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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788477901

Length 254 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Author (1):

Raymundo Barrera

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

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

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Preface

Welcome to the wonderful world of AI in games, or, more specifically, AI in Unity. This book focuses on the Unity implementations of AI-related features and also delves into the basic concepts behind those features. It even provides ground-up examples of some of them. Along the way, this book provides example projects and sample code for the reader to follow, play with, and, hopefully, build upon in their own projects.

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