Level of detail AI for virtual characters in games and simulation

Authors:
Michael Wißner;Felix Kistler;Elisabeth André
Affiliations:
Institute of Computer Science, Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany;Institute of Computer Science, Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany;Institute of Computer Science, Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany
Venue:
MIG'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Motion in games
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Following recent research that takes the idea of Level of Detail (LOD) from its traditional use in 3D graphics and applies it to the artificial intelligence (AI) of virtual characters, we propose our approach on such an LOD AI. We describe how our approach handles LOD classification and how we used it to simplify the simulation quality of multiple aspects of the characters' behavior in an existing application. Finally, we delineate how we evaluated our approach with both a performance and perception analysis and report our findings.