Advanced AI for Game Characters with Goal-Oriented Action Planning

Goal-Oriented Action Planning or GOAP is a powerful architecture used for controlling the behaviour of non-player characters.  This AI technique was first developed for use in F.E.A.R.  Its strength lies in the decoupling of character actions from one another such that plans can be created on the fly based on the characters set goals.

In this course you will be taken step by step through the development of a simple hospital simulation with patients, nurses and doctors represented by NavMesh agents.  Together we will build-on, video by video, a GOAP library in C# that you can use to enhance the artificial intelligent behaviour of your own NPCs.

Course Information

Estimated Time: 40 Lectures, 8 Hours

Difficulty: Intermediate

Course Instructor

Penny de Byl Penny de Byl Author

I’m a full stack developer of most things computer sciency and academic with a true passion for teaching.  I’ve been teaching others about games development, programming, computer graphics, animation and web design for over 25 years in universities in Australia and Europe at the full professor level. I’ve also consulted for Unity, SAE, the Australian Institute of Entertainment and Wikitude. My best selling textbooks including Holistic Game Development with Unity are used in over 100 institutions world-wide. My graduates work at companies like Apple, Ubisoft, LinkedIn and Deloitte Digital.

 

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Introduction

Welcome
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Join the H3D Student Community
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FAQs
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A Crash Course In Navigation Meshes

An Introduction to Navigation Meshes
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Setting up your own NavMesh
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Moving an Agent Around the Mesh
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Introduction to GOAP

Introduction To GOAP
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Setting up a GOAP Environment
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Preplanning the Agent Actions
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The World States
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Actions
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Agents
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Introduction to GOAP
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Planning

The GOAP Planner Part 1
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The GOAP Planner Part 2
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Executing a Simple Plan
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Creating A Multistep Plan
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Plans that Require Multiple Agents
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Inventories

Adding More Resources to the World
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Implementing an Inventory System
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Complex Behaviours

Moving The Nurse
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Adding Goal Challenge
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Taking a Break
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Building Functionality and Debugging

Adding a Doctor Challenge
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New Resource Models and Troubleshooting Part 1
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New Resource Models and Troubleshooting Part 2
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New Resource Challenge
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Reusing Actions on Other Agents
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Producing and Removing Resources

A Little World Refactoring
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Monitoring Agent States
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Responding to a New Resource
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Interacting with the Environment

Dragging and Dropping New Resources
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Dynamic Navmesh Baking
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Repositioning and Rotating Resources
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Deleting a Resource
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Refactoring for a Multi-resource UI
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A UI to Work with Multiple Resources
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Improved Repositioning
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Moving the Camera
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Final Words

Some Final Words From Penny
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