Tutorial: How to create a player controller using a STATE MACHINE in Godot 3.4

HI，Why doesn't state_machine(state.gd) and state(StateMachine.gd) create a circular dependency, and how efficient is it to do so?

I got a quick question, I find my self in a unique situation, so lets say I have a idle, walk, sprint and jump states and I am currently implementing a crouch state, I have noticed that it will become messy since in my crouch state I want it to walk and sometimes go to idle, So I was thinking would it be possiable to have a state machine inside a state machine, so that the whole main state machine will see that I am in a crouched state machine but if I press a button say to sprint the main state machine should restart the crouch state machine and change normally to the sprint state, I hope I explained it well lol.

Does this also work in godot4?

Thanks for the tutorial! Any plans to release a version for Godot 4?

Very nice tutorial, thank you! One question: What is the best way to bring states into this pattern that are triggered from outside like being hit? For example I have a hit-state and being hit is triggered by a mob which calls a hurt() function on my player. Should I then call transition_to("Hit") from my player or is there a better way? Feels a bit like breaking the pattern if I call transition_to() from the player script. Thanks in advance!

I've followed the tutorial and I found a problem where when I run to the void when I hold down the right button they still play a walking animation in the air

THANKS!!!!

I'm using Godot 0.4 and the "if not is_zero_approx(player.get_input_direction()):" within the 'Air' state keeps returning "invalid call. Nonexistent function 'get_input_direction' in base 'Nil'" is there a possible fix?

great tutorial

Can you show this method for a 3D character as well?

I'm getting a error "Trying to assign value of type 'Node' to a variable of type 'AnimationPlayer'" on onready var animation_player:AnimationPlayer = get_node(_animation_player)

for some reason my player will only jump one time if i have either direction held. for example i have 'move_right' held char moves right, i press jump and he jumps while moving. he lands and continues to move but he will not be able to jump until i release that direction. any ideas why?

Now how would you implement coyote time in a state machine??

Perfect. I was struggling a little bit with the GDQuest version of this tutorial, but this video answered all the questions I had. Nice one!

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DRY that code out. Move those repeated physics checks into the player node.

You tell what we do, not why we do it. Not so informative as I hoped for.

You're awesome!

its concise, but because of that it had my brain hurting from the amount of pausing and copy/pasting there was. But yeah AT LEAST IT WORKS

I just have 1 question, how do I re-use the state machine for multiple payable characters?

How do you transition state when area entered? Cannot use state_machine.transition_to since state isnt declared. I would appreciate if you could help me with that.

Oh , GOD !!!! Thx you so much !!!! Your vid made me know more about player state machine !!! THXXXXX !!!

Thank you for the great tutorial! I would appreciate if you could tell me how to implement fall and double jump state. Thanks.

went from shaggydev to gdquest to you and now im starting to understand how implementation was used i just have to wrap my brain around a multiple attack but im guessing jus like animationtree ending the combat mechnaic with state.idle is better approach

Great tutorial, thanks!

straight to the point, gold star! great tutorial!

Assertion failed.

that happens everytime i start to debug.

edit: fixed it lol, tunrs out i also had to assign the player script to the one in the level scene.

Great video btw, im subscribed now

Lovely explanation. Concise and easy to understand.

thanks

I've been waiting for this tutorial, thank you very much

Great tutorial, but I'm not sure I follow why you have exported the animation player in the states? All three states use the same animation player?

Nice tutorial. Thank you for sharing!!

Very concise tutorial, thank you very much!