Unit AI - Flocking

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Suggested Feature

Feature to add Unit AI, creating a shared objective and behaviour for Actors. This should allow Units to act in a cohesive way, rather than a random bunch of unrelated Actors.

Requirements

• [ ] Flocking is a general behaviour. i.e. is always applied
• [ ] Actors in Unit flock or group together
• [ ] Actors in Unit avoid going too far from one another
• [ ] A "banner" is used as the point to flock around.
  • [ ] the banner has a sprite.

Additional Context

None.

Resources

Example flocking approach: https://howtorts.github.io/2014/01/03/steering-flocking.html Pseudocode example: http://www.kfish.org/boids/pseudocode.html Info on moving in formations: https://github.com/libgdx/gdx-ai/wiki/Formation-Motion

Godot flocking code example (already in repo): https://github.com/Snayff/nqp3/tree/develop/_test/_test_boid

• this is from here: https://github.com/kyrick/godot-boids Another Godot flocking code example: https://github.com/RKelln/godot-boids-acceleration-structure/tree/jackson A third Godot flocking code example: https://github.com/kyrick/godot-boids-acceleration-structure A fourth Godot flocking code example: https://github.com/meloonics/Flocking/blob/master/Flocking.gd

Partially implemented flocking by contributor Nero: nero unit pathfinding demo.zip