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Bruno Cicanci
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Bruno Cicanci is a software engineer and game developer with professional experience on different technologies and platforms. Since 2009, Bruno helped to develop and publish many games, mainly using Unity for mobile devices. He writes about game development on his personal blog, which led him to present many talks at universities and events. Bruno holds a Computer Science BS. Degree and a specialization and Game Production and Programming. In the last decade, he worked at prestigious game studios such as Glu Mobile, Electronic Arts, and Aquiris. He is currently developing games and reusable technologies at Ubisoft. Originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Bruno currently resides in London, UK with his wife and two adorable cats.
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Patrolling the area

Having different enemy groups on the map and hidden under the fog is already quite a challenge for the player. However, finding idle enemies while exploring the map is not very exciting. We can make it more fun and dynamic by adding patrol behavior to the enemies, so they are moving around between two points on the map.

Since we are using Unity’s NavMesh system, it is very simple to modify the existing Enemy ComponentNavMesh script and add the patrol behavior, so the enemy will be able to walk around the area, attack a unit when a collision is detected, and chase the unit if it tries to escape.

Open the existing script located at Scripts | Enemy | EnemyComponentNavMesh.cs and add the following variables inside the class, before the declaration of the existing Start method:

private int _currentPoint;
private Vector3 _startPosition;
private Vector3[] _points = new Vector3[2] {
  new Vector3(-10, 0, 0), new Vector3(10, 0, 0) };

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Bruno Cicanci

Bruno Cicanci is a software engineer and game developer with professional experience on different technologies and platforms. Since 2009, Bruno helped to develop and publish many games, mainly using Unity for mobile devices. He writes about game development on his personal blog, which led him to present many talks at universities and events. Bruno holds a Computer Science BS. Degree and a specialization and Game Production and Programming. In the last decade, he worked at prestigious game studios such as Glu Mobile, Electronic Arts, and Aquiris. He is currently developing games and reusable technologies at Ubisoft. Originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Bruno currently resides in London, UK with his wife and two adorable cats.
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