Time for action – Using ignores

This will be a simple experiment; we're just going to have AwesomeEnemy not take any damage while it's fleeing.

1. At the top of AwesomeEnemy's Fleeing state, add the following line:

   ignores TakeDamage;

2. This one's pretty hard to test, but adding this line will make AwesomeEnemy ignore calls to TakeDamage while it is in the Fleeing state.

What just happened?

If we had more than one function that we wanted to ignore, then we would separate them with commas. For example, if we wanted it to ignore the EndAttack function as well, we would write it like this:

ignores TakeDamage, EndAttack;

Labels and latent functions

States can have special functions that can only be executed from within that state, code that can't be called from normal functions. These are called latent functions. In addition, states can use labels to control the flow of state code. Let's take a look.