We're going to create an enemy bot that detects when a player is in range and then shoots toward him. We're also going to make a patrol bot that actively seeks out the player and shoots toward him.

Here we go over the features we've just implemented and smooth over the rough edges. Topics like properly firing animations and fine-tuning bot behavior are discussed.

We show you how to make an enemy that detects when the player is close, faces the player, and shoots a fireball in the player's direction.

We need to give our enemy's fireballs some firepower, so here we show you how to use collision detection to lower the player's health if the fireball hits him.

In this chapter we begin adding NPCs both enemy and non-enemy. Various topics such as placement and respawning are discussed.

In this chapter we expand on our point templates to set up assualt paths for our NPCs. We explore the ffects on the NPCs and what this means for gameplay.

The player's health script is explained, as well as some elements in other scripts that are dependent upon player health.

We dissect a provided “Waypoint” script that enables non-player characters (NPCs) to navigate around obstacles, which is an essential part of effective enemy AI.

In this chapter we set up conditions under which a neutral enemy bot will run away from the player. We also have to tell the bot to run, stop, and to play the proper animations.