understanding Steering Behaviors

Steering behaviors aim to help autonomous characters move in a realistic manner, by using simple forces that are combined to produce life-like, improvisational navigation around the characters' environment. They are not based on complex strategies involving path planning or global calculations, but instead use local information, such as neighbors' forces. This makes them simple to understand and implement, but still able to produce very complex movement patterns.

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• STEERING BEHAVIORS
  Understanding Steering Behaviors: Seek
  Fernando Bevilacqua19 Oct 2012 37 shares

  Steering behaviors aim to help autonomous characters move in a realistic manner, by using simple forces that are combined to produce life-like, improvisational navigation around the characters' environment. In this tutorial I will cover the basic theory behind the seek steering behavior, as well as its implementation. Read More…
• IMPLEMENTATION
  Understanding Steering Behaviors: Flee and Arrival
  Fernando Bevilacqua26 Oct 2012 15 shares

  Steering behaviors aim to help autonomous characters move in a realistic manner, by using simple forces that combine to produce life-like, improvisational navigation. In this tutorial, I'll cover the flee behavior, which makes the character move away from a pursuer, and the arrival behavior, which makes the character slow down and stop as it approaches a target. Read More…
• IMPLEMENTATION
  Understanding Steering Behaviors: Wander
  Fernando Bevilacqua9 Nov 2012 25 shares

  Steering behaviors aim to help autonomous characters move in a realistic manner, by using simple forces that combine to produce life-like, improvisational navigation. In this tutorial, I'll cover the wander behavior, which makes the character move randomly. Read More…
• IMPLEMENTATION
  Understanding Steering Behaviors: Pursuit and Evade
  Fernando Bevilacqua6 Dec 2012 12 shares

  So far we have looked at the seek, flee, arrival and wander steering behaviors. In this tutorial, I'll cover the pursuit and the evade behaviors, which make your characters follow or avoid the target. Read More…
• IMPLEMENTATION
  Understanding Steering Behaviors: Movement Manager
  Fernando Bevilacqua15 Feb 2013 10 shares

  Steering behaviors are great for creating realistic movement patterns, but they are even greater if you can control, use and combine them easily. In this tutorial, I'll discuss and cover the implementation of a movement manager for all of our previously discussed behaviors. Read More…
• IMPLEMENTATION
  Understanding Steering Behaviors: Collision Avoidance
  Fernando Bevilacqua13 May 2013 33 shares

  Decent NPC navigation often requires the ability to avoid obstacles. This tutorial covers the collision avoidance steering behavior, which allows characters to gracefully dodge any number of obstacles in the environment. Read More…
• IMPLEMENTATION
  Understanding Steering Behaviors: Path Following
  Fernando Bevilacqua2 Jul 2013 15 shares

  Path following is a frequent problem in game development. This tutorial covers the path following steering behavior, which allows characters to follow a predefined path made of points and lines. Read More…
• IMPLEMENTATION
  Understanding Steering Behaviors: Leader Following
  Fernando Bevilacqua28 Aug 2013 15 shares

  In addition to the ability to follow a path, a character (or a group of them) also needs to be able to follow a specific character (like a squad leader). This can be achieved using the leader following behavior, which I'll explain in this tutorial. Read More…
• IMPLEMENTATION
  Understanding Steering Behaviors: Queue
  Fernando Bevilacqua3 Feb 2014 49 shares

  Imagine a game scene where a room is crowded with AI-controlled entities. For some reason, they must leave the room and pass through a doorway. Instead of making them walk over each other in a chaotic flow, teach them how to politely leave while standing in line. Read More…

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