it seems to me that A* only works on tile-based games.
What if my game isn't tile-based?
--- On Sun, 1/25/09, Noah Kantrowitz <noah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Noah Kantrowitz <noah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pygame] Pathfinding
To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 9:20 PM
1) People can, and do, get PhDs in pathfinding algorithms. A*
(pronounced a-star) is the most commonly used algorithm in games though.
2) Alter the chain length score computation to reduce exploitation.
--Noah
On Jan 25, 2009, at 7:16 PM, Yanom Mobis wrote:
> 1) How is pathfinding done?
> 2) How do you prevent a moving sprite from being caught
in a v-
> shaped rut made of obstacles? Like this:
> __
> A -> # | B
> __|
>
>
> Where A and B are the points the sprite needs to travel,
> # is the sprite,
> -> is the direction the sprite is moving, and
> _ and | are obstacles?
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