Unreal Engine 4 AI Programming Essentials

Pawn detection

To give our pawn the most up-to-date information, we need to create an event that will catch and respond to the sensory update events from the AI Perception component. We will establish this by creating a new event that is solely responsible for processing detected pawns. Here are the steps:

1. Let's right-click anywhere and go under Add Event. From there, we want to add a custom event, and we will name the new event Detected Enemies. We have to also create a new actor array parameter named Detected Actors to hold the array of Updated Actors.
2. Now, in the next step, we need to recompile a blueprint to call the AIController and the Detected Enemies function from our OnPerceptionUpdated event:
3. In the next steps, we will handle the transitions ...