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Dark Physics & Dark A.I. & Dark Dynamix / How good is DarkAI?

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NickH
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Posted: 5th Apr 2010 17:12
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Hi,

I'm currently working on my game almost full time at the moment. Its still in quite early stages, though its already fun to play. Though I'm using a few extras to DBPro (the most prominent is DarkPhysics), I have no AI for the enemies. This isn't a problem yet as there are no enemies yet My question is, how good is DarkAI? I plan on having alot of automated remote sentry style weapons as well as some vehicles. Now after a bit of reading about DarkAI I can sort of see how I'd make my vehicle engine work using DarkAI. Just wondering the following:

How easy is it to get it to work?
Is the AI any good?
How efficient (resource-wise)?
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entomophobiac
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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 10:36
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Quote: "How easy is it to get it to work?"


Very. It's built in such a way that it has tons of defaults prepared in advance, so that it's more or less plug and play if you don't want to go through the details.

Quote: "Is the AI any good?"


Value statement. You'll have to define what a "good" AI does as opposed to a "bad" AI. It's much like any software -- DarkAI does what you tells it to. Any "bad" AI in such an equation can only be blamed on the user.

Quote: "How efficient (resource-wise)?"


I think it's fairly efficient. Compared to shaders and other calculation-heavy operations, it's extremely efficient. Then again, they have their own hardware.

It all comes down to how you write your code.
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NickH
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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 14:24 Edited at: 6th Apr 2010 14:25
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Cool, it sounds quite flexable then. Just wondering if it was like DarkPhysics. I'm using DarkPhysics and I've found a million and one problems, but I've basically found what it does well and only used those parts of it. Just a little suspicous that DarkAI was the same thats all

Thanks entomophobiac
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entomophobiac
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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 14:45
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Haha. Well, in that regard it IS the same. It's TGC software, after all. You'll have to find its small eccentricities and learn to cope with them.
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NickH
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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 16:16
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Hehe ok, I'll bare that in mind. I suppose it's easier than writing the AI from scratch, especially seen as I've only ever done very simple AI.

I'm guessing they're not still developing it too?
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GreenDixy
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Posted: 7th Apr 2010 19:07 Edited at: 7th Apr 2010 22:30
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@NickH if you like email me i will send you some code for darkai or you can add me to msn

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NickH
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Posted: 8th Apr 2010 01:48 Edited at: 8th Apr 2010 01:52
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Thanks unixfr3ak. I've emailed you. It'd be nice to see some code I'm not needing any AI just yet, but my game is making quick...ish progress. I think I'll start a WIP thread actually I've never done that before!
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