Chapter 4. Introducing Movement
In this chapter, you will learn how to introduce movement into our AI characters within Unreal Engine 4. We will also go over the fundamental algorithms that allow us to instruct our characters to navigate to a point on a 2D plane. We will use other tools that will aid our AI in navigating the designated paths.
The topics that we will cover in this chapter include the following:
- Path Finding
- NavMesh
- Navigation and navigation modifier
- Blueprint navigation nodes
Overview
In this chapter, movement will be the main goal. How we achieve movement or use other tools to introduce movement are the questions we have to ask. Now that you're comfortable with some of the tools we use in AI, we have to make the AI capable of its most ...
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