Special AI Nodes

[Raneman]

If I wanted AI to do something special, where can I mark them on my map?

For example, to mark a door as an objective for AI engineers or mark a grain field as concealment for AI, which I think should both make them try to hide it in and not target players inside it.

 

[[TW]Swag]

Sorry bud, no support for things like that.

EDIT:

Ok, maybe not entirely correct. You can use a ROSatchelObjective for the engineers and doors. I believe we have the AI engineers aware of them (I could be mistaken). There are examples of them in use in Red October Factory: Ammo depots at the first and last objectives in 32/64 Territory.

 

[Six_Ten]

Quick aside, sort of on topic.

How do I get bots to climb stairs in ruins? They use the covernodes on the ground floor, but dont seem to go upstairs at all.

 

[[TW]Swag]

Not sure exactly which ruins you speak of, the city was quite the wreck.

But if you are attempting to compel the AI to use cover in a specific spot we have support for that. I will put together a thread discussing cover in general since it ties into so many things which, when properly set up, gives the AI a lot of awareness and locations of where they are expected to do their job... even if they do have an uncommonly short attention span.

 

[Six_Ten]

The ruins I'm referring to are the ones in Ogledow. I can get the bots to use the first floor but they don't go upstairs to the other nodes.

 

[-=}WoLvErInE{=-]

The ruins I'm referring to are the ones in Ogledow. I can get the bots to use the first floor but they don't go upstairs to the other nodes.

you try this?

[url]http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/NavMeshManualCreation.html[/URL]

 

[[TW]Swag]

It's probably not a NavMesh issue... or is it?

 

[Raneman]

I really wish we had more spots that told the AI what to do, would be so useful as a modder and mapper. Is the AI going to be codeable?

 

[Xendance]

I really wish we had more spots that told the AI what to do, would be so useful as a modder and mapper. Is the AI going to be codeable?

What exactly do you need? For example, you can use rallypoints to tell bots to go via that spot on their route to attack/defend the objective.

 

[Raneman]

I wanna try coding a nice thing for things like grain fields.

A nice "breaks LOS" thing that you can apply to an area.