So, let's not make that thread complete waste \o/
I remember people talking about finite state machine (and was like
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), and that nearly 20 years old paper about
F.E.A.R* helped me greatly (at least to conceptualize). Just to run into more problems to be honest but it's a good read if you are like me (I have no coder brain sadly, just a pair of fonctional eyes).
gdc2006_orkin_jeff_fear.pdf
*great game tho
I'm not a huge fan of Blender for various reasons. Most of them being opportunity costs from different softwares. That said I never gave up, it's one of the most fantastic software out there. To keep thing fresh I like to open that pdf (any page really) when I'm bored and find new stupid ideas (I have many as you should expect)
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While I am a complete buffon with Unity, I have my way with HDRP and it's not really difficult. But performance wise. Yeah... I keep that one on the table, I still need to go into it.
UnityPerformanceTuningBible_EN.pdf