Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Bring life to your custom scenarios. RealWorld visual scripting for Artificial Intelligence (AI) lets you create brains for your avatars and imbue them with the behaviors needed so you have natural training and mission rehearsal experiences. No programmers required. And unlike rigidly scripted AI behaviors in the past, you give your avatar goals and tell it the variety of different actions it can use to achieve them.

The system is even sophisticated enough to allow avatars to simultaneously consider multiple goals. This provides enhanced flexibility and more closely mimics how people conduct their own behaviors in real life.

Because the AI is fully integrated with the goal-oriented behavior system on the client run-time, it takes full advantage of the incredibly powerful TotalPath™ 3D path-finding solution.

TotalPath™

Creating paths for AI-driven virtual entities can be so complex that software used to pre-calculate paths for commercial games can run for 5 hours or more – and that’s just for a single game level. Since RealWorld is used for rapid mission rehearsal, that just won’t fly. Instead, RealWorld's TotalPath™ module solves path-finding problems in real time.

TotalPath™ automatically works out optimized routes on-the-fly by taking geophysical environmental and entity data and factoring it against the destination location. This includes the layout and intervening elevations of the physical environment, the distance that needs to be traveled and static obstacles like buildings and fences. Navigation paths to static locations are calculated in milliseconds as the scenario is loading so you don’t even notice it. It's so sophisticated that if a quick pre-analysis shows a requested destination to be unreachable, it creates a route to the closest possible destination. TotalPath also accounts for the presence of other dynamic or moving entities. All this happens in real-time so you get a seamless, immersive experience.