Pascal, Help with artificial intelligence in a racing game

Help with artificial intelligence in a racing game

Author	Message
L. Geo Jone #1 / 3	Help with artificial intelligence in a racing game I've just made a top view racing game and all i have to do is put in computer racers. I tried doing this but the cars move around the maps ery unrealistically. So if anyone knows any good algorithms to make artificial intelligence pleaze tell me. Thank you
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

News #2 / 3	Help with artificial intelligence in a racing game I know this is a very general response to your answer, but .... You can probably connect lisp or prolog to work with Delphi. I have no idea how to do this. Good luck. Ronan -- ---------------------------------------- Change null to nl in my eMail address to reply ---------------------------------------- Quote: >I've just made a top view racing game and all i have to do is put in >computer racers. I tried doing this but the cars move around the maps ery >unrealistically. So if anyone knows any good algorithms to make artificial >intelligence pleaze tell me. Thank you
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Jyrki Lahton #3 / 3	Help with artificial intelligence in a racing game Quote: >>I've just made a top view racing game and all i have to do is put in >>computer racers. I tried doing this but the cars move around the maps ery >>unrealistically. So if anyone knows any good algorithms to make artificial >>intelligence pleaze tell me. Thank you I have tackled with the same problem (in connection with a racing game for the enjoyment of my 7-year-old son, i.e. low quality gfx, no sound yet, no collision detection etc.). I ended up using something like follows: for each car try "a matrix of accelerations" (one index ranging from "slam on the brakes" to "turbo accelerate", the other from "sharp left turn" to "sharp right turn"). Test if the car can maintain (i.e. not run off the road) this acceleration (=change of speed) for a little while and store the test result. Then among the acceptable acceleration vectors pick the one with the highest dot product with the current speed (or choose a weighted average or do something else that makes sense. You may want to add a random effect, too). Then the quality (=level of difficulty) of the driving algorithm will simply depend on how often you accelerate a particular car! I used to an extent randomly selected set of timer counts to determine this. You can probably think of something better. In my game driving off the road immediately stops the car, so I needed to add logic for recovering from such an incident as well. The end result was quite satisfactory: I can't compete against the fastest cars with manual keyboard control (then again, I'm no master of racing games :) Jyrki Lahtonen, Ph.D. Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland Note to human e-mailers! To obtain my real e-mail address form the string consisting of my first name, a period, my family name (names in lower case) and an at-sign followed by utu.fi
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Page 1 of 1

[ 3 post ]