Status system for personal FSM.

Hi, I am trying to implement my own version of a Finite State Machine (due to a lot of reasons) and I am trying to implement status systems that follows the next rules:

- Every status must belong to a predefined category, for example, ORIENTATION, STATUS_EFFECT, SPEED, etc.

- Some status (statuses?) have a limited set of options, for example, ORIENTATION can only be a N,E,S,W. Which type is relative since it can be fixed later.

- Finally for the FSM transitions I want to be capable of choosing, similar to the Unity Animation FSM, choose a state and a value for comparison. And yeah, an operation (such as ==, !=, >=, etcetc but that comes later).

- States of the FSM are scriptable objects.

As of now, If used only one, and one status, I could just do this:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. enum Orientation{
3. N,
4. E,
5. S,
6. W
7. }
8.  
9. public Orientation orientation = Orientation.N \\Default;
10.  

That would let me choose an orientation within a dropdown box.
But what I kindofish want is to have two dropdown boxes, one to choose the kind of status, and another one to choose it's value.

I tried this but didnt work

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. public enum status_list{
3.     placeholder,
4.     orientation
5. }
6.  
7. public class Orientation{
8.     public enum Orientation_options{N,E,W,S}
9.  
10.     public Orientation_options value;
11. }
12.  
13. class Status : MonoBehaviour{
14.     public Dictionary<status_list,System.Type> status_dict =
15.            new Dictionary<status_list, System.Type>();
16.     status_dict.Add(status_list.orientation,Character.Orientation);
17.    
18.  
19.     public status_list status_to_choose = status_list.placeholder;
20.  
21.     public void OnValidate()
22.     {
23.         if (status_to_choose!=status_list.placeholder)
24.         {
25.                object o =
26.                System.Activator.CreateInstance(status_dict[status_to_choose]);
27.         }
28.     }
29. }
30.  
31.  

But it didnt even remotely work. Prolly cause lot's of reasons.
Any ideas?

 

The

Character.Orientation

class is the one above Orientation, copy/pasted and I am a dummy.