UnrealScript for bots and AI: bots for single-player level mod

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Hello,

I have been designing a level for a single-player mod, and I was wondering where the best place to learn how to import bots/monsters/opponents for the single player to battle might be.

Can pre-made bots/monsters with AI be downloaded from somehere?

I'm hoping to edit the bot's AI with UnrealScript.

The bots/monsters get more and more advanced, smarter, and more lethal, as the player approaches the mountain.

I'd also liked to have winged beasts/flying bots.

What's the most straightforward way to do this?

Thanks!

Ranger
 
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The SkaarjMonster has some pretty good code in there. To make them more advanced add more clauses or advanced AI routines (such as weighing, learning, etc).

The best thing to do if you haven't studied AI before is to buy a book or learn from the internet game programming development sources.
 
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There is no such as thing as the best book for AI or the best book for AI in UScript. All books have their merits and so on. The best thing to do is, to learn how the AI routine works and then adapt it for UScript.

Take for example this, http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/GameProgramming/.

This page is about A* and Dijsktra's method for pathfinding. When I understood more about the theory, the actual code to write the methods was very easy. It was the actual code design and theory that was the hard part.
 
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Ouch.

Design is very important though. It's really more important than anything else. A crappy design leads to wasted time, as you add more stuff you have to constantly go back and change the design to suit your needs. A flexible design can be used easily for many different things, and is still very effective at doing all of them (though it is often more difficult to understand).
 
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