AIConnection Class Reference
[AI, Networking]

Special client connection driven by an AI, rather than a human. More...

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Detailed Description

Special client connection driven by an AI, rather than a human.

Unlike other net connections, AIConnection is intended to run unmanned. Rather than gathering input from a human using a device, move events, triggers, and look events are driven through functions like AIConnection::setMove.

In addition to having its own set of functions for managing client move events, a member variable inherited by GameConnection is toggle: mAIControlled. This is useful for a server to determine if a connection is AI driven via the function GameConnection::isAIControlled

AIConnection is an alternative to manually creating an AI driven game object. When you want the server to manage AI, you will create a specific one from script using a class like AIPlayer. If you do not want the server managing the AI and wish to simulate a complete client connection, you will use AIConnection

.To get more specific, if you want a strong alternative to AIPlayer (and wish to make use of the AIConnection structure), consider AIClient. AIClient inherits from AIConnection, contains quite a bit of functionality you will find in AIPlayer, and has its own Player object.

Example:

// Create a new AI client connection
%botConnection = aiConnect("MasterBlaster" @ %i, -1, 0.5, false, "SDF", 1.0);

// In another area of the code, you can locate this and any other AIConnections
// using the isAIControlled function
for(%i = 0; %i < ClientGroup.getCount(); %i++)
{
   %client = ClientGroup.getObject(%i);
   if(%client.isAIControlled())
   {
      // React to this AI controlled client
   }
}

Note:

This is a legacy class, which you are discouraged from using as it will most likely be deprecated in a future version. For now it has been left in for backwards compatibility with TGE and the old RTS Kit. Use GameConnection and AIPlayer instead.

See also:

GameConnection, NetConnection, AIClient

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