Reply To: Using GraphOwner's without MonoBehaviours?

[GavalakisKeymaster]

Hello,

Thanks! I am glad you like NodeCanvas thus far.
Well, the GraphOwner is a MonoBehaviour that mostly acts as a interface between the object and a graph and manages graph instances, which is actually very convenient 🙂

You can however if you want and in runtime, instantiate a graph asset and start it without the requirement of a GraphOwner attached, but you’d still need a Blackboard component attached to pass as a reference considering that you want to use variables in that graph (which is most of the times).

Here is an example code:

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public class Example : MonoBehaviour {   public Graph graphAsset;   void Start(){   var graphInstance = Instantiate<Graph>(graphAsset); Component agent        = this; IBlackboard blackboard = null; bool autoUpdate        = true; graphInstance.StartGraph(agent, blackboard, autoUpdate); } }

On the other hand, you can also add the GraphOwner component in runtime if you want. If that is something you are interested in, please take a look at this documentation section: [LINK]

Let me know if the above works for you.
Thanks again!