Unreal Engine 4 AI Programming Essentials

Following the agent

We want our Agent to follow its leader agent in whichever direction it goes. While still following the other logic to bounce off walls and the movement behavior we plan to introduce, we will create an example showing how this will affect the agent's movement as follows:

This step requires us to create a few variables and one function. We want to hold our Follower and Leader actors when operating in a free setup. We also need LeaderDirection to hold the direction that the agent should be moving in. Lastly, we can mark agents to be followers or leaders by enabling or disabling a Boolean called isLeader.

With these variables, we can ...