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Here you can find out about my current hobby work in progress.

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I’ll be adding troubleshooting info soon.

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  1. Borealis Says:

    Hey Sharky,

    As promised I checked out your game. I just ran it on the Xbox360.
    I tried several game modes and planes. Did not experience a crash or slow down.

    Hope this helps.

    Bino

  2. Sharky Says:

    Thanks heaps.

  3. Oli Says:

    Awesome game Sharky : D
    Can you help me?
    I wanna create AI that mmoves towards a given point
    how do I do this?

  4. Sharky Says:

    Thanks Oli.

    Well in simplest terms, you’d probably want to start with getting the Vector between your AI position and the target position.

    e.g. (not sure if this compiles – doing it from memory – but you’ll get the idea)

    //assuming you have a TargetThing object and an AIThing object, both with Position
    //(vector3) properties defining their position in the world.

    Vector3 targetPosition = TargetThing.Position;
    Vector3 aiPosition = AIThing.Position;

    //the difference between these to vectors gives you an offset vector
    //from one to the other

    Vector3 offsetToTarget = targetPosition – aiPosition;
    float distanceToTarget = offsetToTarget.Length();

    //you probably don’t want your AI to warp jump straight to that position
    //so we normalize the offset vector (turns it into a vector heading the same direction,
    //but with a length of exactly 1.

    Vector3 moveDirectionVector = Vector3.Zero;
    if (distanceToTarget > 0) //Normalize would get odd result if the positions were the same.
    {
    moveDirectionVector = offsetToTarget
    moveDirectionVector.Normalize();
    }

    //now to actually move your AIThing in that direction
    //you’ll want something kind of like this.
    //Note: your games Update method would likely have a gameTime parameter.
    //AIThing.MaxSpeedPerSecond would be a float value defining how far something would move in a Second.
    //gameTime.ElapsedGameTime.TotalSeconds is how many seconds
    // (likely fraction of a second) have passed since the previous Update.
    //We use it to even out the perceived movement regardless of the
    //game’s Framerate which fluctuates.

    Vector3 velocity = moveDirectionVector * AIThing.MaxSpeedPerSecond * gameTime.ElapsedGameTime.TotalSeconds;

    //add the velocity to your AI’s position to move it.

    AIThing.Position = AIThing.Position + velocity;

    Hope that helps?

  5. Elbows Says:

    It surely helped me, i was looking for some kind of idea into this problem, thanks for the grant help, although it was out of the blue that i found this, it really gives me a leg up

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