Futuristic Soldier – Behavior Tree

This will be last enemy for the demo, rest of the characters will be implemented after different environments will be added. I’m listening you guys and this time I will use Behaviour Tree instead of Blueprints. Some goals:

  • Three types of behaviour: standing, crouching and melee,
  • Can shoot while running to player,

After last enemies you should have enough knowledge to create simple AI by yourself using Blueprints. This time I will focus on Behavior Tree.

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First Enemy – Behavior Tree / Shooting at Player

This tutorial contains basic knowledge about AI / Animations . If you are interested in graphics and animation, go to this website and watch more such tutorials.  It may be complicated for beginners so please take your time to analyze the stuff before implementing. I will create first basic enemy and it will cover:

  • Behavior Tree: simple check where to go and go there if aren’t reloading,
  • Animations: blending legs with rest of the body (walking -> standing),
  • Animations: Playing Montages (reload animation and shoot animation),
  • Animations: Look At – enemy upper body will be always rotated to player,
  • Animations: TakeDamage effects without having animations,
  • Animations: Ragdoll,
  • AI: Ammo, Fire and Reloading,

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