gdscript. :)

What I would try is using a weighted system. Get the sum of the total weights, generate a number between 0 and that number, and get the direction that value belongs to. Higher weights will occur more often, lower weights less often. I update this pretty often though, so I'm not sure how well the results will be. Even if they chose a less likely option, they'd change to a different option immediately after.

@@GameEndeavor ​Thank you for the reply! Really appreciate that! I've started looking into this, and have a few more questions. When it comes to the updating of the functionality, I am only running it based on the AI's brain power stat. The higher it is, the more often it updates (bosses), the lower it is, the less often it updates (rank-and-file enemies). I would still forcibly update it depending on actions it receives or initiates so it can get out of a potentially bad situation. This way I can make both AIs adaptive, but give bosses the opportunity to play smarter and adapt to the live-situation faster, and generate a lot of rank-and-file enemies without greatly impacting performance. As for the weighted system you suggested, I think I have an idea on how to do it, but I'm not really sure: As far as I can tell, every time you only weight the target in the video the sum of the live bars seems to be about half the sum of full lengths. Is this a product of how the function works? Or is it just happenstance? For the sum of total weights and generating a number between 0 and that sum some makes sense, but sadly I just can't understand how to apply that to my code atm. Finally, in the case of the weight equation, would running a for loop going through all the weights in an array work? { var rotationAngle = dotProductToTarget; var dot = abs( rotationAngle - barRotationOffset[index] ) / 180; weight[index] = 1.0 - abs(dot) } I know I'm not using a proper dot product for the weight, but it is the closest I've been able to come to it given the way I have setup my code. I do apologize if this was hard to understand. It's hard for me to explain my thoughts.

@@GameEndeavor I was actually able to figure this out earlier today for the most part, but now I am a bit confused on how to apply blocked points to the weights. I've tried getting the average of the weights of blocked points and subtracting those from the established weights from the target, and I've tried a few other minor tweaks. None have come out the way I had hoped, but some closer than not having it at all. Thankyou again for the advise! I will continue to look into using it as I go through this process.

@MrBobLoblaw blocked points as in prevent going that direction? In Godot we have -INF (negative infinity). I just set the weight to that.

@@GameEndeavor Really? I mean I can stop the AI from going in the blocked point's path by setting it to 0, but I noticed at 2:55 the shape of ALL the lines changes after the blocked point is set. How does that work in with this -INF? I've tried getting a new list of weights for each specific path, then subtracting them in various ways from the target weights. While this does affect all lines in a similar manner, it often leads to complicated differences in size of the negative weights to the positive, which obviously doesn't happen with the demonstration you provided.

I plan to do local 2-player multiplayer, no promises though. Online multiplayer would likely be too much scope though. :)

Thank you! I'll take a look. :)

This is a far more robust system than most people will ever need. :) You can get by with very basic behaviors, this is just something I worked on for like a year periodically, gradually improving it over time.

@@GameEndeavor Maybe, but the dungeon crawler I intend to develop is going to need stuff like this and additionally even more advanced movements to fit the many types of elements people will face. Do you have any good places to start learning AI development for games?

@@ZaneDragonBorn The Coding Train has a good series on steering behaviors, which is where I started. :)

Thank you! No promises, but I'd like to have at least local 2 player co-op, with Steam's remote play together. True online multiplayer would be too much scope at this time though. :)

@@GameEndeavor if its work with keyboard its still be awesome even tis not promise thank you for it

That's nice. :)

Thanks. :) I'll worry about the water eventually. It's not a high priority right now.

@@GameEndeavor stay hydrated dude

There's going to be a boss in the game based on this, lol.

@@GameEndeavor after putting hundreds if not thousands of hours into bo2 zombies, slaying more zombie-pillar/undead human centipedes than any one person ever should, and then spending another couple thousand hours in bo4 zombies where they actually respect each other's personal space, that well-placed joke hit extra hard

Eyyy, I'm excited for you. Good luck with gamedev!

@@GameEndeavor Just wanted to report that I did do a bit of developing!

Nah, working on another video as we speak. :)

lol, thank you! I'll try to live up to such a prestigious honor. :)