A spatial awareness framework for enhancing game agent behaviour

  • Authors:
  • Simon Perkins;David Jacka;James Gain;Patrick Marais

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cape Town;University of Cape Town;University of Cape Town;University of Cape Town

  • Venue:
  • Sandbox '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on Video games
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We describe a framework for providing game agents with awareness of the intrinsic spatial qualities of the virtual worlds that they inhabit. We develop a novel data structure based on a modified medial axis, which establishes a mapping between the medial axis and world structures. This data structure can be used to perform queries about the width, curvature and connectivity of a space within a virtual world. Additional information, such as sampled visibility can also be integrated with this framework. An agent-based crowd simulation is adapted to make use of the sensory information provided by this data structure and the success of using this information within two game scenarios is evaluated.