# Creating visual state machine

**URL:** https://discussions.unity.com/t/creating-visual-state-machine/662191
**Category:** Animation
**Tags:** Scripting
**Created:** [April 20, 2017, 12:50pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/creating-visual-state-machine/662191 "2017-04-20T12:50:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![KeithBrown](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/unity/user_avatar/discussions.unity.com/keithbrown/32/451705_2.png) [@KeithBrown](https://discussions.unity.com/u/KeithBrown)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2017, 12:50pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/creating-visual-state-machine/662191/1 "2017-04-20T12:50:29Z")

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There are alot of plugins out there that are creating state machines with a visual component such as playmaker. Is there a unity api to help with making the visual part of these state machines in the same manner that [Nottorus](https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/59656) and [PlayMaker](https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/368) use or are these created from scratch?

Sorry if this is a basic unity question but I am just a beginner with the api and have some ideas I would like to try out.

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### Author: ![TonyLi](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/unity/user_avatar/discussions.unity.com/tonyli/32/611093_2.png) [@TonyLi](https://discussions.unity.com/u/TonyLi)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/creating-visual-state-machine/662191/2 "2017-04-20T14:31:49Z")

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They’re written from scratch, but Seneral maintains an open source node editor project here:

> **[GitHub - Seneral/Node\_Editor\_Framework: A flexible and modular Node Editor Framework for...](https://github.com/Seneral/Node_Editor_Framework)**
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> A flexible and modular Node Editor Framework for creating node based displays and editors in Unity

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### Author: ![KeithBrown](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/unity/user_avatar/discussions.unity.com/keithbrown/32/451705_2.png) [@KeithBrown](https://discussions.unity.com/u/KeithBrown)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/creating-visual-state-machine/662191/3 "2017-04-20T15:18:43Z")

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> [@TonyLi](#):
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> They’re written from scratch, but Seneral maintains an open source node editor project here:
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> [https://github.com/Seneral/Node\_Editor](https://github.com/Seneral/Node_Editor)

Thank you. This helps alot.