The Player Character interfaces directly with his GameMachine FSM by sending events and receiving messages.
For example when a player enters a vehicle he sends the event ENTER_VEHICLE to his GameMachine.
The events are sent automatically at low-level by Player and do not require any action by you. Otherwise, any GameMachine onwed by any object, including the player, can send specific messages to the player character in order to make him,to process them. See below.
Player Receiving Messages
As ssaid Player Character performs some actions replying to messages that are sent to him.
For example if you send a message "DecrementHealth" to player character you will see the HUD health indicator to decrease.
MessageName: name of the message, in the previous example "DecrementHealth"
MessageContent: content of the message if any. In the case of "DecrementHealth" message the content is the amount of health to drcrease.
The following image shows how a "DecrementHealth" sendMessage action should look in a GameMachine:
Not all messages are explicitly sent by GameMachines, some of them are automatically sent to the player by various subsystem or othe objects.
Following is the list of messages that PlayerCharacter processes when he receives them:
The list contains either the messages that you can send via GameMachine and the messages that are automatically sent by the system. The latter have been included only for completeness but it is not necessary to know them.
Name
Content
Description
Automatically sent by the system
Must be manually sent by a GameMachine
EnterWater
ExitWater
ENTER_VEHICLE
EXIT_VEHICLE
selectWeapon
USE_ITEM
UNLOCK_ITEM
HIDE_WEAPON
USE_WEAPON
TAKE
ARM
SUPPLY_AMMO
RechargeBattery
IncrementHealth
DecrementHealth
LampON
LampOFF
ActionToPerform
Player Sending Events
The following list contains all events that player character sends to his own GameMachine or to GameMachine of other objects (and viceversa) when he interact with them (for example pressing a button, picking an item, etc..).
These events must be added (if they don't exists)to the GameMachine system (see events).
