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Unity 2017 Game AI Programming - Third Edition - Third Edition
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Unity 2017 Game AI Programming - Third Edition - Third Edition

by Raymundo Barrera, Aung Sithu Kyaw, Thet Naing Oo
January 2018
Beginner
254 pages
6h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Unity 2017 Game AI Programming - Third Edition - Third Edition

Setting a destination

Now that we've set up our AI agent, we need a way to tell it where to go. Our sample project provides a script named Target.cs that does just that.

This is a simple class that does three things:

  • Shoots a ray from the camera origin to the mouse world position using a ray
  • Updates the marker position
  • Updates the destination property of all the NavMesh agents

The code is fairly straightforward. The entire class looks like this:

using UnityEngine;using UnityEngine.AI;public class Target : MonoBehaviour{    private NavMeshAgent[] navAgents;    public Transform targetMarker;    private void Start ()    {      navAgents = FindObjectsOfType(typeof(NavMeshAgent)) as NavMeshAgent[];    }    private void UpdateTargets ( Vector3 targetPosition )    {
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