Opensteer and Irrlicht

dhenton9000 · Post by **dhenton9000** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:15 am

Anybody using OpenSteer for flocking and AI?
http://opensteer.sourceforge.net

omaremad_ · Post by **omaremad_** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 12:12 pm

No not very useful unless you want to make racing ai

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 1:40 pm

Actually, it's very useful. I'm using it to control a number of *searching* entities that can react to a *searchable* entity and it's working fairly well. Will it work with Irrlicht? I should as it's C++ oriented though I haven't gotten far enough along in my game development to look at full integration yet.

dhenton9000 · Post by **dhenton9000** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 3:24 pm

IntMain wrote:Actually, it's very useful. I'm using it to control a number of *searching* entities that can react to a *searchable* entity and it's working fairly well. Will it work with Irrlicht? I should as it's C++ oriented though I haven't gotten far enough along in my game development to look at full integration yet.

I've got it working with Newton,Irrlicht and the Opensteer code. Works like a champ. IntMain, if you aren't using it in Irrlicht, can I ask what you are using it in?

jam · Post by **jam** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:35 pm

dhenton9000 wrote: I've got it working with Newton,Irrlicht and the Opensteer code. Works like a champ. IntMain, if you aren't using it in Irrlicht, can I ask what you are using it in?

If you wouldn't mind could you please post a code example or a tutorial on how to get it working in irrlicht?

buhatkj · Post by **buhatkj** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:52 pm

I've got it working with Newton,Irrlicht and the Opensteer code. Works like a champ. IntMain, if you aren't using it in Irrlicht, can I ask what you are using it in?

Yeh man, totally lets see some demo code

I have a nice thing going with newton and irrlicht together, but all I really did was improve the interface for the same stuff mercior had done.
I have been picking through opensteer for a while, learning how it works, but I havent had the time to tyr and actually slap it together.
The bit I'm most interested in is how you have handled obstacles. The only type of default obstacle supported in Opensteer is spherical, and I would want to make mesh-based obstacles. I figured I could hack up something maybe using irrlicht's triangle selecter to detect collisions, or even use my newton collisions(though that wouldnt work so well with mesh-based newton collisions).

dhenton9000 · Post by **dhenton9000** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:22 pm

Well, its not too fancy, all it does is pull the forces from the Opensteer steer functions and apply them. The real accomplishment was getting it to compile. I'm going to do some work on collisions and then I'll put the demo up.

I did read the collision code and it seems that it looks to the edge or silloutte as a indicator to bypass, which means you'd need some way to determine the edge of your mesh.

buhatkj · Post by **buhatkj** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:55 am

i look forward to it

jam · Post by **jam** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:05 am

I second that.

dhenton9000 · Post by **dhenton9000** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:10 pm

I've completed the demo and you can read about it here

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=10275

Irrlicht Engine

Opensteer and Irrlicht

Opensteer and Irrlicht

dude....

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