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Jorge Palacios
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Jorge Palacios is a software and game developer with a BS in computer science and eight years of professional experience. He's been developing games for the last five years in different roles, from tool developer to lead programmer. Mainly focused on artificial intelligence and gameplay programming, he is currently working with Unity and HTML5. He's also a game-programming instructor, speaker, and game-jam organizer.
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The seeing function using a collider-based system


This is probably the easiest way to simulate vision. We take a collider, be it a mesh or a Unity primitive, and use it as the tool for determining whether or not an object is inside the agent's vision range.

Getting ready

It's important to have a collider component attached to the same game object using the script on this recipe, as well as the other collider-based algorithms in this chapter. In this case, it's recommended that the collider is a pyramid-based one in order to simulate a vision cone. The fewer the polygons, the faster it will be in the game.

How to do it…

We will create a component that is able to see enemies nearby:

  1. Create the Visor component declaring its member variables. It is important to add the following corresponding tags into Unity's configuration:

    using UnityEngine;
    using System.Collections;
    
    public class Visor : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public string tagWall = "Wall";
        public string tagTarget = "Enemy";
        public GameObject...
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Jorge Palacios

Jorge Palacios is a software and game developer with a BS in computer science and eight years of professional experience. He's been developing games for the last five years in different roles, from tool developer to lead programmer. Mainly focused on artificial intelligence and gameplay programming, he is currently working with Unity and HTML5. He's also a game-programming instructor, speaker, and game-jam organizer.
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