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Hello Marleys, nice project, that's good to see some gameplay on the engine

Are you using recast for pathfinding ?

Very nice MG

Very cool!

Are the player and bugs both extended from a root "actor" class?

@Franck : No not Recast, the bug class is autonomous and contains collision avoidance and a "centre of attention algorithm".

 

@Josh : The bugs a class but the player is still a library of functions that I am still "playing" with. I was going to get on with what I did not do yesterday but I'd like to clean up the bug class and tie it into bug "creation" nodes that I can simple place in the scene via the editor so the positions and number of bugs are read from the .sbx. One problem is instancing, I have to have seperate models and scripts to prevent the "do for one do for all" outcome.

 

@Pixel and Dave : Thanks still very much a WIP but slowly coalescing.

Very nice video. I also saw some other videos on your channel. The "AI" is pretty good. You must be proud of it

@RVL: Well for what it is and does, yes. But the problem with raycasts is the micro freezing on the initial cast, which is the same for the "bullets".Not so bad on really basic shapes or primitives but really noticeable on the "bug" model when firing at it and the Player HUD gun model when the bugs collision rays hit it for the first time (or indeed if one bug casts onto another) Having to use individual models to over come the instancing "do for one do for all" outcome means thus far too much micro freezing.

You had all those grenades and you were using bullets?!!

Very impressive and motivational. Curious as to where this will go.

very impressive MG !

good AI work,

i wish i could do that for my cars...

You had all those grenades and you were using bullets?!!

 

@GameCreator : lol yeah, but the bullets are far more fun, and I was just "looking after" the grenades for someone as I was doing some "visuals" for him, so not really my place to show them off besides .. the bullets worked just fine see!!

very impressive MG !

good AI work,

i wish i could do that for my cars...

 

 

Thanks diedir, I guess the principle would work for cars, do you mean on a track? if so waypoints would be needed I think.

yes waypoints are the way to go,

i love your spider kill demo, spiders scare me a lot at that scale...

spiders scare me a lot at that scale

 

 

lol, I think any "creepy crawly" which grew to that size would invoke some degree of trepidation.

Nice demo.

A little suggestion maybe you can try to let your ai predict where player is going, as for now it seem more following the last position where player is.

@Joh: More than likely a value set too low in the playervisible function portion of the class, I see what you mean though, probably did not notice whilst unleashing death on them I expect a few variables still need tweeking as they are still set for the 3rd person testing I did.

Very good work MG, now if you could just get that pesky spider to "learn" how you play....

 

Instancing will be a very nice update..