Setting up Unit AI Pathfinding

What to Expect

In the first part of this series, we generated a navmesh. In this tutorial we will make use of the navmesh to compute our navigation paths and send our units along them.

Tutorial Steps

1. In the Unit Editor, Add Optional Script Data to the Tank (GwNavExcluded = False)
   
   
2. Add Required Flow to Generate the Tanks NavBot upon Spawn, also add goal unit for later use.
   
   
   
3. Add Required Script to Allow for Tank Movement in the Tank’s Unit Flow
   
   
   
4. In Level Flow, Initialize the World and Bot Configuration
   
   
5. In Level Flow, Create Unit and Position Variables for the first flag.
   
   
   
6. Repeat for Remaining Flags and connect to Bot initialization.
   
   
   
7. Create flow for a Simple Movement Test from 2 of the above goal vector variables.
   
   
   
8. Test Results by playing game with “test_level” and using right click to spawn tank(s). They should move from one point to another. Feel free to change the Vector Variables in Step 7 to adjust the start and end points.