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Unity 2018 Artificial Intelligence Cookbook

You're reading from   Unity 2018 Artificial Intelligence Cookbook Over 90 recipes to build and customize AI entities for your games with Unity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788626170
Length 334 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jorge Palacios Jorge Palacios
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Jorge Elieser P Garrido Jorge Elieser P Garrido
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Behaviors - Intelligent Movement 2. Navigation FREE CHAPTER 3. Decision Making 4. The New NavMesh API 5. Coordination and Tactics 6. Agent Awareness 7. Board Games and Applied Search AI 8. Learning Techniques 9. Procedural Content Generation 10. Miscellaneous 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Extending A* for coordination – A*mbush

After learning how to implement A* for path finding, we will now use its power and flexibility to develop some kind of coordinated behavior in order to ambush the player. This algorithm is especially useful when we want an inexpensive solution for the aforementioned problem, and which also has ease of implementation.

This recipe sets the path for every agent, to be taken into account for ambushing a given vertex or point in the graph.

Getting ready

We need a special component for the agents called Lurker. This class will hold the paths that are to be used later in the navigation process.

The following is the code for the Lurker class:

using UnityEngine; 
using System.Collections...
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