Techniques and practices of game AI
There exist many techniques to cover different aspects in game AI, from fundamental movement to advanced environment sensing and decision making. Let's look at them one by one.
Navigation
Navigation for AI is usually built up of the following tools:
- Navigation Mesh: Using tools such as Navigation Mesh, also known as NavMesh, you can designate areas in which AI can traverse. NavMesh is a simplified polygonal representation of a level (the green region in the following screenshot), where each polygon acts as a single node connected to its nearby ones. Usually, this process is automated and doesn't require designers to place nodes manually. Using special tools in Unreal, they analyze the geometry of the level and ...
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