Immersive AI Engine by Gavin Bunney

#1 Since those file links are dead, at least for me at the moment, found the project on github.

#2 Fixed.

#3 As long as it's generic enough, putting it in the engine is cool. Many AI solutions are genre specific, if not application specific. The best soccer AI on earth is a very mediocre FPS bot....

#4 Paul
A few months ago I was thinking the same thing. Maybe a default AI solution could be produced from it.

#5 Doesn't seem like a lot of Work to convert it.. definetly doable!

#6 It's been ages since I last looked at this. What does it do about sensing?

#7 Dan,
Last I checked it don't handle sensing very well, but if someone was to add some kind of sensory functions to it. Plus some kind of editor I think it would make a great start for default AI in T3D..Especially now that you've release walkabout under open source :)

#8 I have an AI sensor implementation here. I don't quite remember how finished or elegant it is, but it's definitely working. I'll throw it into a clean project at some point for people to have a play around with. It's a new class, but it does require some changes to Trigger, because at the moment it's not friendly to subclassing. Those changes are all in the branch. EDIT: and here

I'll have a read of the design docs again when I have time. Though I can say that I'd cast my vote in favour of just creating some useful general-purpose AI classes, like state machines and behaviour trees. I know Jeff is doing something like this in the ECS branch, and I've been using my own simple scripted state machine for a while now.

One of my goals for the near future is to clean up Walkabout and merge most of its features into the main engine, subject to community approval (though I think that's there already :P). I'd also like to see about multithreading it properly. That'd also be a good time to start looking at a built-in AI solution, or at least to start refactoring the engine in places (for example, the changes I made to Trigger) to better support AI plugins.

#9 awesome....
so until then, how about a few of us make a plugin for T3D MIT with this?

can someone convert this and then we test it to see what all it needs?

#10 Paul, remember this is Torque. You've got the source code - do it yourself! ;)

A plugin would be great to see. As I told Jeff Raab on IRC, I'm not sold that this is the best solution yet, though I'm sure it'd be useful and people would use it. I myself am going to be looking into GOAP when I can, as an alternative to this.

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