Integration with Behavior Designer and Malbers HAP/AC

[maci]

Hi all,
for my game I've been building a framework to integrate Invector and Malbers HAP/Animal Controller with Behavior Designer to implement a shared set of behaviours. The goal was to have a single way to direct AIs leveraging the strength of both controllers (Invector for humanoids and Malbers for animals and creatures).

In the following video you can see how I set up my AIs (a group of four Invector agents and one of Malbers dragons) to have them arrange themselves in an arc formation and then go to a target while maintaining formation.



Besides this, AIs can call horses, mount them and ride them, combat, damage animals and be damaged by them, etc

[maci]

deidrereay , this is an Invector AI calling a Malbers HAP horse, mounting it and riding away...

[deidrereay]

Thats epic thanks!

[deidrereay]

I will have to pick your mind in the coming month or two. Have a bit more to work on but that will become something of importance

[komposite]

This is looking sick !

Are you using the Behaviors Tree by Opsive to achieve this ?

[maci]

May 8, 2020 10:54:08 GMT komposite said:

This is looking sick !

Are you using the Behaviors Tree by Opsive to achieve this ?

Yes and no. In the first video, the one where I set up the AIs, I use a "Form Arc" behavior which is based on the one in the Formation Pack. The behaviours from Opsive use a generic interface that talks to the NavMeshAgent directly. I basically changed it to deal with my controller instead.
The ride behaviour is based entirely on tasks I have written, such as:
- call horse
- mount
- dismout
- give the mount orders
etc

[komposite]

That is impressive !
Hats off !