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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Unreal Engine

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 FREE CHAPTER

2. Making the First Steps in the World of AI

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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Overriding the Navigation System

From the Mode Panel, you are able to drag into the level a special actor called Nav System Config Override.

This actor allows you to override the built-in Navigation System by using another one. Of course, you will have to develop it first, and this would need a lot of effort.

Reasons why you should substitute the default Navigation System (or maybe used along with another one) is mainly due to overcome limitations. What about air-units; how can they do a 3D Pathfinding? How about spiders who have a surface pathfinding?

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Authors (1)

Francesco Sapio

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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