Characters and Behaviors

I've implemented a sort of hybrid RagDoll-Meets-BoneAnimated-GPU-Skinned-Mesh based on two Controllers who target the same Skeleton - AnimationController and RagDoll are both optional sub-components of the AnimationComponent we can glue to any Entity.

The time came to think about other kinds of Controllers - a base CharacterController (implements enough physics to stop characters from getting stuck, etc.), and derived PlayerCharacter and NonPlayerCharacter controllers.

The PlayerCharacter is actually fairly easy - it needs an InputComponent (so it can sink events from input devices like joysticks, keyboard, mouse, etc.) which drives its base CharacterController methods.

The Non-Player-Character controller is driven by Artificial Intelligence - I'm using Behavior Trees to control general behavior, and I am now working on a hybrid NavMesh-Meets-Pathfinding solver which initially takes in a Triangle Soup and supports markups.