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Did you know: Field of view for player or enemy

Did you know: Field of view for player or enemy

Postby SolarPortal » 23 Apr 2015, 12:38

Did you know that you can calculate the field of view of a player and check whether an enemy or player is in range in front of you.

Use this lua command in an update loop:

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direction = newType.vec3(entity.getDirection(entity.getIDFromTag("enemy"), obj));
forward = newType.vec3(entity.getForward(obj));
angle = vector3.angle(direction.x, direction.y, direction.z, forward.x, forward.y, forward.z );
sky.lprint("angle: "..angle);


Great for enemy visibility or player targeting etc..

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Re: Did you know: Field of view for player or enemy

Postby ant0N » 23 Apr 2015, 16:23

Thank you! this is what I need. :D :D
Sorry for my English. :)
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Re: Did you know: Field of view for player or enemy

Postby SolarPortal » 23 Apr 2015, 16:24

lol cool :)
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Re: Did you know: Field of view for player or enemy

Postby SolarPortal » 23 Apr 2015, 16:54

Updated with an image to make sense to non-scripters
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Re: Did you know: Field of view for player or enemy

Postby TattieBoJangle » 23 Apr 2015, 17:05

Will this work With AI to save on performance with Pathfinding.
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Re: Did you know: Field of view for player or enemy

Postby SolarPortal » 23 Apr 2015, 17:45

yes, this can be used for enemy AI or other NPC's in the scene, not just the player. It is also not physics based, so there are many use cases for this snippet.

This could be used to chase the player if you wander into their sights or sneak up on them. But once they have sighted you, you need to use waypoint(spline paths) or navmesh(pathfinding) in order to follow the player around a complex environment, otherwise they end up running into a wall. The best way of saying is that it compliments a pathfinding solution(spline paths or navmesh).

Hope that makes sense :)
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