Tech Blog [Month 3 - Week 2]

The priority right is to get the AI to move up to the second floor as part of tactical decision making.

• I've created a new routine to grab a tactical position at random during evaluation.

• I'm having an issue actually getting the AI to move up to the second floor mesh.

• Created a tactical position check using static variables and a single check throughout all instances so that it can detect different level properties, or if I decide to disable this feature without errors.

• The AI's targeting system can cause a crash if its raytrace doesn't return a collider; created error checking to solve this. Also made the targeting checks more specific, hopefully this will solve other issues.

• The previous fix seems to have finally fixed the AI idling problem at the start.

• Ran into an issue with the AI firerate but it turned out to be an issue with the prefab config.

• Discovered that the AI nav agent's area mask prevented movement to the second floor. Disabled tactical point movement for now.

• Encountered problems with how the nav mesh is baked on the second floor. Will use off-mesh link traversal as a temporary fix.

• Created off-mesh links on the second floor so the AI can jump off.

• Helped Jimmy create the state machine for the animations.