How would I have an AI Target areas where a noise is made?
I need to make a more advanced AI, but I don't know how to go about a few things. I want an AI to be attracted to certain positions based on noise-making, such as a bottle being thrown or a gunshot. But I don't know what to do in this case. Would I have the script create a set of values in the workspace that, if say the sound was made close enough to the ai and the ai isn't already focused on something, would cause the ai to wander around that position?
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That's a simple way to do it.
If you simply keep track of all of the "sounds" made in the last few seconds, the zombies can track to those instead of the nearest player. If there are no nearby positions to take, just remember the old value, so that it'll keep tracking there (and you can add additional logic to make it wander).
Overall, it could look like this:
function makeNoise(position)
local p = Instance.new("Vector3Value",workspace.Noises);
p.Value = position;
delay(function() p:Destroy(); end,10);
-- Destroy the noise after ten seconds
-- (since zombies might not look every moment, we give them
-- a chance to notice)
end
function findNoise(near,within)
local nearest = nil;
for i,v in pairs(workspace.Noises:GetChildren()) do
if (not nearest) or (nearest - near).magnitude
>
(nearest - v.Value).magnitude then
nearest = v.Value;
end
end
return nearest;
end
local target = myposition;
local vary = Vector3.new();
while true do
wait();
-- Other logic
local noise = findNoise(myposition);
if noise then
target = noise;
end
if math.random() < .01 then
vary = Vector3.new(math.random()*50-25,0,math.random()*50-25);
--simple wandering
end
wandertarget = target + vary;
moveTo(wandertarget);
end
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