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Pluralsight

Building AI-driven Characters Using Playmaker in Unity

via Pluralsight

Overview

In this course, you will learn to understand AI character behavior by building a small game with a state-driven UI, a point and click character control system, and an enemy character driven by Navmesh and Animator movement.

It can be difficult to visualize something as abstract as the behavior of an AI character in a game, let alone implement the code to make it work. In this course, Building AI-driven Characters Using Playmaker in Unity, you will use Playmaker to build a working UI. First, you will implement a point-and-click player control system driven by Navmesh. Then, you will add a ‘brain’ inside an enemy character, all without writing a line of code.Finally, you will sketch out a flow diagram of state-driven behavior, then add actions to that diagram to get the gameplay working for real. By the end of the course, you will know how to prototype your own games using Playmaker. Required Software: Unity 2017 and Playmaker.

Syllabus

  • Course Overview 1min
  • Introduction and Project Layout 3mins
  • Building a Navmesh Agent Point and Click Control 44mins
  • Adding an Attack Sequence 19mins
  • The Powerup: Communicating Between FSMs 55mins
  • The Enemy: Enhancing an Agent's Decisions 56mins

Taught by

Shane Whelan

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