BlackboardValueType

Remarks

Closing it is what makes the rest of the design possible. A key is twelve bytes at worst, a comparison is a switch rather than a virtual call, and an inspector can draw every key there is with no extension point — which is what lets the editor's key list be a table rather than a plugin surface.

Everything a game wants is one of these. A "class" or a state name is a Symbol, a rotation is three floats or an entity to look at, an object reference is an Entity, and a count is an Int. The type that is missing — an arbitrary object — is missing deliberately: a key holding a reference is a key that cannot be compared, serialised, replicated or drawn, and it is the escape hatch that turns a compiled table back into a dictionary.

Fields and properties (6)

• Bool

  One bit of state, stored as a byte.

• Int

  A 32-bit signed integer: a count, an ammo total, a phase number.

• Float

  A 32-bit float: a distance, a timer, a score.

• Vector3

  A position or a direction in world space.

• Entity

  An entity: the target, the leader, the thing being carried.

• Symbol

  An interned name: a state, a stance, a tag the game means something by.

Used by (55, showing 40)

• AgentTargetVixen.Ai.Nodes
• AiSchedulingTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• AiSnapshotTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• AiSnapshotsVixen.Ai
• AiSystemTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• AiSystemTreeTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• AuthorableNodeTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• BehaviorKeyContentVixen.Ai
• BehaviorTreeAbortOrderingTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• BehaviorTreeAbortTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• BehaviorTreeCompilerTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• BehaviorTreeCompositeTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• BehaviorTreeCostTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• BehaviorTreeDecoratorTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• BehaviorTreeDeterminismTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• BehaviorTreeServiceTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• BehaviorTreeTaskTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• BindingTestsVixen.Ai.Perception.Tests
• BlackboardVixen.Ai
• BlackboardDecoratorVixen.Ai
• BlackboardKeyDefinitionVixen.Ai
• BlackboardLayoutBuilderVixen.Ai
• BlackboardLayoutTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• BlackboardTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• BlackboardUtilityInputVixen.Ai
• BlackboardWorldSourceVixen.Ai
• BoardVixen.Ai.Nodes.Tests
• BuildStateVixen.Ai
• CompareEntriesDecoratorVixen.Ai
• CountingSensorVixen.Ai.Tests
• DistanceUtilityInputVixen.Ai
• GoapDomainTestsVixen.Ai.Tests
• HarnessVixen.Ai.Tests
• OverlayFixtureVixen.Ai.Diagnostics.Tests
• PatrolChaseGiveUpTestsVixen.Ai.Nodes.Tests
• PerceivedCountSensorVixen.Ai.Perception
• PerceptionNodeTestsVixen.Ai.Perception.Tests
• RunQueryNodeTestsVixen.Ai.Nodes.Tests
• SeamTestsVixen.Ai.Nodes.Tests
• SetBlackboardValueTaskVixen.Ai