Trying to Plan Enemy AI in Godot

I'm not a game dev, I've never used a game engine before, but there's a first time for everything. I've been having a blast using Godot, so let's see what we can do with it. For this one, I tried my hand at figuring out how to make the enemy AI better in my game. Join me as I continue my journey trying to learn how to make a game.

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[purplefood]

GJ you officially made better AI than call fo duty zombies

[kevin_eleven]

Another thing u could add is to add a collision box to the enemy so that they can collide with each other
Hope this helps!

[Vensauno]

You can try that at a certain distance away, the enemy will chase another enemy, it may help. I hope it will add And they probably won converge after they leave the area

[Morrisistherealgod]

I did not know you could do it like that!

[cq.cumber_offishial]

i think another way to do this is to make enemies avoid each other by a slight distance

[kilokoins]

That's a really good idea, thank you i'm gonna try it!!

[MonolithproductionsT]

I went down a trig rabbit hole and had the AI follow an interception path so they try to overtake you

[NoahTaylor-rh]

For anyone wondering how you would actually do this if you are reading this way later, Godot 4.x has built in functions that deal with this type of thing and you'll use a Navigation2D node and the move_and_slide() function. Using these two in conjunction means you really don't have to program your own AI.

func MoveToTarget(delta: float) -> void:
= Target.global_position
var direction = - global_position
direction = direction.normalized()
velocity = velocity.lerp(direction * Speed, Acceleration * delta)
if velocity.x != 0:
$AnimatedSprite2D.flip_h = velocity.x < 0

move_and_slide()

Itll end up looking something like this.

[thinktanium]

oh snap- is the navigation2d agent a new node? i just got into godot

[braveblade]

I'm new to Godot, but why not just add another collisionshape2D to the enemy, make it slightly bigger and make it only collide to other enemies and not the player?

[zenco]

I just did this wtf 😂 ❤ subbed. That's crazy, where were you yesterday?!

[trongthangg]

You can try to play Asgard's Fall: Origins and see how there enemies collide, I mean if you can do something similar like it, it would be awesome

[NicoFye]

I'm making a similar game, and I want to figure out AI too. I want enemies to be ships also