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Unity 2018 Artificial Intelligence Cookbook

You're reading from   Unity 2018 Artificial Intelligence Cookbook Over 90 recipes to build and customize AI entities for your games with Unity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788626170
Length 334 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jorge Palacios Jorge Palacios
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Behaviors - Intelligent Movement FREE CHAPTER 2. Navigation 3. Decision Making 4. The New NavMesh API 5. Coordination and Tactics 6. Agent Awareness 7. Board Games and Applied Search AI 8. Learning Techniques 9. Procedural Content Generation 10. Miscellaneous 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Handling formations

This is a key algorithm for creating flocks or a group of military agents. It is designed to be flexible enough to give you the chance to create your own formations.

The end result of this recipe is having a set of target positions and rotations for each agent in the formation. Then, it is up to you to create the necessary algorithms to move the agent to the previous targets.

We can use the movement algorithms learned in Chapter 1, Behaviors – Intelligent Movement, in order to target these positions.

Getting ready

We will need to create three base classes that are the data types to be used by the high-level classes and algorithms. The Location class is very similar to the Steering class and is used...

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