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i'm starting to like this... as much as i hate to admit it... i can see this as being usefull...

 

gotta jog myself outta the coding only mindset...

hey, it's a new world... the new order is upon us

 

this really looks great josh...

 

question...

 

what happens if after setting up these flowgraphs, i decide to change the name of the entity... will the system be smart enough to maintain the linkages...

 

--Mike

Nice video.. I remember you mentioning in another blog post that you will be changing the flowgraph editor graphics to something better? I think you should keep it how it is! I prefer the simple look, instead of having fancy looking panels.

Mike, the entities are referenced by a unique ID, so the name does not matter. What scares me is what happens when the user resaves a script and the outputs and inputs change. It's very hard to write an editor that dynamically reloads everything.

 

The whole purpose is to have a standard way of making things interact, so that all our scripted objects can talk to one another.

Instead of having to import the flowgraphs for each map, can't you just have one or more logic maps loaded first, and then the real maps on top of them?

Instead of having to import the flowgraphs for each map, can't you just have one or more logic maps loaded first, and then the real maps on top of them?

Can you rephrase that?

 

I think we'll be able to save flowgraphs as part of a prefab, so you can set logic up once for a set of entities and then save it as one prefab of interconnected objects.

I can't see the video, I assume the white space is a youtube video, here at work, but does this works across entities also? If I have Actor B attached to entity1 and Actor C attached to entity2, I can link them in this editor or is it just actors on the same entity?

 

If it's cross entity linking, is there a way that I can get information of the actor which called the output method from within the output method?

 

--ActorA.lua
function MyOutputFunction() --output
  -- I want to access some property of the actor that called me! 
  -- Let's say a timer Actor called me from a link I made via the flowgraph, and here I keep track of how many times I've been called and if it's > x I want to disable that timer actor script.
end

 

I think it would be cool if the output functions would be defined to take a parameter which would be the actor that called it. If that's not the case already.

That's not a bad idea.

 

Yes, you can link from one actor on one entity to another actor on another entity.