Behavior Trees

Behavior Trees act as flowcharts to determine the actions of an AI. Much like the Animation Blueprint, we can use external variables to determine which paths the Behavior Tree takes.

To see this in action, let's create our own Behavior Tree and replace the simple code we've created for our AI with it.

Creating and running a Behavior Tree

Behavior Trees are created like most other assets, so let's head into the Content Browser:

1. Go to the ThirdPersonBP\Blueprints folder.
2. Right-click, and, under the Artificial Intelligence section, select Behavior Tree.
3. Name it EnemyBehavior.
4. Before we start using this asset, let's set up our EnemyController to use it. Open the EnemyController blueprint.

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