{"id":1315,"date":"2010-06-10T23:47:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T12:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2010-06-10T23:47:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T12:47:32","slug":"ai-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2010\/06\/10\/ai-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"AI improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a break from development yesterday, but I&#8217;m back to it today.<\/p>\n<p>New today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PCs now can see QuestGivers from only 40 meters away (TODO: \u00a0consider reducing to closer to 20 meters). \u00a0If a PC moves within that distance from a QuestGiver that he doesn&#8217;t already know about, he&#8217;ll stop whatever he&#8217;s doing and go to pick up a quest.<\/li>\n<li>Modified (improved?) the PC AI code, so that PCs won&#8217;t rapidly flip-flop between different activities. \u00a0That is, if he decides to do a quest, he won&#8217;t change his mind and go to socialise somewhere until he has at least fought a couple of monsters. \u00a0(previously, he could swap back and forth rapidly)<\/li>\n<li>Slightly improved the behaviour of monsters, when closing for combat with a player. \u00a0(still needs more work; \u00a0they often dance back and forth around each other. \u00a0They should approach each other and then stop; \u00a0it&#8217;s just being a little tricky to orchestrate that.)<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the stats display when a PC is selected, such that the meters are drawn with proper colors, instead of being drawn black-on-extremely-dark-grey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tasks for tomorrow are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make players and monsters approach each other for combat properly.<\/li>\n<li>Modify Grind and Quest AI code to make players find a specific monster within the grinding zone to fight, and approach it directly. \u00a0(Currently, both sets of AI code just make players wander around at random within the grinding zone)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a break from development yesterday, but I&#8217;m back to it today. New today: PCs now can see QuestGivers from only 40 meters away (TODO: \u00a0consider reducing to closer to 20 meters). \u00a0If a PC moves within that distance from a QuestGiver that he doesn&#8217;t already know about, he&#8217;ll stop whatever he&#8217;s doing and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-ld","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}