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Geek Culture / Tech Slides 1. Pathfinding

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flashing snall
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Posted: 19th Feb 2010 00:33
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My friends and I have always dreamed of making a game similar to the ancient Commandos. But there are lots of technical hurtles we would need to overcome.

I figure that a lot of other people will probably want to know how to over come these technical hurtles too, because a lot of them are common.

So as we figure them out, I shall explain them in the form of video.

Here is the first one, some simple pathfinding...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC1Po5rWXr0

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puppyofkosh
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Posted: 22nd Feb 2010 04:23
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Thanks for posting this. In my game I've been working on enemy pathfinding, with no luck yet. I'll try something like this. Thanks again!
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El Goorf
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Posted: 22nd Feb 2010 10:17
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commandos, i loved that game, good luck with that

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BMacZero
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2010 05:50 Edited at: 23rd Feb 2010 05:50
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I think that explains it very well...good job !

I do have one question and one bit of advice:

Question: Any particular reason you start from the target and path back to the player? It seems like the less obvious method.

Advice: Corners are important in pathfinding. If you use the corners of the level geometry as natural waypoints, you can both automatically generate the waypoint system for a given level AND have a more natural path without the constant raycast checks to the next waypoint.

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