Help with setting destination on custom character controller

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#1

Hey guys,

I just got A* Pathfinding and it looks amazing, but I am having a little difficulty setting it up with a custom character controller. My AI is procedurally animated using physics, and the direction in which the AI should walk happens through the following code: inputDirection = (this.chestBody.transform.position - player.transform.position).normalized * -1;

What I throught I could do was replace player.transform.position with ai.destination from the AIDestinationSetter script but when I add IAStarAI ai to my script, even when adding using Pathfinding I get the error error CS0246: The type or namespace name AIStarAI could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?.

Would anyone happen to know what and how I could replace the player.transform.position part of my code to have my AI walk on the path set by the A* script?

Any suggestions or feedback would be super appreciated as I am completely stumped on what I should be referencing to get my AI to walk down the path drawn by the AIPath script.

#2

Hi

You have spelled that wrong, it’s IAstarAI, not AIStarAI.

It sounds like you want to write a custom movement script, then this tutorial is for you: https://arongranberg.com/astar/docs/custom_movement_script.html

You can alternatively override just the movement part of an existing movement script (e.g. AIPath). See this page: https://arongranberg.com/astar/docs/iastarai.html#MovementUpdate
Note that IAstarAI is an interface that all built-in movement scripts implement.

#3

Hi Aron,

I just wanted to thank you for replying so quickly and providing the resources to fix the issue. It was a long and painful 12 hours but I managed to fix the code and to make it all work.

Thanks again for your help and your amazing pathfinding package.

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