X-Ray engine source code available on GitHub

[Anthony-Gaudino]

I was reading about the X-Ray engine used on the Stalker games and I found out that the source code is available on GitHub. I'm not sure if it's a leaked source or the developers released it, it's not free software as the license file tells.

You can find it here: https://github.com/OpenXRay/xray-16

I got surprised as I didn't see much information about the source release, that's why I think it may be leaked source.

Anyway, I think it's OK if one study the code.

[kortemik]

The code release seems intended, however their license is not compatible with ours and I wonder what is their intention with releasing the source under such license. Perhaps to fish developers on their engine but with a license like that it's not going to fly too far..

[BielBdeLuna]

this is excellent news, xray includes a planer, this could serve as inspiration for developing a planer for the AI,. this and also FEAR sdk expose several examples of a planer. a GOAP system (Goal Oriented Action Planer)

[ghost]

@BielBdeLuna GOAP would be great, especially for military/tactical squad simulations. Imagine OTE with machine learning applications to learn, study and simulate strategy for real world application. The security industry would appreciate that.

[BielBdeLuna]

technically GOAP can be used for everything not just tactical action, imagine GOAP as an automatized state machine, so instead of you doing the state machine states, the computer computes it for you.

[ghost]

That would be great, also for wildlife and small random weather events.

[BielBdeLuna]

no, the problem of GOAP is that per tick it is calculating and planning all possible plans and scoring it. so it needs a lot of processing power instead of the static FSM which only process the actual orders given by the script.

for random events and wildlife there should be a less expensive method

[ghost]

@BielBdeLuna Would calculating possible outcomes and storing it into a cache folder perhaps help improve performance? The only reason I'm thinking of it is after testing some performance differences with the shader cache written by the Nvidia drivers to take some load off the GPU memory.

[DanielGibson]

Imagine OTE with machine learning applications to learn, study and simulate strategy for real world application. The security industry would appreciate that.

I'd prefer if that scum wouldn't use my code :-P

[ghost]

@DanielGibson I know how you feel, Rage against the machine. Lately it seems that policing and security is leaning towards either the fascist or mobster sides.

[BielBdeLuna]

no, within a dynamic world, the evaluation of every plan could change per tick.

[ForserX]

If someone is interested in XRay Engine, then you are welcome: https://github.com/xrOxygen/xray-oxygen