Unity Behaviour List

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Key Features
• Instructions
• Documentation
• License

Overview

A Behaviour List is a list of states and conditions to change the state. Each state can be assigned a script (The behaviour of the state) and the conditions are a list of scripts. Like a semi-visual state machine.

Key Features

• Create your own states and conditions by simply inherit a abstract class
• Share data between states and conditions through the Behaviour List ListData object
• States can be updated from any thread (Although not at the same time)
• Custom Behaviour List inspector

Instructions

Requirements (Should work in other versions and render pipelines)

• Unity 2023.2.20f1 (Built-in)

General Setup

1. Download and copy the Core, Extras(Optional) and _Demo(Optional) folders into an empty folder inside your Assets directory
2. Add a serialized behLists.BehaviourList variable to any of your scripts to create a new Behaviour List
3. In your script, call Init(), TickRoot() and Destroy() on your behLists.BehaviourList
4. Configure your BehaviourList in the inspector. Create scripts with a class that inherit from ListData, BranchBehaviour and LeafCondition (In behLists namespace) if needed
5. See _Demo/ExampleBehaviourScript.cs for code example

Documentation

Most functions are documented and all parameters visible in the Unity inspector have tooltips

See Extras/Chance.cs for LeafCondition code example

See _Demo/ExampleAiData.cs for ListData code example

See _Demo/ExampleBranchBehIdle.cs for BranchBehaviour code example

The _Demo/ folder contains more pratical exampels

License

UnityBehaviourList © 2024 by David Westberg is licensed under MIT - See the LICENSE file for more details.