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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Unreal Engine

Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Unreal Engine

By : Francesco Sapio
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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Unreal Engine

Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Unreal Engine

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By: Francesco Sapio

Overview of this book

Learning how to apply artificial intelligence ( AI ) is crucial and can take the fun factor to the next level, whether you're developing a traditional, educational, or any other kind of game. If you want to use AI to extend the life of your games and make them challenging and more interesting, this book is for you. The book starts by breaking down AI into simple concepts to get a fundamental understanding of it. Using a variety of examples, you will work through actual implementations designed to highlight key concepts and features related to game AI in UE4. You will learn to work through the built-in AI framework in order to build believable characters for every game genre (including RPG, Strategic, Platform, FPS, Simulation, Arcade, and Educational). You will learn to configure the Navigation, Environmental Querying, and Perception systems for your AI agents and couple these with Behavior Trees, all accompanied with practical examples. You will also explore how the engine handles dynamic crowds. In the concluding chapters, you will learn how to profile, visualize, and debug your AI systems to correct the AI logic and increase performance. By the end of the book, your AI knowledge of the built-in AI system in Unreal will be deep and comprehensive, allowing you to build powerful AI agents within your projects.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Section 1: The Unreal Framework
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Section 2: Designing and Implementing Behavior Trees
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Section 3: Debugging Methods
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Debugging Methods for AI - Logging

Designing Behavior Trees - Part II

This chapter is a continuation of the previous one. In particular, we will build the last missing piece of the puzzle before we build the final Behavior Tree in the next chapter.

In particular, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Creating the Player Character, along with the Chasing Agent
  • Setting up the Navigation System within the Level
  • Implementing a Custom Service (both in Blueprint and C++) to update the variables that are needed in the Chasing Behavior

Once again, we will be implementing everything in both Blueprint and C++ to give you a broader idea of what you can use. Alternatively, if you already know what you want to use, you can just follow one of the two implementations.

Making the Custom Service is the part that will take the most time since we will be going through it step by step.

Let's get to it!

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