Steering Behaviours in Lua

[Shando]

[ant0N]

looking forward to this!!!

[SolarPortal]

nice, this should be interesting to see your take on it all

Note: On Steering behaviors. Have a look at the "entity.inverseTransform()" to get the amount of steer you need to point at another object.

[StarFire]

Looking forward to seeing your approach to the AI

[Shando]

Hi All,

Well, I think that my code is now in a state where it can be donated to the Skyline Community

I have made a (very) quick video that demonstrates "Seek", "Follow" and "Obstacle Avoidance":



There are 3 files that I have put together (the links are to my own OneDrive account):

1) the main code (AI Steering Code.lua)
2) comments on how to use the main code (AI Steering Code - Comments on Usage.txt)
3) some example onInit functions (AI Steering Code - example init functions.txt)

At the moment, the full AI code needs to be added to every entity that needs to use it, but this will change with the next update, when we will be able to "include" a lua file in a script.

The AI uses some of Skyline's physics functions, so all entities will need to have Rigid-Body Physics or the AI code will not work.

If you have any questions, or problems with implementing, let me know and I'll try to help.

Shando

PS: to turn on the "feeler" rays as shown in the video, just uncomment "physics.rayDebugLines" in the "aiObstacleAvoid" function.
PPS: the code is not commented, but hopefully should be relatively easy to follow.

[SolarPortal]

woah, thats alot of code lol
nice one m8, will have to have a play at some point
have you thought about making it an AI pack on the store, as it will certainly boost the content.
Will get the include to everyone asap. Remember though that skyline event functions like onInit, onUpdate etc.. cannot be used in the included file as they will not be called.

[Shando]

[SolarPortal]

great plan, fair license

Again nice work, its great to see new stuff made with skyline that is quite comprehensive.
Looking forward to seeing some games you and other users are going to make with this new AI code.

[StarFire]

Nice one Shando
Going to have a play with the ai later

[Shando]

[SolarPortal]

i didn't know it was possible to name the file when entering and use it like in your example.
Even loadfile() i thought just gave you the ability of executing the function using "()" instead of accessing through "."

I will look into this at some point

[Shando]

[SolarPortal]

i don't think its possible from the c++ side as there is no data to return. Unless there is a way of grabbing the last results from the state etc... I think this is going to need some research to solve.

Possibly just make a baseclass and instantiate at the top of your script or inside the lua to do the same sort of thing