Title: Unity AI Programming Essentials
Author: Curtis Bennett, Dan Violet Sagmiller
Length: 158 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2014-12-26
ISBN-10: 1783553553
ISBN-13: 9781783553556
Use Unity3D, a popular game development ecosystem, to add realistic AI to your games quickly and effortlessly
About This Book
Implement pathfinding, pathfollowing, and use navigation mesh generation to move your AI characters within the game environment
Use behaviour trees to design logic for your game characters and make them “think”
A practical guide that will not only cover the basics of AI frameworks but also will teach how to customize them
Who This Book Is For
This book is aimed at developers who know the basics of game development with Unity and want to learn how to add AI to their games. You do not need any previous AI knowledge; this book will explain all the essential AI concepts and show you how to add and use them in your games.
In Detail
Unity is a powerful cross-platform game creation system that includes a game engine and integrated development environment (IDE). AI programming in Unity is a key task for any game developer as it gives you the ability to make computer characters think and behave like a living organism.
This book focuses on the different AI tasks that are essential for game development using Unity. It includes topics such as defining "minds" for your characters with behavior trees. Furthermore, it covers more specialized AI tasks such as how to implement AI crowds and how to create driving AI for vehicles. We have a section dedicated to NavMesh, one of the most important aspects of pathfinding, that will show you how to customize the mesh generation to handle different use cases for different characters. This is a practical book as it uses several popular Unity plugins such as RAIN and React AI to accomplish different AI tasks.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Pathfinding
Chapter 2: Patrolling
Chapter 3: Behavior Trees
Chapter 4: Crowd Chaos
Chapter 5: Crowd Control
Chapter 6: Sensors and Activities
Chapter 7: Adaptation
Chapter 8: Attacking
Chapter 9: Driving
Chapter 10: Animation and AI
Chapter 11: Advanced NavMesh Generation
