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Unity 2017 Game AI Programming - Third Edition

You're reading from   Unity 2017 Game AI Programming - Third Edition Leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence to program smart entities for your games

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477901
Length 254 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Raymundo Barrera Raymundo Barrera
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Preface 1. The Basics of AI in Games FREE CHAPTER 2. Finite State Machines and You 3. Implementing Sensors 4. Finding Your Way 5. Flocks and Crowds 6. Behavior Trees 7. Using Fuzzy Logic to Make Your AI Seem Alive 8. How It All Comes Together 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing the example

The example scene is ready to play right out of the box, so if you didn't get the itch to modify any of the default settings, you can just hit the play button and watch your tank go. You'll notice we've added a canvas with a label explaining the controls to the player. There is nothing fancy going on here; it's just a simple "press this button to do that" kind of instruction:

Simple instructions to guide the player

The example project is a great example to expand upon and to have fun with. With the concepts learned throughout this book, you can expand on the types of towers, the tank's abilities, the rules, or even give the tank more complex, nuanced behavior. For now, we can see that the concepts of state machines, navigation, perception and sensing, and steering, all come together in a simple yet amusing example. The following...

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