On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:54 PM, kschnee
<kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:35:50 +0200, Knapp <magick.crow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I also agree that we could make a whole section of code like this. There
> are
> other types of noise, a lot of vector math toys like unit vector and
> perpendicular vector etc that get used a lot in game making. I am sure
> there
> are more that could be rounded up for a nice set of functions. Then there
> are even really big ones like AI functions that could be written (I keep
> thinking that a Prolog lib for python would be great for making games!)
> but
> then that is in the same class as a gui or 3d etc.
I was playing recently with the A* pathfinding algorithm and made a
workable version of it:
http://kschnee.xepher.net/code/080721a_star_pathfinding.zip
http://kschnee.xepher.net/pics/080720a_star.jpg
Other things that I could see as useful for a modest AI library (not Pygame
itself) would be a flocking algorithm, and an NPC dialog system comparable
to the one used in "Morrowind." As for the first and A* itself, it's tricky
to make those generic for everyone because each coder will likely use their
own coordinate/movement system. The dialog system would be relatively easy
to make widely usable, as the only input and output would be strings plus
the NPC having access to world-state variables like "dragon_slain = True."
What else might be interesting?
Just talking pie in the sky, voice synthesis (had this on the C64 for the games I made), speech recognition, a system to track what a computer camera sees and tell what it is, a function to find what is close to something (This is very doable), logic system like Prolog, fuzzy logic system, quest engine, networking, communications system between players.
CEL is very interesting along these lines but I don't like the API at all.
http://cel.crystalspace3d.org/main/CEL_DesignI am sure there is a lot that I have missed and a lot of big tick items as well as simple but useful things.
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