Work in progress AI code - Box2D

Ok, so I added box2D to my engine, so that I could use it for seperation forces for my AI guys. The red circles around the characters are the box2d shapes. Obviously I made them a bit too big for demo purposes. Notice how the characters seperate out when I add more of them? Thats nice.

White guys are called Whitey, green guys are zombies. zombies do melee attacks when they are close enough to a whitey. Whitey right now doesnt take any damage. In fact I'm not sure he should. Zombies arent known for thier intelligence after all.

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Gaming

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• AI
• Box2D
• experimental
• game
• Box
• Mental
• MindFlock
• zoombapup

[cirusMEDIA]

Are those like neurological connections???

I'm also guessing the white blocks stores the information and the yellow blocks performs the logic of the brain???

I'm also working on a very extensive "artificial social AI" for a game project.

[zoombapup]

@cirusMEDIA No, theyre individual agents. The blue links are paths to a particular point or another agent. The yellow ones are zombies (well, in the abstract sense theyre there to attack the whities). White box guys are seeking a particular resource (which doesnt exist in this scene). But I like your view of it instead!

[zoombapup]

@zoombapup At that point I didnt have any avoidance in at all, so the things look a bit strange. It was really a test to see what would happen if Box2D were used as a way of keeping agents apart. In the end, I've replaced box2d with physx and the project is quite quite different (after a meeting with sony about the idea), but hopefully still interesting.

[Zeneka10]

Is for Android or PC? Great job!

[commanderkruge]

"The yellow ones are zombies (well, in the abstract sense theyre there to attack the whities)." - that just cracked me up, I just saw some video by a "white supremacist" nutter talking about a "white genocide" - and here you are, programming yellow zombies to attack Whity!!! XD

Joking aside: Interesting concept videos! :)

[cirusMEDIA]

@zoombapup i think its cool! ..Your vids are similar to an observation city i'm working on for my test subjects/objects. -->these are objects that interact + record reactions from their environment.

What you could do to add a more natural [individual] feel to the zombie chase pattern is to: add a new controller that (slightly) randomly 'adds' and 'subtracts' an object's ROTATION.

-->the box then sorta drifts from side to side but its projected path is basically da same!!

[smarthandsomeguy]

Looks sweet. Nice swarms!