#MonkeyBrains MonkeyBrains is a sophisticated AI Engine for jMonkeyEngine. It uses an agent framework to wrap human and AI controlled characters in plugin-based AI algorithms so that different each game can pick out whichever AI techniques fits best.
Note: This is MeFisto94's Fork of the official MonkeyBrains Project. See the chapter "Fork" for more information about the goals of this fork.
##Fork:
The goals for this fork are relatively simple, I want to decouple the Agents from the "Framework" Parts.
What I call "Framework" Parts is something like the Inventory, the Weapon System and the Hitpoints.
In addition to that I want to redesign the MonkeyBrainsAppState or maybe even dropping it partially (since it essentially only updates the Agent).
For this I will base the fork on the Version 1.0.0 so before the changes made by the User Pesegato, just because I think it would disturb to base your fork on something like another fork.
Why??
This is really simple: For a FPS project I essentially have my own definitions of Weapons, Inventory and more important:
I don't want to have some AppState changing the Translations of my objects (which wouldn't work anyway because of the Physics Engine fighting this).
What I noticed as I wrote this, essentially, I want to extract the Steering Behaviors jmesteer from MonkeyBrains again.
On the other hand I saw, there is no pre-merge version available it seems.
I've done pretty much already and for now I am mostly done with it. I might change stuff I find or users report but in general we now reached a level of good useability (see Getting Started for that).
This fork fixed a few bugs (Framerate dependant movements, incorrect rotations, useful rotation speed) and also implemented some features (multitasking, automatic updating using the scenegraph, manual use of agents, controlling rigidbodies and BetterCharacterControls).
Because we did some major changes, the Demos are only partially valid. Luckily we simplified the design in our fork so it's easy for you to use:
The following snippet is somplete enough for an easy AI behavior. Note that it would actually be a three-liner if there weren't so many parameters to set (since the default values differ much per usecase)
Agent agent = new Agent(0.1f); // Radius 0.1m
agent.setMass(1f); // Actually the default, 1kg
agent.setMaxMoveSpeed(0.5f);
agent.setMainBehavior(new ArriveBehavior(Vector3f.ZERO.clone()));
agent.setRotationSpeed(FastMath.TWO_PI);
Spatial agentSpatial = new Node("AgentSpatial");
agentSpatial.addControl(agent);
agentSpatial.setLocalTranslation(((float)Math.random() * 2f) - 1f, 0f, ((float)Math.random() * 2f) - 1f);
For more advanced topics see the demos folder. It actually consists of a "DemoSingleThread" Application which is Single Threaded and a Multi Threaded Application.
Actually having Monkey Brains Multithreaded is really easy, but stuff like the input Listener and all make it a bit more verbose.
##Documentation for MonkeyBrains: User guides, documentation for MonkeyBrains have been made and you can see it at wiki pages
##Working games: For more examples of working games built with MonkeyBrains see: https://github.com/QuietOne/MonkeyBrainsDemoGames
##Note: If you have suggestion or any questions, please see forum: http://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/forum/board/projects/monkeybrains/
##Licence: Distributed under the BSD licence.