Unity 2018 Artificial Intelligence Cookbook - Second Edition

Getting ready

We need to define certain data structures for setting up everything before implementing the main steps:

1. First, we'll create the data structure for handling data bits in a flexible manner, as shown in the following code:

public struct BlackboardDatum{  public int id;  public string type;  public object value;}

2. Next, we'll create the class defining the expert, as follows:

public abstract class BlackboardExpert{  public virtual float GetInsistence(Blackboard board)  {    return 0f;  }  public virtual void Run(Blackboard board){}}

3. Then, we create the data structure for saving actions taken by the experts, as shown in the following code:

public struct BlackboardAction{  public object expert;  public string name; public System.Action action; ...