Placing the enemy AI
In this recipe, we will show how you may place down simple AI grunts from the Entities rollout for the player to fight against.
Getting ready
Before we begin, you must have the Sandbox 3 open
Then open
My_Level.cry
How to do it...
In the RollupBar, click on the Entity button.
Under the AI folder, find Grunt.
With the Follow Terrain enabled, click-and-drag anywhere on your terrain.
How it works...
The Grunt is a simple AI entity that packages a whole lot of extra properties that we will touch on later in this chapter. The Grunt itself is a simplistic human AI that borrows a lot of its functionality from the basic actor defined in LUA, which means it shares a lot of the human characteristics which the player also utilizes, such as movement.
There's more...
The AI can be placed as Entity Archetypes. Although not essential, it is a very good practice for the development team to create templates of enemies for the player to fight (a.k.a. Archetypes). These Archetypes will hold any...
