{"author_name":"AnomalousUnderdog","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[],"epoch":1375078800,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"42205","p_author":"AnomalousUnderdog","p_authorkey":"507309","p_urlkey":"77828","p_title":"Strat Souls: WIP 11","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1375078800","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"507309","us_name":"AnomalousUnderdog","us_username":"AnomalousUnderdog","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"
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So I got obstacle avoidance working, with thanks to some pseudocode explanations on boids here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Units will still get stuck occasionally however, as there’s no escaping the need for pathfinding.<\/p>\n

Now I’m wondering if my old code for\u00a0influence maps<\/a>\u00a0will help with this. Although influence maps are used for tactical reasoning, they are very similar to potential fields<\/a>\u00a0(which is the one used as an alternative or supplement to traditional pathfinding, i.e. A*), so I think I can use the same code.<\/p>\n

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I shared my simple test implementation of Influence Maps in Unity.\u00a0You guys can check out the source code\u00a0here<\/a>. Here’s my forum thread<\/a> on the Unity forums.<\/p>\n

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I think you need a combination of both obstacle avoidance and pathfinding to get good AI movement.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I would consider this tolerable for now, so I’ll move on to making a few more units.<\/p>\n \n

Tags: progress<\/a>, screenshot<\/a>, Strat Souls<\/a>, unity<\/a>, unity3d<\/a><\/p>","time":"July 29th, 2013 1:20 am","title":"Strat Souls: WIP 11"}