How to create a State Manager

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#1

Hey there, I am looking to create a StateManager for a combat system. For example,

  • IsStunned
  • IsFighting
  • IsDashing
  • IsJumping

What is the best way to go about that and for example. If the user is stunned and there is an ability to evade. What would be the simplest way to cancel the “IsStunned” and put him into the state of “IsEvading”.

Thank you,

#2

I wanted to also add that I have a hard time controlling the walkspeed and jump height of the user.

For example, while the user IsStunned, he can’t walk or jump. The current way of preventing the user from walking while being stunned was to constantly loop on the character’s attribute and check if the user IsStunned… That was one way of doing it.

#3

Because let’s say I wanted to prevent dashing while being stunned. I would do this here, but it doesn’t seem like the best option.

This would be the start of the dashing function

local function dash(initialDirection, directionKey)
	if isDashing or character:GetAttribute("IsPunching") or character:GetAttribute("Disable") or character:GetAttribute("IsBlocking") or character:GetAttribute("IsStunned") or tick() - lastDashTimeAnyDirection < dashDelayBetweenDirections then return end

	character:SetAttribute("IsDashing", true)
	local currentTick = tick()
	local dashCooldown = lastDashTimes[directionKey] + cooldown

	if currentTick < dashCooldown then 
		character:SetAttribute("IsDashing", false)
		return 
	end