Hi,
First I am not a programmer, so my skills are limited to Blueprints.
My goal is to simulate a crowd a bit similar to this game:
Basically, I need to simulate several characters waiting in a line like in a Theme Park. Each character in the line should never overtake the character in front of him. (I know this is not always the case in real life, but I want to keep things simple enough) Then, each character should know when the character in front of him is moving forward so that it can move as well. In a nutshell, I would like to be able to spawn several groups of people following each other and keep track of each group in a line.
I have done some research and I found this tutorial about animating characters following a spline:
I have also come across this topic, which explains well how to simulate a crowd:
I would appreciate if someone who is quite experienced in the AI field could give me a few guidelines to start with.
.Should I use “real” AI with behavior trees and a navmesh or should I use animated characters following a spline with almost no AI logic?
.What kind of logic should I implement for each character
.Where should start I optimize things to keep good performances? (lighting, mesh LODs, animations, etc…)
I hope I have been clear enough.