world navigation
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WORLD NAVIGATION. FROM OUR MINDS TO YOURS: A Lecture by Shift Our Bits. Don’t Fall Asleep Through These Topics. Tile Graphs Points of Visibility NavMesh Path Smoothing Hierarchical Pathfinding. Tile Graphs. Large and sometimes complex environments based on squares or hexes - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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WORLD NAVIGATION
FROM OUR MINDS TO YOURS:A Lecture by Shift Our Bits
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Don’t Fall Asleep Through These Topics
Tile Graphs Points of Visibility NavMesh Path Smoothing Hierarchical Pathfinding
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Tile Graphs
Large and sometimes complex environments based on squares or hexes
Each node represents center of the cell Graph edges are connections between the adjacent cells Primarily used in RTS and war games Mainly used for games maneuvering across terrains Algorithms use this information to avoid water, mud, and hills Downside is the graph gets too large too fast.
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Points of Visibility A navigation graph that each node has line of sight to at least one
another The graph nodes will connect all important areas in the world Nodes can easily represent good sniping, cover, or ambush
positions Good for small maps
Downsides: Problematic over large and complex maps Problematic with any type of map generation feature(must develop some automated method to generate POV)
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Points of Visibility Graph
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NavMesh A network of convex polygons that describe the walkable areas of the
game environment Property allows unobstructed travel from any point to another Data structure is compact and can be searched very quickly Good for 3D FPS games because environments is constructed entirely
from polygons Possible to use algorithms to partition the walkable areas of the maps
automatically
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WORLD OF WARCRAFT HAND CHECK
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Path Smoothing Paths in grid shaped graphs usually have unnecessary
edges Looks unnatural to human eye because of the kinkiness Smoothing is obtained from using A* and distance heuristics A quick method for smoothing a path works by checking the
“passability” between adjacent edges http://youtu.be/RA
I46be2S3E
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Path Smoothing
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Path Smoothing
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Hierarchical Pathfinding Similar to how humans move around in their environment Two levels One level is the path is planned using a series of areas (IE:
dining room, kitchen) The lower level is planned using a series of points through
those areas
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You can stop pretending to pay attention now.