How to make a triggered AI move randomly

[EmeraldDragon]

Hi, I have simple question, now I'm editing a map to have a simple AI to practice with, so I created a lot of regions in certain points of the map. I wanna make the unit move randomly to all marked regions (like it's searching for something) and if there is a player in it's visual area make the unit attack him.

 

[Slayer14]

Use the simple action:

• Unit - Order Unit to Attack-Move To (Center of Region)

As long as the AI is enemies with you, it should automatically attack you on sight with this action.

 

[EmeraldDragon]

Actually what I want is order the unit to go randomly to certain regions not only one, for example; I have 76 regions and 1 unit. Every 20 seconds, a trigger order the unit to attack-move randomly to anoter region.

 

[defskull]

This is the example trigger:

• Setup
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set Region[1] = Region 000 <gen>
    • Set Region[2] = Region 001 <gen>
    • Set Region[3] = Region 002 <gen>
    • Set Region[4] = Region 003 <gen>
    • Set Region[5] = Region 004 <gen>

• Event
  • Events
    • Time - Every 20.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Order *YourAI* to Attack-Move To (Center of Region[(Random integer number between 1 and 5)])

When creating the "Region" variable, tick the "Array" box

 

[EmeraldDragon]

That worked for me! Thx a lot! +rep

 

[Maker]

To add to defskull's answer:

If the regions are large, you could order them to move to a random point in a region:

• Untitled Trigger 030
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set point = (Random point in Region[(Random integer number between 1 and 5)])
    • Unit - Order unit to Attack-Move To point
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_point)

Or if the regions are small and you don't want/need to order the units to a random point you should pre-set the points in an init trigger:

• Untitled Trigger 031
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set points[1] = (Center of Region1)
    • Set points[2] = (Center of Region2)
    • Set points[3] = (Center of Region3)

and then order units to move:

• Unit - Order unit to Attack-Move To points[(Random integer number between 1 and 3)]

 

[defskull]

Yeah, 2 methods to do it
Either make a lot of region (more than 1 region) and order to go CENTER of it, or just make a Point-type variable and assign it to "random point in region" (1 region)