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Work Experience Journal - Day 13

  • Jan 24, 2019
  • 2 min read

My fourth task for the lead developer was to create a basic AI with: "Locator blueprints that can be placed in the world. (We want to be able to place multiple of these in the world) The AI should be able to "claim" this location. The AI should claim it if the location is quite nearby to the player When the AI claims it, no other AI should be able to claim it. When the AI claims it they should try to make their way to that location and fire at the player when they get there. Heavy AI: Also make a Locator specifically for the heavy AI as we want them to move to different locations.

The heavy AI should have similar AI to the basic but moves slower and has higher health Make sure to use variables for values we might need to change for balancing, Health, speed etc."

I learnt how to create a locator by searching on the Unreal forums and managed to code the AI to go to the locator by modifying the patrol blueprints. By doing this, it has help me improve my problem solving skills and knowledge of arrays which will be very useful one day. There are probably a lot of past projects that could have benefited from using arrays.

The patrolling and locator blueprints
Locator AI Behaviour Tree
The roaming, patrolling and locator AI

Helpful Links

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/359968/beginner-question-locator-inside-a-blueprint-class.html

Harvard Referencing

Sarter, R (2019) All images; 24 January 2019

Wood, S. (2019) Unreal. Discord; 24 January 2019 [online]

Anon (n.d.) Wii - Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Zero Suit Samus - The Models Resource. Available from: https://www.models-resource.com/wii/supersmashbrosbrawl/model/10315/ [Accessed 18 January 2019].

Anon (2016) Beginner Question: Locator inside a Blueprint Class that's editable inside viewport editor? - UE4 AnswerHub. Available from: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/359968/beginner-question-locator-inside-a-blueprint-class.html [Accessed 24 January 2019].

Anon (n.d.) Wii - Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Ganondorf - The Models Resource. Available from: https://www.models-resource.com/wii/supersmashbrosbrawl/model/16477/ [Accessed 24 January 2019].


 
 
 

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