Team Game Mechanic

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Team Mechanic

The TeamMechanic is one of the built-in GameMechanics bundled with the Studio SDK. This mechanic allows you to create GameTeams, assign them names, and have LivingEntitys join the created teams. Additionally, TeamAssigners allow for the assignment of groups to available teams based on predefined behavior using the assignTeams(Collection<LivingEntity>, TeamAssigner) method.

Team Assigner Factory

A TeamAssignerFactory provides for the dynamic construction of instances of a specific TeamAssigner. To function, the factory needs to be registered in the TeamMechanic using the registerTeamAssignerFactory(Class<T extends TeamAssigner>, TeamAssignerFactory<T>) method. Once the factory has been registered, you can use the TeamMechanic to construct instances of the TeamAssigner using the constructTeamAssigner(Class<T extends TeamAssigner>) method. All built-in TeamAssigners that we provide have their factories pre-registered in the TeamMechanic, so all you have to do is construct an instance when you want to use them. You do not need to create a TeamAssignerFactory for your own custom TeamAssigners, but you can if you'd like to. You will need to implement your own TeamAssignerFactory if you plan to sell source-unavailable TeamAssigner s to other developers on our asset marketplace. We currently provide two built-in TeamAssigners:

SingleTeamAssigner - groups all LivingEntitys into the single team in the TeamMechanic
EvenTeamsAssigner - assigns all LivingEntitys to teams in the most even way possible. Can be configured with setShouldGroupParties(boolean) to attempt to put parties on the same team if they fit