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Unreal Engine 4 AI Programming Essentials

By : Jie Feng, Peter Newton
Book Image

Unreal Engine 4 AI Programming Essentials

By: Jie Feng, Peter Newton

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
Index

Summary


This chapter contains everything necessary to get started with some impressive AI. We talked about Behavior Trees, which help create decisions for your AI based on situations it encounters. Then, we talked about creating a mid-range attack for you, the player, and the AI to use. We set up the controllers and began setting up the controllers for more functions. The last thing to do before getting everything running in Behavior Tree was to set up the waypoints for the AI to patrol. Finally, we integrated everything into Behavior Tree.

You just learned how to create the basic form of game AI using the tools available within Unreal Engine 4.

We are done! We have created some fun and challenging AI. Let's now get ready for our next chapter. After learning all of this material on AI and Unreal Engine 4 and how they mix together, it is important that we spend a chapter reviewing everything that has been talked about. I will also point out the things we could have done differently. Then, we...