UDK Bot Overview

A UDK bot is basically a 3D animated object, or “robot”, with built-in artificial intelligence features that allow for such things like finding a path to another object in the game world and then being able to move to that object along that path. For example, let’s say you are in control of a squad of computer-controlled soldiers or bots. You can indicate the location that you want the bots to move to by touching the screen on your iOS device. The bots then calculate the path to that location and in the process avoid obstacles that would block their way. The code to find this path is already built into the base UDK code and is what we will discuss in this chapter. Other things, such as when to fire weapons and who or what to fire at under ....