Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 2. Creating and Moving Agents
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
• Setting up your first sandbox executable
• Creating your first sandbox Lua scripts
• Understanding agent properties and their effects
• Basic Newtonian motion
• Agent-steering forces
• Creating seeking, pursuing, path following, and grouped agents
Now that we understand how AI sandbox is set up and some of the underlying system
structure, we're going to dive head-first into creating a brand new sandbox demo.
Throughout the rest of the topic, the new Lua sandbox API will be introduced piece by
piece, extending this demo with additional AI functionality, animation, graphics, and game
play.
While the sandbox is doing a lot of heavy lifting in terms of graphics and physics, the core
AI logic will be completely implemented in Lua, backed by data structures that are man-
aged by the C++ code.
