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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Nicolas is a Game Developer currently working as a Senior Software Development Consultant for Unity in London. He is a Unity Certified Instructor teaching Unity clients all around the globe. He started using Unity in 2008 and teaching it in 2012 in several Universities and Education Institutes.
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Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas
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Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas

Juan graduated in mathematics with a master's degree in Teacher Training, specializing in Game Design for social casino video games and as a video game developer using Unity and Unreal Engine for both PC and mobile. He was an online teacher on Udemy from 2015 to 2022 and subsequently on his own platform Frogames Training with over 150 online courses and over 500,000 students across 130 countries.
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Creating transitions

If you remember the transitions created in the Animator Controller, those were basically a collection of conditions that checked whether the state the transition belongs to is active. In our FSM approach, this translates simply as if sentences that detect conditions inside the states. Let’s create the transitions between our proposed states as follows:

  1. Add a field of the Sight type called sightSensor in our FSM script, and drag the AI GameObject to that field to connect it to the Sight component there. As the FSM component is in the same object as Sight, we can also use GetComponent instead, but in advanced AIs, you might have different sensors that detect different objects, so I prefer to prepare my script for that scenario. You should pick the approach you like the most.
  2. In the GoToBase function, check whether the detected object of the Sight component is not null, meaning that something is inside our line of vision. If our AI is going...
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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

Nicolas is a Game Developer currently working as a Senior Software Development Consultant for Unity in London. He is a Unity Certified Instructor teaching Unity clients all around the globe. He started using Unity in 2008 and teaching it in 2012 in several Universities and Education Institutes.
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Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas

Juan graduated in mathematics with a master's degree in Teacher Training, specializing in Game Design for social casino video games and as a video game developer using Unity and Unreal Engine for both PC and mobile. He was an online teacher on Udemy from 2015 to 2022 and subsequently on his own platform Frogames Training with over 150 online courses and over 500,000 students across 130 countries.
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