How to force reevaluation during shooting action in Behavior Designer?

[Beginner]

Hi everyone,

I’m using Behavior Designer Pro and trying to build an enemy behavior where:

• The enemy starts by aiming and shooting at the player immediately.
• There are two possible attack actions:
  • Shoot
  • Throw grenade
• While shooting, I want the enemy to periodically reevaluate:
  Should it continue shooting or switch to throwing a grenade?

I understand that reevaluation normally happens in conditional nodes with ConditionalAbortType, but in this case, I want to trigger a reevaluation manually from an action node, or at least have the tree periodically reconsider its running action.

My Questions:​

1. How do I force reevaluation of the current action after a few seconds or certain conditions?
2. Can this be done without converting the shooting action into a conditional node?
3. Is there a recommended pattern or best practice for this kind of mid-action reevaluation?

I’m still new to Behavior Designer and would appreciate any advice or code samples. Thank you in advance!

 

[Justin]

You can use the Interrupt and Perform Interruption tasks for this: https://opsive.com/support/document...ro/concepts/tasks/action/perform-interruption. No conditional tasks are required.

 

[Beginner]

You can use the Interrupt and Perform Interruption tasks for this: https://opsive.com/support/document...ro/concepts/tasks/action/perform-interruption. No conditional tasks are required.

Thank you so much for your help! I really appreciate it — you've helped me learn something new today.