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Learning game AI programming with Lua

Leverage the power of Lua programming to create game AI that focuses on motion, animation, and tactics

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jan 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    If you are a game developer or a general programmer who wishes to focus on programming systems and techniques to build your game AI without creating low-level interfaces in a game engine, then this book is for you.
    Knowledge of C++ will come in handy to debug the entirety of the AI sandbox and expand on the features present within the book, but it is not required.

    What you will learn

    • Create an animation state machine to drive AI animations within Lua
    • Build and find paths on navigation meshes
    • Write and debug Lua scripts within a fullscale Lua IDE
    • Develop decision logic with behavior trees, state machines, and decision trees to build modular, reusable AI
    • Manage short and longterm knowledge representation with blackboard data structures
    • Add sensory perception to give AIs the ability to see and hear
    • Develop highlevel tactics with multiple AIs based on influence maps

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Getting started with AI Sandbox
    2. Agent Movement
    3. Character Animation
    4. Brain Body Control
    5. Navigating Environments
    6. Decision Making
    7. Knowledge Representation
    8. Sensory Perception
    9. Tactics
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78328-134-3
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 352
    Related subjects:
    Computer sciences,
    Computer sciences, other

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