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Unreal Engine 4 AI Programming Essentials

You're reading from   Unreal Engine 4 AI Programming Essentials Create responsive and intelligent game AI using Blueprints in Unreal Engine 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784393120
Length 188 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jie Feng Jie Feng
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Peter Newton Peter Newton
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Preface 1. Introduction to Game AI FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Basic AI 3. Adding Randomness and Probability 4. Introducing Movement 5. Giving AI Choices 6. How Does Our AI Sense? 7. More Advanced Movement 8. Creating Patrol, Chase, and Attack AI 9. What Have We Learned? Index

Adding the challenge

Now, we will add line traces to the AI character. In our demonstration, we will use traces to detect the wall in front of the pawn. Other examples of using traces in the AI include Line of Sight checking, getting surface rotation, and getting nearby actors.

Let's go back to Unreal Engine Level Editor and look within Content Browser. Perform the following steps:

  1. Rename our MyController blueprint Hero; this will act as the player in this scenario.
  2. Open our Hero blueprint and go to the EventGraph section.
  3. Now, remove every node except the Event Tick and Move to Location nodes. We will replace these with new blueprint scripting:
    Adding the challenge

    Blueprint after removing unnecessary nodes

  4. Pull from the return exec pin on the Event Tick node and create a Delay node.
  5. Set the Duration value to .05 so that it will update relatively fast.
  6. Now, we have to get the location from the pawn to create line traces. We will also use the right vector to face the pawn to the right from the pawn's current...
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