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Video transcript : Blender to Unity and Playmaker | Part 4: Adding interaction Adding FSM with playmaker For those of you who don’t know what playmaker is. Playmaker is an extension to Unity editor created by a company called Hutong. Playmaker basically adds FSM or finite state machine functionality to game object in Unity. I will not cover the detail too much in this tutorial about what is FSM and how to use Playmaker from scratch, because you can find very clear and complete tutorials about playmaker FSM in Hutong’s website. Okay so to add a new FSM open the playmaker editor and just right click and then choose “add FSM”. Notice by doing this a playmaker component is added to the object. So if later, you want to remove the FSM, simply click this option panel and choose remove component. Okay. Now, the first state or the state that has the start event on it, we want to rename this state to “closed”. Because at first the chest should be in closed condition. And then right click add another state and name it “opening”. Then another state called “opened”. And the last state will be “closing” state. Okay, now that our states are all defined. We need to create an event. Event in programming terms are something that is happening and that we want to inform other object or objects about it. In Playmaker, an event is symbolized as arrows. So basically if you want to create an arrow or transition then you need to create an event. Okay. So in the event tab we can create a new event by typing “Clicked” and then just hit enter. You can name event to any name you want as long as it make sense to you and so you or your team will understand it. We name our event “clicked” for any transition between state that happens due to user’s mouse click. So to use the event, we can right click on the closed state and then “add transition” notice the clicked event that we create before is nicely listed in here by playmaker. Drag this event so it creates an arrow to the opening state. In the opening state we’re going to play the opening animation. Then after it is finished, it should automatically transitioning to the opened state. Now for finish event, we actually don't need to create it our self as playmaker already has one called “FINISHED” with all capital letter. Next from “opened” state to “closing” state we can use the clicked event again. And from “closing” animation state to “closed” state we can use finished event like before. So again. When the game start the object will be in closed state. Then when the user click the object, it should go to the opening state which plays the animation. Then after the animation finished playing, it will jump to the opened state. Then when in opened state, the user click on it, it will go to the closing animation state. And after the animation is finished it will go back to the closed state. Okay. Currently our FSM will do nothing as we don’t have any actions inside each of the state. To add an action. Lest pick the “closed” state first. Then in the state tab, down here we can see the “action browser” button. Click it and then type “pick”. You will see “mouse pick event” action listed. We can double click on it. Now, the mouse pick event action is added to the “closed” state. The “game object” option up here determine which object will be the target. “Use owner” means that it will target it self to check whether it is being clicked or not. Now this is possible because we have a collider component up here. If no collider exist in this object, playmaker will display red error message. Okay, now “mouse pick event” action can actually pick a lot of mouse events. Not just mouse clicking event. But right now we’re only interested in clicking event. For clicking we can actually use “mouse down” or “mouse up” events. Lets choose “mouse down” event for now. Click on this pull down list and choose “clicked” which is the name of our existing event. So basically when the mouse is down on this object then the “clicked” event will fire off and it will transition the FSM to the next state which is the opening state. In the opening state, we want to have play animation action. So click on the action browser and then type “play”. Double click on this “play animation” action. Okay. The “game object” is the target object just as we mentioned before. We can use “specify game object” if we want to play the animation on other object. “Use owner” means the object who owns the playmaker FSM, which is this object it self. Okay now on the “anim name” option, if we click on this list we can see playmaker cleverly list all the available animations that this object has. Choose “opening” now. Okay. Now lets test it. Click the play game button up here. Sorry we need to turn off this “maximize on play” toggle button up here, so we can see the playmaker editor while the game is running. Lets hit play again. Now as we can see as soon as the game play, the closed state will become active. And currently it is waiting for the mouse key down event. If we click on it. It will fire up the “clicked” event and move the FSM to the “opening” state where the opening animation take place. After finish playing the animation it will automatically transitioned to the opened state. From this “opened” state we can not go any further as we haven't create any actions for it. But the process is similar. So lets turn off play for now. Pick this state then click in here to select the action. Press control C to copy. Then pick this state. Click in here and then control V to paste the action. Okay, now of course for this state, it should play the “closing” animation. Next, lets pick this state, click in here and press control C. Then click this state. Click in here and paste it in. For this action we actually don't need to change anything. Okay so that’s it. Lets do a final test. Lets make it maximize for now. Hit play again. Click to open. And then click to close. Okay guys, as always don’t forget to subscribe to my channel. Give a thumbs-up if you like the video and give a thumbs-down if you don't like the video. See you in my other tutorials. Wassalamualaikum.

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