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You're reading from Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Unreal Engine Everything you want to know about Game AI using Blueprints or C++

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788835657

Length 552 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Author (1):

Francesco Sapio

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Unreal Framework

2. Making the First Steps in the World of AI FREE CHAPTER

3. Behavior Trees and Blackboards

4. Navigation

5. Environment Querying System

6. Agent Awareness

7. Extending Behavior Trees

8. Crowds

9. Section 2: Designing and Implementing Behavior Trees

10. Designing Behavior Trees - Part I

11. Designing Behavior Trees - Part II

12. Designing Behavior Trees - Part III

13. Section 3: Debugging Methods

14. Debugging Methods for AI - Logging

15. Debugging Methods for AI - Navigation, EQS, and Profiling

16. Debugging Methods for AI - The Gameplay Debugger

17. Going Beyond

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Section 1: The Unreal Framework

In this section, we are going to explore in depth the built-in Unreal AI Framework. We will start from what are Behavior Trees and Blackboard, and we will proceed in learning about the Navigation System, the Environmental Querying System and the Perception System. Towards the end of this section, we will also understand how Unreal handles large Crowds, and how we can extend (both in Blueprint and C++) our Behavior Trees, by creating custom Tasks, Decorators and Services.

The following chapters will be covered in this section:

Chapter 1, Moving the First Steps in the AI World
Chapter 2, Behavior Trees and Blackboards
Chapter 3, Navigation
Chapter 4, Environment Querying System
Chapter 5, Agent Awareness
Chapter 6, Extending Behavior Trees
Chapter 7, Crowds

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Authors (1)

Francesco Sapio

Francesco Sapio received his Master of Science in Engineering in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics degree from Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, a couple of semesters in advance, graduating with summa cum laude; he is currently a researcher at the same university. He is an Unreal and Unity 3D expert, skilled game designer, and an experienced user of major graphics programs. He helped the development of many games (both educational and commercial). He is also an active writer on the topic of game development. Finally, Francesco loves math, philosophy, logic, and puzzle solving, but most of all, creating video gamesthanks to his passion for game designing and programming.

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