Racing Game AI

AfterBurnett

Hi guys (and gals),

I have a couple of ideas for a top-down racer that I want to produce in the next couple of months once I've cleared another project.

I am interested in enemy cars... there seem to be a lot of GS demos and games that are "time trial" but don't feature enemy cars... is it possible? I have a few ideas on how I think I'd do it but they all seem to have weak points... like if I set a path for a car to follow, that's all well and good... what happens though, if it ends up facing the wrong way or against a fence?

Has anyone done a decent racer with AI players?

The other option is a straight rally sim... quite keen on that too.

Cheers

AfterBurnett

No one?

quantumsheep

ME!

You can use Magnitude.

If you use it on the AI cars to see how close you are to them, you can make them move towards your X position, thus, essentially, trying to block you.

And other tricks like that of course

QS

AfterBurnett

Oh... cool.. I'll have a play. Thanks!

JGary321

Also you could try laying down and invisible path using actors that the racer would follow. Something that told it when magnitude = < 50 turn right...etc... Things like that. Those are just some real basic ideas, but you should get the idea.