Random Links to other AI places

[AF]

Apart from here, darkstars, k-mans documentation, and the odd link from gabba there arent any links to decent AI palces for those who cant be arsed looking through 3 pages of google links filtering out the openrts stuff that comes up at the top.

http://www.aiwisdom.com/bygenre_rts.html

That seems to be very useful., the abstracts give away the general idea and imagination fills in the rest. Or you could buy the books and give us a laod of copies......god I'm a cheapskate

For those people worried about terrain algorithms aside form stuff I wrote at darkstars thats behidn lock and key I thought this might eb sueful, taken from the link above:

Abstract: Influence mapping is a powerful and proven AI technique for reasoning about the world on a spatial level. Although influence maps are most often used in strategy games, they have many uses in other genres as well. Among other things, an influence map allows your AI to assess the major areas of control by different factions, precisely identify the boundary of control between opposing forces, identify "choke points" in the terrain, determine which areas require further exploration, and inform the base-construction AI systems to allow you to place buildings in the most appropriate locations.

For those wodnering how much time and effort it would take todo the above and that in the end it would be too much, I point you towards the theat matrix topics and associated AI documents in general discussion.

Post links in thsi thread and have this thread stickied or added to the wiki.

[munch]

I agree that the Wiki is the obvious place to take AI discussions. Forums great for short term information - announcements, Q&A and the like, but to store ideas and build on them, such as we really want for the AI, I think the Wiki is the right place!

Here's the link to the AI page on the Wiki, which somebody (maybe you? - it's hard to tell since the wiki only logs an IP address) kindly created:

http://taspring.clan-sy.com/wiki/AI

Cheers

Munch

[AF]

Ah well thats oen fo the reasons I like darkstars because I have pretty much what this forum should be there without any trouble makers or arguement or flames.

I think a forum absed system is better sicne it allows feedback and soemtimes feedback is more valuable.

However links to important topics and faq's and palces to place downlaods would be nice. Though I have darkstars for all that.
http://www.darkstars.co.uk
You all know the what you read cannot leave darkstars without eprmission rule is, aslong as you agree and your not a total b*stard then I see why not you should read, Afterrall there arent that many people reading the great amss of stuff thats there and there're so many here pondering voer the scraps that've actually been produced here.

Nah Only fnordia could have made that page, I couldnt see how to make a page ebfore when I went through it.

[Fnordia]

No, anyone can add a page to the wiki.

[AF]

Then I shall be investigating that and seeing what I can do.

As for anythign I utter about darkstars, it seems tht I shall use th wiki as thn only the people already there or who look for updates tot he wiki will fidn it. Hence filter out people who cba to an extent.

[Fnordia]

To add a page you simply navigate to the desired new page, such as http://taspring.clan-sy.com/wiki/A_New_page and start editing.

[Gabba]

I have collected loads of interesting info about pathfinding (especially) and AI techniques. I'm just looking for time to organize the links with short summaries, and then I'll post a small reference. I've been busy these times around - you know... real life.

[AF]

dump the lot in the wiki and edit and annotate when you have th time. Or send them to me and I'll do it for you, eitherway I'd like to get my hands on as much material as possible.

[munch]

...Or send them to me and I'll do it for you, ....

One of the things that makes Wikis work so well is the fact that all edits are done centrally. Combine this with the "everybody is an editor" aspect and you get "many hands make light work". Or something like that.

One of the nice things about using a Wiki is that you can dump some rough shod content in and anybody and everybody can sort it out for you. For busy pages that are read by a lot of people, they get knocked into shape pretty quick - other pages which are less often visited may take longer to get sorted. But that's exactly what you want - the emphasis to go on the more useful (more frequently used) pages.

You only get to that stage when most readers are also happy to be editors, but with a community like this I don't think that shouldn't be much of a problem. The main hurdle is probably in getting people to realise that editing a Wiki page is dead easy - just hit the "edit this page" link. All pages have a full version history, so you don't need to worry about accidentally screwing something up.

Interestingly enough it's not uncommon for a Wiki page to start off as a thread much like you'd find here on a forum, but as the thread rambles on, somebody can distil the central ideas from it and document it in more accesible fashion than "just reading the whole thread". The downside (and this applies however you do it) is somebody getting motivated enough to do the distilling and then for them to do it in an objective manner rather than biasing it towards their own viewpoint. However, this is an issue for any approach, not just Wikis.

I hope this helps

Munch

[AF]

yes but do you knwo where it would b even mor helpful? On the wiki!

[Triaxx2]

You guys do realize how silly you would sound to someone who doesn't know what a wiki is?

If you upload it, and add a link here, I'll organize it later to night.

[AF]

http://www.gameai.com/
http://www.generation5.org/
http://www.ai-junkie.com/news.html

Oh and http://www.ai-depot.com It might be the rwogn url but it's soemthign like that. Those sites all have numerous links to other sites and projects on AI.

[AF]

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=18