World Aware AI - Get it free! (sourcecode!)

Hey everyone,

A while back I showed a few video clips and screenshots of WACAI in action, since then I have improved on it, but do not have the time to bring the product to completion. It is functioning fully as a automated AI bot, similar to counterstrike, just without team goals.

The AI has the following features:
* Pathfinding (table gets precaclulated by software and saved to a file that can be loaded at runtime)
* On the fly cover tactics - the AI will dynamically take cover whenever it needs it when in battle (i.e. when reloading)
* Flexible weapon support - The code for the weapons is very removed from the actual AI code, so coding your own weapons just takes a few variable inputs from the AI.
* Flexible animations - the AI supports strafing and backpedaling movement animations, as well as advanced movement vs. orientation animation handling
* A whole lot more....

Included in the release, there is a C++ SDK I began building, which is currently a framework well suited for porting the C-Script code to C++ and running the AI completely within a c++ setting. It also provides a great simple interface to the A6 engine for general game usage to code your games in c++. To use it, copy the appropriate header and lib files from your A6 sdk_engine folder to the WACAI SDK folder.

For commercial use, there is a $100.00 USD / title licensing fee, seeing as I am releasing hundreds of hours of work here . For non-commercial use, the software is completely free. Details of the license are included in a text file within the zip file.

There is also a very very incomplete API reference document, I started it long ago, but never finished it. It is in openoffice format, but I will release an update with some more friendly documents for those who don't use openoffice.

Here's the download:
http://www.worldawareai.com/WACAI_BUILD_0_7_2.zip

Cheers,
Rhuarc

Let me be the first to say, thank you, thank you, and thank you .

I appreciate everything you do for this community.

-raiden

Thanks for releasing this, that video you showed a while back had alot of promise. Hopefully someone can develop this further.

o.o great stuff ^^

Thankyou. From an initial examination, the implementation looks to be very complex...a detailed composite of many smaller parts.

I found a demo in the distribution and ran it 3 or 4 times.
Are the bots supposed to get stuck and clump together?
The bots were animating a "walk" cycle, apparently trying to move, but making no progress because other bots were obstructing movement (were in the way).
In the image below, there are 3 bots in a clump. Evidently, the first person view represents the view of a 3rd bot also in a "stuck" state.
Bot 1 is barely visible and is directly behind bot 2 in the image.

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Thankyou. From an initial examination, the implementation looks to be very complex...a detailed composite of many smaller parts.

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Exactimo! The design philosophy was to make it as modular as possible, and easy to design from a higher level standing rather than a low level down-and-dirty AI implementation. You'll see in the Cover Tactics sample that the cover tactic code can be used completely inpendantly of the rest of the system, the whole thing is set up this way, every part of the AI is modular and easily changable without affecting the rest of the AI adversely.

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I found a demo in the distribution and ran it 3 or 4 times.
Are the bots supposed to get stuck and clump together?
The bots were animating a "walk" cycle, apparently trying to move, but making no progress because other bots were obstructing movement (were in the way).
In the image below, there are 3 bots in a clump. Evidently, the first person view represents the view of a 3rd bot also in a "stuck" state.
Bot 1 is barely visible and is directly behind bot 2 in the image.

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Sometimes they will clump together, it happens at chokepoints in the level. I did not finish implementing their movement to avoid these situations, there is some basic repulsion, but I'm not sure how much in place it is- it's been a while since I've worked on the system deeply.

There is a pretty specific implementation for configuring the path system in WED that I will document and release information on.

If people have specific questions or need certain things documented, let me know and I will see what I can do for you .

-Rhuarc