{"id":229,"date":"2021-01-23T11:44:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T16:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/?p=229"},"modified":"2021-01-23T11:44:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T16:44:31","slug":"the-union-of-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/the-union-of-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The Union of States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In programming, especially in game dev, states are an important concept to manage what&#8217;s going on at any given time and what to do next. So we need a finite state machine or &#8216;FSM&#8217; to manage such things. Basically the state is a data object that can only ever have one value from a finite list of values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the excellent tutorial from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com\/blog\/finite-state-machine-fsm-tutorial-implementing-an-fsm-in-c\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com\/blog\/finite-state-machine-fsm-tutorial-implementing-an-fsm-in-c\/\">Aleksandr Hovhannisyan<\/a> I&#8217;ve made a simple FSM to model a light with three luminosity intensities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/LightFSM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231\" width=\"476\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/LightFSM.png 614w, https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/LightFSM-262x300.png 262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><figcaption>A model of the Light&#8217;s logic. Made using draw.io plugin on my nextcloud server. If you want help setting up a Nextcloud server of your own for personal or enterprise use, <a href=\"https:\/\/oakcityit.net\/contact\">contact me at Oak City IT<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"498\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/run-FSM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/run-FSM.png 498w, https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/run-FSM-300x230.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Next steps will be to adapt this to a game, and in particular the Graveyard Shift game I&#8217;m working on right now. Here&#8217;s a preview of the model that will be setup in the code:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"699\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GameManagerFSM-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GameManagerFSM-1.png 699w, https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GameManagerFSM-1-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In programming, especially in game dev, states are an important concept to manage what&#8217;s going on at any given time and what to do next. So we need a finite state machine or &#8216;FSM&#8217; to manage such things. Basically the state is a data object that can only ever have one value from a finite&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/the-union-of-states\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Union of States<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"left","neve_meta_author_avatar":"on","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[50,49,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devlog.oakcityit.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}