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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Artificial Intelligence help needed!

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Doomwad
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2004 04:28
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How do I code artificial intelligence in my game. I'm making a basic maze game/shoot 'em up. I want my enemies to walk around until they see my chracter and then they start shooting at him! Can anyone please help me?
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Tim Ballisto
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2004 04:58
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make waypoints at corners so they don't walk through walls and makke them walk from one waypoint to another. and i think there's a tutorial on things being in and out of sight (in the DBC help) i think it's in the static objects section


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GameKit
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2004 09:21
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As Tim said, make invisible waypoints at each corner of each obsticle. Then have the enemy move to the nearest waypoint that is also closer to the target.

This meathod is not foolproof however. If the enemy ran into a cresent shaped object, he would not be able to find his way out.


...The seeing the player code would be relativly simple if you don't acount for obsticles in the way... more or less, if the enemy is facing the player, and within a certain distance, then the enemy will start fireing...

well... I hope I helped...

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Social Disease
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Posted: 3rd Jun 2004 04:09
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Welcome to perhaps the most difficult and rewarding aspect of designing a game. Artifical Intellegence. There are may ways to do this, check out the AI depot: http://ai-depot.com for some good ideas.

For path finding I recommend this essay: http://ai-depot.com/BotNavigation/Design-Introduction.html
and this article: http://ai-depot.com/BotNavigation/Obstacle-Introduction.html

I think we are all still mastering this stuff, good luck!


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Arkheii
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Posted: 3rd Jun 2004 06:07
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http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/

Check out the game programming section there. Very good resource.

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