Releases: Inspiaaa/UnityHFSM
2.2.0 Feature Release
Thanks to continuous contributions and suggestions from our UnityHFSM community, version 2.2 of UnityHFSM is now ready for release, bringing a host of new features, refinements, and performance enhancements.
🛠️ Animator Graph Visualisation Tool: Clearer Insights, Better Debugging
The new Animator Graph visualisation tool offers a sleek, interactive way to view and debug your state machines. It generates an animator controller that can be viewed within the Unity Editor, letting you explore state hierarchies visually and understand the behaviour at runtime thanks to a live preview feature.
🔧 New Foundational Features: Powering Up for the Future
Under the hood, the new state hierarchy inspection infrastructure paves the way for advanced dynamic tools. This foundational level change immediately powers the new visualisation tool and more informative error messages. Looking beyond version v2.2, changes like this can be seen as an invitation to develop new tools for UnityHFSM.
🧹 Polishing the Details
This release also focuses on making UnityHFSM cleaner and more reliable:
- Internal refactoring to make the codebase easier to maintain and to extend.
- Improved naming of classes and interfaces to make development even more straightforward.
- A collection of small features, bug fixes, and improved documentation straight in your IDE.
⚡ Performance Boosts: Smoother and Faster
Performance is a top priority, and this release brings some significant speed improvements:
- Direct transitions are 20% faster when the source state needs exit time.
- Delayed transitions are now up to 60% faster.
For more information on this release and on the latest compatibility-breaking changes, please see the changelog.
With UnityHFSM v2.2, the library is more powerful, efficient, and user-friendly than ever. Thanks for using UnityHFSM, and I look forward to seeing what you build with it! 🙌
2.1.0 Feature Release
Version 2.1 of UnityHFSM adds exciting new features, while once again improving performance.
With the new ParallelStates class, you can effortlessly run multiple sub-states / state machines in parallel. At the same time, the new StateChanged event and the rememberLastState feature make (hierarchical) state machines more powerful and flexible to your use cases than ever before.
If you're working with complex, large state machines, these are up to 15% faster now thanks to general optimisations.
Bugs have been fixed, naming improved, and new documentation has been written. For more information on the latest changes, please see the changelog.
2.0.1
This release fixes the sample code which did not compile after the recent 2.0.0 release. It also reintroduces the timer field in the CoState class which was lost in the previous release.
If you are migrating from a pre-2.0 version, please see the changelog, as the 2.0 release includes compatibility-breaking changes.
2.0.0 Feature Release
Version 2.0.0 comes with exciting new features such as ghost states, transition callbacks and exit transitions. Exit transitions finally provide an easy and powerful way to define the exit conditions for nested state machines, essentially levelling up the mechanics behind hierarchical state machines. At the same time, debugging complex hierarchical state machines has never been easier thanks to the new GetActiveHierarchyPath() method.
In addition, the latest release comes with many improvements to existing features, such as the support for coroutines, the canExit mechanics, and the HybridStateMachine class, while also fixing numerous bugs related to delayed transitions. Thanks to refactorings, the internal code is easier to read and maintain.
Please see the changelog when migrating to the latest version, as it includes compatibility-breaking changes.
1.9.0 Action System
Version 1.9.0 of UnityHFSM introduces the action system which allows you to define custom events (like OnLogic) that can call functions in the active states. This release also adds "two way transitions" which can greatly reduce the amount of boilerplate code required in many cases. Furthermore performance has been increased when using value types as the state names (e.g. State<int>). 👍
Read more: Changelog
1.8.0 Generics
Version 1.8 of UnityHFSM adds support for generics. Now the datatype of state identifiers / names and the type of event names can be easily changed. Thanks to the new "shortcut methods", state machines can be written with less boilerplate than ever and certain cases, such as empty states, can be optimised automatically for you. 👍
1.8 also adds support for installation via Unity's package manager UPM.
Read more: Changelog
1.7.2
1.7.1
✨ Version 1.7 introduces Trigger Transitions which let you effortlessly leverage the efficiency of event-based transitions, in combination with the full power of the existing high-level transition types. 👍
The error messages have been greatly improved in 1.7.1, so that they are concise and helpful.