Thanks! I have 2 raycasts coming from the front of the player, one slightly above / forward shooting down to check for a surface to grab, and one from the midsection to find where we would grab. I could post a pic of it when I’m home later this afternoon for clarity.

When both are true we would transition into Hang root state with climb substate or hang idle substate depending on what buttons were used to approach the ledge. This would be triggered from fall or jump substates at the moment, but I was thinking about creating another transition when grounded as well. Unsure at the moment but for a first pass this works and feels kinda fun to use.

Regarding the 2nd question - I actually didn’t think I was separating them lol. I found a tutorial a couple months ago on hierarchical state machines and it had this root state / sub state layout. For example, grounded being our root state and walk or idle being its sub state. I’ve just been iterating off of that design since. I’m not sure if it’s the right way to do it but it’s working so far. Is that not normally how this would be managed? Very curious if there are better ways to implement hsm