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If you are a game developer or a general programmer who wishes to focus on programming systems and techniques to build your game AI without creating low-level interfaces in a game engine, then this book is for you. Knowledge of C++ will come in handy to debug the entirety of the AI sandbox and expand on the features present within the book, but it is not required.

What you will learn

Create an animation state machine to drive AI animations within Lua

Build and find paths on navigation meshes

Write and debug Lua scripts within a fullscale Lua IDE

Develop decision logic with behavior trees, state machines, and decision trees to build modular, reusable AI

Manage short and longterm knowledge representation with blackboard data structures

Add sensory perception to give AIs the ability to see and hear

Develop highlevel tactics with multiple AIs based on influence maps

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Jimmy franco Dec 10, 2014

This book is amazing , I recomend that you buy it and buy as a gift for all ur friends it's so informational and I must say I enjoyed reading it .

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CPallini Dec 24, 2014

The book uses Lua scripting for implementing AI on a 3D game.Lua executes in a C++ framework (the sandbox) on the top of open source libraries like Ogre3D.Pros: - Lua scripting in a C++ framework is a very happy choice. - Focus is on practical AI. - The sandbox C++ code looks solid and is full accessible. - The companion code works out of the box.Cons: - In my opinion, the code/text ratio in the book is too high, more explanations would have been welcomed. To sum up, this is a good book, backed up by solid code (and good open source libraries) and you can actually script AI in a 3D game. Please note, in order to enjoy the book, you have to download the companion source code.

Mr. Gibbins Jul 22, 2019

This book is informative but hard to get you're head around unless you run lua on in c++ environment, if like me you don't have access to the c++ environment because the game engine doesn't allow you access then it's quite hard to figure out how to use the I formation provided with the system they use.

Learning game AI programming with Lua: Leverage the power of Lua programming to create game AI that focuses on motion, animation, and tactics

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