Getting our soldier to run

Now that we have an animated agent, we can get the agent to run around the obstacle course while animating with the same steering techniques we used previously. First, we set the agent's path, which is provided by the SandboxUtilities_GetLevelPath function, and then we request the ASM to let the agent play the run_forward animation.

Setting a path through the obstacle course

You can set a path through the obstacle course as follows:

SoldierAgent.lua:

require "SandboxUtilities"

function Agent_Initialize(agent)

    ...

    _soldierAsm:RequestState(
        Soldier.SoldierStates.STAND_RUN_FORWARD);

    -- Assign the default level path and adjust the agent's speed 
    -- to match the soldier's steering scalars.
    agent:SetPath(SandboxUtilities_GetLevelPath());
    agent:SetMaxSpeed(agent:GetMaxSpeed() * 0.5);
end

Running the obstacle course

Actually getting our agent to move requires us to calculate the steering forces based on the set path and then apply these forces...