Is there any sources where I can buy AI characters for use in architectural scenes. I’m not a character modeller so I’m looking for something pretty much straight out-of-the-box.
Are you looking for models, or AI-related code? (I assume models since you mentioned not being a character modeler, but then I’m wondering why you mentioned AI.)
Both. I’m an noob at scripting, so some steer on the AI based stuff would be good too.
For models, maybe try sites like turbosquid, or search the forums for (e.g.) ‘free models’. I’m sure others on the forum know of good resources - maybe they’ll see this and be able to offer some suggestions.
For AI, that depends entirely on what type of behavior you’re looking for, so we’ll probably need more details in order to be able to help in that area.
For example at the moment I’m working on a shopping centre, so it’d be really nice to have people randomly walking up and down the mall, occasionally stopping at the shop windows.
I think in that case the implementation will largely depend on the complexity of the environment. If it’s a large building with obstacles and multiple different areas, the two options that come to mind are to use a pathfinding system, or to use steering behaviors or a ‘wall-following’ type of local pathfinding.
If it’s just one area though (e.g. a rectangular area with shops around the perimeter), you could probably get away with something more ad hoc.