BEHAVIOUR TREE

Due to my fascination with AI I have always wanted to experiment with various existing models in order to create my own take on it. With this in mind I started getting familiar with the Behaviour Tree. This tree is heavily inspired by The Kiwi Coder. 

​

With my tree I wanted to create a system through which you can easily create complex AI behaviour. Since a tree is very modular it aligns perfectly with my vision for creating AI systems. Through my testing case I went through various iterations in order to test functionality. One of the things I wanted to create in my tree was a Conditional Node (CN).

 

The CN would compare data from Node X with the condition in order to give a certain result. My plan was to expand upon this by creating a visualized version of an if statement. For AI this would be crucial if you want to create complex behaviour. For example if the distance between the AI and the player is less than 10 it should switch from patrol to attack. 

 

Due to the setup of my nodes I was unable to create the conditional node. I discovered the complexity of UCSS and in general I am not fond of front-end related things. The reason for my node system not being able to handle conditional nodes is because the nodes were able to have multiple entries, but only 1 exit. In order to make them able to have multiple exit points it would require a complete different system under the hood where each condition would be tied to at least 3 exits eg. less, greater, equal, etc. This would be based on the condition type and at that point I realized why pretty much no one does this.