| 25 Jan 2022 |
 Rampoina | dragoons are infamous at that | 15:30:59 |
| Rampoina | they go wide thin wide thin | 15:31:10 |
 freem | if one was to implement pathfinding nowadays, for games with easy movements, I'd say just go grab Recast/Detour/DetourCrowd and make it do the job | 15:31:14 |
| Rampoina | and the pathfinding goes all wonky because of this | 15:31:21 |
| freem | oh | 15:31:27 |
| freem | size-changing stuff is indeed not the nicest thing | 15:31:40 |
| freem | why do they alternate wide/thin states, though | 15:32:14 |
| freem | ? | 15:32:15 |
| Rampoina | different sprites | 15:32:29 |
| Rampoina | and internal tiles | 15:32:32 |
| freem | going wide to plant themselves into ground before firing? | 15:32:33 |
| Rampoina | no just while moving | 15:32:49 |
| Rampoina | let me see if I find a gif | 15:32:57 |
| freem | huh? | 15:32:59 |
| freem | yes please :) | 15:33:04 |
| freem | heh | 15:33:45 |
| freem | https://towardsdatascience.com/a-history-of-rts-ai-research-72339bcaa3ee "Matt Webcorner demonstrated that a StarCraft II bot could be built by intercepting DirectX commands in order to infer the game state. One of the main limitations of this approach is that the bot only has access to the game state currently being displayed on the screen." | 15:33:57 |
 bot | Title: A History of RTS AI Research. AI Research in RTS games has a rich… | by Ben Weber | Towards Data Science (at towardsdatascience.com) | 15:34:01 |
| freem | man, that just means that the bot can *actually* play like a human, instead of cheating | 15:34:11 |
| freem | the link does not teach much though | 15:35:19 |
| freem | only a dumb list of events | 15:35:25 |
| Rampoina | https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Starcraft.jpg this shows the grid | 15:35:47 |
| Rampoina | can't find the movemnet | 15:35:57 |
| Rampoina | I remember watching a video that showed it nicely | 15:36:05 |
| freem | ah | 15:36:05 |
| freem | the standard tile problem | 15:36:10 |
| freem | when you get tiles to work with, basically use A* or some derivation for movements. Still got to have handling of crowds, though | 15:37:09 |
| Rampoina | https://external-preview.redd.it/hMMRdmaeWAJkTlYKhkglg7yWER3BWR3M4M4gfKo9MwQ.gif?format=mp4&s=89e11b72fe4f5ca60aa383227996897c32f5a763 | 15:37:34 |
| Rampoina | notice when they walk | 15:37:50 |
| Rampoina | they extend the legs | 15:37:53 |
