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Waypoints Manager
8.1Waypoint System
Waypoints can be used for more than just guiding AI objects or players around the game world. We can use them to guide a camera for cut scenes or a guided camera system, track who is winning a race, use them to make sure that the player is going in the right direction along a path, to reposition players in a safe location, for counting laps during a race and quite probably a whole other number of uses that don’t immediately spring to mind. Waypoints are really useful for game developers.
For an example of this script in action, check out the racing game example in Chapter 14.
Our waypoints manager needs to be flexible enough to provide the functionality for all of these uses and then some, without ...
