Evented AI

[HotfireLegend]

As I am making an evented on-map battle system, this will require the creation of AI through events as well. How would you go about handling this? Personally, I envision I'm going to be using a lot of conditional branches and behaviour patterns. Eg melee enemies just get as close as they can to the player then hit, whilst ranged enemies move around until you are in line of sight, then shoot.

 

[samorious]

Godamn man that sounds awesome! I think you are right, I also want to implement it but I have the idea its going to take a lot of time. Have any idea (if implemented) how you are going to link stats and skills to it(higher strength more damage, critical hit) and how you are going to make it so every weapon depending on its stats does different damage?

Good luck with it, if you'd like to share it I would be very happy XD

 

[HotfireLegend]

Basically, that stat change could be achieved through the manipulation of variables and a formula that uses the variable. Whether there is a plugin command that can get an equipped weapon's stat I don't know (this appears to be a weakness of RM as it doesn't appear to allow for this by default, just if X is equipped) - otherwise, I'd need a plugin.

The basic idea though is to say $damageToPlayer = $enemyWeaponAttack - $playerDefense

Then

$playerHealth = $playerHealth - $damageToPlayer

 

[samorious]

Basically, that stat change could be achieved through the manipulation of variables and a formula that uses the variable. Whether there is a plugin command that can get an equipped weapon's stat I don't know (this appears to be a weakness of RM as it doesn't appear to allow for this by default, just if X is equipped) - otherwise, I'd need a plugin.

The basic idea though is to say $damageToPlayer = $enemyWeaponAttack - $playerDefense

Then

$playerHealth = $playerHealth - $damageToPlayer

aah okay cool, looking forward to see it in action

 

[Essy]

Depending on how crazy you want to be you could try to implement the minimax algorithm through common events and utilize it to select enemy actions.
Then you'd only need two things. 1. A list of actions an enemy can take, 2. A common event function to estimate how valuable a player action is.

This is a very eccentric suggestion.
You could get a horrendously rough estimate by making the minimax comparisons with the character/enemy a "square closer each time"
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It's kinda hard to describe this over forum.


Conditional Branches are acceptable just less dynamic.


For other ideas check this out.
Also, welcome to your first step into the madness of AI. : )