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Send in the Cavalry
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:44 pm
by Simon
Aartform Games Blog - Send in the Cavalry
Here is the Lo-Poly horse in an action scene, complete with rider! I feel sorry for the horses who will get deafened when they start shooting...
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:01 pm
by sculptor
very dynamic and what great fun. Makes me think of "the charge of the light brigade"
There must be some AI going on here.
Do you have your own game engine and what sort of interface do you have to it ?
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:59 pm
by Simon
This is my own engine, StormRaid (Based on DirectX), and it has AI agents written in C++. I use a fairly simple little Finite State Machine to drive their aggressive behaviour mixed with a Flocking Algorithm to stop them colliding into each other.
It is a long way from perfect - I think the horses should end up moving more like motorbikes and bank as they round corners. At the moment they just ride into firing distance, shoot a bit, then the stronger side charges the weaker side as they try to flee.