How to make AI circle around the player

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Hello,

I’m currently working on Unity 3.5 and using the new NavMeshAgent stuff and loving it. I just have one issue. I have a sphere chasing the player and when it gets to a certain distance of the player, I have the sphere stop in it’s place. When the player gets out of range again, the sphere will chase the player again. I want the sphere to circle around the player when it is within distance. Below is some code.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Surround : MonoBehaviour {
	public Transform m_player;
	private NavMeshAgent AI;
	public Transform sphere;

	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
		AI = GetComponent<NavMeshAgent>();
		AI.SetDestination(m_player.position);
	
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
		AI.destination = m_player.position;
		sphere.LookAt(m_player);
		AI.speed = 5;
		if (AI.remainingDistance <= AI.stoppingDistance) {
			Ai.speed = 0;
		}
	}
	
	void OnTriggerEnter() {
        Destroy(sphere.gameObject);
    }
}

Thanks!

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Here was a similar question: AI: Organized attacks - Questions & Answers - Unity Discussions

I gave some code there, which should definitely help you in your situation also.