Free car Ai out there?

Is there a free vehicle Ai system out there. I have tried making my own but I can't get the effect of a car. Chances of a free car ai are slim but why not ask? Thanks

 

http://unity3d.com/support/resources/tutorials/car-tutorial

 

That does not include an ai system.

 

*looks at tatelax*
*looks at car tutorial*
*looks back at tatelax*

and what would a car Ai system do that this tutorial cannot?

 

um am I missing something? There is no ai system for opponents.

 

A car AI system would allow you to easily set up tracks and what not for car artificial intelligence.

There is no free solution that I'm aware of.

 

A car AI system would allow you to easily set up tracks and what not for car artificial intelligence.

There is no free solution that I'm aware of, other than making it yourself.

 

oh! I don't think such a thing has been created, although, it should be rather easy with the right set of skills and the waypoint system.

 

I setup a waypoint system and it looked awful and the car didn't react when I bumped it. Also it wasn't level to the ground and didn't rotate smoothly.

 

You just need to try harder. Detect when it hits the waypoint and turn the wheels. Build in some random timing and stupidness and tada, you have yourself a car AI.

 

Depends what you want your AI cars to do, track layouts and car physics.

I'm using a waypoint system for my racing game, and use it to handle AI, lap times, respoting cars and placing powerups.

You don't want to use it as a "rail" but make it freeform so they *aim* at a waypoint a bit further down the track (depends on distance between waypoints). The AI code only provides input identical to a player, like throttle, steering, brake.

(based mine on http://www.gotow.net/andrew/blog/?page_id=78)

The waypoints are taken directly from splines I used to create the tracks, and run down the centre. This lets me add lanes either side, that the AI can move to, allowing them to overtake/block etc. (easy to calculate a parallel point of whatever lane width)

I've not got around to implementing a couple of things.
The waypoints also contain other data, like change in heading and pitch, so they can see whats coming. Brake more for sharp bends, accelerate uphill, move into the inner lane on a bend.

The most advanced feature I'm going to add, is where it samples when a player does a good lap, and stores that in the waypoint. Over time it should create a perfect race line.

If you then add a few stats for your AI:
skill%, chance they use the advanced features.
reaction%, chance they react to things like upcoming bends.
aggressive%, chance they ram/block, etc.

There is only one problem, the AI can get stuck, so I have to respot them if they stop moving.


Another method is to use something like OpenSteer/UnitySteer, and let them find their own way round.

 

Your game is pretty good. A bit GUI front-end heavy. But, still the game idea is good.

What code are your using for the player? Jcar or Sports car script from Unity Tutorial?

Your cars a great. at slow speeds, but at high speed its out of control.

lap time GUI over lays on itself after each lap. Kinda annoying.

Keep going! looking good. (Not sure if it would ever work on iPhone)

you will have to make your own AI or talk with the Tornado Twins to make a prefab coded AI for you (pay).

 

This might be too late but this might be of some help
http://gluedbrain.blogspot.in/2013/05/unity3d-car-game-tutorial-8-adding-ai.html