Hey, this is a really great-looking package! I love the demo, it’d be useful as a starting place for so many things
A few questions:
I see characters using steering at a really reasonable level for $50. Is the pathfinding / steering code reasonably easy to use?
If we need to cause characters to move, stop, then move again, or move perpendicularly to the player’s vector (dodging behaviors, strafing, etc.) how would we go about that? Just thought I’d ask; the classic steering behaviors for a lot of TDS games (flying games in the style of Time Pilot, s’mups like Robokill, etc.) require this kind of behavior.
What’s the AI state machine like? The behaviors of the Marines and the “cops” and the various crowds were really impressive. How big of an issue is it going to be to poke beneath the hood, if we want to do various minor tweaks?
What’s the character inventory system like? Can we just call a function and attach a weapon to a character bone or named GameObject, and then it responds to user control input?
I noted that all of the levels are flat. Can the steering code deal with ramps gracefully?
Anyhow, I really am very excited by this product, and am hoping to use it when I’m done with my current project- I really love the idea of dropping some content and game design onto this and having a game, fast!
I have updated the package readme to include info on how to fix the AI problems, which are related to tags/layers not being supported by unity package. Here is the fix:
Go to Edit->Project Settings->Tags.
Click the little arrow next to Tags to drop the array down, and a “PathNode” tag.
Then, add the following layers, starting at “User Layer 8”:
Ground
Civilian
Enemy
World
Item
Dead
Military
Map
Choose File->Save Project, and you’re good to go!
This is necessary because Project settings like Tags and Layers are not included in Unity
packages. If you would like to see this support added, give a vote to this request on the
Unitty feedback system:
All the above depends on your level of coding competency, I guess. I have tried to keep the code as “simple” as possible with detailed commenting, but of course even the simplest AI code tends to get complicated pretty quickly. There is no “pathfinding” per se, merely path following and obstacle avoidance. There is no A*, for example.
Yep, it’s pretty straightforward. There is a Pickup() function that handles all the attaching for you, and also automatically calls a Drop() function if the character already carries a weapon. It should be simple matter of creating/implementing a new weapon to your specs, and as long as it is correctly implemented, everything should work.
I believe it should. The movement code (including AI) is based on XZ, pretty much ignoring Y, so movement up/down ramps/hills should not be an issue.
Thank you. Very best of luck, I hope it serves you well!
