Third Party The best way to handle AI and bots with PUN.

Hello.

I've been developing a game using Photon and have successfully managed to make it work well with multiple human controlled players. Now, I'm at the the point where I want to add bot players and artificial intelligence.

My question is how to handle the artificial intelligence. Right now, the only viable way that I can see how is to have every bot's actions performed on the master client and their PhotonViews owned as well by the master client and their actions only sent to other players via OnPhotonSerializeView.
I would much rather have an authoritative server be able to handle all the bots and then send the positions to the players, but I don't think that this is possible with PUN. So, any suggestions on how I may better handle networking with AI with Photon?

 

Dont know if its the best.

but surely it helps.

 

Ooh, thanks for the link! I followed this exact tutorial last year and I don't recall there being videos for bots. I'll follow those videos and see how it goes.

 

After reviewing the videos, it is exactly how I was thinking.

 

Good! Shame quili stopped the series

 

Very true. But, following his series and then following it up with Hammer Labs' PUN series really gives just about anyone enough knowledge to get going on their own.

 

Yeah, that is true. I found the Quilli vids the key to get the multiplayer part working, otherwise for sure it would have been a pain. I've pending another series that merge unity 4.6 ui and the lobby part with room listing etc.