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[Concept] Pathfinding
🕑 Added 2024-09-23 03:44:14 +0000 UTCYou guys probably know that PluginIdea is currently developing an amazing pathfinding plugin. I haven't been touching it just yet because it is still in development and not feature complete. I did try it and was impressed by it, so there are many amazing things ahead for us in VAM.
What I'm showing you here is a scene I did before I even started this Patreon, this is a scene by Nial where the girl cleans various objects in the house. But I decided to link those animations with "pathfinding". It uses a very old movement plugin that isn't even on Hub (Reddit days), that makes the girl move from waypoint to waypoint, each waypoint (collision trigger) sends her to the next (or randomly decides to which next). Upon arrival, the movement plugin deactivates and Timeline takes over.
This scene is hundreds upon hundreds of triggers where all possibilities are taken account of, she can autonomously walk around the house to clean 2 different windows, clean the floor, clean the mirror, make the bed, rest on the puff chair. At this point it isn't really pathfinding because she isn't "finding" any paths. But I went further and made voice commands (that i am just triggering manually in the video for the sake of demonstration) that let her order her to do any of the tasks. Because at whichever waypoint she currently is, the scripts have pre-built paths from given waypoint (this applies to all waypoints) to any other one. So all you have to do is give her an order and she will use pre-built scripting sequences (by method of elimination of unwanted options) to arrive there.
This is work of a madman of course because it was just at that time when it dawned on me just how much can be done with VAM. :)
I will not release this.
1. Animations are not mine, but Nial's.
2. Hundreds upon hundreds of triggers 2-3 years later are impossible to comprehend. I can't even fix the bugs at this point. I simply don't remember exactly how this works.
3. I will be remaking this with PluginIdea's new pathfinding system. I think an idea of a maid cleaning your house autonomously works great for a scene.
![[Concept] Pathfinding](https://img5.patrefans.com/storage/9/ro/ku/563145-019e8305-abed-750d-b399-af9e5f2643fd.jpg)
Comments
grstar85
Definitely increases immersion/interactivity looking toward the future.
