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Unreal Engine 4 AI Programming Essentials

You're reading from   Unreal Engine 4 AI Programming Essentials Create responsive and intelligent game AI using Blueprints in Unreal Engine 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784393120
Length 188 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jie Feng Jie Feng
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Peter Newton Peter Newton
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Game AI 2. Creating Basic AI FREE CHAPTER 3. Adding Randomness and Probability 4. Introducing Movement 5. Giving AI Choices 6. How Does Our AI Sense? 7. More Advanced Movement 8. Creating Patrol, Chase, and Attack AI 9. What Have We Learned? Index

Goal

Our goal for this chapter is to place an AI character in the level that has the blueprint to instruct it to move randomly and indefinitely. We will demonstrate multiple techniques throughout this chapter to get a good grasp of some really basic AI techniques commonly featured in titles. These techniques are listed as follows:

  • First, we want to place an AI character, Hero, in the level that has the blueprint to instruct it to move randomly and indefinitely. We will achieve this by first creating a new third-person project and naming it appropriately. We will then use the default pawn provided from the sample content as the bot. We will create an AIController to control our pawn. We will then provide our AIController with instructions to move our bot randomly and indefinitely.
  • Second, we want to make the AI character follow some basic path. For example, we'll have the AI move along the walls in one direction. We can take our existing project and modify the AIController with new instructions...
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