Hi, I'm new to unity. Wondering if there is a scrip for this purpose

I'm interested to see if there are any ready made scrips for this purpose. I'm looking for one script that enables the player to press different buttons to go to one of two or more different places, like illustrated in the picture under. A player stands at an area and presses A and goes to a specific location, or presses D to go to another location. Is this possible to do?




Thanks,
Riexy

Edit: Sorry for spelling error in the title.

 

I don't think there's any scripts out there that does specifically this, but you've pretty much written half of it already.

 

Probably not one publicly available, but it'd be very easy to do.

 

Look for a solution to the Traveling Sales Man problem then. Example solution: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tspsg/

 

The easy way for you would be to use a State Machine.

If you need lots and lots of different locations, you should implement a Binary Tree that has the positions as its nodes.

 

He said each starting point has 2 or more choices but he could treat the choice to go to each node as a binary tree as that what all of computer science breaks down to ultimately anyway.

So you can use the TSP to solve this problem at startup and create the needed state machine that has the solutions then.

While I don't know the algorithm used maybe Unity NavMesh Agent does this but to calculate dynamically at run time you need Unity Pro.

Sorry for sounding like a dummy but is TSP what all these 'A* AI' type solutions are using? I know Hippo or some other coders know this already.

 

Yes, you are right. I actually tried to write a simple state-machine example to post here but it becomes too messy and it really is a bad choice for this.
So yeah - Binary tree or other tree structure.