A Simple 2D AI system for Flock Movement of Birds/Fish/Cows/Pretty Much Anything with no director.
Following a set of 3 simple rules that described the movements of flocks.
- The members of a flock tends towards its center
- The flock aligns its rotation
- The flock tries to not overcrowd its self
These were refereed to as Cohesion, Alignment and Separation respectively. The goal being to create a realistic looking emergent movement system for birds/fish/cows where each agent, called a boid, makes its own decisions.
The asset provides the Behavior tree, Actor, and AI Tasks for a developer to get a 2D flock system working instantly.
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