Will DOTS Animation's state machine be "generic" like Playables?

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It’s a bit of a random question but here it goes:

I heard from the roadmap talk that even though DOTS Animation will be available during 2019.3, the state machine stuff arrives later. This made me think about something: will that state machine system be “generic” enough to be used for any other thing aside from animation that may require the notion of a state with time, speed, blending, transitions, etc… ?

I’m imagining something where each state is an Entity, and you can add your own components to those state entities so if you need state time/speed for any sort of custom logic, you can access it like that. Sort-of like how Playables work

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I’m sure you already looked at the DOTS Animation on staging, that was updated late June? It shows a UNode framework that might be related to this.

I have not looked at it enough yet, been putting in time on Netcode and learning good DOTS practices instead, until more examples/docs come around.

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Just to clarify, I’m mostly looking forward to a code-based generic state machine API. The visual editor could just be built on top of it

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Have you looked at the Dots visual scripting?

State machines are being worked on there, not sure how much of it has landed in the early previews…

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