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.

I am curious to know if anyone else is finding any use in this.... this is essentially a complete AI solution, ready to use for shooters, and easily modified; granted the documentation is in lack... if there isn't any interest... I won't bother writing any more...

-Rhuarc

Hey rhuarc first let me say thanks. I cant test it at the moment or really even look at it. Tho i did download it and send it to my email incase you decide to take this link down.

It looks very promising. Of course i dont speak for everyone but i would love to get as much documentation as possible. Tho i dont ask for much given its current price

No matter what you decide to do I really appreciate your work so thanks again.

Well, I'm a complete newb, but I've downloaded this and will keep it on my hard drive awaiting the time I can understand it. Thanks Rhuarc!

Hello, Rhuarc. Thanks for that great Constribution. Your AI is absolut fantastic. I don´t know how long i tested to programm only the half of your AI. It is really cool, and the option with the teams comes for me very good, ´cause some Missions from my Game will have teammembers. It will be also great if you can write a documentation. One question to the end: Have a logo or something to include it in the credits and before starting the game?