Game AI Pro 3

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From Behavior to Animation

A Reactive AI Architecture for Networked First-Person Shooter Games

Sumeet Jakatdar

10.1    Introduction

10.2    Client-Server Engineand AI System

10.3    The AI Agent

10.4    The Blackboard

10.5    The Behavior Tree

10.6    Animation State Machine

10.7    Networking AI

10.8    Conclusion

References

10.1  Introduction

First-person shooters (FPS) are a very specific and popular genre of video games. Many of the general AI principles and techniques are applicable for FPS AI, but they need to be modified to cater to the needs of fast-paced action. The challenge lies in selecting, modifying, and combining algorithms together efficiently, so that AIs can react quickly to player actions. For an AAA FPS game with strict ...