Handling bots in infantry lines

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Hello. I’m currently designing a Bot Commander game, where you command bots during the Napoleonic Age. If you have ever played Mount & Blade, or any other bot commander game, you will see something similar to what I want to design.

  1. I am trying to achieve a way to handle each individual bot in a line and manipulate them with behavior and formations. The goal of the game is to use your line of men, represented by bots which you control, in formation to do whatever the objective is. I also need a way to represent formation data, for example an infantry square, wedge, or line.

  2. I do not know how to handle the bots and formations. I do not know if maybe I should use a co routine or something other to have a main function control all of the individual bots and maybe manipulate them with events. I do not know how I would represent formation data either.

  3. I have looked for answers or maybe people making their own bot commander game. I have also looked at how games like Mount & Blade handle their bots and characters behaviour, which involves a system of directions given to the AI. I’m not looking for an AI to control lines. I’m looking at how a script would handle each individual bot and have them behave in an infantry line.

Here is an example of a bot line from M&B Napoleonic Wars.

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Thank you for reading and if possible please give me answers.

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I would use a swarm formation algorithm to form the formations. But if you don’t want to do that you can instead assign a leader unit then form the formations around the leader.

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The player is the leader. The formations will be formed around the player but I don’t know how I would represent formation data

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  1. specific table of units
  2. function that sets up the formation, i.e. straight line nodes along a designated point i.e. leader or click hit
  3. assign each point in formation to closest unit, repeat until all units assigned
  4. units moveto point

would the above work?

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Would I wrap this in a main function in a co routine?

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i dont know what you are inferring

are you asking when should trigger formation?

it depends on how you are handling the ais

assume the units follow all time except in the middle of shooting (so if shooting==true, dont move)

you’d still tell the units to move to new points as the point/leader moves

so yes it can be a ‘coroutine’ that updates every so often

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I think this works. I still dont know how to represent formation data though.