Re: [TuxKart-devel] Ideas for AI

[Ryan F. <rf...@gm...>]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:21:14 -0400, Aly Merchant <mer...@ac...> wrote:

> 3. Knowledge of World
> 
>   Again tied to decision making.  I am thinking that the AI would only
>   know about things it can "see".  It could keep a list of points along
>   the boundaries as checkpoints it has to pass through, and it would
>   have a list of points of interest for stuff like other cars,
>   obstacles, herrings, etc.  Are there other suggestions, or is there
>   any compelling reason to know about the entire track?

As far as the road goes, AI should know *exactly* where to go. We
should assume that the AI player has played each track hundreds of
times and knows it off by heart. Even after I play a track for 5 laps
(depending on size) I know every single turn by the last lap. If the
AI players are still having trouble remember turns after I've played
the game a hundred times, it'll probably be quite easy to beat. Of
course low-level difficulty can be a little sloppy on this.

Not sure if this is exactly what you meant by entire track, but they
should know about turns in advance (because human players will).

-- 
Ryan