Blender Tutorial: Navigation Meshes and Pathfinding

[MBChilladin]

can you make it follow another ai or maybe the player?

[spencerdupre]

@MBChilladin Yes, just set that object to be the "Target" for the steering actuator.

[MBChilladin]

@spencerdupre Yay i can make my own Navi *sarcasm*

[TheSuperbill99]

when i add the navmesh to the cube it doesnt follow it

[spencerdupre]

@TheSuperbill99 Have you set the Behavior mode in the Steering actuator to "Path Following"?

[Blenderworks]

@spencerdupre 2:06 , why is saving the scale information bad?

[giovannyarce]

Very cool, I'm not a coder but I know a couple of concepts of programming since I learn some visual basic in the past, If I want to create some kind of game for iphone or android that is small and basic, I can do it using only this kind of stuff in the blender game engine? Good tutorial by the way.

[spencerdupre]

@giovannyarce The Blender Game Engine doesn't run directly on iPhone or Android. There has been some talk in the community of developing a mobile version. Many Blender users developing games for mobile platforms use the Unity 3D engine, though it isn't Open Source.

[Blenderworks]

@spencerdupre And sorry about the question. Coming back to Blender after a few years. I remember you can apply an object's data with CTRL+A, but I forgot why you're supposed to do that. Thanks!

[Blenderworks]

@giovannyarce On top of Unity not being open source, you need to pay big bucks to port a game to mobile.

[Lydorn]

This is very cool! Blender games can now have better AI. Did you code it in Python?

[spencerdupre]

@Lydorn Nope, no python in this tutorial.

[Lell19862010]

Hi. Good feature! Bul I have a problem. I'm using official 2.61 blender version, and only the seek mode works, while pathfinding does nothing. What could be the problem?

[spencerdupre]

@Lell19862010 Did you make sure to put the navigation mesh's name in the appropriate text box of the Steering brick?

[Lell19862010]

@spencerdupre Don't know what was the problem (maybe I'd messed up something) but now works!

[jrkirby93]

Can the navmesh be updated as the game engine is running?

[walshlg1517]

cool, can you edit the navmesh?

[spencerdupre]

@walshlg1517 Good question, and yes you can.

[Chooboh]

nice vid!