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  2. Posted

    The_Bride_of_Frankenstein_Boris_Karloff_

     

    This thread is for the discussion of creating AI in video games (life), how to learn about it etc. I'm kinda going through the process of learning, and trying things in unity, so I accidentally hijacked this thread. I feel like this topic is potentially large enough to warrant a place, but that will prove self-evident either way.

     

     

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    itsamoose, I think I can safely speak for everyone when I say, that would be amazing and greatly appreciated.

     

    To add to this whole AI thing, it's really easy to make things/NPCs/whatever you can dream of, move around in unity.

    Just watch this super short series on nav-mesh baking and nav-agents: Unity > Tutorials > Navigation.

     

    Maybe there should be another discussion thread about AI, I didn't mean to hijack this thread..

     

    EDIT: The AI discussion has graduated to get its own thread here, yay!

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    Alright wow, so in the last couple of days, looking at this, I think I get it now. I had vaguely heard about event handlers and state machines before, but now it all clicks.

    Actually, after I posted yesterday I watched the AI chapter in unity's stealth project. Today I also watched the State machine tutorials for Playmaker, I don't have playmaker, but even then it helped. Thanks for the help, I feel kinda silly now. Though one takeaway is also I'm amazed at how much Unity has out of the box. Ugh, alright then.

     

    Beginner Stealth : Chapter 4

     

     

    Edit: This forum is very nice place, thanks again!

  6. Posted

    Has anyone any experience on making AI in unity/ue4? It's always there in the back of my mind, I generally have game ideas with NPC's in them. Is it feasible for an artist with some coding skills to do AI? It seems like a big undertaking and steep learning curve. Would you just get a real programmer? What do you guys think?

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    Without years and years of experience, just slapping some stuff onto the canvas might yield some immediate satisfaction but it might not look realistic or even good. Therefore, speedpainting is for professionals and crazy people.

     

    Well speedpainting is not very conducive to learning and developing, at least that's what I think you're saying. I think it's pretty clear that proficiency in painting comes from amassing knowledge and careful thinking (I hold your own writings & work as sufficient evidence). Speedpainting as a learning tool seems to (perhaps unintentionally) be more concerned with developing the fine motor skills, whereas that's hardly as important in this context. I don't remember who said it, but the main hurdle to overcome in pursuing proficiency in anything is learning how to teach yourself. Well those are just my thoughts on the subject as another student, and I hardly hold them as an absolute truth.

     

    I enjoy your painting, makes me wonder what the person is doing there. I imagine he's a soldier scouting ahead and that the army is just out of shot - though he's clearly not concerned with stealth, maybe he's signaling someone with the banner.

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    This might be the first time I've done a top-down perspective. It's not the first revision. I wouldn't show the first revision.

    Anyway, the game would be about pushing blocks around in dark dungeons and grisly catacombs. You'd probably use a cool shield bash to push the blocks. That would be cool.

    catacombs-lookdev.jpg

  10. Posted

    I'm kinda intrigued about the comments Sean made about Betrayer, because I've really liked it so far. I got it during early access when Craig Hubbard was interviewed on Tone Control. I played the first couple of hours during early access, once by myself and once with a buddy. I didn't know how far into development it was at the time so the rough edges didn't bother me. I decided to wait for the release build. Since release I've only played the first 1.5 hours or so. The experience of playing it is largely the same since the build I played in November ( some stuff did change, new clues were added, new characters. They seemed to have shuffled around or replaced one of the early enemy AIs).

     

    To me it doesn't feel unfinished. It feels weird, unapologetic, kinda like Far Cry 2. What I like about it is the complete lack of instructions. Exploration & Discovery is key to understand the game-rules, and to progress the narrative. There are some gameplay mechanics that I don't even know why they exist or what they are for. But that's whats so thrilling. It reminds me of playing Trespasser (best game of all time) with my brother when I was like 8 years old(maybe?). It was rough and there were no instructions, it felt less deliberate and all the more boundless and exciting for it.

     

    I'll have to play more to confirm my own thoughts though. The release was very unannounced, or at least very unnoticed, as Sean said. No build up at all.

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    So this is great news.

     

    Today, Epic has opened up Unreal Engine 4 to the world! UE4 is now available for download in its entirety, including the full features, tools and the entire C++ source code for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android through a subscription plan. You can subscribe to UE4 for $19 per month, and ship games with UE4 commercially by paying 5% of gross revenue from product sales to users.

     

    https://www.unrealengine.com/

     

    Edit: Trailer

     

    Edit: Editor

  12. Posted

    False Idols looks cool and it's a great name to boot.

     

    And also Ghost Rougelike looks promising for sure. I love planting bombs in games, I think it's spelunkys fault.

     

     

    Here is some of my nonsense. I've done some unity tests with morph targets and I can report that exporting from Max to unity works great - no problems so far.

     

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  13. Posted

    Sounds like they are dodging the bullet when it comes to non player characters and all the problems that comes with the territory - unless there are other people in the forest. 

    I would frankly be quite interested in seeing them tackle doing talking characters on screen, as an small indie outfit. But it makes sense to do them [radio lady] of screen  - if that's indeed what they are doing, I guess we'll have to wait and see.

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    Oh Hi, I didn't see this thread here. I started listening at the tail end of the kickstarter campaign too, which seems recent in memory but I guess it's been a while. I'm bad at forums, so look forward to reading this post in 2016 and I'll still have 5 posts to my name. Also, I probably finally registered here because of the new Game Development forum. Possibly. Most likely.

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    Yes it was totally the rare solar eclipse feature I'm working on. No but seriously, you're right, it was too dark. When you pointed it out you could almost say it dawned on me. :eyebrow:  I replaced the above screenshot and lazily adjusted the ambient lighting for maximum viewing pleasure.

  17. Posted

    I've been wanting do learn Unity & C# aswell. So after reading and watching tutorials & scripts I did a simple day/night cycle. I also had the craving to do some old school diffuse only texturing ca 1998. The grass billboards are default unity though, this scene is a hodgepodge at the moment. Not sure what I want to do with this.

     

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  18. Posted

    I have a question for you 3d-modelers and 2d-artists out there. What's the ideal scenario for finding out you want to contribute work? Would it be seeing a prototype of the game with shitty art and saying "I want to make the models or backgrounds for that"?

    That's a good question. Yes personally I think a janky prototype can potentially be more convincing then a good design doc. Especially if said prototype displays an interesting idea. That said, I'm all about the idea & if it's something I would play myself.