Post by snotskie on Nov 8, 2008 14:12:58 GMT -5
im so happy
the other week i thought of a really good way to generate some ai decisions based off of path and game theory, the technique itself i dubbed shadow theory, b/c it makes shadows on the path to represent where the character would RATHER not go, instead of only saying where it CANT go. this way it creates the most efficient path instead of just the quickest, allowing it to walk around any obstacles/walls in its way (just think of those dumb ai's where the guy just runs into the wall trying to get to you on the other side)
well, today i was making a crap version of pong where you can make an "arena" to play in as a bitmap. your paddle can go anywhere on the screen, the really dark things are walls, the greyish make the ball change direction/slow down, and bright things are just normal.
well, i made this "arena" to play in, and noticed that the paths the ball liked to take (no matter how randomly generated) would always remind me of paths taken in my shadow theory, so i drew in colors where the bad shadows, good shadows, and recommended paths would be, and what do you know, the ball would ALWAYS have a trend of following the paths.
red - bad shadows/ blue - good shadows/ green - paths
i might post the game itself up and the arena to go with it later if anybody would like to play it (or watch it play itself, more ai
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