I have several questions about using "correct" for the layer collision.
Is it possible to make a bot from a point A using a collision tiles available? For each map, I want to make a bot from point A to point B. But to add levels easily, I want to integrate my starting point and my end point.
Is it possible to differentiate one tile to another for bot / player? To allow, for example, the user can place his character but not the bot.
I would like to determine the direction for a bot.
Among the four movements of the bot (up, down, left, right) with the collision system I can not know if it is possible to know the only way possible when the other 3 are blocked, except for one test one hand the solutions, but in this case we see the character test each solution (ie switch positions).
Is there a way to simulate the worst travel before the bot to do for the right to take the right solution?
Thank you in advance for your answers
I think you're looking for pathfinding,
Perhaps you could try Astar pathfinding for impactjs
Haven't got time to try it myself but i think its working
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I am a beginner gamedev and trying to figure out how to go about implementing my game's inventory management system. I am developing a third person RPG, with heavy emphasis on inventory and crafting, and so it needs to be done right.
I essentially have a tablet device the player will be able to use to access statistics about themselves and should also be their method of ascertaining crafting recipe. An example scenario is as follows: player obtains three recipe items, Apple, Leaf, and Ash. They want to craft a healing poultice in the field. They remove their backpack, which serves as both inventory and a less powerful crafting station, and the camera moves to focus on the backpack as if it were an inventory screen, allowing the player to arrange their ingredients as necessary and then craft.
My problem is I haven't figured out how to manage the control switch. Ideally the player shouldn't be able to walk around and do normal traversal while crafting. Indeed having WASD usable as menu manipulation controls would be preferable. The game is of the type that realtime usage of inventory is part of the experience, so I dont want a static pause screen. What avenue do I need to pursue in my research for this?
I've looked into Cinemachine and state switching/statemachines but I'm still fairly puzzled by that whole affair. I can switch to a state so far, but only sometimes get out of it. I'm away from my computer at the moment so I don't have an example but this concept has been nagging me for hours.
Let's say I have an open world game that supports multiple players.
The game stores their positioning by X and Y in this world.
Also, whoever is playing the game can see a canvas of 11x11, where his player-self is represented on this screen, always centered.
The game world has 1000x1000 squares to walk using keys.
What I know is that:
I could emit events whenever a player walks,
check this event data at the server-side (to see if it is possible and the speed is correct/anti-cheating measures),
update the game state which contains all players and positioning,
re-emit this state from the server so every client would be able to render properly this new player.
The problem is, should I really update someone who isn't even being seen?
When everyone is walking around, moving items, earning levels, etc - those events are being emitted from the client, and that's okay, but thinking about the server-side, it will re-emit that for each update state, and, maybe that will be overloaded?
Also, sending the whole game state, even if it isn't being rendered, opens so many breaches to cheating that this made me think that there is another option.
I'm a beginner at Networking and Game Development, and that is being hard to get into my mind - so I decided to try and put it into a question. This way, maybe with someone reading what I'm thinking about, I might get some clarification. Perhaps I'm just thinking about it the wrong way.
Q: should I really update someone who isn't even being seen?
There is no need.
The normal way MMORPG games do in the server side is to cyclely process network packages and some other calculations like the connection of players like skill cast or something else.
The central of a server may look like below
void run()
{
while (true)
{
processNetwork();
processSkills();
processMoves();
...
}
}
The loop will run several times a second, like 20 frames a second is enough cause players can not feel the little frame, they think they move/play smoothly but the trueth is not.
For your question, player only need to see some little area, when he moves, the server will braodcast his postion to others in the area and the players in his area in the next frame.
And that is just the simpliest model, actual model will be more complicated and we will detach different functions of the game to different server, sucn as chat server, battle server, auction server and others.
I'm creating a Unet application, where the server is responsible for spawning units, and the clients (obviously) see the units and their movements. Clients can spawn stuff via server commands, and typical interactions.
What i'm hoping to allow, however, is each client to redefine their global 'origin' point. So if i'm in the world and i see it in front of me, i'd like to be able to turn around and determine that "hey! that point over there is now the origin", and have all the components move to that new location (which should be handled automatically by the NetworkTransforms).
Does anyone know how i would be able to accomplish this? Or even implement some sort of NetworkTransformOffset script based off the network transform?
Yes....
By moving everything by an amount equal to -1 * new_origin yourself.
Anyone know, or have some ideas, how to have a GameObject in Unity3D Multiplayer (UNT) that is accessible for two player. What i want to do is to have an object that can be dragged from both players.
I have been looking at tutorials and read documentation but have not yet figured out how to solve this.
I used a simple workaround, I made three GOs (one that is being moved (main one), and two GOs that just receive informations from two players). When one player drags main GO on their screen their GO sends info to corresponding GO on other screen, it receives information and moves the main GO, same thing happens with another player. (I did this in Photon)
Most of the multiplayer engines don't support two way communication, so you have to create two one way communications to simulate one two way communication.
I would like to create a baseball simulation game.
Are these sports management games based on luck? A management game entirely based on luck is not fair, but it cannot be too predictable either. How does the logic behind these games work?
It's all about probability and statistics. You set the chance of something happening based on some attributes you assign, and then the random factor comes in during play to make things less predictable and more fun. Generally you get a load of statistics from some external source, encode them into your game's database, and write a system that compares random numbers to these statistics to generate results that approximate the real-life observations that the stats were based on.
Oversimplified example: say your game has Babe Ruth who hits a home run 8.5% of the time, and some lesser guy who hits one 4% of the time. These are the attributes you test against. So for each pitch you simulate, pick a random number between 0 and 100%. If it's less than or equal to the attribute, the batter scores a home run, if it's greater than the attribute, they don't. After a few pitches you'll start to see Babe Ruth's quality show relative to the other guy as he will tend to hit over twice as many home runs.
In reality you'd have more than 1 attribute for this, depending on the kind of pitching for example. And the other player might get to choose which relief pitchers to use to try and exploit weaknesses in the batter's abilities. So the gameplay comes from the interplay between these various attributes, with you trying to maximise the chance that the attribute tests work in your favour.
PS. Apologies for any mistakes regarding baseball: I'm English so can't be expected to understand these things. ;)
As you have already figured out, the core component of such games is the match simulation engine. As Spence said so, you want that simulation to "look right" rather than to "be right".
I worked on a rugby game simulation some time ago and there's an approach that works quite well. Your match is a finite state machine. Each game phase is a state, has an outcome which translates to a phase transition or changes in game state (score, replacements, ...).
Add in a event/listener system to handle things that are not strictly related to the structure of the game you're simulating and you have a good structure (everytime something happens in your simulation, a foul for instance, fire an event; the listeners can be a comment-generation system or an AI responsible for teams' strategies).
You can start with a rough simulation engine that handles things at a team level using an average of your players' stats and then move on to something more detailed that's simulating things at a player level. I think that kind of iterative approach suits a game simulation very well because you want it to look right, and as soon as an element looks right you can stop iterating on it and work on another part of your system.
Random is of course part of the game because as you said so, you don't want games to be too predictable. A very simple thing to do is to have virtual dice rolls against a player and team statistics when they are performing a particular action (throwing the ball for instance).
Edit: I make the assumption that we're talking about management games like Hattrick, where you're managing a roster and simulating game results rather than 2D/3D graphical simulations.
Usually timing plus a randomness to make the game replayable EDIT To clarify I mean in terms of when the pitch comes at you, if it was exact you could learn to play it perfectly, you would need a small randomness around the exact time that you swing to make the game have some chance). AI has a big part in this if you do things like curve balls, add the ability to steal bases etc.
Getting games "right" isn't a factor of design or maths so much as a feel. You will try something, play it, and see if it was fun. If it isn't try different algorithms or gameplay until you get it right.
A simulation is very much about an imagined world in that you create classes that represent all aspects of an imagined world. You need to model the players, specify the game rules, and game dynamics.
http://cplus.about.com/b/2008/05/31/nathans-zombie-simulator-in-c.htm
Look here for agent based model: http://www.montemagno.com/projects.html
One great thing about creating your own game is that you get to decide how the game logic is going to work. If you want the game to have a high degree of luck you can design that in. If you don't want the game to have a high degree of luck then you can design it out.
It's your game, you get to make up the rules.
Are you talking about a baseball game you play or a game simulator? Baseball games can be arcade-like or fantasy sports like or a blend.
I was at Dynamix when Front Page Sports Baseball was made. It was stats-based, meaning that you could play out games and seasons using the stats of the various players. That meant licensing Major League data. It used stats to influence outcomes.
There was a regular mode and a "fast-sim" mode that could breeze through the games faster.
I think Kylotan has the right strategy. Baseball has stats for everything. Simulate a game to the most detailed level you can manage. Combine player stats to determine a percentage chance for every outcome. Use randomness to decide the outcome.
For instance: The chance of a hit is based on Batting Average, Pitcher's ERA, etc. The opposing team's feilding percent determines the chance an out becomes an error.
Every stat you display to the 'manager' when selecting lineups should have some effect on gameplay - otherwise the manager is making decisions based on misleading information.
you ought to check out franchise ball. there is a browsable demo.
http://promo.franchiseball.com