In this chapter, we started by introducing game AI and discussing why it is important for our gaming experience. Then, we illustrated most of the used game AI techniques and what they are capable of. The corresponding UE4 tools for game AI were also mentioned to provide a bigger picture of the content we will cover throughout this book. In the next chapter, we will create our basic AI by setting up an AI-controlled player and adding some simple behavior to it.
Unreal Engine 4 AI Programming Essentials
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Unreal Engine 4 AI Programming Essentials
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Overview of this book
Unreal Engine is a powerful game development engine that provides rich functionalities to create 2D and 3D games. Developers have the opportunity to build cross-platform mobile and desktop games from scratch. This book will show you how to apply artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to your Unreal project using blueprints as your scripting language. You will start with an introduction to AI, and learn how it is applied to gaming. Then you'll jump right in and create a simple AI bot and apply basic behaviors to allow it to move randomly. As you progress, you'll find out how to implement randomness and probability traits. Using NavMesh, you will impart
navigation components such as character movement, MoveTo nodes, settings, and world objects, and implement Behavior Trees. At the end of the book, you will troubleshoot any issues that might crop up while building the game.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Unreal Engine 4 AI Programming Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Introduction to Game AI
Creating Basic AI
Adding Randomness and Probability
Introducing Movement
Giving AI Choices
How Does Our AI Sense?
More Advanced Movement
Creating Patrol, Chase, and Attack AI
What Have We Learned?
Index
Customer Reviews