts. There is Screenwriter asset on the market exactly for that. Sadly it’s buggy (the reason we did try States Machine solution), but if you take a closer look you will find how both are solving same tasks using almost similar ways.

I think it’s not coincidence you did work on both Logic Driver and the dialogues It really allows to build custom and complex dialogues on top of that.