Hello you all !
I created this topic because as a beginner with game engines, I have troubles to get a clear Overview of the logic, process and ways to create AI depending of the needs.
Internet is full of really well made tutorials but it can be really challenging to correlate them like “Should I use Pawn sensing or Ai perception”.
I am not so much looking for extremely specific and technical answers. I’d rather understand the overall logic to know what I should look for, to use the best of the plethora of tutorials already online !
Enough introducing, more concrete !
So I am trying to create a fairly simple AI :
In a pretty large environment, I have different kinds of animals (for instance, birds and rodents).
I want theme to live their life roaming around, and interact with the human player.
To start simple :
Let’s talk about the rodent :
-He from random position to random position within his territory.
-As soon as the player enters his field of view, he runs to the opposite direction to a safe place (let say x meters away) then goes back to his roaming.
Here is an “on purpose” naive Behavior Tree to illustrate my wishes :
(This is a first basic iteration of what I have in mind, but will increment)
I am making my own assets using Maya.
For this step, I have :
-A Third Person controllable Character made out of a Character Blue Print filled with a,
-skeletal Mesh and an,
-Animation Blue Print (Anim Instance) running a,
-“Locomotion” State Machine filled with an,
-Idle/Walk/Run Blend Space
-The Rodent Skeletal Mesh and two animations, Idle and Walking.
I’ve been trying multiple tutorials but lets pretend I haven’t and start with only the febrile knowledge I acquired of Unreal’s logic, Functions, Get/Set etc…
My first question would be :
Pawn Sensing or Ai Perception ? what are the pros and cons ?
Thanks 