Police Chase

Hi guys, its my first post!

I want to create a top-view game when you are the police chase speeders in ruge city wi a lot of drivers and etc, so you can call roadblocks and helis, i hope you will help me =D.

So how I create an "speeder" AI with a big I. I think in node paths for the normal drivers in te road, but i need some help.

The game will be beatifull, I will model the cars and all (Not a 3d game, just pre-rendered cars) or create then in PS.

sorry bad english ...

Have you done anything else with Construct already? Have you looked at the Ghost Shooter Tutorial? Also, which version of Construct do you have? I need the EXACT number.

Yes, i have made some games and looked at ghost shotter turorial. I know about games and variables and behaviours. My version is 0.99.62.

What kind of decisions do you need the AI to make?

run from the police, try dont pass at roadblocks. and for the drivers in the road, just drive. thankyou for your help.

I'd run it by "states." Have the cars check things around them and do stuff accordingly. For example, when a car comes to a 4 way intersection, have it choose a random direction. Or you could block out choices where there's a road block set up. This would run a LOT of private variables and global variables. For regular cars you wouldn't need as many variables, but they'd work on the same principles. If you are driving a car, you could use the Car Object which should be more "car-like" but that won't work for AI. For the AI I'd use Custom Movement and work on tell it to detect when there's a turn or a solid in front of it. You could check out Line of Sight too.

Basically, AI can get complex. I hope this gave you some ideas at least. Maybe someone who knows more will come along and give you an example, but I haven't delved into this sort of thing myself yet so I'm just throwing ideas out there.