Combining Nodes

After the State Machine and Conditional Mechanism are created, you can combine them with the Starter Setting in the behavior tree.

• The Starter Setting needs to execute once only, so you can directly connect it to a Sequencer node.
• The State Machine and Conditional Mechanism should remain running all the time for continuous state looping, so you have to collect them with a Parallel node before connecting to the Sequencer node.

Follow the instruction below to organize nodes in the Behavior Tree.

1. In the Behavior Tree graph, create a Sequencer node by right-clicking on the empty area and selecting Composite > Sequencer.
   
2. Connect the nodes of Start Setting to the Sequencer node. Remove the Wait Time node, because the State Machine and Conditional Mechanism are ready to execute.
   
3. Create a Parallel node by right-clicking on the empty area and selecting Composite > Parallel.
   
4. A Parallel node is created.
   
5. Select the node, and set the Operation Policy to Always Run (never returning to Starter Setting) in the Parameters section.
   
6. Connect the State Machine (the Priority Pick node) and Conditional Mechanism (the State Manager node) to the Parallel node.
   
7. Connect the Parallel node to the Sequencer node.
   
8. Now you can use the Chat window to test the basic behavior loop.
   • Input some text to ensure the state transition from Wait / Idle to Listen works properly.
   • Send out text to test whether the Speak state works normally.