Game Development Reference
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Group steering
Group steering can be broken down into three main steering behaviors: alignment, cohe-
sion, and separation. An alignment steering force has the agent's face in the same forward
direction as the rest of the agents in the group. Cohesion is a force that keeps the agents
within the group together. Separation is the opposite of cohesion and forces the agents
within the group to keep minimum distance from one another.
Using a combination of these three steering behaviors, which are also known as flocking,
you can create groups of agents that are driven to move together yet not run into each other.
