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Game Development How to Make a Video Game Score, Enemies, and Game State Create Enemy Navigation and AI

Posted by Oscar Barillas
Oscar Barillas
1,149 Points

Making the Bird AI a little more complicated?

I wanted to make the game more challenging by making the Bird move faster as more flies are collected. I noticed that acceleration was the main variable that changed speed and turn direction, so I wrote:

float acceleration = birdAgent.acceleration + ScoreCounter.score;

and

birdAnimator.SetFloat("Acceleration",acceleration);

but the console said that "Acceleration wasn't recognized.

I next tried to edit solely the speed by writing:

float speed = birdAgent.velocity.magnitude + 100*ScoreCounter.score;

But nothing changed when I played the game.

What am I doing wrong/what can I do?

2 Answers

Greenie 99
Greenie 99
1,715 Points
Greenie 99
Greenie 99
1,715 Points

I will have to take a look at some of this code when I get home. I would approach this by having a if loop which runs when a user collects a fly, and then do speed++.

Matthew Farncomb
Matthew Farncomb
1,587 Points
Matthew Farncomb
Matthew Farncomb
1,587 Points

You probably have already figured this out by now, but I will provide my way of doing it for anyone else who ends up being interested.

I put this is BirdMovement.cs:

Add this at the top of the code below the class name and above the Start method:

public static NavMeshAgent speedIncreaser;

Add this in the Start method:

speedIncreaser = GetComponent<NavMeshAgent>();

Now, in FlyPickup.cs:

Add this to the if statement just above Destroy(gameObject);

BirdMovement.speedIncreaser.acceleration++;
BirdMovement.speedIncreaser.speed++;

This will very quickly greatly increase the speed of the bird chasing the player, probably too quickly, so it will involve some tweaking, but this is a very basic way to do it.