Comments on: The Interface

By: Smoky78

Smoky78 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:57:53 +0000

thanx a lot for the fast reply. i just found out about the 0.2 seconds in the AI code. thanx again.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:37:36 +0000

Hi Smoky78

The reason is probably because the dontComeCloserRange is to low, it does only look for a new point every 0.2 seconds or something (hard coded) when it reaches the target it will stop and then wait until the target is recalculated next time, if the dontComeCloserRange is a bit higher it will find the next waypoint before it stops,
so either you set dontComeCloserRange to a higher value or you change the AI code to look for a new point more often.

By: Smoky78

Smoky78 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:55 +0000

hi,

grat work and thanx a lot!
one question. i did set up a grid and stuff, and every thing seems to work fine, except one thing. in your examples the caracter keeps walking and never stops, in my case the caracter – a sphere stops for a short time when ever changing the direction, the command also sys stay. i cant figure out how to change that. any idea?

By: admin

admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:52:37 +0000

You are correct! That’s what they are used for.

By: mohydine

mohydine — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:46:13 +0000

Hi,

Would you mind explaining what Node links are used for? I can t get it right. Is is to link 2 grids together?
Thanks !

By: joe

joe — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:48:30 +0000

i can´t believe i did not see this last night!
everything works just fine.
thanks for sharing!

By: joe

joe — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:55:33 +0000

ok, thank you!
i´ll check that.
i love to play around with it, so i will find out!

regards, joe

By: admin

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:49:17 +0000

@joe
The reason can be that the terrain has a much higher resolution than the grid, if so, the terrain might have a bump in the ground but the script wont notice since the nodes was placed on the sides of the bump.
Also, check so the grid shows up in 3d, and not as a flat surface.

You can solve this by either place colliders where you don’t want the player to go, increasing the resolution of the grid or struggle a bit more with the Max Angle and Angle Cost settings to get it good.

By: joe

joe — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:40:29 +0000

maybe i can´t get it right, but the max angle doesn´t seem to work in that way.
the robot just keeps going, crossing every mountain….
excuse my english, i hope you know what i mean!
he doesn´t when i put the robot max slope down, but the path reminds the same, he just cannot walk it.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:00:50 +0000

Hi Joe

So the player can’t reach those nodes you mean?
In the Seeker script there is a variable called Max Angle, that will define the maximum angle that unit can travel.