Is there a way to make objects path around other moving (unbaked) objects?

Beginner Questions
#1

Just making sure I’m not missing something easy here. I want my units to be smart enough to walk around each other instead of slowly pushing around each other. Is there a simple way to do this with this project?

#2

Hi

Sorry. For this to work you would have to update the graph to either make nodes below the characters unwalkable or set a tag on them. This is possible, but I don’t think you will get particularly good results. In these cases it is usually better to use some kind of steering behaviors and/or local avoidance.

#3

Thanks for the response Aron. I’m already using local avoidance, RVO controller and rich ai. However, it’s not quite what I thought it would be (my mistake/ignorance).

Do you have a suggestion for implementing steering behavior, or leveraging your local avoidance in a way I might not be? My initial thought was to put raycasts on my unit’s faces and have them re-seek and path if the ray casts hit another unit. I feel like this will be difficult but possible. I’m open to other siggestions.

Thanks.

#4

Hi

Sorry for the late answer.
This is a great page about steering behaviors which explains a lot more than I could do in a short forum post: http://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/
Here is another great resource: https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/series/understanding-steering-behaviors--gamedev-12732

#5

Thanks for the reply Aron :wink:

I’ll keep this in mind once I get to needing to implement this.