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Unity 5.x Game AI Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Unity 5.x Game AI Programming Cookbook Build and customize a wide range of powerful Unity AI systems with over 70 hands-on recipes and techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783553570
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Unity 5.x Game AI Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Behaviors – Intelligent Movement FREE CHAPTER 2. Navigation 3. Decision Making 4. Coordination and Tactics 5. Agent Awareness 6. Board Games AI 7. Learning Techniques 8. Miscellaneous Index

Improving influence with map flooding


The previous influence computation is good when dealing with a simple influence that is based on individual units helping a faction. However, this could lead to holes in the map instead of covering a whole section. One technique to resolve that problem is flooding, based on the Dijkstra algorithm.

Getting ready

In this case, we will blend the faction capability for tagging a vertex, with the unit's logic for having a drop-off function, into a class called Guild. This is a component to include in the game object; one for each desired guild:

using UnityEngine;
using System;
using System.Collections;

public class Guild : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string guildName;
    public int maxStrength;
    public GameObject baseObject;
    [HideInInspector]
    public int strenghth

    public virtual void Awake()
    {
        strength = maxStrength;
    }
}

It also needs a drop-off function. However, this time we wanted to create an example using Euclidean distance...

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