Help Visualising Structure

[Akairem]

I want to have a structure where, upon seeing the player, the AI will seek them. But if the player moves out of vision, I want the AI to begin searching before returning to wander.

I'm having a hard time figuring out how to structure this. I originally thought a conditional evaluator would work, but it doesn't run continuously so I can't use it. And I'm not sure if there is a way or not for me to end seek when can see is no longer valid.

Any ideas at all?

 

[Justin]

Search will search forever so you will need a way to interrupt it. You could use the Parallel Selector with a Wait task to do that, sort of similar to:

--------------------------Selector
------/----------------|--------------\
--Sequence---Parallel Selector---Wander
------/-----\------|--------|
-Can See-Seek---Wait--Search

I also recommend that you go through these documents which should how to structure a pretty advanced tree:

Opsive Character Controllers - Opsive

This integration package can be downloaded on the downloads page. The Opsive Character Controllers are integrated with Behavior Designer allowing your AI to perform any . . .

opsive.com

Solo Tree - Opsive

When you open the Solo behavior tree within Behavior Designer you’ll see (click to enlarge): At this point the game is not running so the . . .

opsive.com

 

[Akairem]

Search will search forever so you will need a way to interrupt it. You could use the Parallel Selector with a Wait task to do that, sort of similar to:

--------------------------Selector
------/----------------|--------------\
--Sequence---Parallel Selector---Wander
------/-----\------|--------|
-Can See-Seek---Wait--Search

I also recommend that you go through these documents which should how to structure a pretty advanced tree:

Opsive Character Controllers - Opsive

This integration package can be downloaded on the downloads page. The Opsive Character Controllers are integrated with Behavior Designer allowing your AI to perform any . . .

opsive.com

Solo Tree - Opsive

When you open the Solo behavior tree within Behavior Designer you’ll see (click to enlarge): At this point the game is not running so the . . .

opsive.com

That's really useful. Thanks so much!