Investigate Improvements to be found in UnrealScript

[jgkamat]

UnrealScript is a language that is specificially designed to create state machines (in unreal tournament). I think we might find a lot of ways to improve our state machine system if we take a deep dive into unrealscript (and maybe even write a bit in our codebase). Professor Riedl knows Unreal Script, maybe he could give us a few tips (and maybe even take a look at our implementation).

This is a long term tracking issue (and probably no one cares but me :smile:)

Right now this is what I know

• [ ] US makes it very, very easy to create states and transitions
• [ ] US puts every single state machine in it's own thread, allowing each state machine to infinite loop if it needs to (to possibly simplify design)
• [ ] US (I think) has heiarchical state machines. I think we already implement this in our play system via the subbehavior mechanic.

More things are definetly possible, but we need to learn unrealscript to find them out!

[jgkamat]

Yah, this is a cool idea but we have much important things to do (pretty much forever). So I'm closing this. Feel free to reopen if you find this interesting.