Waypoints

[Jazz]

Playing with waypoints after checking out Nick's tutorial (Thanks Nick!) and thought I'd play with them using a different method.

With this script you can use any entity as a waypoint, including the player, barrels, pivots, etc. Remember the larger the entity the larger the range detection must be.

They can be a child of anything or not a child. Just don't make it a child of a moving entity.

They will go in order of targets entered or if Random roaming is checked it will be (duh) random.

Make sure to create a navmesh. So far I've only tested with 5 entities roaming simultaneously.

Fun to mess around with

 

Edit: Added simple smoothing

AIwaypoint.lua

[YouGroove]

Is the path navigation smoothed like a curve to avoid sudden direction change at each point ?

Making and using waypoints hsould be part of the editor and the engine.

[Jazz]

No. I haven't tried that yet and so far I don't require it. Could always smooth it by making more waypoints.

[YouGroove]

Could always smooth it by making more waypoints.

It's more non required work compared t oa simple smooth.

I don't need it , i have already my AI and system, but it could had been good for people using it with characters.