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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

Creating dynamic NavMeshes with obstacles

There are times when our levels have dynamic obstacles and we need the agent to avoid those obstacles as well. Let's imagine an MMORPG or a MOBA, where the minions from our hero also need to avoid obstacles in order to reach the target. We could implement a difficult algorithm to blend the navigation with the obstacle avoidance, or we could leverage the power of a dynamic NavMesh to get the same result, with little to no code disruption.

In this recipe, we will learn how to adapt a NavMesh to be dynamic and react to moving obstacles, so our agents can avoid them and reach the target successfully.

Getting ready

It is important to know how the NavMesh basics work, and how to build...

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