AI Steering Behaviour Visualisation v7: Swarm Behaviour

This engine aims to allow the user to visualise various AI behaviour types - how they interact with their environment, what is used in their "decision making", and to test adjustments to those AI in real-time.

This video demonstrates the addition of more-swarm like behaviour creatures (in yellow). The approach I've used to include different types of creatures with different AI "personalities" really paid off here - all that was required was setting up one new entity type, adding in the right set of behaviours, and tweaking the behaviour parameters to get the motion I was looking for. In fact, the motion here exceeded my expectations - it looks pretty cool!

These yellow fish have 5 behaviours set up: Seek other yellow fish, avoid green fish and the red shark, wander, and slow down. I scaled up the speed for this fish type too, and removed alignment,, so it acts in a more "swarmlike" manner.

This video follows one particular fish but maintains a fixed angle of perspective - which makes understanding of what is going on, on a group scale, much simpler.

The next updates will be (in no particular order):
- Addition of more behaviours (e.g. pursuit / evade, wall avoidance)
- The ability to turn on / off behaviours
- The ability to adjust the intensity of the various behaviours
- Ability to view the vantage point to different creatures
- And any others that you may have in mind! Please let me know!!


Hopefully this project will allow for the quick creation of multiple AI types by allowing live-editing of various parameters, and give a very deep sense into how the various AIs would respond to different stimuli.

Please let me know how if you have any suggestions on things to add!

Acknowledgements:


The ideas of using steering behaviours came about while reading Mat Buckland's book "Programming Game AI by Example", which has proved invaluable in building this visualisation.