JASS Campaign AI - pathing problem / too long distance

[Tuwnew]

Hi,

I noticed a strange behavior with some Campaign AI scripts I made. They work fine and properly, no issues there, except when there is too long of a walking distance to their target.

In my map, there are 3 AI players (+1 human player) vs 6 AI players battling each other. But it seems that there is too long of a walking distance for one of the AI players. In the end, only two bases remain: top left (enemies) against bottom right, bottom left, and top right (allies).

They no longer attack each other unless the enemy gets closer. The enemy will attack the human player because the player is within range, but then, the allies will also attack as the enemy comes closer. However, that’s all that happens — they don’t engage otherwise.

I’ve noticed this issue on another map too: two AI bases were "quite close" from a bird's-eye view, but the walking distance was quite large. They only attacked each other when I provided zeppelins.

Does anyone have an idea how to increase the attack distance or get the AI to engage over longer distances? Providing zeppelins isn't the solution I'm looking for.

 

[Tuwnew]

Little bump

 

[Footman16]

[JASS] - JASS Campaign AI 2.0

JASS CAMPAIGN AI 2.0 We all know JASS Campaign AI is... clunky, at best. I always loved its ease of use and even tried to imitate it in Starcraft 2 in the past. However, while working on Warcraft 3 Re-Reforged, I soon realized some of the built-in limitations were an hindrance to my game...

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You could try implementing the attack functions as laid out here by InsaneMonster in JASS 2.0 I think he's re-wrote the functions to make the AI function a little better in terms of attacking.

 

[Tuwnew]

This looks quite complex, uh. I will give it a check. Too bad last replies say that it needs to be fixed.


Well, meanwhile I did a test:
I made a big map 288x288, two bases top left corner and bottom right corner. They send every 60 seconds a wave against each other.

• Map is empty (flat terrain, no doodads). They properly attack themselves.
• I added obstacles (simple upper level terrain) middle so they have to go from corners... and the map crashed with no error...

Hidden

Anyone have ever heard of that...?